Fifty years ago, 32 people died in what was once the deadliest attack on the LGBTQ+ community in U.S. history. On the evening of June 24, 1973, an arsonist torched the entryway into the Up Stairs Lounge in New Orleans, setting off a catastrophic blaze that quickly ate up the stairway leading up to the bar before consuming the establishment itself. Read on »
Pictured: Rep. Zooey Zephyr faced the wrath of intolerant Montanans Read on »
One year later it still feels surreal. I still find myself shaking my head in disbelief that the Supreme Court actually overturned Roe v. Wade, marking the first time it has eliminated rather than expanded a fundamental personal right. How can a constitutional guarantee of liberty not include the right to determine what happens to one’s own body? How can those who profess a commitment to that liberty support forced pregnancy? With its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the court demonstrated, as it has in so many areas, how far out of alignment it is with what the majority of people in this country believe and want. The majority does not want the government forcing people to be pregnant against their will. The elections last summer and fall showed that clearly. And yet here we are.
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One year after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed abortion rights nationwide, the legal landscape is as bad as reproductive rights advocates expected, with many conservative states banning or severely restricting the procedure — and most of the same states, not coincidentally, targeting other rights that involve bodily autonomy. Read on »
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