When Rights Are Threatened, We Organize Across Arizona, familiar patterns are reemerging—old fears in new forms. In Peoria, the school board is moving to ban Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs. In Gilbert, a handful of parents tried to revive book bans that would silence queer and BIPOC voices. These attacks aren’t isolated; they’re part of a national movement to roll back hard-won rights and reframe inclusion as something dangerous. But history reminds us: we’ve been

Claiming Visibility, Defending Inclusion This week’s stories remind us that visibility has always been both a mirror and a battleground. Queer communities have fought to be seen—not for recognition alone, but to demand safety, dignity, and the freedom to live and learn without fear. That fight continues in our schools today. While we honor the generations who built the foundations of queer visibility, we’re also watching local decisions that threaten to roll back the progress

By kelley dupps Queer visibility today didn’t happen by accident. It grew out of specific events, struggles, and the work of people who were often pushed out of official history. Words like “gay,” “straight,” and “trans” are not the same across time and places. They are ideas shaped by laws, medicine, religion, and culture. Finding queer history is different from usual history. Archives and old books often ignore or hide queer lives. Historians must look in unusual places: pr