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In honor of Mother's Day , we want to recognize Astraea's Founding Mothers and all the women leaders whose innovation and guidance brought the LGBTQI rights movement into being.

The United Nations hosted its first-ever high-level panel on violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in early March. Convened by the government of South Africa, some would argue – myself included – that this event is at least ten years overdue. Nonetheless, seeing Ban Ki Moon, the Secretary General of the UN, in an opening video statement uneqivocally offer his support in this struggle was extraordinary: