OutWrite is the q***r newsmagazine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Established in 1979
OutWrite Newsmagazine strives to build a growing educational platform through a multi-media approach that uplifts and empowers the often silenced voices of the incredibly diverse q***r community. We aim to challenge dominant cisheteronormative narratives through an unapologetically anti-q***rphobic, anti-racist, and progressive lens.
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Pauli Murray was q***r revolutionist ✊ This week’s q***r figure is Pauli Murray, a lawyer, writer, and activist whose impact ranged from the American college system to the United States Supreme Court.
Swipe through and visit to learn more 💼
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“Don’t be a gay girl. Be a straight girl who happens to be gay.” 👩❤️👩 Read a satirical poem about making your q***r identity more palatable in “Straight Women Rules: A Guide to Being the Perfect Le***an®” by Julianne Lempert (she/her), link in bio!
“Be their gay best friend. Let them make the friendship their personality, but don’t you dare make your identity yours.” 🏆
🎨: Paheli ()
🖊: Julianne Lempert (.lempert)
✂️: Ava Rosenberg (), Bella (.a.hou)
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What does it mean to be aromantic in a world obsessed with love? 💚 To cap off Aromantic Awareness Week, we interviewed our Editor-in-Chief, Christopher, and special guest Omaia from ’s Ace/Aro Space about their identities on the aromantic spectrum.
They discuss their labels, their favorite aromantic headcanons, q***rplatonic relationships, coming out, defying expectations, and advice for their younger selves. Watch on YouTube or listen on Spotify at the links in bio! 🏹
Shoutout to for featuring Christopher this Aro Week, for her ace/aro activism, and for his I Spent A Day With Aromantics episode! 🤍
🎨: Kelly Doherty ()
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“It’s wonderful seeing the Sims team embrace their trans players with open arms.” 🏳️⚧️ Read about the recent, progressive updates in The Sims and see just how far the franchise has come in “The Sims 4 Introduces Items For Trans Players” by Judah C (they/them), link in bio!
“Although these changes feel minor, I really think we all deserve some type of joy finally seeing ourselves in a mainstream game such as ‘The Sims 4’.” 🏳️🌈
🎨: The Sims (), Judah C, Christopher Ikonomou ()
🖊: Judah C
✂️: Charis (), Bella (.a.hou)
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Tonight’s episode is all about aromanticism! 💚 To celebrate , we’ll be interviewing our Editor-in-Chief and a guest from Ace/Aro Space hosted by to talk about being on the aromantic spectrum.
Tune in to uclaradio.com at 5pm PT to listen live! 🎧
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Are you a q***r artist? We want to feature you! 💖 Our Q***r Next Up series uplifts smaller artists from the community across media and genre. If you’re an illustrator, photographer, musician/band, writer, animator, filmmaker, clothing designer, or any other type of maker, send us a DM or email us at [email protected]!
This series also opens up opportunities for future article features and appearances on our podcast! We can’t wait to work with you. 😊
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Alice Walker is an iconic q***r author. 📚
This week’s q***r figure is Alice Walker, an activist and author whose works continue to inspire generations of q***r youth.
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“For playwright Blaire Battle, closure is something the viewer is not entitled to.” 🥀 Read a recap and review of .battle’s play performed by , a post-apocalyptic love story about transness, love, and loss in “Love At The End Of The World: A Review of ‘The Transient Bliss of Death by Fallout’” by Brenna Connell (she/they) and Mia Riedel (she/her), link in bio!
📸: Shuwen Cao ()
🖊️: Brenna Connell (), Mia Riedel ()
✂️: Maya Parra, Bella (.a.hou)
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It’s Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! 💚 Aro Week shines light on aromantic identities and experiences which are often invisible within the q***r community.
Our episode of Speak Out this week will be all about aromanticism! Tune in to an interview with some aromantic guests and learn something new. 🤍
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“Sometimes I have nightmares about marrying a man and wake up like, thank goodness I’m gay!” 💘 We talk about heartwarming and horrifying relationship stories, dating apps, the fuzzy line between platonic and romantic love, and valuing community above all else in our latest episode of Speak Out!
Listen to and watch our Valentine’s Day episode on Spotify and YouTube, links in bio! 💌 So excited to have the whole team on for this one!
“The way that we get out of true moments of oppression is with the power of the people around us and the love we have for them.” ❤️🔥
🎨: Kelly Doherty (), Mieko Tsurumoto ()
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Rio Romeo () is back for round 2! 💌 They talk to us about evolving their process and sound, their new “Valentine” EP, n**e modeling, and more in “Love Songs of a Different Tune: A Valentine’s Day Revisit with Rio Romeo” by Emma Blakely (they/she/he), link in bio!
Listen to “Valentine” on your favorite streaming service! ❤️🔥
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🖊️: Emma Blakely ()
✂️: Charis (), Bella (.a.hou)
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“Oppressive environments encourage q***r people to repress their identities.” ✝️ Read about the impact of legally permitted anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination in religious spaces in “The Right To Discriminate?: Religious Exemption from Title IX Compliance” by Rainer Lee (he/him), link in bio!
