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France Villarta | TED Speaker

France Villarta, a communications consultant for Wells Fargo, is passionate about exploring the intersectionality of gender, politics and culture.
Communications consultant
https://www.ted.com/speakers/france_villarta

Archie Crowley | TED Speaker

Archie Crowley studies the relationship between language, gender and culture with the goal of bringing people together and working for justice for trans communities.
Sociolinguist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/archie_crowley

Steven Petrow | TED Speaker

Journalist Steven Petrow writes about manners and civility.
Journalist, author
https://www.ted.com/speakers/steven_petrow

Lindsay Amer | TED Speaker

Lindsay "Lindz" Amer creates LGBTQ+ and social justice media for kids and families.
Digital creator
https://www.ted.com/speakers/lindsay_amer

Lee Mokobe | TED Speaker

Lee Mokobe is a 20-year-old South African slam poet and co-founder of Vocal Revolutionaries.
Poet
https://www.ted.com/speakers/lerato_mokobe

Paula Stone Williams | TED Speaker

Paula Stone Williams is a pastor, counselor, speaker, LGBTQ ambassador and gender equity advocate.
Religious leader, counselor, advocate
https://www.ted.com/speakers/paula_stone_williams

Yoruba Richen | TED Speaker

In her documentary films, Yoruba Richen unites African-American, feminist and LGBTQ voices in a renewed cry for civil rights for all.
Documentary filmmaker
https://www.ted.com/speakers/yoruba_richen

Micah Eames | TED Speaker

Micah Eames is a writer, artist and trans rights advocate in pursuit of the perfect skin care routine.
Writer, Trans rights advocate
https://www.ted.com/speakers/micah_eames

Hannah Gadsby | TED Speaker

Hannah Gadsby skewers the straight world's dismissal and outright hostility toward the LGBTQ community in her stand-up sets, stage performances and television shows.
Serious comedian
https://www.ted.com/speakers/hannah_gadsby

Leslie Herod | TED Speaker

In 2016, Leslie Herod was elected to serve House District 8 in the Colorado House of Representatives and is the first LGBTQ+ African American to hold office in Colorado.
Colorado State Representative
https://www.ted.com/speakers/leslie_herod

Tiq Milan | TED Speaker

Already a tireless advocate for positive and honest portrayals of LGBTQ people in media, Tiq Milan now evangelizes for the unifying power of love.
Transgender activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/tiq_milan

Jenni Chang and Lisa Dazols | TED Speaker

Jenni Chang and Lisa Dazols made "Out & Around" to show the momentous changes in the status of LGBTQ equality -- all around the world.
Documentary filmmakers
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jenni_chang_and_lisa_dazols

Gabby Rivera | TED Speaker

Gabby Rivera is a Bronx-born, queer Latinx writer.
Writer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/gabby_rivera

iO Tillett Wright | TED Speaker

As a child actor, iO Tillett Wright turned his shoes around in the bathroom stall so that people would think he was a boy. As a teenager, he fell in love with both women and men. His life in the gray areas of gender and sexuality deeply inform his work as an artist.
Photographer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/io_tillett_wright

Jonathan Williams | TED Speaker

Jonathan Williams likes to tell stories and throw parties, so he started a church that allowed him to do both.
Religious leader, storyteller
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jonathan_williams

Sarah Kay | TED Speaker

Sarah Kay is a poet, performer, educator and the founder of Project VOICE, an organization that uses spoken word poetry to entertain, educate and empower students and teachers worldwide.
Poet
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sarah_kay

Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa | TED Speaker

Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa is a storyteller, a truth-teller, a builder and breaker trying to figure out what it means to be human in a world that removes so much of our humanity in order to survive.
Writer, youth worker, freedom fighter
https://www.ted.com/speakers/mwende_freequency_katwiwa

Homophobia in our blood

Homophobia and mass shootings are afflictions that won't be solved overnight -- but the problematic and outdated restrictions against gay blood donors could be. Nothing rubs salt in the wounds of tragedy like bigotry or bureaucracy -- or both. But that is just what happened last week after the shooting at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando. Wit...
Posted June 22, 2016
https://ideas.ted.com/homophobia-in-our-blood

Samy Nour Younes | TED Speaker

Samy Nour Younes is a trans actor and activist who highlights the diversity of the trans experience -- not just in their struggles, but also in their triumphs.
Actor, activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/samy_nour_younes

Cleo Wade | TED Speaker

Cleo Wade creates uplifting messages, blending simplicity with positivity and arresting honesty.
Artist, poet, author
https://www.ted.com/speakers/cleo_wade

Andrew Solomon | TED Speaker

Andrew Solomon writes about politics, culture and psychology.
Writer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/andrew_solomon

Sara Ramirez | TED Speaker

Broadway and TV veteran Sara Ramirez challenges stereotypes even as she beguiles audiences.
Singer, songwriter, actress
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sara_ramirez

Gallery: Ten windows into LGBTQ life around the world

Filmmakers Jenni Chang and Lisa Dazols share candid photos and descriptions of people they met around the world -- on their quest to document the global diversity of LGBTQ experience. In 2011, Jenni Chang and Lisa Dazols (TED Talk: This is what LGBT life is like around the world) traveled across Asia, Africa, South America and Australia to spea...
Posted November 23, 2016
https://ideas.ted.com/gallery-ten-windows-into-lgbtq-life-around-the-world

One great way to celebrate Pride Month: Document LGBTQ history before it's lost

June 28, 2019, marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, when LGBTQ people and allies fought back in a six-night riot against a police raid on The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City. Stonewall was not the first time that LGBTQ people took a stand against oppression or police harassment, but it was a major turning point in ...
Posted June 25, 2019
https://blog.ted.com/2019/06/25/one-great-way-to-celebrate-pride-month-document-lgbtq-history-before-its-lost

The smart strategy that one LGBTQ forum uses to keep out trolls and bullies

Turn it into a game, says technologist Esra’a Al Shafei. Thanks to features like a point system and a leaderboard, her small site for LGBTQ people in the Arab world is not only fun to use -- it’s free from harassers. Many LGBTQ people in the Middle East live under a cloud of stress and fear -- depending on where they live, they may face social ...
Posted September 21, 2018
https://ideas.ted.com/the-smart-strategy-that-one-lgbtq-forum-uses-to-keep-out-trolls-and-bullies

Voces LGTB de Madrid: Celebrando la diversidad

Unirse a través de la música, sin importar quien y como eres y a lo que te dedicas, y crear un estilo propio. En esta fascinante e inspiradora intervención, Voces LGBT de Madrid comparte y muestra lo mejor del ser humano cuando se celebra la verdadera diversidad de identidades.
https://www.ted.com/talks/voces_lgtb_de_madrid_celebrando_la_diversidad
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