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Minnie Bruce Pratt
Obituaries

Minnie Bruce Pratt, Lesbian Poet, Essayist, and Activist, Dead at 76

Pratt was a lesbian and feminist who fought oppression in all its forms and was the longtime partner of trans activist Leslie Feinberg.

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Books

Trans Pioneer, Stone Butch Blues Author Leslie Feinberg Dies

She was a pioneer in trans and lesbian issues, workers rights, and intersectionality long before anyone could define the phrase. Her partner, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and family offered us this obituary.

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News

Lesbian-Feminist Press Firebrand Books' Former Home Now a Landmark

The esteemed publisher's onetime headquarters has been designated a local historic landmark in Ithaca, N.Y.

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People

PFLAG National Names Jaime M. Grant Executive Director

The family-oriented organization is putting an impressive mother in the driver's seat.

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Voices

Op-ed: Finding 'Queer' Through Leslie Feinberg's 'Stone Butch Blues'

Memoirist Daisy Hernandez, in tribute to the late author and activist Leslie Feinberg, recalls the words and places that Feinberg's classic novel evokes for her.

Writer Abigail Shrier pits lesbians against trans and nonbinary folks in her dangerous book.
Books

Abigail Shrier's Antitrans Manifesto Gives Lesbians a Bad Name

Writer Abigail Shrier pits lesbians against trans and nonbinary folks in her dangerous book, Irreversible Damage, but there are ways to combat that. 

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Crime

Fighting for her Life Trans Woman Charged With Murder

One night in front of a Minneapolis bar has changed CeCe McDonald's life forever.

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Transgender

This Year’s Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Who’s Who

The 2015 Trans100 list includes activists, journalists, academics, and sex workers.

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Year in Review

40 People Who Destroyed Gender Rules in 2014

Keeping ourselves to listing only 40 phenomenal trans, gender-fluid, and nonbinary people who broke barriers in 2014 was the hardest part -- which is pretty cool in itself.