LGBT

Planned Parenthood: Accessible, Trans-Inclusive, The Best Thing Ever

Planned Parenthood has long stood as a beacon of hope in a landscape where basic healthcare for low income, uninsured, and under-insured people is

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Alicia J. Rose: Creator Of The Benefits Of Gusbandry

Ravishly staff has a new obsession, and we'd like to share it with you.

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SoCal Gets Fierce: L.A. Welcomes First Trans Modeling Agency

Looks like the City of Angels just scored some extra-special wings!

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What I Learned About Poetry From My Professor, Audre Lorde

I was 21 –– a Catholic, heterosexual college student, living at home in Brooklyn and still trying to discover who I was. At the crossroads of her life, Lorde knew exactly who she was. She was waging a war against cancer and sharing an old house in Staten Island with her kids and partner. But maybe we weren’t so different after all.

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Dear Haters, YOU Are Why Caitlyn Jenner Deserves Her Courage Award

Being terminally ill, black, gay, or transgender doesn't alone make your courageous. What takes courage (and it takes so much it’s hard to imagine where it comes from) is the willingness to shed the identity others expect or impose on you and adopt the identity that is truly yours . . . and fully own it.

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Jazz Jennings: Transgender Advocate, Reality TV Star

Wise words from a truly remarkable teen.

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Catherine and Stephen (top left) with their fellow cousins

Remembering Stephen: Love, Loss, And AIDS

What Stephen didn’t know –– what no one knew –– was how weak my knees grew when I pushed through the swinging doors of the ICU.

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