Originating in Black and Latino communities, "vogueing" and "houses" were created by trans icons.

Searching for a "solid piece" related to the transgender community and LGBTQ culture can mean a physical item like a meaningful accessory or a deep piece of content like a historical account or social analysis. Below are recommendations for both.

The only way to survive the coming storm is to lash the vessels together.

Why? Because a white gay man with a high-income job has a radically different experience of queerness than a homeless trans woman of color. The police who brutalized Marsha P. Johnson are the same police who arrest trans sex workers today. The medical system that denied gay men AIDS care is the same system that pathologizes trans bodies.

The rainbow is a spectrum. Erase one color, and it ceases to be light.