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We need new images for LGBTQ sexuality.

There is an image for transgender-inclusive sex: File:Wiki-trans-cis lesbian sex.png. But there are no such image for transman sexuality. We need illustrations of penile-vaginal sex and other sex including trans people.

We require illustrations of opposite-gender same-genitalia sexual activities or same-gender heterogenital sexual activities immediately. Illustrations which describe same-gender same genitalia sexual activities of trans people will be eventually required. Sharouser (talk) 16:21, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Seedfeeder has been inactive for over a decade now, so we will not have any new "Wikipedia style sex illustrations", well, at least certainly not "immediately". Flounder fillet (talk) 19:00, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

The linked image isn't currently used on English Wikipedia. Is there an article or project where an image like this is desired, let alone required immediately? –RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk • stalk) 23:08, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

It's not at all obvious to me that it's a particularly useful image for illustrating trans lesbian sex anyway – it could just as easily be read as cis-het sex. Indeed, of the three uses across the entire Wikimedia ecosystem, the one on en.wikiquote is accompanying a quote about heterosexual sex. Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 23:21, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Agree; I can't imagine an enWP context where these would be explanatory, and several where it would be degrading. Transgender sexuality could use images, but not much is elucidated by literal depictions of transgender people having sex. Many already associate trans bodies primarily with fetish pornography, and conjuring mental images of our genitals is perhaps the one thing they have very little trouble with... –RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk • stalk) 00:03, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Joseph McCarthy

Joseph McCarthy has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 02:14, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Films about intersex#Requested move 14 November 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Films about intersex#Requested move 14 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Web-julio (talk) 20:52, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Trans#Requested_move 15 November 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Trans#Requested_move 15 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Raladic (talk) 23:36, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Category:Anti-transgender activists

I've translated from Russian Wikipedia Category:Anti-LGBTQ activists (well there was a similar but more specific category here though). There's Category:Anti-same-sex-marriage activists but none for anti-trans rights activists yet. Recently, Category:Feminism and transgender topics was renamed and purged. However, not every biography that were directly there was technically "anti-trans" (such as Buck Angel) I guess. Another possibility is to create Category:Gender-critical feminists based on gender-critical feminism mainspace article. I also created c:cat:Gender-critical people because some of them aren't feminists, but I'm not sure if that would be allowed on English Wikipedia. Though many would fall under wp:OPINIONCAT, some would qualify as defining. Also what title would be the best? The sentence from Category:Organizations that oppose transgender rights could be used ("... that oppose transgender rights"), but that sounds like a WP:BLP issue. Web-julio (talk) 02:03, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Fringe Theories Noticeboard Discussion

There is a discussion at WP:FTN#Stephen B. Levine relevant to the wikiproject. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 00:09, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Trembling Before G-d under FA review

I have nominated Trembling Before G-d for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. George Ho (talk) 05:37, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Pride flag and Rainbow flag (LGBTQ)

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any difference between the topics of Pride flag and Rainbow flag (LGBTQ). Before I start a WP:MERGE discussion, maybe someone can explain it to me. The first line of Rainbow flag even bolds Pride flag as a synonym. (Here's one data point to consider.) Feel free to start a merge discussion if you like; I'm likely to be tied up for a few days. Please ping me to it, if you do, otherwise I'll get around to it eventually, barring something really persuasive here. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 07:38, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Pride flag is a parent article summarizing the 9 or so articles about pride flags, including Rainbow flag as well as other identity-specific pride flags like the Asexual flag, Transgender flag and Lesbian flags. We have enough to say about each of these individually that they qualify for their own articles. –RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk • stalk) 11:32, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Yup pretty much this. The Pride flag article is basically a WP:BROADCONCEPT-ish article about Pride flags and all the different Pride flags. Whereas the Rainbow flag one is specifically about the history of blue the rainbow flag.

i don’t think merging them is in the best interest of our readers as it would bloat and blur it.

Another reason for separating them is to not raise the importance of the rainbow flag over the pride flags of the other sub communities like trans, lesbian, ace, aro, intersex and so on, which all are also pride flags. Raladic (talk) 14:52, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Categorizing articles about people § Proposed update to CATLGBT

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Categorizing articles about people § Proposed update to CATLGBT. Raladic (talk) 05:33, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:List of animated series with LGBT characters: 2020–present

Presently a discussion is going on, which may be of interest to this WikiProject, at Talk:List of animated series with LGBT characters: 2020–present#Splitting off 2020-2024 entries into new article when 2025 begins? about whether to split off the 2020-2024 entries of LGBTQ+ characters in January 2025 or to leave the article as is. Your contributions would be appreciated. Thanks! Historyday01 (talk) 22:22, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Feedback welcome

I made a property proposal here: d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Non-binary population. I am not asking for support, but please give your feedback regarding what should be the property label. Thanks. আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 01:05, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Parker Molloy

Project members may wish to comment at this discussion. All opinions welcome. Best.4meter4 (talk) 03:43, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:LGBTQ in Chile#Requested move 23 November 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:LGBTQ in Chile#Requested move 23 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Raladic (talk) 03:46, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:LGBTQ topics in Singaporean literature#Requested move 24 November 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:LGBTQ topics in Singaporean literature#Requested move 24 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. --MikutoH ^talk! 03:53, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:LGBTQ topics in Chile#Requested move 24 November 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:LGBTQ topics in Chile#Requested move 24 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. --MikutoH ^talk! 04:12, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Larries#Requested_move_23_November_2024

For the interested. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:37, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Let Them See Us

Hi!

I just translated an article about Polish bilboard LGBT campaign Let Them See Us into English. If somebody could check my gramar and vocab, I would be glad.

Also, it has only one reference, but so does the Polish article? Do you want me to find something more on the Polish net?

Best wishes

-- Kaworu1992 (talk) 02:41, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Yes you should probably try to find more reliable sources for your new article at Let them see us as the bar can be higher on the English Wikipedia for notability or else someone may nominate the article for deletion. Raladic (talk) 02:48, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi ;-)

I found some resources. The article is, I think, finished, link is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Let_them_see_us

I wanted very badly to add some Gazeta Wyborcza reference, but sadly, no querry resulted with a link to an article T_T

Please, tell me if I need to do something else with this article ;-)

Best wishes

-- Kaworu1992 (talk) 01:08, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

Rainbow crossings in Taipei

New article: Rainbow crossings in Taipei

Improvements welcome! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 13:07, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Gender-affirming surgery (male-to-female)#Requested move 4 December 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Gender-affirming surgery (male-to-female)#Requested move 4 December 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Raladic (talk) 18:58, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Protecting Women's Private Spaces Act#Requested move 3 December 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Protecting Women's Private Spaces Act#Requested move 3 December 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Raladic (talk) 00:39, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Gay sex roles#Requested move 8 December 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Gay sex roles#Requested move 8 December 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Raladic (talk) 16:27, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Emma Dumont#Requested move 7 December 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Emma Dumont#Requested move 7 December 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. LIrala (talk) 05:56, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Navbox question

See the discussion about Template:LGBTQ fiction at LGBTQ+ media. Comment if interested :)

JuxtaposedJacob (talk) | :) | he/him | 22:35, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Merge suggestion/advice

Hello,

I am of the opinion that LGBTQ+ media should be merged into Media portrayal of LGBTQ people, as the latter is the better article by far. However, I think that the larger article should retain the title of the former.

Do the members of this WikiProject feel the same? I am open to suggestions. Also, I don't know how to propose this non-basic merge, so if anyone wants to provide guidance on this, let me know as well.

Thanks!

JuxtaposedJacob (talk) | :) | he/him | 10:47, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

I think those are two very separate topics. The first is about media made by and for LGBTQ people. The second is about portrayal of LGBTQ people across all media. Neither topic subsumes the other although they do overlap. I agree that LGBTQ+ media is a very poor article. In fact, most of what it should be is so entirely missing that I can't blame you for not realising what the point of that article is.

Generally, I think our whole coverage of this topic area is poor. We are up to our eyeballs in articles called "List of..." but missing some articles that explain these topics properly.

If we are going to fix it then this is quite a big project and certainly beyond my abilities. To give an idea of what I think we need, LGBTQ+ media should cover the history of LGBTQ publishing (publishing houses, books, magazines, openly and covertly LGBT publications, academic publications etc), poetry, theatre and then film and broadcasting channels and internet outlets. It needs to take a global perspective. It can pull in a summary of content from Gay literature, Lesbian literature and Transgender literature etc as a good start on the print side. For other topics there is LGBTQ theatre, Gay pornography, Gay pulp fiction, Lesbian erotica (insofar as it is actually made for lesbians). For the globalisation there are several regional articles like LGBT literature in Spain which can be summarised and linked to. These provide jumping off points to things like Homoerotic literature in ancient Rome and Hispano-Arabic homoerotic poetry. We do have a lot of coverage that is not summarised or even linked in this, the main article about the topic. We also have some serious gaps in our coverage. For example, where is our coverage of LGBTQ TV and radio stations? I see this article as the top level jumping off point for all these topics. It should cover them all briefly, trying to provide a coherent overview, and provide links to the individual articles for more detail. --DanielRigal (talk) 16:28, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

+1, they are separate (related) topics and should stay separate. Raladic (talk) 18:49, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

I agree: we should not merge these. LGBTQ+ media is about (for example) magazines and news organisations that cover queer news or books and films by queer creators, whereas Media portrayal of LGBTQ people is about how predominantly cis-het media represents queer people.

