How 4 Black Lives Matter activists handle queerness and trans issues | The Daily Dot

An Inside look at how Black Lives Matter centers queer and trans issues. Illustration by Max Fleishman, The Daily Dot.

By Deron Dalton Black Lives Matter is about far more than just police violence. The network—a growing international organization with 26 local chapters in three countries—faces many misconceptions, co-optation, racist trolls, counter-narrative arguments—and, sometimes, its own communities. And yet, it upholds a mission to be explicitly intersectional, leading to a movement that mobilizes for all black lives and advocates for an array […]

Couples of Color Scarce in Formulaic Gay Cinema | HuffPost

By Deron Dalton, Contributor During my rare free time I love to watch movies. Usually I go through a period of watching a particular genre, then I move on to another. This past summer I became highly intrigued by LGBT cinema, particularly LGBT films focused on gay men. The films I was watching were mainly on Netflix. Some of the films […]

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