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Mark and Kate
Filed by Patrick J Hamilton | May 20, 2013 10:30 AM |Do the victims of violence have to "look like me" before we are moved to action? A story of two victims of LGBT inequality and hate, with two very different faces. And reactions. Read More
Why Do We Defend Discrimination?
Filed by John M. Becker | May 17, 2013 6:00 PM |Hearing fellow members of the LGBT community stick up for bigoted business owners and provide excuses for our oppressors -- even those who break the law -- absolutely sickens me, and it should sicken you too.Read More
LGBT History and Hispanic Heritage Month: Two Puerto Rican AIDS Activists
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | May 17, 2013 10:00 AM |Venerable activist José Fernando Colón died of AIDS this week. In memoriam for José, we honor his long battle to end the sickening political and administrative corruption around AIDS funding and treatment in Puerto Rico.Read More
Pride and Politics: Bradley Manning in San Francisco
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | May 14, 2013 2:30 PM |Rescinding Bradley Manning's invitation to serve as Grand Marshal for their city's Pride Parade makes San Francisco Pride appear weak as well as stupid.Read More
Busting Bunty Berman: A Primer in Microaggressions
Filed by Jason Tseng | May 12, 2013 10:00 AM |While we weren't expecting an overly receptive crowd, but the amount of hostility and negativity we received in the forms of numerous microaggressions really shocked me.Read More
The Oppressed Shall Lead: Advocacy Through Empowerment - Part 1
Filed by Drew Cordes | May 10, 2013 12:00 PM |When queer and trans* people attempt to navigate or further their lives within the technologies that govern them, do laws actually affect how people are socialized to perceive us as transgressors? Or do they only force discrimination underground?Read More
Let's Talk About "Key Priorities"
Filed by Jerame Davis | May 09, 2013 10:00 AM |President Obama has more than enough of a challenge in choosing his key players without our grousing about whether or not one of them is openly LGBT. It is far more important that the President choose the best Secretaries for his Cabinet than for our community to mark another box on our checklist of firsts.Read More
OUTWRITE! 25th Anniversary Celebrates Literary Legends
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 02, 2013 2:00 PM |Just days after Creative Coalition CEO Robin Bronk testified before Congress about the need for more funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lambda Literary Foundation was honoring the lifetime achievement of five LGBT literary pioneers whose work may have saved millions of lives.Read More
The Corporatization of the LGBT Movement
Filed by Bil Browning | May 01, 2013 2:30 PM |I've stayed out of the Bradley Manning as SF Pride grand marshall pissing match mostly because I don't live in San Francisco. Now Glenn Greenwald and Steven Thrasher have come out swinging with pieces that echo my own private thoughts.Read More
Was It a Good Idea to Make Bradley Manning SF Pride's Grand Marshall?
Filed by Viktor Kerney | April 28, 2013 12:00 PM |I would to hear your opinions about this incident. Was the decision to make Manning a grand marshal an honorable one or a catastrophe waiting to happen? Read More
Why It's Painful: No DOMA Apology as Clinton Accepts GLAAD Award
Filed by Karen Ocamb | April 22, 2013 4:00 PM |Clinton's sweet fatherly moment seemed to erase in an instant all the hard work, the agony, the love so many gays and people with HIV/AIDS had for him when he was just the long-winded Governor of Arkansas.Read More
Bill Clinton Accepts Award He Doesn't Deserve
Filed by Bil Browning | April 21, 2013 11:30 AM |Last night GLAAD honored President Clinton with their "Advocate For Change" award based on his recent outspokenness on LGBT rights. Sadly, he's been advocating for a change from policies he instituted.Read More
From Married Business Owner to Trans Activist & DNC Member
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 16, 2013 12:00 PM |Babs Siperstein, a transgender member of the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee, shares how she got involved in politics after her transition.Read More
Power Problems in Kink & BDSM Relationships
Filed by Drew Cordes | April 15, 2013 2:00 PM |Thanks to carefully considered awareness, education and social campaigns by experienced practitioners and educators, kink and BDSM relationships have crept into greater cultural awareness in the past few years.Read More
GLAAD Media Awards to Honor Former President Bill Clinton
Filed by Karen Ocamb | April 05, 2013 3:30 PM |The 24th annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles will honor former President Bill Clinton with its first Advocate for Change Award.Read More
