LGBTQ+

There are many social justice issues in our society today, but the one that deserves the most attention is the new transgender athelete rule in sports. Transgender atheletes have a gender identity tha…

For many years, I have always known something was just not the same as everybody else. I fought with myself a long time about feeling the way I did. An epiphany is a sudden realization or striking mom…

That's what I told my brother 2 hours after my grandma said the d-slur at dinner. I felt like that was the best time to say it to at least one member of my family, who I knew would accept me. Feeling …

The topic of same-sex marriage and its legalization is definitely a controversial one. The very idea of homosexuality is very heavily demonized within many cultures around the world, and even now up…

A very common argument used to justify hate directed to LGBTQ+ people is that being LGBTQ+ is a modern phenomenon. Some claim "People weren't gay when I was younger" or "it's just a recent trend", but…

As a consequence of outside influence, homophobia and transphobia have skyrocketed within the last century, resulting in an alarming increase in domestic abuse and sexual assault towards Indigenous Am…

Foucault, in order to locate the emergence of the homosexual first details the emergence of a modern sex culture. He first expresses a fondness for the role of sexuality for the ancient Greeks. Ancien…

Becoming oneself has never come with an instruction book. No one ever knows who they will be from the time they start pre-school with a brand new lunch box, to senior year when they are deciding what …

Although underreported and deeply stigmatized, same-sex relationships existed long before the modern era. Sadly, modern society still views straight relationships as the standard, and thus readers oft…

The term "woke" is a colloquial term increasingly used in the media to describe those among us who are considered to have arisen from the "societal slumber" in which the majority oppressed the minorit…