The Advocate (magazine) and I Saw the TV Glow could both be within the remit of the former, but only the film would be within the remit of the latter. List of horror television series with LGBT characters is within the remit of the latter, but not the former. — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 19:09, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Agree that the two articles should remain separate. I've started doing some work to expand LGBTQ+ media, but it definitely needs a ton of work, especially for coverage of non-English speaking countries. ForsythiaJo (talk) 21:18, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

I've also started a draft on LGBTQ radio, which folks are welcome to add to if they're interested. There's a ton of academic coverage on the subject, which is great. ForsythiaJo (talk) 05:33, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

@DanielRigal, that is a good point, and its validity is increased by @ForsythiaJo's edits. I'm glad we were able to improve the encyclopedia, regardless of my initial proposal.

JuxtaposedJacob (talk) | :) | he/him | 22:30, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

I also support Daniel's idea. Lewisguile (talk) 09:14, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

I agree with Daniel. One article discusses media generated to be viewed by LGBTQ people, the other discusses the portrayal of LGBTQ people (or lack thereof) in mainstream media outlets. HenrikHolen (talk) 01:30, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

I think that there are portions of the US subsection of LGBTQ+ media which should be moved to the Media portrayal of LGBTQ people article. Specifically the parts which discuss the rules and regulations which limited LGBTQ representation. HenrikHolen (talk) 15:11, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

I'll put a note about that on the Talk Page and then can move it in a couple days if there's no objections. ForsythiaJo (talk) 15:14, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Merge proposed for Disorders of Sex Development and Sexual Anomalies

Since this topic relates to intersex and was labeled of interest to the LGBTQ+ Wikiproject, I figured you guys might want to weigh in. Here is the discussion. Urchincrawler (talk) 16:27, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Romaine Brooks

Romaine Brooks has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 23:42, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Matthew Shepard move request

There's a move request, Matthew Shepard → Murder of Matthew Shepard, that editors here may have useful expertise to contribute: Talk:Matthew Shepard#Requested move 22 December 2024. Davidwbaker (talk) 21:20, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for American Horror Story

American Horror Story has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 23:20, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Standardizing 'by country' articles

Our articles on LGBTQ people by country are quite inconsistent. There are variously articles titled LGBTQ people in foo, LGBTQ rights in foo, LGBTQ history in foo, LGBTQ culture in foo, etc., but little consistency between which countries have which articles. Often the articles contain content beyond what their name would suggest, just because it is the best available location for that content. There have been several proposed moves and related discussions on these articles in the past months, which has demonstrated the need for a centralized discussion.

It would productive to establish a consensus on a model structure for these articles, so that the work to bring them into greater consistency can have a clear goal. To that end, I propose the following:

• Every country should have LGBTQ people in foo as a WP:Broad-concept article.
• Where there is enough content for a more specific topic to have its own article (on the rights, history, or culture of LGBTQ people in the country), there should be a WP:Summary style subsection in the broad-concept article.
• LGBTQ in foo should redirect to the broad-concept article. Per. WP:BCA, disambiguation pages are not needed where the potential destination articles are conceptually linked and covered by a broad-concept article.

LGBTQ people in Mexico and its sub-articles provide an example of this structure.--Trystan (talk) 19:35, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

If we do choose to move forward with this (or a similar) standardization, I would be down to help work on such a project :) ForsythiaJo (talk) 20:19, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

This works for me. Lewisguile (talk) 09:56, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

I would like to add that if there is a DAB page, I think it should be at "LGBTQ topics in X" instead of "LGBTQ in X", which is grammatically wrong. Raladic (talk) 18:07, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

I think the WP:BCA guideline suggests that DABs shouldn't exist in these situations: However, if the primary meaning of a term proposed for disambiguation is a broad concept or type of thing that is capable of being described in an article, and a substantial portion of the links asserted to be ambiguous are instances or examples of that concept or type, then the page located at that title should be an article describing it, and not a disambiguation page. There isn't really an ambiguous title in these situations that requires disambiguation between different meanings, but rather a general concept (LGBTQ people in foo) and sub-topics that spin off from that parent article. The BCA serves as the leaping off point to the more specific topics, so a DAB isn't needed.--Trystan (talk) 03:50, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Yup that's fair. So if there is a clear BCA, then we don't need a DAB, but I'm saying for cases where there might be ambiguity if a "LGBTQ people in X" has been properly refacted into the BCA, if there is a DAB, it should be at "LGBTQ topics in X" so it is grammatically correct.

Else when there is a BCA, all of those "LGBTQ in X" or "LGBTQ topics in X" should redirect to the BCA at "LGBTQ people in X" as we're now establishing as a consensus standard here. Raladic (talk) 06:40, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Pinging @MikutoH who has been involved in a lot of these discussions. Raladic (talk) 18:08, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

This is a good idea. Will countries that only have rights be revamped into main topics then? If people are interested in working in or expanding such articles, that would be great. --MikutoH ^talk! 02:15, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

What will happen with categories that use LGBTQ as a noun? Similar to how transgender and intersex categories were moved, or are we gonna add another word (such as community)? --MikutoH ^talk! 02:14, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

I thought it was going to be "topics", "people", "history", etc, depending on the scope of the article? Lewisguile (talk) 09:46, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Will countries that only have rights be revamped into main topics then? I would say, if the "rights" article is really focussed on rights, it would stay as-is, and at some point hopefully a "people" BCA will be added. But I think a fair number of articles on rights have collected subsections on related topics that would be more suited for a BCA, so there won't be a one-size-fits-all solution.--Trystan (talk) 14:57, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Just noting that we may not want to assume that every country should have a separate "LGBTQ people in" page. Small countries or newly-formed states may be better covered as a section in a broader regional article. Doing a quick Google Scholar search to test this theory, I was sometimes able to quickly find country-specific sources (e.g. East Timor), but not for some others (e.g. San Marino, Seychelles, Maldives, South Sudan). Results for these searches suggest that e.g. LGBTQ people in Sub-Saharan Africa, would more accurately reflect the scope of available high-quality sources (e.g. [1]) _signed, Rosguill ^talk 18:21, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

That's a fair point. I suppose it would be more accurate to phrase it as, "Where reliable sources are available to create a stand-alone article (or articles) on LGBTQ people in a country, LGBTQ people in foo should be created as a WP:Broad-concept article."--Trystan (talk) 20:43, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi. I think the suggestion in general is great. I created this list Draft:List of LGBTQ topics. Though I'm not sure if it's a mix of Outline of LGBTQ topics and what would be a "LGBTQ by country" plus some related things in the same affix or similar naming. And I created with non-redirect (aka mainspace) articles only. I was also inspired by this table from Spanish-language version of this WikiProject. So it might be useful for y'all to fill the gaps, broaden the scope of some articles or rename (that would make the list inconsistent as time goes and no one updates it). LIrala (talk) 05:28, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

I have gone ahead and created a separate page to coordinate/discuss this project. ForsythiaJo (talk) 20:56, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

LGBTQ to LGBTQ+

Should we re-name pages from "LGBTQ" to "LGBTQ+"? Helper201 (talk) 23:39, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Yes. The acronym for LGBTQ doesn't account for aromantic people, asexual people, intersex people, or non-binary people. Nor does it account for varying non-cis and non-heterosexual identities, sexualities, gender identities etc from outside mainstream western media, like two-spirit, Faʻafafine, fakafifine, takatāpui, vakasalewalewa, māhū or palopa etc. I think using "+" would account for all these and more without the need for a long acronym like LGBTIQA (which itself omits non-binary, among others). It would also help negate future moving over "why include Q but not A" etc. Many of the pages using LGBTQ in their title cover aromantic people, asexual people, intersex people, and/or non-binary, so I think this would be most relevant and applicable. Helper201 (talk) 23:44, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Question: Wasn’t there a discussion recently about changing the acronym that was based on sources? I thought that that was for everything, but maybe not.

JuxtaposedJacob (talk) | :) | he/him | 01:53, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Prefer Q+, but snowclose. A move discussion at Talk:LGBTQ (the appropriate venue) occurred relatively recently, with many arguments put forth, which resulted in moving from LGBT to LGBTQ, based especially on Google Ngrams data. Let's revisit adding a plus once Ngrams gets data for 2023. –RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk • stalk) 03:19, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Prefer Q+ but WP:SNOWCLOSE. As per Roxy. Lewisguile (talk) 13:32, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Snowclose. I also prefer LGBTQ+, but it is too soon to revisit the consensus established in the recent RM that settled on LGBTQ.--Trystan (talk) 13:56, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

• This is not an RfC matter. Please use the procedure described at WP:RM#CM. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:44, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Redrose64 In this case it is because we are not talking about the move of a single page but mass moving many pages. Those template parameters are for single page moves. WP:RMPM wouldn't be relevant as there are far, far too many pages starting with LGBTQ to list. Helper201 (talk) 04:49, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Redrose64 please respond. You removed the rfc far too soon, without any adequate chance of response beforehand and haven't responded to what I stated above a week ago. Helper201 (talk) 22:13, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

WP:CONSUB says that subtopics should use consistent naming with the parent article, so articles have generally been kept consistent with the article currently at LGBTQ. This previously meant everything got standardized to LGBT. Since August, when that article was moved to LGBTQ, other articles have followed suit. The move was very thoroughly discussed back in August, and despite it not resulting in my preferred outcome, I think it is much too soon to revisit it.--Trystan (talk) 23:34, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

There is no harm in holding a normal discussion on this Wikiproject talk page. If you want to escalate it, but don't want to use the WP:RM process, you could try WP:VPR. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 13:57, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

• This should be checked on a case by case basis. Check the scope for each page first before any rename, as the + may or may not be relevant. It may or may not be meaningful to expand the topic of each page. So for a proper RFC or requested move, all the pages affected should be listed before any rename. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:54, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

