A legal battle is brewing, seeking to nullify a California law that requires transgender prisoners be housed in a female facility if they claim female … [Read more...]
La comunidad LGBTQ+ habla Hispana compartio con SQNews la lucha, perseverancias decer transgénero
La comunidad LBGTQ+ de habla hispana compartió los retos que han enfrentado a consecuencia de su identificación, y el impacto que les ha causado en … [Read more...]
The history of ‘homosexuality’
In an era of anti-trans laws, “Don’t Say Gay Bills,” and a growing number of physical, verbal and cyber-attacks, open displays of contempt for queer … [Read more...]
Voices from the incarcerated Queer community
Melding Pride and Juneteenth America’s first ‘drag queen’ was a former slave His name was William Dorsey Swann, but to his friends, he … [Read more...]
Fighting prejudice in prison
Gay and transgender prisoners in California present a challenging conundrum to the state’s increasingly progressive criminal justice system, where … [Read more...]
Groups inspire healing in San Quentin’s LGBTQ+ community
Eight years have passed since the nation’s first LGBTQ and gender studies program began at San Quentin. At the time there were concerns about … [Read more...]
Transgender murder rate on the rise
‘Rising epidemic of violence’ not helped by COVID Homicides of transgender people have been on the rise since 2019, according to data from the … [Read more...]
SQ Transgender Day of Remembrance
For the first time in its history, San Quentin State Prison joined the nationwide movement on Nov. 20 to memorialize 22 transpersons killed by hatred … [Read more...]
Challenge to Oregon's treatment of trans prisoners may pave way for change
Brady Hall is a transgender inmate in Oregon who petitioned the court to transfer from male housing to a female facility. (Transgender people do not … [Read more...]
The origin story of New Hope: San Quentin's LGBT church
In 2014, two transgender inmates founded an LGBT church at San Quentin called New Hope. Kim McBride, a minister for 19 years, and Adriel Ramirez … [Read more...]