Sam Donndelinger

4 weeks ago | gaytimes.com | Spencer Macnaughton |Tom Sayers |Sam Donndelinger

Uncloseted Biblically responsible investing is a key factor driving American companies away from their DEI efforts.

1 month ago | msmagazine.com | Sam Donndelinger

Since 2001, the arrival of each new Republican president has been met with apprehension by advocates of global sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Every Republican administration since the Reagan era has denied funding to foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide abortion services, counseling and referral or lobby for liberalization of abortion laws, even if done with non-U.S. government funds.

1 month ago | unclosetedmedia.com | Sam Donndelinger

This story was produced in partnership with the Chicago Sun-Times, a nonprofit newspaper that was founded in 1948. Rylee Schermerhorn, an 18-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana, is spending her final high school days pet-sitting in the afternoons and is planning to go to college to study dental hygiene. But as a trans woman, she’s worried about President Donald Trump’s executive orders seeking to ban gender-affirming care for patients under 19 through legal action and withholding of federal funds.

1 month ago | msmagazine.com | Sam Donndelinger

This story was originally published in Uncloseted Media, an LGBTQ focused investigative news outletOn a summer afternoon in August 2021, Athena Schaffner scrolled the Chipotle menu as she rode the New York City C train. When the train dipped into a tunnel, a man in baggy sweatpants and a disposable facemask stood up from the orange plastic seats and peered at the subway signs above Schaffner, a lesbian college student who was 20 at the time.

2 months ago | unclosetedmedia.com | Sam Donndelinger

On a summer afternoon in August 2021, Athena Schaffner scrolled the Chipotle menu as she rode the New York City C train. When the train dipped into a tunnel, a man with baggy sweatpants and a disposable facemask stood up from the orange plastic seats and peered at the subway signs above Schaffner, a lesbian college student who was 20 at the time. As he loomed over Schaffner’s short, spiky hair, she got nervous and looked up. Before she could blink, the man punched her squarely in the forehead.