  This seems fraught. What makes an article have an LGBTQ vs. LGBTQ+ scope? –RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk • stalk) 22:52, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

  • RoxySaunders we could either change all LGBTQ pages to LGBTQ+ or go on a case-by-case basis on whether or not the page covers sexualities and/or gender identities outside the LGBTQ paradigm. I'd go for the former as the vast majority of pages (especially the most substantial ones) that discuss these matters that use LGBTQ in their title are basically used as a catch-all for non-straight and/or non-cis sexualities and/or gender identities. Helper201 (talk) 20:03, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

    I think case by case is better. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 21:48, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Someone to create a page for me and my work

I am a North Carolinian, queer poet, author of numerous books, some awards. The first gay poet in NC .... to remain in NC ... and be completely out. There were others of my generation who left the state and became well known, and some previous to me who also did so. But before me the ones that stayed behind were well hidden, or not out at all. Poet and publisher Jonathan Williams was my main mentor. Also James Broughton and Michael Rumaker. Many gay composers have set my poems to music. Anyhow, you can read and learn about me at my website https://jefferybeam.com/ There is more news (and one new book) not on my website as it has not been updated in a while. Born 1953. Hope someone can step forward from your group to add content about my life and work to Wikipedia. Jeffbeam (talk) 22:18, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

See WP:PROUD. --Redrose64 🦌 (talk) 22:59, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi Jeffery. To have a Wikipedia article about you, there must exist reliable and independent sources which provide significant, in-depth discussion of you or your work (see the WP:General notability guideline and WP:Notability (people) for the project's exact policy). Unfortunately, most people, even most published authors do not meet Wikipedia's definition of notability. If you're aware of reliable sources independent from yourself that would be useful for writing a biography about you, please list them. –RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk • stalk) 23:37, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

To follow on from Roxy, I would suggest providing at least four independent, reliable sources (not primary or self-published sources) which discuss you and your work in depth. Lewisguile (talk) 07:41, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Five could be better if possible. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 21:49, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Cass Review page in need of consensus

Morning all,

I suspect it's still too soon after Christmas to get many people involved right now, but there are some ongoing discussions over at Cass Review which could benefit from more input. At the moment there are just a small handful of us discussing, so it tends to be one-on-one discussions, and then any emerging consensus gets overwritten as soon as the new one-to-one discussion starts. There have also been some overlapping edits made around the same time which have resulted in accidental restoration of text which no one was happy with, thus making the article worse than it would have been. Some extra eyes on this might help.

Key discussions:

• Background: How much do we need to include about the history of GIDS here?
• Methodology: How much space should be given over to the systematic reviews versus other forms of evidence included, and the nature of synthesis itself?
• What counts as valid evidence per MEDRS – e.g., is the systematic review by RAND Health & Wellbeing valid, and does it matter that the Cass Review itself wasn't peer reviewed if the systematic reviews were?
• Should the responses of gender critical groups be removed or should they stay in the responses section?

There's probably more, but those are off the top of my head. I reckon we can get some quick consensus so I've held off on doing a formal RfC for that reason. I think it's more a problem of few editors engaging right now, rather than one of intractable disagreement. Lewisguile (talk) 09:20, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

The Vivienne

British drag performer The Vivienne has died. Article improvements welcome. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 20:49, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Maddelynn Hatter

Maddelynn Hatter has been nominated for deletion, if any project members are interested in weighing in or improving the article. Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 04:13, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 9 § Categories:LGBTQ in

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 9 § Categories:LGBTQ in. --MikutoH ^talk! 23:24, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Proposal: split off the history sections Gay literature and Lesbian literature pages into one page

( It was suggested to be taken here when I asked in the Teahouse, as it involves splitting multiple articles to create a third. If it's the wrong place, blame them, not me. I'm just a newbie trying to help and not make mistakes)

I propose that we split the history aspects of Gay literature and Lesbian literature into their own third article: History of Gay and Lesbian literature (1), or separate articles History of Gay Literature and History of Lesbian literature (2). --Lover of lgbt literature (talk) 10:46, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

• Support 1 and 2 with equal preference, as proposer, because the history aspect of the topics currently dominates both articles and can easily stand on their own, and I think splitting them off will allow other aspects of both topics to have some breathing room. I excluded Bisexual literature and Transgender literature, as their history section are small enough not to dominate their articles. I know it took me a while to get here from the teahouse, but things happened, and I forgot until now.--Lover of lgbt literature (talk) 10:46, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose. Lesbian literature history is focused on the lesbian subject and should remain independent from the history of Gay male literature. And creating a stand-alone article titled "History of Lesbian literature" as an addition to the existing Lesbian literature article (which is historical) is senseless. Pyxis Solitary (yak yak). Ol' homo. 11:22, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Oppose for now. Gay literature has about 6.2K readable words and Lesbian literature has about 4.6K readable words. Neither is overly long at this point and both of them cover a lot of history. Moving history to one or two new pages would fragment the info and make all of them rather short. A better idea would be to wait and see if any particular section gets overly long, and then spin that off into its own section if needed. But that seems a distant issue for now. Lewisguile (talk) 12:02, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Oppose it's two different subjects 2A01:CB0C:8805:3000:59F2:ECAF:5F35:F425 (talk) 23:40, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Karla Sofía Gascón

There's a discussion at Talk:Karla Sofía Gascón on whether Gascón's former name should be included in the article. Nardog (talk) 06:57, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Wow GA for Transgender health care misinformation

Check it Transgender health care misinformation

Started a month ago, and now at WP:Good article status. Bluerasberry (talk) 20:35, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Sultan Qaboos RFC

There is a new RFC underway at Talk:Qaboos bin Said about whether to include suggestions that the late Sultan of Oman may have been gay. cagliost (talk) 11:12, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Protecting Women's Private Spaces Act#Requested move 27 December 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Protecting Women's Private Spaces Act#Requested move 27 December 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 19:53, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:LGBTQ in Mexico (disambiguation)#Requested move 9 January 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:LGBTQ in Mexico (disambiguation)#Requested move 9 January 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. CNC (talk) 22:52, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Talk:Raegan_Revord#They/Them_Pronouns

If you have an opinion, please join. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:35, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

Manual of Style proposal for "LGBTQ+" and its variants

I'm not sure where to take this so I figured I would start here to see if there is support for the idea.

I propose that somewhere in WP's Manual of Style we instruct editors that LGBTQ+ functions as an adjective. It typically describes human beings and human concerns, groups, or activities. This applies to variations including but not limited to LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA2S and so on. These should always be used as adjectives modifying a noun (or nouns) and should not be used alone or with definite or indefinite articles as nouns. So The LGBTQ in China is incorrect while LGBTQ people in China or LGBTQ rights in China are acceptable. Additionally, these abbreviations should only be used in front of a noun that could plausibly be described as "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer." This applies in article titles and running text. As always, any exceptions must be grounded in consensus and well-supported by other Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Titles of published works and demonstrably widespread common usage would be examples.

This seems obvious to me, which is perhaps why I haven't been able to locate external style guides or other authoritative sources that spell this out. I see these abbreviations misused as nouns and used as adjectives to describe things that cannot plausibly be LGBTQ+. I'm open to the view that WP doesn't need to "invent" guidelines where simple grammar and semantics should resolve these issues but it's frustrating to see improper usage here and it seems to be part of the broader confusion surrounding this terminology. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 18:15, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

Do you have examples of where LGBTQ+ has been used to describe things that cannot plausibly be LGBTQ+? Really the only thing that can be LGBTQ+ is people, but it can be used quite broadly for things associated with LGBTQ+ people (like the rights of LGBTQ+ people, the culture of LGBTQ+ people, the communities formed by LGBTQ+ people, symbols and slang used by them, etc.)--Trystan (talk) 18:34, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

I have raised this issue at Talk:Modern pagan views on LGBT people#Requested move 22 January 2025 where the proposal is to change it to "Modern paganism and LGBTQ." LGBTQ what? I've also raised the issue of what kind of noun can plausibly be modified by these abbreviations at Talk:LGBT chemicals conspiracy theory#Requested move 21 January 2025. (I hesitated to mention these initially but I believe it is appropriate to call attention to a relevant RM discussion on this talk page. Also, I acknowledge that people may raise a related objection to the concept of a gay frog, but surely that is more plausible than an LGBT chemical, and besides that is only part of my objection.) I fully agree that LGBTQ+ refers broadly to thing associated with LGBTQ+ people—theory, film, history, studies, literature, Pride, rights… --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 19:18, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

I think these are just grammatical corrections that should not be controversial to correct when they arise. The only caveat is that WP:COMMONNAME has to take precedence when the world has already assigned a name to something, even if that name is stupid. So, with something like "LGBT chemicals conspiracy theory", if that really is the common name of the conspiracy theory then we would have to keep that name even though the phrase "LGBT chemicals" is obviously nonsense. DanielRigal (talk) 19:40, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

I think these are just grammatical corrections that should not be controversial to correct when they arise. One would hope! I'm content to address these individually and follow RoxySaunders's suggestion if I find this is widespread. Thanks! --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 21:54, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

The MOS does not need to give guidance on basic usage like this — avoid instruction creep. If there are a lot of article titles which are wrong, they should be discussed as a centralized WP:Requested move. –RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk • stalk) 21:17, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

That's a good suggestion, thank you. An RM impacting multiple pages has the potential to generate robust participation and is a good way to establish and memorialize consensus. I guess I got a little excited seeing this problem in two RMs in a short period of time. If I encounter more one-offs I will raise the issue locally and consider a broader RM if there's a pattern. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 21:51, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

