We live in an era where a single hashtag can spark a global revolution. The way people organize, protest, and demand change ...

Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter. The book features a foreword by Jim Obergefell and features over 100 stories of those who fought for ...

On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that excluding same-sex couples from civil marriage was unconstitutional. I was outside the Supreme Court that day, celebrating the advocacy achievement that ...

Fifty-five years ago, a group of LGBTQ New Yorkers rioted, protested, and got arrested when taking a stand against a routine police raid of a gay bar in Greenwich Village. While the Stonewall Uprising ...

Face Equality International (FEI), an Alliance of worldwide organizations working to end the discrimination experienced by people with facial disfigurements, asserts that disfigurement is a neglected ...

An exploration of the experience and legacy of the 2004 gay marriages in San Francisco. Experience the firsthand and intimate recollections of four couples who were at the vanguard of the marriage ...

Three decades after the Beijing Platform for Action, the groundbreaking UN declaration that affirmed that women’s rights are human rights, the global movement for gender equality and women’s ...

Participants during FEMNET's three-day workshop. [Beryl Ringos, Standard] Every so often, someone is grumbling about how women's and girl's empowerment initiatives are "too much" and how the issues of ...

(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) EINPresswire/ -- Worldwide, women and girls continue to face systematic and coordinated attacks on their hard-won rights. These threats are materialising through the rollback ...

This blog regularly covers disability and ableism as neglected issues within greater human rights movements. A recent article we co-wrote makes a further point that facial disfigurement is even more ...