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Articles from March 2018

Published March 31, 2018

Today in LGBT History – April 1 – April 12

Kelly and I are heading out for the Caribbean. The history items from April 1st through April 12th are in this one blog. Enjoy! Back on April 13th.        —Ronni Learning our history is resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – April 1  1896, Germany

Published March 31, 2018

Today in LGBT History – March 31

Respect for human life, liberty, and well-being must be enshrined as rights beyond the power of any force to diminish. — Nelson Mandela Learning our history is resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – March 31 1940 – Barney Frank (born March 31, 1940) is born. A

Published March 30, 2018

Today in LGBT History – March 30

Today, our government is turning its back on those who seek freedom — the narrative is all too familiar for those of us in the Jewish community. Our government’s policies are ripping apart families and leaving the lives of young immigrants in limbo. Legal status for hundreds of thousands of Dreamers is being threatened. This

Published March 29, 2018

Today in LGBT History – March 29

They’re (activism and sexual orientation) definitely linked for me personally. If I wasn’t so open about who I was I never would’ve been able to do this. In ninth grade, I was in a creative writing class where I could actually really effectively communicate what I was feeling, and it especially helped me come to

Published March 28, 2018

Today in LGBT History – March 28

The LGBT community is disproportionately affected by gun violence: firstly, because most gun deaths in the U.S. are suicides and LGBTQ people are overrepresented among suicide victims (92 percent of transgender adults have attempted suicide by age 25); secondly, because LGBTQ people are the most likely minority to be the victim of a hate crime.  

Published March 27, 2018

Today in LGBT History – March 27

The LGBT community is disproportionately affected by gun violence: firstly, because most gun deaths in the U.S. are suicides and LGBTQ people are overrepresented among suicide victims (92 percent of transgender adults have attempted suicide by age 25); secondly, because LGBTQ people are the most likely minority to be the victim of a hate crime.  

Published March 27, 2018

Today in LGBT History – March 26

“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”     — Nelson Mandela  Learning our history is resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT

Published March 25, 2018

Today in LGBT History – March 25

People tweeted that (Marjory Stoneman Douglas student) Emma Gonzalez should run for president. The 18-year-old noted that she already is president — of her school’s Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA). She then told the Washington Post that she identifies as bisexual, and suddenly her fierce badassery just made that much more sense for a whole lot of people, particularly

Published March 24, 2018

Today in LGBT History – March 24

Any way you cut it, one of the biggest threats to life as a teen in the U.S. today is being shot. People have been shot to death en masse in grocery stores, movie theaters, nightclubs, and libraries, on school campuses and front porches, and at concerts ― anywhere and everywhere, regardless of socioeconomic background, skin

Published March 23, 2018

Today in LGBT History – March 23

“If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second

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