Today's Trump executive order on women's sports

Resolved

The latest Trump executive order affecting trans people was released today, titled Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports. When I went to the redlink I made for this article (after adding it with appropriate citations to Transgender people in sports and 2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States), I noticed that the boilerplate text reads "This page is on the title blacklist, so only administrators, template editors, and page movers can create it." Since this is the actual title of the Executive Order, which has yet to be numbered, can someone with those privileges please either unblock it or create it as a temporary redirect or something? (I don't necessarily want to write the article myself, but it should be written.) Funcrunch (talk) 00:07, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

@Funcrunch I had success at Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports. Perhaps the curly quote is the problem. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 00:23, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

Aha, that was it. Thanks, I've straightened the quote in the linked articles. Funcrunch (talk) 00:26, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

Jules Vaughn

For any Euphoria fans out there, article improvements are welcome at the newly created Jules Vaughn. Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 18:25, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

Juno Dawson could use additional input

A user is adamant that Juno Dawson should contain information about a certain article the subject wrote, which was later retracted. Additional input is requested - see Talk:Juno Dawson#2017 Attitude article for more. Sam Walton (talk) 16:58, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

A message to American trans editors, trans editors generally, and allies

Hey y'all, things are pretty scary right now. In the last few weeks Trump has signed executive orders to ban trans healthcare for minors and legal adults age 18, kick trans people out of the military, and cease all federal policies protecting trans people. The federal government has redefined transgender people as a dangerous ideology and threat to the public who shouldn't have rights. This has been the greatest rollback of transgender rights in the US in recent history and seems to be just the start. It takes place in the context of worldwide organizing to roll back transgender rights and healthcare.

Elon Musk, who's opposition to trans rights is well known and is now part of Trump's administration, and the Heritage Foundation, who created Project 2025 upon which those policies were based, have both taken aim at Wikipedia recently.[2][3]

With that in mind, our honest coverage of transgender history, healthcare, and rights is more important than ever. You're probably organizing mutual aid networks, trying to figure out where/if to flee, and generally trying to deal with all of this IRL. While trans people have faced attempts at memoricide before - attempts to destroy the knowledge of our existence and history[4] - I urge you not to forget Wikipedia's mission. We aim to be the "the sum of all human knowledge".

Every article you write on transgender history or historical figures, every sentence you add on the state of trans rights, every image you add, every little thing you do here to improve the encylopedia matters. Take care of yourselves IRL, but if you can spare the energy, make sure our history isn't unwritten or buried here. We have only 10 articles on transgender history by country[5] and 13 on transgender rights by country[6]. Many of our articles are out of date or huge and unwieldy to read. A huge number lack translations to and from other languages.

All this is to say - if you're unsure of what to do and everything feels hopeless - write. While I'm primarily addressing this to trans editors in the USA, it applies to trans people of all nationalities, of allies of all nationalities. You are not alone. If you ever need help researching or writing, ping this noticeboard or even just me.

Solidarity forever, Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 21:23, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

👏👏👏 Well said! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 21:44, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

✊🏳️‍⚧️ –RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk • stalk) 23:09, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

We sure are living in interesting times, I hope everyone is staying safe. Would it be okay if I posted this message (with credit, of course) to social media? It might make some new people consider becoming editors. ForsythiaJo (talk) 23:20, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

Please do! Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 23:32, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

Yep, seeing lots of gleefully transphobic edits from new/IP editors on top of the usual transphobia I deal with in my watchlist. Funcrunch (talk) 23:22, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

Yeah I just saw this. I'm not American, but I find it really strange that a sitting president can instruct a health agency what they can and can't talk about. Zenomonoz (talk) 00:35, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

It is so disgusting... DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 00:53, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

❤️ --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 06:44, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

Advocacy and organization

A Wikimedia Foundation employee representing the advocacy team invited a few people to briefly share what impacts they have experienced as a result of administrative changes. I will describe more, but the action response that I suggest is that if anyone has interest and availability to do community organizing or to recruit someone for the same, then now would be a great time to schedule regular wiki discussion meetings with any group of 5-20 Wikimedians. Part of the point of organizing is to have a network for sharing news and updating each other. I can help and have done this lots before but more would be timely.

WMF Advocacy can speak for themselves. Their public-facing landing page is https://wikimediafoundation.org/advocacy/ and their wiki landing page is meta:Wikimedia_Foundation/Legal/Global_Advocacy. They have a focus that is useful and that I support, but it is not in scope for them to be members of the Wikimedia community or to be able to navigate and interpret Wikimedia community conversations. The ideal situation would be that Wikipedians organized their own conversations on policy, then ranked their own priorities and set their own positions on things. Anyone can start a wiki comunity organization. One-hour online talks are popular, and when those talks result in posted summaries or cross-reported in The Signpost, then non-live participants can develop those more online.

Wikimedia NYC, Wiki WALRUS, Wiki LGBT+ and more meet regularly online, and if someone wanted to affiliate or associate with those, then probably possible, but it would be helpful to have a tempo of monthly/quarterly meetings in place before doing formal affiliation.

As for me, I am a researcher at the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia. Part of what I do is demographics data, mostly to associate research with particular universities in the meta:WikiCite/d:Wikiproject WikiCite project, but demographics means a lot of things. Guidance like this affects my research.

• File:DEI - Division Extremism Ideology - How the Biden-Harris NSF Politicized Science.pdf

I sort research data from the HIV Vaccine Trials Network. I also do projects related to climate change preparedness. Demographics, LGBT+ health, and climate issues are less popular with the new American administration. In Wikipedia that has meant prose content development for environmental science, health, and open technology. In Wikidata that has meant structured data for all these things, especially to match open resources to people to institutions, and surface the open science ecosystem.

I gave my story to the Wikimedia Foundation advocacy team but even at their best with maximal resources they are way over capacity to approach issues in the way that would seem natural to Wikimedia community members. If anyone has their own stories for the WMF Advocacy team, then send them over as you like, as they are requesting brief summaries of a few sentences just to be aware of Wikimedia community impacts. Everyone is also invited to help The Signpost in telling stories. People tell their own stories, and no one will tell them for you. Bluerasberry (talk) 16:16, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine FRINGE RFC

There is currently an RFC on whether the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine is WP:FRINGE taking place at Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard#Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 16:20, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Concerns about the impact of new CDC orders

I'm sure many of you, especially the Americans, are aware of these new orders. [7], [8], [9], etc. I'm wondering if any of you will be able to report what is actually happening to both journals and the academics involved. This is pretty scary. I'm also wondering about any possible impact on foreign journals. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 09:02, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

WP:CDC links to "Current disambiguation collaborations" Flounder fillet (talk) 13:53, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

I think Weller means the actual CDC. Historyday01 (talk) 13:57, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

This renders sources connected to the US federal government by funding and authors connected to the US government by employment unreliable on topics even tangentially connected to sex, gender, and LGBTQ+ people, especially transgender and intersex people. Do we have policies and guidelines that address this in a cohesive manner, or is that a gap we should fill? From a quick search it looks like WP:RSN has experience reviewing sources connected to the Chinese government on issues they censor.--Trystan (talk) 14:56, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

I think this is something that can be appropriately handled by regular editing norms--editors can justifiably challenge the use of new CDC publications for as long as they deviate from what quality, peer-reviewed RS say, and the community can be trusted to rule in favor of the peer-reviewed sources every time. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 15:10, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Damn, yes, CDC. Sorry, changed the secion heading. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug Weller (talk • contribs) 15:09, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Academics merely need to avoid publishing in a U.S.-based journal. There are plenty of reputable journals to choose from in many other countries. For example, Nature can't be touched by Trump. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:37, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

List of your articles that are in Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors, 2025

Currently, this project has about ~22 articles in need of some reference cleanup. Basically, some short references created via {{sfn}} and {{harvnb}} and similar templates have missing full citations or have some other problems. This is usually caused by templates misuse or by copy-pasting a short reference from another article without adding the full reference, or because a full reference is not making use of citation templates like {{cite book}} (see Help:CS1) or {{citation}} (see Help:CS2). To easily see which citation is in need of cleanup, you can check these instructions to enable error messages (Svick's script is the simplest to use, but Trappist the monk's script is a bit more refined if you're interested in doing deeper cleanup). See also how to resolve issues.

These could use some of your attention

1. Andy Warhol
2. Discrimination against LGBTQ+ people in Southeast Asia
3. LGBTQ history in Mexico
4. LGBTQ literature in Spain
5. Medical views of conversion therapy
6. Michelangelo
7. Nickelodeon and LGBT representation
8. North American Man/Boy Love Association
9. One Hundred Years of Homosexuality
10. Sambia Sexual Culture
11. Santa Muerte
12. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (poetry collection)
13. Sigmund Freud's views on homosexuality
14. Socialism and LGBTQ rights
15. Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine
16. Tamara de Lempicka
17. Timeline of LGBTQ history
18. Timothy Morton
19. Transgender
20. Varys
21. Virtually Normal
22. Yukio Mishima

If you could add the full references to those article/fix the problem references, that would be great. Again, the easiest way to deal with those is to install Svick's script per these instructions. If after installing the script, you do not see an error, that means it was either taken care of, or was a false positive, and you don't need to do anything else. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:34, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Just fixed ref errors on Nickelodeon and LGBT representation. I got the sources from LGBTQ themes in Western animation which I created late last year. Thanks for posting this! Otherwise, I think this year is the year I should do an overhaul of the Nickelodeon and LGBT representation so it is structured a bit like the Cartoon Network and LGBT representation page, if I have time. Historyday01 (talk) 23:53, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Feel free to strike articles as they get taken care of. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:49, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. I will. Historyday01 (talk) 14:10, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Gay bathhouse

Gay bathhouse has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 04:03, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

Eyes requested at Gender-critical feminism

There's a discussion on the talk page of gender-critical feminism which I'd like more eyes on. Loki (talk) 17:27, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Template talk:LGBT in Washington, D.C.#Requested move 24 February 2025

An editor has requested that Template:LGBT in Washington, D.C. be moved to another page, which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 19:37, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Florida Parental Rights in Education Act#Requested move 24 February 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Florida Parental Rights in Education Act#Requested move 24 February 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 06:06, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

Portal:Transgender

Portal:Transgender has been nominated for deletion. The deletion discussion is being conducted at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Transgender (2nd nomination). Robert McClenon (talk) 05:22, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

The MfD was closed as delete. I don't agree that the close accurately represents the consensus of the discussion (which was nearly evenly split between keeping and deleting, with valid arguments on both sides). I was hoping to be able to advertise here, as this is the WikiProject that supported the portal, to see if anyone had the interest and expertise to address the issues identified with the portal. (I feel quite strongly that should have been done before it was taken to MfD.) I was hesitant to do so while the MfD was running, to avoid accusations of canvassing. In the absence of such a volunteer, I think the deletion was inevitable in the long-term, so I don't plan to challenge it. As it stands, all there is to do is clean-up the links to it[10], replacing them with links to Portal:LGBTQ if it isn't already linked.--Trystan (talk) 19:38, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

Gender symbol

Anyone know what this symbol is called?

