Declaration for Gender Freedom
MyDeclaration Gender is the water we swim in every day. Gender is so integrated into our cultures and our social systems, it’s easy to forget (or miss) that it is a concept invented by people. Personally, I didn’t understand the difference between sex and gender until I was in my 20’s. Looking back, it seems […]
Declaration of Montréal on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Human Rights (2006)
Editor’s Note: This declaration was approved on July 29, 2006 at the International Conference, the largest ever gathering, on LGBT Human Rights in Montreal. It is described by organizers as a conference “attended by 1500 people from more than hundred countries in the world.” The declaration itself “was drafted by the Co-Presidents of the Conference…and unanimously […]
A Declaration of Gay Independence (2012)
Editor’s note: Tracy Baime prefaces her Declaration with this: “We know that the original signers of the Declaration of Independence didn’t really live by their own words. Very few people in this country’s early years actually had the full rights of citizenship. But those forefathers had a dream, and that dream has been slowly fulfilled […]
