LGBT News: Serving in Iraq While Trans & Closeted; Homelessness; Anti-Sex-Ed Bill in Utah
1.) Sam Taylor just finished an eleven-month tour in Iraq as a chaplain's assistant with the U.S. army. While enlisted, she hid her transgender identity…
UPDATE: New Shelter for Homeless LGBTQ youth in NYC
This is great news: On the evening of Monday, November 7, The Ali Forney Center ...reopened a 20-bed emergency shelter in Brooklyn as a shelter…
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Voices of the Movement for LGBTQ Homeless Youth
I attended a rally on Monday of this week put on by a coalition of organizations fighting for more homeless shelters for LGBTQ young people.…
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Breaking: Moscow Pride Banned Again
The Russian Government has marked the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) by once again banning Moscow Gay Pride. Moscow's Deputy Mayor Ludmila Shvetsova cites…
Non-Traditional Families and LGBT People
I had a conference call earlier this evening for the National Youth Advocacy Coalition (I'm on NYAC's Board of Directors) and it got me thinking.…
Washington Post Article on LGBT Politics Only Quotes White Men
{ cross-posted at feministing } Update (4/22/10): The Washington Post ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, responded to my email and CCed the author of the article: "Thanks…
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Gays at NY’s Chinese New Year Parade for 1st Time
Queer APIs (Asian Pacific Islanders) were invited for the first time ever to participate in New York City's annual Chinese New Year Parade held in…
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No Humor in Russia’s Recent News
I was going to continue my new weekly Russia Roundup of Humor tradition, but the biggest piece of Russian news isn't really funny. So I'm…
I totally called it: Miss Cleo is gay!
OMG, remember Miss Cleo?! You know, the face and voice for a late night TV informercials promising to read your cards and change your life?…
The Neutrality Defense
A state legislator in Tennessee has just introduced a bill that would ban any discussion of homosexuality from the state's public elementary and middle school…
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