--Trade (talk) 04:21, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

This looks like an accidental variation of the "transgender symbol" ⚧ (what Unicode [11] calls "Male with stroke and male and female sign"). LGBTQ symbols#Letters and glyphs. –RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk • stalk) 06:37, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Yes, U+26A7 'MALE WITH STROKE AND MALE AND FEMALE SIGN' is the closest match that I can find. The only difference seems to be that the graffito has a stroke on the upper-right arrow, which the Unicode character lacks. Either it's a mistake, or the artist wanted to increase the proportion of "female" compared to that for "male". --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 14:57, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

I think there's a deliberate face in there. Someone was having fun with symbols. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 16:20, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Jenny Blake Isabella

On the Tony Isabella Facebook and Bluesky accounts, the comics writer has announced a trans status and (on Facebook) Jenny Blake Isabella as a preferred name -- but also that the old name will continue to sometimes be used professionally. Pronouns have not been announced that I can find. I have added the new name to the Tony Isabella article and have made the other name a redirect to it, reckoning this is much an Eddie Izzard situation, with neither name "dead" and one WP:COMMONNAME.

Having said that, I've known the subject for ages and we've done a small amount of business together, so probably should not have my hand on this too much. Could I get other eyes on it? -- Nat Gertler (talk) 19:55, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

I've updated the article per this message, and replied on the article talk. –RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk • stalk) 23:47, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Anyone notice any dubious changes from terms such as transgender to male, female, boy, girl, etc

If anyone has, I'd like some examples, with diffs. Thanks very much. Doug Weller talk 08:09, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

I'm a bit confused by the question, can you clarify? Zenomonoz (talk) 08:31, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Eg from transgender to male. Or this[12] which changed "transgender women" to "male". Doug Weller talk 08:45, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

I see this kind of misgendering all the time on unprotected articles about trans folks, and yes, I'm seeing more of it lately. Funcrunch (talk) 16:56, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

You might want to chime in here[13] then. Doug Weller talk 17:00, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Not recently, but it happens from time to time. Lewisguile (talk) 10:28, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Gender transposition

This interesting stub has not been sourced in 15 years, but there is scholarship available. Please help us to find and add reliable sources. Get her! Bearian (talk) 01:58, 14 February 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Transgender rights in Ireland#Requested move 14 February 2025

An editor has requested that Transgender rights in Ireland be moved to Transgender rights in the Republic of Ireland, which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. CybJubal (talk) 20:50, 14 February 2025 (UTC)

Taking into account transgender people.

 Courtesy link: Conscription in Finland

on the page about conscription in finland, the article repeatedly talks about men having to do conscription. but strictly speaking it's not men, but everyone who is legally identified as a male. and i presume this is repeated a lot in similar articles. would it be reasonable to change pretty much every mention of men in the article to something like "people legally identified as men"? i don't believe there's really an easy term, and it would therefore probably make the article just generally much more complicated to read, but it would also be more factual. is there like a consensus on shit like this? am i being stupid Warpfrz (talk) 21:31, 15 February 2025 (UTC)

Can you please link to the page you're talking about?

Coming from the U.S. where our federal government is currently attempting to forbid legal identification as anything other than your assigned sex, I'm not sure wholescale replacement of such terms in any article is a good idea... Funcrunch (talk) 21:49, 15 February 2025 (UTC)

here's the link: Conscription in Finland Warpfrz (talk) 11:14, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

I suspect our sources say "men", so unless we're using a source that specifically points to the trans concern, this would not be an appropriate change. Since we're talking about a legal matter in Finland, I think people would perceive it as "a man under the law" anyway, making the complication unneeded. (And even if we had a source, it may make sense to make a single aside, i.e. men (which as viewed under the law includes trans women and not trans men).

-- Nat Gertler (talk) 23:20, 15 February 2025 (UTC)

if the sources say that, then they are just incorrect as well. but i think the single aside sounds like a good solution and that should to be implemented Warpfrz (talk) 11:18, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

References

RfC about the pathologization of trans identities

There is currently an RfC at Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard#RfC about the pathologization of trans identities with the question Is the view that transgender identities are, in themselves, a mental illness or otherwise frequently caused by mental illness WP:FRINGE within the bounds of mainstream medicine and international human rights?. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 01:06, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

LGBTQ culture in Mexico City

Collaboration welcome at newly-created LGBTQ culture in Mexico City.

Happy editing! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 22:50, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 01:31, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Killing of David Maland#Requested move 18 February 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Killing of David Maland#Requested move 18 February 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 🌙Eclipse (she/they/all neos • talk • edits) 20:42, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

U.S. executive order

Another article about an executive order that might be of interest to project members:

• Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling

---Another Believer _(Talk) 15:14, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

UCOC case involving homophobia on Swahili Wikipedia

A UCOC case was recently accepted that concerns admins on the Swahili Wikipedia banning editors who attempt to remove hate speech and misinformation about gay and transgender people. This will be an interesting test case of whether the UCOC can actually address these issues. The case is Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee/Cases/Sysop abuse in Swahili Wikipedia. Nosferattus (talk) 19:11, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Lana Kaiser / Daniel Küblböck

Some additional eyes/input at Daniel Küblböck would be appreciated, especially from anyone who speaks German. There's some edit warring about the subject's pronouns (possibly a result of this reddit post). It appears to be an unusual MOS:GENDERID situation. Thanks, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 23:50, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Drag Race contestants at AfD

The following bios have been nominated for deletion, if any project members are interested in weighing in or making article improvements:

• Acacia Forgot
• Arrietty (drag queen)
• Kori King

--Another Believer _(Talk) 14:51, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Haitian Vodou and sexual orientation#Requested move 22 February 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Haitian Vodou and sexual orientation#Requested move 22 February 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Sophisticatedevening ^(talk) 17:38, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

Multiple discussions of transgender issues right now at WP:FRINGE

Check them out -

• Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard#Society_for_Evidence-Based_Gender_Medicine
• Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard#Puberty_blockers_in_children, archived at Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard/Archive_104#Puberty_blockers_in_children
• Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard#Is_WPATH_the_gold_standard_for_research_on_trans_healthcare_in_academia?
• Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard#Pathologization_of_trans_identities
• Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard#Is_being_anti-trans_WP:FRINGE?, archived at Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard/Archive_104#h-Is_being_anti-trans_WP:FRINGE?-20250219040900

Bluerasberry (talk) 00:55, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Nadezhda Durova#Requested move 7 March 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Nadezhda Durova#Requested move 7 March 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Bridget (talk) 01:56, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Production of RuPaul's Drag Race

New article, if anyone's interested!

• Production of RuPaul's Drag Race

---Another Believer _(Talk) 05:10, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Now at AfD (how predictable). Discussion participation and article improvements welcome. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:03, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Hershii LiqCour-Jeté

Another Drag Race-related nomination, this time Hershii LiqCour-Jeté, if anyone's interested in weighing in or making improvements. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 01:34, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Army of Lovers#Requested move 14 March 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Army of Lovers#Requested move 14 March 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 09:27, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

Sexual orientation of Tramell Tillman

Whether or not Tramell Tillman (star of Severance) is gay has been the subject of a slow motion edit war. Editors welcome to weigh in on the talk page. Funcrunch (talk) 22:55, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

Transgender representation in the Drag Race franchise

Collaboration welcome:

• Draft:Transgender representation in the Drag Race franchise

---Another Believer _(Talk) 19:53, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Trans issues at Gardnerian Wicca

Attention at Gardnerian Wicca and the RfC on Open Letter would be appreciated. Nosferattus (talk) 19:28, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

Does anybody read this page? Nosferattus (talk) 19:37, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Why_do_you_keep_a_public_list_of_same-sex_married_couples?

