LGBTQ Archives – Deceleration

PODCAST: ‘Curtains of Rain’ Revisits South Texas Histories of Environmental Racism as Queer Coming-of Age Story

By Marisol Cortez ● Arts and Letters ● October 24, 2025

Our podcast interview with author Anel Flores talks Monsanto’s decades of contamination in Mission, Texas, the beauty of South Texas people and places, and fiction as a practice of healing self by writing the pain of those who have wounded us.

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San Antonio Pride Parade: ‘Pride Bigger Than Texas’

By Ceiba Ili ● June 11, 2025

Texas Voters Beat Back Book Banners in Katy, Fort Bend, & Mansfield ISD Elections

By Chris Walker & truthout ● Texas ● May 8, 2025

Texas school districts have banned hundreds of titles over the past few years, leading the country in banning books.

All in for Equality Advocacy Day 2025 (Texas Capitol)

By Greg Harman ● March 13, 2025

TENT Trans Advocacy Day 2025

By Greg Harman ● March 6, 2025

LGBTQ+ Rights: To Survive Attacks on Trans And Queer Texans Stronger Communities Are Needed

By Kit O’Connell ● Preparing to Protect ● February 28, 2025

Nonprofits that serve LGBTQ+ Texans are struggling with the limits of the old playbooks, while fighting renewed attacks on transgender and queer rights.

The March of Us

By Ceiba Ili ● February 12, 2025

Deceleration’s Guide to Anti-Trans and Anti-Climate Disinfo

By Marisol Cortez ● Resources ● July 1, 2024

Inoculate yourself and our movements against anti-trans disinfo and new forms of climate denial through ‘prebunking’ comics, TikTok vids, and drinking games.

Anti-Trans Disinfo Creeping on Climate Justice Spaces (Part 2 of 2)

By Marisol Cortez ● Disinformation Watch ● June 21, 2024

Climate denialists have long deployed the nefarious practice of ‘manufacturing doubt’ to undermine public understanding of the scientific consensus on global warming. Now anti-trans movements are borrowing the technique to poison trans healthcare research and ban care.

Pride Center Youth Empowerment Camp

By Rujuta Tamakuwala ● July 26, 2023

hiking, archery, nature crafting, team building and more!