“It’s hard to recognize q***r discrimination when you cannot even acknowledge your identity. It’s harder still to believe things can be better when everything you know reinforces the idea that all you deserve is suffering.” ☁️
🎨: Paheli ()
🖊️: Rainer Lee ()
✂️: Min Kim (), Bella (.a.hou)
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Our Valentine’s Day episode is TONIGHT! 🌹 Tune in at 5pm PT on uclaradio.com for some q***r love stories, from heartwarming to horrifying!
We’re having the whole podcast team on today, so get excited for a special episode and some new faces! 💌
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Joseph Beam is an essential figure to Black gay history. ✊🏿
This week’s q***r figure is Joseph Beam, an activist and author whose work was able to alleviate the alienation of q***r Black folks and help create a community of their own.
Swipe through to learn more ❤️
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“Human s*xuality is a spectrum.” 🏳️🌈 Read about the nuances of explicitly defining one’s s*xuality in “Q***r Labeling: Why it's Important and Why It's Not” by Taylor Kunin-Ur (she/her), link in bio!
“The simplification of s*xuality can be argued as one of the problems with labeling.” 🌈
🎨: Christopher Ikonomou ()
🖊: Taylor Kunin-Ur (.kunin)
✂️: JQ Shearin, Bella (.a.hou)
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“I want people to hear my story and go, ‘there’s the joy.’” 🏳️⚧️🤎
We talked to Black trans hip-hop artist Cuee () about his journey with his identity and career, finding joy and self-love, and more in our latest episode of Speak Out.
Watch or listen to the interview on YouTube and Spotify, links in bio! 🎶
Stream his latest single “See You Tonight” and watch out for his “Loverboy” EP dropping Valentine’s Day! 💌
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“Not many people associate beauty queens with q***rness.” 👸 Read a love story for the ages in “Breaking Boundaries in Beauty: The Love Story of Miss Argentina and Miss Puerto Rico” by Maya Para (she/her), link in bio!
“The risk Valentín and Valera took in publicizing their love marks their choice as one of hopeful bravery.” 🏳️🌈
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🖊️: Maya Parra
✂️: Min Kim (), Bella (.a.hou)
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Tune in TONIGHT for our conversation with ! 🏳️⚧️🤎 Cuee is a Black trans recording artist taking the hip-hop world by storm. He speaks on his identity, transition, dream collaborations, and more at 5pm PT on uclaradio.com, link in bio!
Is he next year’s Bruin Bash headliner??? We sure hope so 👀
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Q***r your classes at ! 🏳️🌈 Enrollment for Spring 2023 classes is starting next week. Make sure to check out the course offerings from the LGBTQ Studies department ()!
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Q***r artists took home historic wins at the ! 🤩 Get a recap of the community’s highlights and achievements from this year’s ceremony in “Red Cloaks and Breaking Records: How Q***r Music Fared At The 2023 Grammys” by Reid Sperisen (he/him), link in bio!
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🖊️: Reid Sperisen ()
✂️: Michel (), Bella (.a.hou)
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Ernestine Eckstein is a Black le***an pioneer of the q***r rights movement. 🏳️🌈
This week’s q***r figure is Ernestine Eckstein, an activist whose radical views on inclusion and direct action were way ahead of her time.
Swipe through to learn more ➡️
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Do you have a q***r Valentine’s Day story? We’d love to hear it! 💌 Submit a story, comment, or question for the All About Q***r Love episode of our podcast and we’ll discuss it on air!
Fill out the form at tinyurl.com/SubmitToSpeakOut before Feb. 16 for a chance to be featured, link in bio! 💞
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"Straight people get a world outside of s*x, but we often don’t." 🚫 Read about why heteronormative society hyper-s*xualizes q***r people and its detrimental effect on the community in “Pedophilia Hysteria: How Did We Get Here?” by Julianne Lempert (she/her), link in bio!
“The hyper s*xualization of gay men since the AIDS crisis and the ubiquity of le***an po*******hy for the male gaze has reduced q***rness to s*xual relations.” 🏳️🌈
🎨: Noel Guzman ()
🖊️: Julianne Lempert (.lempert)
✂️: Zora Lam (.lam), Bella (.a.hou)
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“Without recognition that our identities are worth fighting for, we have nothing.” 🌈🎙️ We discuss intersectionality, its power to both deflect and uplift, and how q***r spaces should be using it in our latest episode of Speak Out. Watch or listen now at the link in bio!
Next week’s episode will be an interview with the amazing Black trans artist ! 🤎
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"The Friend validates the existence of gender nonconforming and genderq***r people in the past and present." 👼 Learn an essential piece of q***r history and how it reflects the experiences of nonbinary people today in “The 250-Year-Old ‘Fad’: The Public Universal Friend and Gender Nonconformity Then and Now” by Colson Kishimoto (he/they), link in bio!
"The PUF proves that transcending the gender binary is not a new phenomenon and that genderq***r people are not a threat to society but an enduring part of it.." 🤍
🎨: Paheli ()
🖊: Colson Kishimoto ()
✂️: Min Kim (), Bella (.a.hou)
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Our identities do not work independently within ourselves. 🌈 Tune in to Speak Out tonight at 5pm PT for a conversation on intersectionality, our hosts’ experiences, and where the q***r community can improve.
