LGBTQIA+ Rights
- Immediate Actions To Take:
- Rapid Reponse: Rally to #ProtectTransKids in Alabama — Toolkit here
- Sign the Petition to Tell Biden-Harris to Take Action to Accurate IDs Now
- Take Action on LGBTQ Rights: Equal Access to Accurate Federal IDs
- Call Your Reps To Support LGBTQ Rights with the Equality Act of 2021 - Passed House
- 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
- Sign up to phone bank with NEAT, the National Equality Action Team, to defend trans youth in key states.
- 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:
- Articles —
- Glossary of Terms — Human Rights Campaign
- 50% of Gen Zers Believe Traditional Gender Norms Are Outdated by Derek Clifton — them
- 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
- COVID-19 Is Sparking a Mental Health Crisis Among LGBTQ+ Youth by Britni de la Cretaz — them
- Decriminalize Sex Work — Anti-Racism Daily
- How Do I know I’m Nonbinary? By Brett Marcus Cook — them
- How We Can End Violence Against Trans 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 —
- Blue is the Warmest Color — Netflix
- Broad City — Hulu
- Disclosure Doc — Netflix
- Hannah Gadsby: Nanette — Netflix
- How To Survive a Plague — iTunes
- I Am Not Your Negro — Hulu
- Moonlight
- Orange Is The New Black — Netflix
- Paris Is Burning — Available to Rent
- Philadelphia — Netflix
- Pose — Netflix
- Queer Eye — Netflix
- RuPaul's Drag Race — Hulu
- Shrill — Hulu
- Tangerine — Hulu
- The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson — Netflix
- The L Word — Netflix
- Trans in Trumpland — Official Website
- United in Anger — iTunes
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 2021 focus areas. We'd love to hear from you.
This is an incomplete and growing list. Last updated Mar 5, 2021.