Tag: politics
Trans Youth talk about the labels society hangs on them
In this new short film by award-winning trans filmmaker/activist Jake Graf he simply asked trans youth about the labels put on them by society. The result is a powerful message challenging the stigma of what it means to be trans today. Like all of Graf’s work it makes an essential contribution to the continuing dialogue…
Aaron William’s stunning Ugly Faggots Project
In January last year New York photographer Aaron Williams started a new project motivated by the fact that the City had just reported over 7,121 hate crimes with a 30% increase of incidents after the election. His brilliant photo essay was inspired by a particularly brutal incident when late one evening while waiting for the 1 train,…
The Shade Queens : A Country Torn for You and Me
From the Shade Queens comes this wonderfully witty Andrew Sisters parody about the state of the USA since the Orange Man took over. ‘A country torn for you and me’ they sing and dance too in this Fusion TV video.
Tanzanian Activist/Singer Hunter Blue is SO GAY
Activist and singer Hunter Blue is from Tanzania, which is one of the 76 countries in the world where homosexuality is still illegal. His way of dealing with discrimination is through dance and song and this rather wonderful new music video of his ….SO GAY ….is very much a rallying cry for activism in and…
Canada’s dark past persecuting the LGBT community
In the 1950’s and 1960’s the Royal Canadian Mounted Police created a vicious campaign to root out all gay men and women from their ranks and also from the military and cvil service. Faced with the reality of a lack of resources to conduct blanket surveillance on all suspects, they invented that device that…
