Performance held outside of the governor's mansion on July 15, 2019 aimed at holding Ricardo Rosselló accountable for the deaths of Puerto Ricans. Photo by Yarimar Bonilla. By Beatriz Llenín Figueroa Whatever happens, whatever happened / Oh hey / We are deathless / We are deathless. (Ibeyi, “We Are Deathless”) #MeCagoEnLaIsla is…
By Julio Capó, Jr. Celebrations last month -- June 2019 -- commemorated the strength, resilience, and power of LGBTQ people, as thousands honored the Stonewall…
Jack Johnson fighting Jim Jeffries on July 4, 1910, in Reno, Nevada By Hannah Borenstein In May 2019, sports media fawned over a high school track and field star, Matthew Boling, after footage of the young star’s…
Pudding Pride into perspective By Aaron Lecklider As every smart person in America knows, nobody pushes political conversations forward more effectively than people on the margins who support the…
Image credit: Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson (Diana Davies/Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library) By Daniel J. Vázquez Sanabria The names of Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, two Trans PoC activists credited with playing a central role in…
The young Joan Stanley on a park bench with William Fletcher in the scene where she reveals to him the damning photograph of his same-sex kiss. IFC Films As every good homosexual knows, there is no such thing as bad movie starring Dame Judi Dench. They might not all be Notes on a…
The Abusable Past debuted in the fall 1984 issue of the Radical History Review with a hand drawn bottle of aspirin spilling out onto the…