For the interested. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:39, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Pictures deleted by Pentagon

AP reported the deletion of 26 000 pictures on different websites of US Army. With a colleague, we are categorizing those pictures here: c:Category:Images removed from DVIDS. Pyb en résidence (talk) 22:52, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for taking that initiative! Is there anything other folks can do to help? I'll admit I haven't done much with Wikimedia Commons. ForsythiaJo (talk) 00:14, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure how helpful it is, but I yanked the AP's dataset and compiled it into a Google Sheet (CSV) to make it marginally more explorable. –RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk • stalk) 00:39, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

@Pyb en résidence Perhaps you know, but U.S. Department of Defense censorship of DEI-connected material is now an article. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:41, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

More drag bios nominated for deletion

• Lineysha Sparx
• Vivienne Pinay

---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:31, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

The first article was kept, the second has been relisted. Feedback welcome! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 12:50, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Draft:LGBTQ people

Input is invited at Draft:LGBTQ people. This is intended as a WP:BROADCONCEPT article covering the culture, rights, and history of LGBTQ people, with sections written in WP:SUMMARYSTYLE and linking to the more specific subtopics. It also links to geographically based broad-concept articles like LGBTQ people in Mexico.--Trystan (talk) 23:57, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Alastor (Hazbin Hotel)#Requested move 5 April 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Alastor (Hazbin Hotel)#Requested move 5 April 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 10:04, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Requesting help with the article for Marcy Rheintgen

Hi all

Please could I have some help with an article I just published. I think its likely that the article may be vandalised and nominated for deletion etc given the political climate in the US, especially in Florida. Marcy Rheintgen was the first person to be arrested and jailed under an anti-trans law for washing her hands in a women's bathroom in the Florida State Capitol building.

Many thanks

John Cummings (talk) 16:30, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

I think the subject is also likely to be challenged as only being notable for this single event, but the article could be moved to Arrest of Marcy Rheintgen or something like that. Funcrunch (talk) 16:42, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:LGBTQ rights opposition#Requested move 6 April 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:LGBTQ rights opposition#Requested move 6 April 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 00:43, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Requesting some assistance

Hello everyone. I am hoping someone on this project might be able to help.

Talk:sj Miller, there is a thread Reinstatement of pronouns started by myself. The article explaines in the personal life section about sj Millers choice to use sj Millers name and not any pronouns. This is well referenced in the article. I think this part of the discussion is sorted now.

I'm looking for advice on how we write about people who do not use any pronouns. Writing isn't one of my strong points at the best of times. Is anyone willing to take a look at the article to see if the flow can be improved?

I wondered if there was any advice in the form of policy, essays etc about how we approach writing about agendered people. @Gaismagorm: made what I thought was a good suggestion, maybe it would make sense to update the rules for pronouns in articles, and get an overall consensus on how wikipedia should approach agender folks in general. Many thanks for any responses. Knitsey (talk) 12:48, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Personally...All sympathy and apologies, but I'm not going to break English over a personal preference. Be accommodating in as much as is practical, but the point at which that makes things more difficult for readers then it's counterproductive to our purpose. Something like Miller was disowned by Miller's family is getting into territory where it becomes difficult to read. I'm fine with singular they, but that's widely understood by readers and speakers. GMG^talk 13:17, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

This is why I wanted to ask for advice. Some things could be edited yo read better, but I would struggle with some of the edits such as Miller is also a cat trainer and has Miller's own cat parkour training business as it doesn't read right. I proposed, Miller is also a cat trainer and owns a catparkour training business but I am stuck with other edits, such as you mention above @GreenMeansGo. I've tried reading the article using (in my head) 'sjmiller' as a pronoun, which makes a little more sense but it isn't a suitable way to look at it as a Wikipedia article.

Full disclosure, I have dyslexia which isn't making any of this easier for me to solve on my own. Knitsey (talk) 13:29, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

The problem is that something like Miller was disowned by Miller's family makes your brain twitch for a second and wonder if there's two Miller's we're talking about. We would always use a pronoun if spoken aloud candidly. Have to keep in mind that we're shooting for about a college freshman level, or someone who speaks English as a second language. We don't have to be a jerk about it, but it remains that our primary purpose is to be understood. GMG^talk 21:49, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Just a note that I started that article and regret doing so, as it has been plagued by obvious WP:COI edits ever since. Funcrunch (talk) 13:58, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

• I agree with GreenMeansGo on this. We can prefer Miller's name wherever possible, but when it begins to break the rules of English grammar, we should probably rely on the singular they, as the closest we can get to respecting Miller's preferred pronouns, in order to facilitate understanding by the reader.

I do like your proposal as outlined in the discussion, and I think we should probably strive for that route whenever possible. I'll hop into the discussion with suggestions where I could see improvements. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 14:54, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Discussion on adding more characters from Maria-sama ga Miteru to LGBTQ+ characters page

Input is invited at here. I have added a few characters to the page, but I'm hoping to get more thoughts before adding any more to the List of animated series with LGBTQ characters: 2000–2004 page, since many of these characters, in this Class S & yuri series, are in "sisterly" relationships (i.e. soeurs) so I don't know if that would fall under a lesbian relationship or not. As such, I look forward to your comments. Historyday01 (talk) 19:04, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

LGBT related categories

There's a discussion at Talk:Hannah Clover#COIs about LGBT-related categories when it is not a WP:DEFINING attribute of the subject. I'd be surprised if similar discussions have not happened before and I'd be interested to learn about the final outcome if anyone here is aware of any. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 22:22, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

RfC at Forspoken

Forspoken has a RfC at Talk:Forspoken#RfC_on_Square_Enix's_comments_on_sales_in_the_article's_lead. Note: the protagonist of Forspoken is portrayed by the narrative as a gay woman[14] which has drawn it into the GENSEX/gamer intersection. BMWF (talk) 03:24, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:LGBTQ#Requested move 17 April 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:LGBTQ#Requested move 17 April 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. LIrala (talk) 23:32, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Draft:Rick Bébout

I have a draft pending AfC review at Draft:Rick Bébout and would greatly appreciate if someone was willing to review it. (Bébout was a prominent Toronto-based gay rights and AIDS activist.) Full disclosure: it's my first draft article. MidnightAlarm (talk) 12:18, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

GA with tagged issues

Hi, I noticed asexuality has a personal essay tag in the research section while also being currently accessed as a GA. The religion section also has an unreliable source tag and reads a bit awkwardly. Is there anyone who'd be interested in working on this article to address any possible issues? I recently added a few sentences from a book I read recently but that's not the same as looking at the article as a whole. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 02:29, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

I made a few changes to the first subsection of the research section, but honestly, skimming the rest of it, I don't see much that justifies that personal essay tag. Of course, it's entirely possible I'm missing things. I'll raise the issue on the article's talk page. MidnightAlarm (talk) 15:19, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Oops, didn't mean to ignore the stuff about the religion section. I'll try to tackle that later today, though if someone else wants to give it a go instead, have at it! MidnightAlarm (talk) 15:31, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

The discrimination section could also be more fleshed out too, if you're interested in working on that. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 15:32, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Noted! MidnightAlarm (talk) 17:29, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association#Requested move 26 April 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association#Requested move 26 April 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. -- WikiHelper232 (talk) 19:28, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

Jiggly Caliente

Project members are invited to help improve the article about Jiggly Caliente, a drag performer and entertainer who died recently. Thanks, ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:14, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Sub-referencing: User testing

Apologies for crossposting

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   Help us test the new design prototypes by participating in user sessions – sign up here to receive an invite. We're especially hoping to speak with people from underrepresented and diverse groups to get different perspectives. If that's you, please consider signing up! No prior or extensive editing experience is required. User sessions will start May 14th.

We plan to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We’ll reach out to wikis for piloting in time for deployments. Creators and maintainers of reference-related tools and templates will be contacted beforehand as well.

Thank you very much for your support and encouragement so far in helping bring this feature to life Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 15:25, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

Raegan Revord

Disagreement on which pronouns to use for this 17 year old, please join Talk:Raegan_Revord#Raegan_is_not_non-binary if you have an opinion. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:44, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Trump HHS report

Can someone get the page started on the Trump HHS report? I'd do it but it's crunch time at work Snokalok (talk) 15:51, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

I don't even know what we'd call it, the report is just titled "Treatment for Pediatric

Gender Dysphoria" Snokalok (talk) 15:52, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Tagging some editors whom I would love to hear from on this

@Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist

@Lewisguile

@DanielRigal

@LokiTheLiar

@LunaHasArrived

Snokalok (talk) 16:05, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Based on the number of headlines which insist on Trump's HHS, let's start with Trump HHS gender dysphoria report and consider renaming to Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria. –RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk • stalk) 16:32, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Not sure why but this didn't actually notify me. Honestly speaking, as always, I think it's best to have the barest of details untill appropriate rs start to report on this. LunaHasArrived (talk) 16:50, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Started Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 16:42, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! The naming seems fine for now. Lewisguile (talk) 07:15, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Discussion at For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers

There is currently a discussion[15] about the UK supreme court case For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers on whether we should include the fact that no transgender people or organizations were heard from (reported in multiple RS). That had been in the article the last few days and has recently been removed. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 20:39, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Looking for help wording a DYK about the arrest of transgender woman under Florida's bathroom ban

Dear all

We are working on a hook for Template:Did you know nominations/Arrest of Marcy Rheintgen and would like some feedback on the phrasing. Currently I have suggested

did you know that Marcy Rheintgen was arrested and jailed in a Florida men's prison for washing her hands in a women's bathroom while being transgender?

Another user has suggested something else which I think may have issues. I would really appreciate people with knowledge to give suggestions for accurate and approriate language for this hook (on the hook discussion page, not here).

Thanks so much

. John Cummings (talk) 21:27, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Celina Jaitly

I have recently re-added material about Celina Jaitly's support for LGBTQ rights in India; it can be seen at this section, with clear sources. The similar material (mentioning her activism) already existed in the article but was removed some years ago, supposedly due to unreliable sourcing. Anyway, project members are invited to help improve the section, by further expanding it and possibly adding more sources. Your help would be very appreciated. Cheers! — Sundostund mppria ^{(talk / contribs)} 14:31, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

AFD for Trans Safety Network

There is currently a deletion discussion happening at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trans Safety Network (2nd nomination) that may be of interest for people here. LunaHasArrived (talk) 15:39, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Indigenous drag performers

Collaboration welcome at the newly created Indigenous drag performers.

Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:11, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Charles Casillo

The article Charles Casillo has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Bearian (talk) 23:54, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

The article currently has references, and thus the BLPROD is addressed and hs been removed. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 01:06, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

LGBTQ representation in country music

New stub at LGBTQ representation in country music, if any project members are interested in helping to expand. Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 19:07, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Sounds like a really good article and an important one. Ethel Cain might fall into country too? There's also former bands like Lavender Country (also see here). Anyway, just doing a quick search, some articles about LGBTQ+ country singers and allies from Wide Open Country (see here and here), and similar articles from Out Magazine (see here), Pride.com (see here), Queerty (see here), Diva (magazine) (see here), SGN (see here) and The Boot (see here) along with...

• Meet the queer vanguard of country music by CNN
• How Queer Country Artists Are Creating Space For Inclusive Stories In The Genre by The Grammys
• Country Music Has Never Been More Gay in Rolling Stone
• Why Country Music Was (Finally) Ready to Come Out in Rolling Stone
• How to Be Queer in Country Music: The Story of Mya Byrne in The Advocate (magazine)
• Masked Singer Orville Peck on Being Openly Gay in Country Music: ‘We’ve Always Been There’ in Variety (magazine)
• An LGBT Earthquake Is Happening in Country Music in The Advocate (magazine)
• A New Frontier: How Country Music Is Openly Embracing the LGBTQ Community in the Modern Age in Billboard (magazine)
• Lesbian Country Singer Chely Wright Begs Genre to 'Condemn Bigoted Laws' in The Advocate (magazine)
• Country Artists Condemn LGBT Laws, But Labels Remain Silent in The Hollywood Reporter
• Gay country star cancels show amid anti-LGBTQ protests, Kelsea Ballerini and Maren Morris voice support in Entertainment Weekly
• Country music has uneven response to anti-gay laws in CBS News
• Meet four queer artists helping to shake up country music in NBC News
• LGBTQ+ country singers on 'breaking down the system,' increasing visibility in genre in ABC News
• 2014 Will Be Remembered as the Year of LGBT Rights in Country Music in Mic.com
• Dixon Dallas Talks About His Viral Gay Country Song That You Have to Hear to Believe in The Advocate (magazine)
• A Not-At-All Exhaustive LGBTQIA+ Country Playlist by NPR News
• Orville Peck proves that country and punk are more alike than you think in Alternative Press
• For gay country singers, it was time to face the music in NBC News
• T.J. Osborne Made People Proud This Week. I Worry Morgan Wallen Did, Too. in Esquire (magazine)
• Country Music’s New Leaders Struggle to Get on Right Side of History in Variety (magazine)
• Kacey Musgraves Is A Queer Country Fan's Dream in Them (website)
• Kacey Musgraves on Her 'Fight' for the LGBTQ+ Community to 'Be Included' in Country Music in People (magazine)
• Kacey Musgraves Wants Country Music to Include LGBT Fans in Popculture.com
• The story of queer country music – and its message of hope in BBC News
• Country Music's LGBT Allies in Entertainment Tonight
• Country Entertainers Who Support LGBT Equality in The Advocate (magazine)
• Country music is at a crossroads. Two of its most viral songs show why in CNN
• CMT's Cody Alan: It's OK to be gay in the country music world in The Tennessean
• Meet the country music’s LGBT avant-garde in Illustrate Magazine
• The gay songwriters who secretly ruled the country charts are ready for the spotlight in Mic.com
• Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter collaborator Tanner Adell comes out as pansexual in PinkNews (possibly relevant)
• Late country music singer Toby Keith expressed support for gay marriage in PinkNews (possibly relevant)
• Nashville singers band together in support of LGBTQ rights. in Washington Post
• A whole section of Out Magazine on "gay country singer[s]" (there may be some good articles there)
• a site called "Country Queer" which has many articles about queerness in country music

There's also academic articles too...

• You’re My Country Music in Journal of Popular Music Studies
• Object Of Your Rejection: The Symbolic Annihilation And Recuperation Of Queer Identities In Country Music an entire thesis!
• Politely Different: Queer Presence in Country Dancing and Music within a book by Cambridge University Press
• Review: Queer Country, by Shana Goldin-Perschbacher in Journal of Popular Music Studies
• Introduction: Uncharted Country: New Voices and Perspectives in Country Music Studies (small mention) in Journal of Popular Music Studies
• Dolly Parton's Mythologised Persona, Collective Life Writing, and Building a Home for LGBTQ+ Listeners in Country Music in Persona
• Queering Country Music Autobiography: Chely Wright's "Like Me" and the Performance of Authenticity in Studies in Popular Culture
• “Jolene,” Genre, and the Everyday Homoerotics of Country Music: Dolly Parton’s Loving Address of the Other Woman in Women & Music Volume 19

And books entitled

• "Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music", some of which can be read on Google Books [this book is also partially analyzed in this thesis ]
• "Queer Country", which can be partially read on Google Books

I hope this all helps! Historyday01 (talk) 21:39, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! I will copy this over to the talk page. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 21:49, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Related: Reba McEntire as a gay icon ---Another Believer _(Talk) 12:31, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

Similarly, I've just started LGBTQ representation in jazz. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:37, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

RfC at Adult human female

There is an RfC at Talk:Adult human female § The rhetorical question "what is a woman?" which may interest this project. The question is whether or not the article should introduce "What is a woman?" as a rhetorical question. –RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk • stalk) 15:10, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

Unofficial RFC re: Nick Walker (scholar): Resolved

Hi all! I have an unofficial RFC regarding pronouns at Nick Walker (scholar). Walker previously provided statements preferring the use of she/her pronouns. However, in January 2025, Walker made back-to-back posts on Bluesky, first stating a return to he/him pronouns professionally, then stating a continuance of she/her pronouns professionally. I have done a quick search of Walker's website ([16]) and social media but haven't found a stated preference listed. Feedback would be appreciated. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 17:14, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

I want to jump in and state that this issue is resolved as I misread Walker's posts, which seemed contradictory. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 19:12, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Help before starting on a draft

I'm thinking about working on a draft for Mas(s)oud El Amaratly. Unfortunately sourcing is really difficult to find. There's an Arabic wiki page but it's pretty much unreferenced. Does anyone have an idea of where I could find more reliable sources for a subject like this? Google is failing me. Takweer seems to be pretty much the only substantial English source.

Sources I've found so far:

https://farhatartmuseum.org/marshes-of-iraq/

"Masoud El Amaratly, The Folk Music Icon from Iraq’s Marshes" : 22 minute video? maybe just his music

https://ajammc.com/2023/06/26/iraq-trans-history-masoud-amaratly/

"The following post was written by Marwan Kaabour, a London-based, Beirut-born multidisciplinary artist and designer in the art and cultural sector. He is the founder of Takweer, a platform that explores and archives queer narratives in Arab history and popular culture."

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29702694

"The BL's curators are also writing contextual features, to help interpret the wealth of material and highlight unique stories from the archive - such as the tale of Massoud El Amaratly.

Born female in southern Iraq in the early 20th Century, El Amaratly identified as male, and became famous in Baghdad in the 1920s for his distinctive renditions of rural folk songs, external. The BL has several recordings, and has brought in ethnomusicologist Rolf Killius to curate a unique digital Gulf music archive that also includes such rarities as traditional pearl-divers' sea shanties."

https://digital.newint.com.au/issues/52/articles/891

"There are examples of Caliphs who had male partners, like Muhammed al Amin. In modern history we had singers, actors, trans people, like female-to-male Masoud al Amaratly, a singer popular in the 1920s. Under King Faisal we had a secular, open society. We were one of the first Arab countries to have women ambassadors and a liberal civil code."

Arabic wiki page:

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%8A

I think he's mentioned in this book:

https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526192707/ Sock-the-guy (talk) 20:33, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

I have just been informed by the wiki gods that I'm eligible for the wikipedia library Sock-the-guy (talk) 20:34, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Discrimination article

Discrimination against LGBTQ people has been recently expanded from a disambiguation page into a broad-concept article and could benefit from additional eyes. fgnievinski (talk) 05:37, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 03:19, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

Curious why you're posting about the assessment of a straight cis woman's article in this WikiProject? (I'm a queer trans resident of Pelosi's district FWIW.) Funcrunch (talk) 17:57, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

Maybe I'm missing the point of your question, but it's customary to notify WikiProjects when an article within scope is listed for GAR. Her article is included in the project (presumably because of her work on LGBT-related legislation). Urve (talk) 23:47, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

I know about the customs regarding notifying WikiProjects (having done so numerous times myself); I was just curious why this particular article was considered in scope. Quite a few politicians have worked on LGBT-related legislation, but I suppose Pelosi is one of the more prominent ones. Funcrunch (talk) 00:19, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

It's an interesting question that might be worth further discussion by the project at some point. I think there's a place for Pelosi, Kylie Minogue, Cher, and other similarly-situated people within the ambit of "LGBTQ+ Studies", but it does sometimes result in notifications regarding non-LGBT people. Our alerts page, for instance, notifies us of a discussion re sexual anomaly and a nomination about the blue Gucci dress of Harry Styles, and we routinely get notified about drag. Whether that is actually desirable or not may be worth revisiting at some point. Urve (talk) 16:07, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

I don't know much about Kylie, but I could see a stronger case for a notice about Cher since she's considered a gay icon and has a trans son. Funcrunch (talk) 16:15, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

Reviewing articles to confirm they match our expectations for scope is definitely a good thing. I regularly review the newly assessed articles at WP:LGBTQ+/Quality, and articles with little to no LGBTQ+ content get added near-daily. Generally what I look for is at least a paragraph of content clearly on-topic, though of course that is a standard we could discuss. WP:LGBTQ+/Scope has more detail.--Trystan (talk) 13:44, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

Move discussion at Miss Star International

of interest to this project is taking place here. —Fortuna, imperatrix 09:59, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

Category:LGBTQ Roman emperors

Category:LGBTQ Roman emperors was systematically emptied on May 8. An editor attempted to revert the emptying on May 19, but by then the category had already been deleted due to being empty. I believe the appropriate process would have been for the category to be taken to WP:CFD so the merits could be properly discussed, rather than manually blanking it. Does anyone know if there is a way to pursue that now that it has been deleted, or is too late?--Trystan (talk) 00:18, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Sexual diversity#Requested move 23 May 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Sexual diversity#Requested move 23 May 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. LIrala (talk) 05:39, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

Raegan Revord 2

Recently added they/them on her confirmed instagram account.[17] Because of that, should we remove Wikipedia:WikiProject Women from Talk:Raegan Revord? If you have an opinion, please join the discussion at Talk:Raegan_Revord#Gendered_categories_and_wikiprojects. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:07, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

Possibly incorrect information about intersex rights in Africa

Hello, I've been working on an article for the Spanish Wikipedia and I've come across two possible mistakes about legislation.

