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Sexual Orientation Terms You Should Know
Didn't 'Queer' Use To Be A Slur?
- A Former Slur Is Reclaimed, And Listeners Have Mixed Feelings
- How the word ‘queer’ was adopted by the LGBTQ community
- Reclaiming Queer: Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance by Erin J. Rand
- The conversation surrounding the word 'queer' is evolving
- 6 Reasons You Need to Use the Word "Queer"
- 9 LGBTQ+ People Explain How They Love, Hate, and Understand the Word "Queer"
- 21 Words the Queer Community Has Reclaimed (and Some We Haven't)
Sexuality 101
General
- Coming Out: Living Authentically as Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual+
- Queer Teens Are Now the Majority, Goodbye Straight People
- Sexual Identity and Coming of Age in Today’s World
- What My Sex Ed Never Taught Me About Queer Relationships
Queer History
- ActUp Oral History Project
- AIDS Activism and Beyond: Radical Queer Politics of the ‘80s and 90s
- At a Time of Emergency, ACT UP Refused to Be Bystanders
- How ACT UP Changed America: The defiant group of AIDS activists was itself riven by discord. What can the movement’s legacy, of both ferocity and fragility, teach us?
- How Gay Activists Challenged the Politics of Civility: From pie-throwing to shouting down public figures, these groups disturbed the establishment to effect change
- How To Demand A Medical Breakthrough: Lessons From The AIDS Fight
- It’s Time to Reembrace a Politics of Radical, Queer, Outsider Activism
- Milestones in the American Gay Rights Movement
- Party and protest: the radical history of gay liberation, Stonewall and Pride
- Queer History
- Queer politics has been a force for change; celebrate how far we've come
- Stonewall Uprising
- The Activists: How ACT UP — the coalition that fought against AIDS stigma and won medications that slowed the plague — forever changed patients’ rights, protests and American political organizing as it’s practiced today.
- The Paris Is Burning Re-Release and Hour of Unseen Footage Is Here
- Unheard Voices: From the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic
- United In Anger
- What You Might Not Know about Queer History
Problems
Femme Erasure
- 4 Ways to Support Queer Femmes – Instead of Erasing Us from Queer Communities
- 6 Ways Femmephobia Is Harming LGBTQIA+ Communities
- 11 Common Assumptions About Being a Queer Femme – Debunked
- Against Femme Privilege
- What Is Femme Invisibility?
Bimisia & Erasure
- 20 Things They Don't Tell You Before You Come Out as Bisexual
- Biphobia In An Abusive Relationship
- We Talked About Being Bisexual While In An Actual Closet
Violence, Stereotypes, and More
Healthcare
Healthcare
- 5 ways LGBTQ+ people can practice self care and community care in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month
- Healthcare Bill of Rights
- Included Health
- Included Health’s Glossary for Understanding your Healthcare
- “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer: Conversations and Care” at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting
- Why We Need More Queer And Trans Therapists Of Color
- Yes, Your Doctor Really Needs to Ask About Your Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
At The Intersections
Disabled
- Disability and GLBT Issues Resources
- Disability and Sexual Orientation: A Discussion Paper
- Exploring the Experiences of Spirituality Within the LGBTQ+ Community
- Gay. Disabled. And Sexy As F*ck.
- Getting Proud and Staying Proud: Navigating Pride as a Disabled Person
- I Wouldn't Fuck Me: My Life as a Gay and Disabled Man
- Labels: the bisexual-chronic illness connection
- LGBT Health: People with Disabilities
- Living With Social Anxiety Disorder as an LGBTQ+ Person
- Queer and Disabled Community Discussion Group
Race
Religion and Culture
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Resources
Sex ed
- A Call to Action: LGBTQ Youth Need Inclusive Sex Education
- A K-12 Sexuality Education Curriculum
- Get Real
- Including LGBT-Content in Sex Education: Four Wrong Ways (and One Right One)
- LGBTQ Sex Ed: Health, Rights, and Pleasure Recording & Training Toolkit
- Scarleteen
- Sex Ed Needs to Better Include the Issues of L.G.B.T. Students
- Top 10 LGBTQ+ Sex Ed Resources!
Refuting BS
- 10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked
- 15+ Fantastic Resources for Talking about “Homosexuality” (i.e., LGBTQ people) and The Bible
- Every Biblical Argument Against Being Gay, Debunked Biblically
- How to Respond to Anti-Gay Arguments Without Flipping the Dinner Table
- LGBTQ myths debunked with science and facts
- What Does the Bible Say About Homosexuality?
Sex Positive Shops and Spaces
- As You Like It in Eugene, OR
- Babeland in Seattle, Manhattan, and Brooklyn
- Come As You Are Co-Op in Toronto
- Early to Bed in Chicago
- Good For Her in Toronto
- Good Vibrations in San Francisco and Brookline, Mass
- Pleasure Chest in LA, Chicago, and NYC
- Self Serve in Albuquerque
- Shag in Brooklyn
- She Bop in Portland, OR
- Smitten Kitten in Minneapolis
- Sugar in Baltimore
- The Tool Shed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Videos and Documentaries
Helpful Organizations and People
- Asexual Visibility and Education Network
- Dara Hoffman-Fox
- MySistahs.org (women of color)
- National Center for Transgender Equality
- National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NSCF)
- National LGBT Cancer Network
- Planned Parenthood
- SAGE: Advocacy and Services for LGBT Elders
- SHIP: Sexual Health Includes Pleasure
- Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Health Centers
- Callen-Lorde Community Health Centers (NYC)
- Equitas Health Institute for LGBTQ Health Equity
- LGBT Health Program (Philadelphia, PA)
- LGBT Pride Clinic at MetroHealth (Cleveland, OH)
- Los Angeles LGBT Center (LA, CA)
- Mazzoni Center (Philadelphia, PA)
- Pride Center of VT (Burlington, VT)
- The LGBT Community Center of the Desert (Palm Springs, CA)
- The Montrose Center (Houston, TX)
- The SF LGBT Center (San Francisco, CA)
- Whitman-Walker Health (Washington, D.C.)