LGBTQIA+ Rights

• Immediate Actions To Take:
• Call Your Reps To Support Legislation to Protect Transgender Troops
• Call Your Reps To Support LGBTQ Rights with the Equality Act of 2019 - Needs Senate Vote
• Sign Petition to Tell The DC Council to Decriminalize Sex Work

• Organizations To Support + Follow:
• Advocates For Youth
• Anti-Violence Project (AVP)
• Audre Lorde Project
• Black AIDS Institute
• Gay Men's Health Crisis Center (GMHC)
• GLAAD
• GLSEN
• Human Rights Campaign
• Lambda Legal
• Marsha P. Johnson Institute
• National LGBTQ Task Force
• Sylvia Rivera Law Project
• The Okra Project
• The Trevor Project
• Trans Women of Color Collective
• Transgender Law Center
• Support Organizations That Train + Elevate Black Trans Women To Be Community Leaders (List here)

• Educate Yourself + Keep Showing Up:
• Start Here — 
• #BlackTransLivesMatter Actions + Resources for Solidarity 
• Articles — 
• Glossary of Terms — Human Rights Campaign 
• What Life Is Like as a Transgender Woman by Charlotte Clymer — USA Today
• What People Get Wrong About They/Them Pronouns? by Wren Sanders — Them 
• What is Pride Month and the History of Pride? by Matt Baume — Them 
• "Ballroom 101" by Hugh Ryan — Them 
• "How We Can End Violence Against Trains Women of Color" by Raquel Willis — Out Magazine 
• On Name Change, Immigration Rights, Healthcare Rights — Sylvia Rivera Law Project 
• From Words to Action: Showing Up for Black Trans Women — TGIJP
• Six LGBTQ+ Activists On What We Should Abolish + Legalize by Raquel Willis — OUT Magazine 
• Education on Pronouns — NBJC
• When Black Lives Matter, Black Trans People Must Be Freed From Discrimination and Violence by Tiq Milan — NBC 
• How Sylvia Rivera Created the Blueprint for Transgender Organizing by Raquel Willis — OUT Magazine
• Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? by Cathy J. Cohen
• Books —
• Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene A. Carruthers 
• Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride
• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
• Beyond The Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
• Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive by Julia Serano 
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker 
• Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg 
• The History of Sexuality, Vol.1 by Michel Foucault
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde 
• Watch — 
• Disclosure Doc — Netflix 
• Pose — Netflix 
• Paris Is Burning — Available to Rent 
• Orange Is The New Black — Netflix 
• Philadelphia — Netflix 
• RuPaul's Drag Race — Hulu 
• The L Word — Netflix 
• Tangerine — Hulu 
• The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson — Netflix 
• Queer Eye — Netflix 
• Hannah Gadsby: Nanette — Netflix 
• Blue is the Warmest Color — Netflix 
• I Am Not Your Negro — Hulu 
• Broad City — Hulu 
• Shrill — Hulu 
• Moonlight 

NOTE: Our focus areas are informed by community input. If there is an issue you'd like to see included or would like to share input, please email us at community@the-outrage.com with questions, comments, or concerns on our 2020 focus areas. We'd love to hear from you. 

This is an incomplete and growing list. Last updated July 13, 2020.