The Start of the Queer Legacy in Hip-Hop
Trigger warning: This article makes references to violence against the LGBTQIA+ community and contains sexually explicit language. For a music genre most commonly regarded as the least LGBTQIA+ friendly, mainstream and underground hip-hop is making a progressive shift in its subculture by accepting the LGBTQIA+...
Strength in Colors
Nearly a million people, donning rainbow clothing, body paint and balloons, packed San Francisco’s streets for its 46th annual LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade on June 26. The event began in 1970 and serves to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Riots against police raids on queer spaces and to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community....
Cantú Connection
For UC Santa Cruz students Addie Salcedo and Geneva DeBlasi, a card game was all it took to spark a conversation that would eventually blossom into romance. This moment took place at an undergraduate mixer one year ago. “I always went to [the mixers to]...