We focus on women’s empowerment, celebration, and fighting discrimination and disenfranchisement around the world; from boardrooms and venture capital to politics and social movements. But this means all women—of all kinds, in all places, facing all situations. Empowerment is an issue of inclusion and justice. That’s why we’re proud to celebrate LGBTQ women this June in honor or pride month, as people around the United States and the world come together to take a stand against discrimination and violence toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other members of the LGBTQ community—and to honor and celebrate successes and progress, as well as recognize steps still needed for inclusion and equality.
Here are just a few stories, in honor of Pride Month.
Indya Moore Just Wants to Be Free, from Elle—“It feels like this is the first time that we are seeing a trans woman being celebrated for all the different parts of herself,’ (Janet) Mock says. ‘She’s the embodiment of our dream girl. She’s living the fantasy that all of us hoped and dreamed for, that we fought to build little by little so that someone like Indya Moore could be the center of a show, be the center of fashion campaigns, be on a magazine cover.’”
Matter of Pride: LGBTQ Fairness at Work Is Good Business, from Take the Lead Women—“While some companies, organizations and institutions are creating inclusive and fair cultures for LGBTQ employees and leaders, other organizations fall far short with discrimination practices that are unspoken or overt. New initiatives are aimed at changing those practices.”
Transgender Women of Color Are Pioneers of the LGBTQ-Rights Movement. Why Are They Still Fighting for Their Lives?, from Yahoo Lifestyle—“Sometimes, in fact, even with all that’s been gained since Stonewall — marriage equality, parenting rights, and various protections in employment, housing and healthcare — it can feel to some, especially transgender women of color, like not much has changed at all, particularly when one looks at the current administration’s anti-trans policies, which take away rights in areas of military service, healthcare and housing.
‘For what good it did my trans girls, it might as well have not happened,’ Miss Major, a longtime transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall rebellion, told HuffPost in 2018 of the legendary uprising.”
Zanele Muholi Captures Powerful Portraits of South Africa’s LGBTQ Community, from CNN—“There are so many good, brilliant, professional, talented, queer Africans who have left the continent because they have been mocked, violated, displaced and oppressed. Let everybody in Africa be free. That’s why I picked up a camera. I didn’t want someone else to tell my story. I wanted to teach the next queer child that it’s OK to be.”
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