Huge vinaka vakalevu to Taffy Mae & the @UTOPIAWashington team for inviting TAAG’s CEO to judge the inaugural Miss Island Goddess 2026! 👑
A superb experience & a credit to your fantastic team. Congratulations to the new Miss Island Goddess 2026! ✨
#MissIslandGoddess2026#TAAG
…To be anything else makes us “TOO MUCH” and we lose invitations, lose friends, lose status and respectability. Queer vulnerability is burdensome…asking to live ordinary lives like straight people is asking for too much, right?”
“Queer people grow up learning to make ourselves socially valuable to straight people in order to be accepted. It’s acceptable to be the funny one, the fashionable one, the therapist, the emotionally intelligent one, the “safe man around women” one…until we’re not.
"In 1874, our land was ceded. Today, we refuse to cede our identities. True decolonization isn't just changing laws; it’s about smashing 'white glorification' and returning to the sacred mat where every woman, girl, and Vakasalewalewa has a seat by birthright”, they said.
"The greatest colonial myth told in the Pacific is that being Vakasalewalewa is a Western import. In reality, the only 'imports' were homophobia, the rigid binaries, the shame. We didn't cross a line; we are simply expanding the circle back to its original, indigenous strength."
🚨 TAAG at the UN! Our CEO, Ratu Eroni Ledua Dina (@ItsLadyRhonda), is live at #CSW70 in NYC, representing the Trans Affirmative Action Guild on the global stage. 🇺🇳🏳️⚧️ We are making sure trans and gender-diverse voices are heard where it matters most. #LGBTIQRights#TAAG
TAAG is in Canberra! 🇫🇯🇦🇺 We’re here with a delegation of Asia-Pacific LGBTIA+ leaders to mark the 3rd anniversary of the ‘Inclusion and Equality Fund.’ Trans voices from the Pacific must be at the center of these funding conversations. #SOGIESCMovementsMatter [1/4]
Yolanda Adams on homophobia in the Church
"Listen, I am 64 years old. I have seen everything in the church. And again, it has everything to do with the way you were nurtured. My family nurtured us to believe and know that everyone that gets to this earth got here because they are God's children. And why would you want to ever hurt anything that God loves? I have cousins, I have friends, I have dear, dear friends in and out of all music and arts and sports genres. And I never looked at them as anything other than beautiful people. And it is not my job ever to, to hurt anyone or debase anyone because of who they are. God is not surprised by anyone he created. He knew who you would be before your mom and dad got together. So, why am I disrespecting what God respects and loves?"