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Happy Coming Out Day!!

Hello. Who is running this page? My name is Mona, I use to be Vice President of this group years ago. Its cool, I just want to chat.

http://queerthestorm.com/2015/02/04/queer-friendly-cities-queer-friendly-spaces

Queer-Friendly Cities, Queer-Friendly Spaces | queerthestorm by queerthestorm - 02/04/15 A little less than a month ago, Davenport, IA (the largest city in the area I am from) was listed in The Advocate as one of the nation’s queerest cities. I’d have found this mind-boggling, except that The Advocate is the same magazine that in 2008 boldly displayed the hea…

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LOOK: 11-Year-Old Trans Girl Writes Beautiful, Bittersweet Essay In Response To Obama's Speech Barack Obama made history on Monday when he became the first president to mention the Stonewall uprising and the gay rights struggle during an inaugural speech. While many in the le***an, gay, bisexual and transgender community were thrilled with the mentions, an 11-year-old transgender girl named S...

http://janetmock.com/2012/07/09/josie-romero-dateline-transgender-trapped-body/

Transgender Media: Why I Dislike 'Trapped In the Wrong Body' | Janet Mock Janet Mock discusses Dateline NBC's interview with transgender girl Josie Romero, and the media's fixation on the trapped in the wrong body narrative.

Happy Juneteenth! (Go celebrate on Saturday at LeClaire Park!)

Juneteenth | Downtown Davenport, Iowa

Thank you to all who came out to Family Game Night on Friday, and a special thanks to Salon Lotus for their prize donation!

Also, thank you to so much to all those who volunteered at our booth for QC Pridefest, and those who stopped by in support. It was a great weekend!

Tomorrow is the National Day of Silence, a movement which raises awareness of the silence caused by anti-LGBT bullying and harassment. A day which echoes the silence of teens like Kenneth Wieshuhn Jr.



How will you honor the Day of Silence?

http://www.dayofsilence.org/

Day of Silence

"A lot of people, they either joined in or they were too scared to say anything” -Kenneth's Sister

Let's teach more kids and teachers and principles and counselors how to fight back.

14-Year Old Su***de Victim Was Receiving Death Threats For Being Gay | The New Civil Rights Movement 14-year old Kenneth Weishuhn, Jr., who died by su***de this weekend was bullied by classmates and received death threats on his cell phone and social media sites.

Iowa Pride Network: 2012 Campus Climate Survey is now live!