LGBTQIA+ RIGHTS
SHOP TO SUPPORTTHE KEY ISSUES
END VIOLENCE AGAINST LGBTQIA+ FOLKS
DECRIMINALIZE SEX WORK
END HOUSING + EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION
ENSURE HEALTHCARE EQUITY FOR QTGNC FOLX
INCREASE TRANS REPRESENTATION IN THE MEDIA
END CONVERSION THERAPY
RESPECT GENDER PRONOUNS
SUPPORT LGBTQIA+ AND GNB YOUTH
NEVER FORGET: TRANS LIVES MATTER
“If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.”
—ZANELE MUHOLI
DIVE DEEPER + ACT NOW
Immediate Actions To Take:+
- Call your reps to Oppose Efforts to Dehumanize Transgender and LGBTQ+ People
- Circulate these LGBTQ+ Helplines (curated by activist Charlotte Clymer to our friends in need:
Organizations To Support + Follow:+
- Advocates For Youth
- Anti-Violence Project (AVP)
- Audre Lorde Project
- Black AIDS Institute
- Gay Men's Health Crisis Center (GMHC)
- Gender Liberation Movement
- 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
Educate Yourself + Keep Showing Up:+
- Start Here —
- 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- 50% of Gen Zers Believe Traditional Gender Norms Are Outdated by Derek Clifton — Them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
- 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
- Six LGBTQ+ Activists On What We Should Abolish + Legalize by Raquel Willis — Out Magazine
- 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
- Trans Youth Are Facing Right-Wing Attacks and a Solidarity Shortage by Kelly Hayes — Truthout
- Books —
- A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski
- Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion by Ryan Conrad
- Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Carolyn Finney
- Beyond The Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
- Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by Eric A. Stanley & Nat Smith
- Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive by Julia Serano
- How to They/Them: A Visual Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and the World of Gender Fluidity by Stuart Getty and Illustrated by Brooke Thyng
- Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story by Julia Roberts
- Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown
- Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States by Joey Mogul, Andrea Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock
- Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Vol.1 by Michel Foucault
- Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride
- Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Marsha P. Johnson and Beyond by Leslie Feinberg
- Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene A. Carruthers
- What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron
- What Are Your Words?: A Book about Pronouns by Katherine Locke and Illustrated by Anne Passchier
- We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib
- Watch + Listen —
- 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 info@the-outrage.com with questions, comments, or concerns on our focus areas. We'd love to hear from you.
This is an incomplete and growing list. Last updated Feb 19, 2025.