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Communication between queer women in a cishet world is especially layered and complex 🧡💖 Read about it in “An Exploration of Lesbian Communication” by Laila Marie (she/her), link in bio! It’s a response to “Speaking in Tongue” from Fall 2000, the third installment of our From The Archive series. 🎨: Zoë Collins (she/her) [Video Description: A lesbian pride-themed animation revealing Scrabble piece text reading “Speaking in Tongue by Laila Marie.”] #FromTheArchive #Lesbian #LesbianPride #QueerWomen #OutWrite
LAST DAY to apply to join OutWrite, link in bio! 💖 Whatever you’re into, we have a place for you in our big queer family! We have nine positions open, including: - Writer Intern - Copy Intern - Graphics / Illustration Intern - Photography Intern - Video Intern - Layout / Design Intern - Social Media Intern - Web Developer Intern - Marketing Intern Applications are due TOMORROW, January 10th at NOON PT! Apply at the link in our bio: apply.uclastudentmedia.com [Image Description: A black graphic featuring the OutWrite logo surrounded by two pink triangles and the words “24 HOURS LEFT TO APPLY!” in bold uppercase white text. “24 HOURS LEFT” is written in outlines and appears on screen as if typed by a typewriter.] #OutWrite #QueerCommunity #GayNews #LGBTQIA #Transgender #Pride #UCLAStudentMedia #Internships #StudentJournalism #ApplicationsOpen
Applications are DUE TMRW at noon, LINK IN BIO! 🏳️🌈 OutWrite is accepting applications for NINE different intern positions, but they close at Monday at noon (that’s tomorrow)! We’re in the last 24 hours, so make sure to go to apply.uclastudentmedia.com and submit before the deadline! [Image Description: An animated graphic with a hot pink background and two OutWrite logos mirroring each other. A white square in the center reads “ONE DAY LEFT” in bold black text with the words “APPLY NOW” and “apply.uclastudentmedia.com” positioned above and below it in bold white text.] #OutWrite #OutWriteNewsMag #UCLA #UCLAStudentMedia #StudentJournalism #GayNews #QueerCommunity #LGBTQ #ApplyNow
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how can you be an ally on #worldaidsday2018 ?
today is #worldaidsday2018 and we are commemorating all the lives that have been lost due to HIV by raising awareness and improving education so we can all live in a happier, healthier tomorrow 🌈
today is #worldaidsday2018 and we are commemorating all the lives that have been lost due to HIV by raising awareness and improving education so we can all live in a happier, healthier tomorrow 🌈
#repost 42 members of the trans and non-binary communities sat down with British Vogue to share their stories and explain why, no matter what the current media narratives or political climate, we won’t be erased. . Watch the full video directed by @Kloss_Films, via the link in bio #WeWontBeErased. . @AlokVMenon, @Carmen_Carrera, @Charlie_Craggs, @Chellaman, Connie Fleming, Daphne Overbeck, @Dara._, @Dezjorngauthier, @Dominiquet.A.R.Jackson, @Eden_Loweth, @FrancescaxMartin, @Harris_Reed, @HoneyDijon, @Supa_Ines, @IOLovesYou, @JanayaForTheFuture, @IAmJariJones, @IAmKej, @Kuchenga, @LaverneCox, @TheLinaBradford, @MaximMagnus, @MunroeBergdorf, @Naeemdxvis, @NikiMnray, @OsloGrace, @Paris.Lees, @PatriciaBlack, @TheRealRebekah, @RowTheBoatBitch, @Shon.Faye, @IAmOrveda, @Teddy_Quinlivan, @ThomasPageMcbee, @Decadunce, @Torraine, @TravisAlabanza, @UglaStefania, @ValentijnDeHingh, @VincentBeier, @ViviPizzaDreamer, @XoeyFourr
Today on #transdayofremembrance @indyamoore and everyone at OutWrite newsmagazine wants to remind trans people everywhere that “You are important. You are beautiful. You are loved. You are special. You are essential to the entire human family.” Watch @poseonfx star @IndyaMoore's #TransAwarenessWeek message from the #Out100. #WontBeErased #Repost @glaad
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Get an idea of what it’s like to be an OutWrite staff member by watching this interview with Anastacia, a former developmental editor.
Lessons said to be released as early as this summer will cover the 1969 Stonewall riots and literature by LGBTQ authors such as Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, and Willa Cather. Nick Carraway’s love for Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby will also be taught through an LGBTQ lens. read more: https://outwritenewsmag.org/2018/06/massachusetts-to-introduce-new-lgbtq-curriculum-to-schools/
The Gay Agenda is officially declassified and available online! Which is good news for you, because we are 100% out of print copies.* Never got your hands on one? Don't make the same mistake again -- rsvp for our spring print DISIDENTIFICATIONS launching this Wednesday, June 6! https://issuu.com/outwritenewsmag/docs/outwrite_fall_2017 * we gave them all to children; gotta start the brainwashing young
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