The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our lives in many ways, including traditional June Pride events and celebrations. The pandemic has also revealed a lot about humanity, both good and bad—especially as states struggle with reopenings, enforcing social distancing guidelines, and recent spikes in COVID-19 cases…and how to respond to #BlackLivesMatter protests all across the country …
For those who don’t know, June is Pride Month, a celebration of LGBTQ lives and rights hard-fought-for. Like many other celebratory months, Black History Month among them, it is a time to be more publicly loud and proud, a time for reflection and, you know (if you’re fortunate) a time to educate people who aren’t …
In this time of #MeToo being very much in the public awareness, what follows below are the shared experiences of one of BGIM Media’s contributors that illustrate how, unfortunately, the idea that sexual assault, rape and sexual oppression are just the doings of a tiny number of “bad apples” in a huge bunch of “good …