Amber Glenn, the three-time reigning U.S. Champion and the first openly queer woman to compete for the U.S. Olympic team, is being besieged by death threats.
Why?
Because she dared to open her mouth publicly about the current state of affairs for queer, trans, and other marginalized folks in the U.S.A.
medium.com/prismnpen/queer-oly…

#LGBTQ #AmberGlenn #Olympics #USPolitics

NY officials raise rainbow flag at Stonewall in rebuke of Trump administration

apnews.com/article/pride-flag-…

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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Hundreds fill the streets near Stonewall as NYC community members reraised Pride flag Trump ordered removed

advocate.com/politics/communit…

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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LGBTQ+ community defies Trump, restores Stonewall Pride flag

“They’ve come for our books, our existence, and even pulled down our flag two days ago,” Kelley Robinson of the Human Rights Campaign said. “Two days is too long for the flag to be down, so we came out, and we put it back up ourselves.”

^{Christopher Wiggins (Advocate.com)}

New releases tend to steal the spotlight, but there are so many incredible sapphic stories that have been around for a decade (or more!) and still hit just as hard.

So this week's Sapphic Book Bingo post features sapphic books published before 2015.

Check out the recommended books on my blog:
jae-fiction.com/sapphic-books-…

#sapphicbooks #LGBTQ

The sapphic fiction community has come together to launch an auction for narrator Angela Dawe, who's struggling with ongoing health problems.

Authors are auctioning off signed paperbacks & other amazing items.

Check out the auction Facebook group:
facebook.com/groups/6708320127…

#LGBTQ #sapphicbooks #queerbooks #audiobooks

First it's the trans folks, then it's all the other queers. And if anyone around here didn't see it coming, hie you to a library and learn something about history before they try to burn all of those down.

pbs.org/newshour/nation/trump-…

#lgbtqia #lgbtq #history #censorship #pride

Trump administration takes down rainbow flag at Stonewall National Monument

Activists see the change as a symbolic swipe at the country’s first national monument to LGBTQ+ history.

^{PBS News}

If you live in or around Richmond, #Indiana and care about #trans kids -- reach out to me: kit@creativepoliticalstrategy.com

#HoosierMast #LGBTQ

My sapphic romance Departure from the Script is on sale everywhere at 60% off for a few days only!

jae-fiction.com/departure-from…

After an anti-Valentine’s Day party and too much vodka, actress Amanda wakes up in Michelle’s bed, with no memory of how she got there or what happened between them.

But Michelle isn’t even her type…or is she?

#sapphicromance #sapphicbooks #queerbooks #lgbtq #wlwbooks #lesbianbooks

If you see an invitation to participate in a trans or genderqueer study sponsored by Northwestern University, steer clear. It's a rigged, unethical scheme to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #trans #transgender #TransRightsAreHumanRights

#DOJ has opened a #federal #CivilRights probe into the death of #AlexPretti

[but not #ReneeGood. Neither should have been killed, but I’ll say it again, Pretti was a straight man, Good a gay woman. Both shootings were recorded on video by multiple witnesses showing neither was at fault. Yet the #homophobic #misogynistic #Trump admin is only willing to look into the straight man’s #murder.]

#law #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #LGBTQ
apnews.com/article/minneapolis…

Europe: The Council of Europe has just voted to ban conversion practices 🇪🇺

goodlawproject.org/council-of-…

#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Europe

Why you should read a forgotten 80s bestseller about #lesbian nuns - the reason is much more wholesome than you think.

(Also truly living my best Catholic school girl life - I love Autostraddle's lesbian drama content and it's thrilling to get to write heretically for them!)

autostraddle.com/what-we-can-l…

#lgbtq #queer #books

What We Can Learn From Lesbian Nuns

A forgotten 1980s bestseller on lesbian nuns is the antidote to dating app burnout and the "cool queer" rat race.

^{Carolina Flores (Autostraddle)}

There is a petition on the UK Parliament website to legally recognise nonbinary as a gender – which would include an X marker on UK passports for nonbinary people.

The deadline to sign is March 2026 and at the time of writing only 213 people have signed.

Let's show them the power of the Fediverse. At 100,000 signatures, the petition will be debated in Parliament.

Sign 👇

petition.parliament.uk/petitio…

#NonBinary #Enby #Trans #Transgender #Queer #LGBTQ #LGBT #UK #UKMastodon #Fediverse

Petition: Legally recognise non-binary as a gender

Non-binary isn’t a legally recognised gender in the UK. We urge the Government to legally recognise non-binary as a gender and people who identify as non-binary in the UK. This proposal would include an X marker on UK passports for non-binary people.

^{Petitions - UK Government and Parliament}