To donate to The Dan Massey Transleadership Scholarship Fund, click here. “Love. Sex and Gender are innate pathways of true communion with the Grand Universe, and therefore worthy of worship.” Dan Massey (1942-2013) and Alison Gardner Massey (b. 1948) Leonard Daniel Massey, a sexual freedom activist and scholar, scientist and blogger, and a self-described androgyne, died…
“After dismantling Apartheid, when we sat down to write our Constitution, we quite deliberately ensured that gays, lesbians and bisexuals were included in South Africa’s Constitution. “Having ourselves suffered terribly, we did not want to inflict discrimination on any group that lived within our borders and we explicitly stated this for the world to know…
Dear White People in the Sexuality/Sexology Field, I’m writing this letter regarding a particular interaction I recently had with a racially white person in the field. This person is planning a new program and project in which I was invited to be a part. I asked what the demographics were for this space, if there…
Written by a leading activist in the transgender movement, Becoming a Visible Man is an artful and compelling inquiry into the politics of gender. Jamison Green combines candid autobiography with informed analysis to offer unique insight into the multiple challenges of the female-to-male transsexual experience, ranging from encounters with prejudice and strained relationships with family…
The idea of gender is no long as fixed as it once was: Tootsie, La Cage aux Folles, and Milton Berle saw to that. But none of this has prepared us for Loren Cameron’s amazing portraits of transsexuals. Beautifully reproduced and complemented with notes and short essays, these portraits of women who are now men…
Common sense has dictated that there are two genders–female and male. But this perspective is becoming less accepted and making less sense for many people. Pat Califia’s Sex Changes is a frank, forthright, and sometimes funny challenge to the traditional ideas about gender and sexuality. Transgenderism is the term used to describe people who feel…
Hirschfeld (1868-1935), who coined the term transvestism and was one of the founders of the study of sexuality, wrote Die transvestiten in 1910 to establish a non-prejudicial body of knowledge about the long-misunderstood subject of women and men who cross-dress. This new translation is by Michael A. Lombardi-Nash.
Sex work refers to a wide range of activity where sexual interaction is explicitly exchanged for something of value.
WSFA firmly believes that human beings possess a fundamental right to develop and express their sexuality.
Sexual Health is a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well being in relation to sexuality.
Sexuality and faith are two of the most deeply important and deeply personal aspects of human identity.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are entitled to the realization of the full spectrum of their human rights.
Civil rights are one sub-set of human rights that exist equal to and interdependent with multiple fundamental human rights.
Grounded in the human rights framework, reproductive justice refers to all of the conditions necessary for all people to enjoy reproductive freedom.
Every human being deserves access to medically accurate and inclusive information about sex and sexuality.