Kenya

In Intersex rights in Kenya it states that intersex people have no protection against discrimination. However, there is a [bill https://www.knchr.org/Portals/0/Intersex%20Persons%20Bill%2C%20January%202024%20.pdf] that I feel does protect them, but I have no idea how to check if it's in force.

Uganda

In Intersex rights in Uganda I'm pretty sure I found a serious mistake or very ambiguous writing.

It says: The Registration of Persons Act 2015 allows for the registration of a child born a "hermaphrodite", and for change of name and change of sex classification.

However, the pertinent law doesnt permit to register a child as a third gender called hermaphrodite, it just allows to quickly change the gender of a baby after their body has been non-consensually altered by a doctor.

However since I'm not an expert in law and English is not my first language, I'm requesting a second opinion before doing any changes. Wikidasher (talk) 10:52, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

Re: Kenya, did the bill pass? A quick search does not reveal anything to me. If it did, we may still need a secondary source to confirm that your interpretation is correct. (If you haven't come across it, WP:OR may be useful reading for editing in legal subjects.)

Re: Uganda, my reading of the relevant law is that there is a kind of registration but that 'hermaphrodite' is not a registerable sex. So, I agree with your understanding. Our article should clarify the issue. Urve (talk) 19:24, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

I'll reword Uganda's sentence. Thanks, Urve and Fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four. I'll wait to see if someone here is familliar enough with law to know whether Kenya's law is in force. Wikidasher (talk) 07:49, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Save Our Children

Save Our Children has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 15:59, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

Drag pageantry

Drag pageantry could use the attention from some experienced editors. I have been arguing that the page should not include these long lists of unsourced winnders & runners up of pageants. Some have their own articles, so perhaps these lists could go there, but others don't appear notable in themselves. Wikipedia isn't a directory or place to archive the results from these events, and I've tried to create a version that is more aligned with policy. There are two (relatively inexperienced) editors who disagree, and I fear they aren't making valid policy-based arguments, but I don't want to escelate an edit war. Do other's want to chime in at Talk:Drag_pageantry#Unsourced_collection_of_random_results? --ZimZalaBim ^talk 12:21, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act

Please re-assess this. Is it a B-Class yet? Is it high importance? Bearian (talk) 01:35, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Homosexuality in association football#Requested move 25 May 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Homosexuality in association football#Requested move 25 May 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 08:28, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Black Rose (BDSM organization)#equested move 24 May 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Black Rose (BDSM organization)#equested move 24 May 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 10:49, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Ian McKellen

Ian McKellen has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 01:17, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Dragging the Classics: The Brady Bunch

Dragging the Classics: The Brady Bunch is the Collaboration of the Month for WikiProject Drag Race, if any project members are interested in collaborating. Happy Pride and happy editing! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 19:44, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Talk:Imane Khelif#RfC: Sex Status

There is an RFC about whether we should refer to the Khelif's sex as being uncertain. Editors are invited to contribute. TarnishedPath^talk 10:51, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride

Happy Pride! WikiProject members are invited to join the ongoing Wiki Loves Pride campaign:

• Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Pride/2025
• Event:Wiki Loves Pride/2025

Eye roll to a couple comments on the latter's talk page.

Happy editing! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:14, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Featured article review for Bæddel and bædling

I have nominated Bæddel and bædling for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 23:50, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Discussion on Juno Dawson's deadname prominence

I removed Juno Dawson's deadname from the lead and infobox of her biography the other day, due to what I thought was WP:UNDUE prominence, and my edit was reverted overnight. I've reopened the appropriate thread on her Talk: page on the subject and people here might have thoughts that you could usefully contribute.

(A reminder that the policy on gendered terms and deadnames in biography articles is summarised at MOS:DEADNAME and some best practices information can be found at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Gender identity. A talk: page discussion is not the appropriate place to propose significant changes to policy and the the discussion will likely be more constructive if people have re-read the policy before commenting.) — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 12:00, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

Juno published one of her most notable works under her deadname, and the privacy element is undermined by the fact that Juno has since published works post-transition commenting on her deadname and using that name in the process. The name seems notable to me as a simple former name inclusion, the article respect's Juno's most recent primary identification through the pronouns and name used throughout the article. Antisymmetricnoise (talk) 19:30, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:List of fictional trans characters#Requested move 6 June 2025

Discussion regarding proposed change from List of fictional trans characters → List of fictional transgender characters may be of interest. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 15:14, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Suicide of Charlotte Fosgate

Suicide of Charlotte Fosgate is nominated for deletion, if any projects members are interested in weighing in. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 15:38, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Mmm, garlic bread!

Garlic bread

Collaboration welcome at Gays Eating Garlic Bread in the Park!

---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:09, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

"List of sexualities" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect List of sexualities has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 June 9 § List of sexualities until a consensus is reached. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 14:39, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

NOTE: Multiple redirects included in discussion:

• List of sexual orientations → Sexual orientation  (talk · links · history · stats)
• List of sexualities → Outline of LGBTQ topics  (talk · links · history · stats)
• List of sexualities and gender identities → Outline of LGBTQ topics  (talk · links · history · stats)
• List of gender and sexual identities → Outline of LGBTQ topics  (talk · links · history · stats)
• List of genders and sexualities → Outline of LGBTQ topics  (talk · links · history · stats)

--MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 14:39, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

Name change for the National Center for Lesbian Rights

The National Center for Lesbian Rights changed its name today to the National Center for LGBTQ Rights. I'm nervous about doing a page move and would prefer someone else do it; see talk page. Funcrunch (talk) 22:56, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

Changing pages with "LGBTQ" in their title to "LGBTQ+

Looking to revisit this discussion, for two reasons. Firstly, to get more responses and secondly because one editor deemed the subject matter to be too soon at the time. Please view the link and give your responses below. Helper201 (talk) 07:33, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

I think it is too soon. I doubt there has been a substantial change in usage in the 6 months since the above discussion, or the <10 months since the series of discussions surrounding the most recent move. I cannot locate Talk:LGBTQ_people#Requested_move_14_August_2024—not sure what happened to the talk page history there. There was follow up discussion here and a move review and I'm sure other discussions. (I did not participate in any of these and became aware of the history more recently while participating in a related RM.) Unless there is evidence of a substantial change in usage or a new set of arguments that have not been properly considered, I'm not sure there will be a different outcome. Ngram is still only updated through 2022 and shows LGBTQ with a substantial lead and trending upwards. I will be surprised if the update with the 2023 corpus shows LGBTQ+ in the lead but it will be a useful data point. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 22:27, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Now located at Talk:LGBTQ (term)/Archive 4#Requested move 14 August 2024. –RoxySaunders 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk • stalk) 23:08, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! Would it make sense to list these here in an FAQ or similar? Although these discussions and decisions occur on and impact other pages, it's a perennial topic. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 00:25, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

Also, moving them to LGBTQ took a long time, so I would be hesitant for that reason, plus the reasoning that you put forward. Historyday01 (talk) 00:11, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

No need. Zenomonoz (talk) 00:24, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

Possible COI editing at sj Miller

This SPA could use more attention from someone with more patience than me. (I started the article FWIW.) Funcrunch (talk) 15:56, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

Looks like an issue for WP:COI/N. I responded to the above editor on their talk page. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 20:19, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

Discussion on possibly adding polyamorous characters to a LGBTQ animation page

The discussion is at Talk:List of animated series with LGBTQ characters: 2010–2014#Should polyamorous characters be added?. Your comments would be appreciated. Historyday01 (talk) 13:27, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

Requesting some help with LGBTQ theatre

Already planning to do some copy-editing for tone and grammar but it's written from a very US-centric perspective. Can definitely see space for discussion of theatre in the Weimar Republic but that's far from all it needs. Carlodivarga-s (talk) 17:07, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

I jumped in and did some copyediting, consolidation of info, and removed some non-relevant examples, but it definitely still needs a lot of work. Good catch on bringing this to folks' attention. ForsythiaJo (talk) 22:57, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

Draft:Butch (gay slang)

I started a very rough draft for the term butch as used in gay male subculture. I hope the sources provided thus far are indicative of the article's intended scope, which is different than butch (lesbian slang). I welcome others to chip in. Happy pride! Wracking ^talk! 05:19, 13 June 2025 (UTC)