AltWeeklies Wire
In the Name of Love (Pride)new
As Orlando prepares for Come Out With Pride, we highlight some reasons to be proud of our LGBT community.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes and Jessica Bryce Young and Jeff Gore |
10-06-2011 |
LGBT
Songs Can Bring Gay Solidaritynew
So the Indigo Girls are a lesbian cliche -- we still revel in the memories their music elicits.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Paige Parvin |
10-05-2011 |
LGBT
Oakland is Dyke Centralnew
A new television project celebrates Oakland's diverse lesbian community.
East Bay Express |
Cassie Harwood |
10-05-2011 |
LGBT
Tags: Arnetta Smith, Dyke Central
The Attack on Gay-Positive Education in Torontonew
A flyer suggests that the Toronto District School Board's anti-homophobia curriculum encourages "cross dressing for six year-olds."
NOW Magazine |
Enzo Di Matteo |
10-03-2011 |
LGBT
In Service, In the Truthnew
The end of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," and what gay and lesbian servicemembers in New Orleans think is coming next.
DADT: Treading Lightlynew
A telling hesitation lingers among many service members as 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' finally dies.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
09-23-2011 |
LGBT
A Guide to LGBT Senior Rightsnew
Share LGBT seniors are entitled to equal treatment, access to services, and basic legal protections under state and federal law. The Federal Nursing Home Reform Act, enacted in 1987, requires nursing facilities to protect the rights of each resident.
East Bay Express |
Nancy Lopez |
08-25-2011 |
LGBT
A sad sign on I-25new
Southbound travelers into Colorado Springs are seeing an ugly sign of intolerance.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Chet Hardin |
08-04-2011 |
LGBT
Man Goes Undercover to Reveal Bachmann Clinic's Anti-Gay Therapynew
John Becker was just your average guy working for a nonprofit and leading a relatively quiet life in Burlington. Then a story broke in "The Nation" revealing how he infiltrated Bachmann & Associates, the Christian counseling service run by GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann's husband, to expose its use of controversial gay conversion therapies.
Seven Days |
Lauren Ober |
07-14-2011 |
LGBT
My Connection to NY Gay Marriagenew
Andy, my dad’s brother, and Michael have been together for more than 18 years — the majority of my life. They live in a brownstone in Brooklyn, and while they wear wedding rings and exchanged vows years ago, I was curious if this would change anything for them.
YES! Weekly |
Eric Ginsburg |
07-07-2011 |
LGBT
Tags: New York, gay marriage
Artist Wesley Harvey on Homoeroticism, Dinnerware, and Bunniesnew
In the last two years, locally-based ceramic artist Wesley Harvey — who hails from Van Buren, Ind., the “popcorn capital of the world,” and has work in the permanent collections of the Shanghai Museum of Arts & Crafts and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction — has made a splash by exhibiting (and selling quite a bit of) china and porcelain adorned with decals made by appropriating raunchy drawings by Touko Laaksonen (better known as Tom of Finland) that take gay male sex fantasies to a place that’s larger-than-life, giving the gay art collector the perfect excuse to throw a dinner party with a happy ending.
San Antonio Current |
Bryan Rindfuss |
06-29-2011 |
LGBT
Tags: Wesley Harvey
Preteen Lightning Rod to Lead San Antonio’s Gay Pride Paradenew
A simple act of classroom disobedience turned 11-year-old Will Phillips into one of the country’s youngest — and targeted — gay-rights advocates.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
06-29-2011 |
LGBT
Tags: Gay Rights, Will Phillips
Time (and Public Opinion) is on the Side of Equality in Texasnew
At the start of this year’s legislative session, LGBT groups braced themselves for a bumpy ride. With an overwhelming Republican majority in the House and the Senate’s conservative edge, advocates knew prospects weren’t rosy.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas & Greg Harman |
06-29-2011 |
LGBT
Tags: Gay Rights in Texas
On Coming Out and Staying Strong in a Not-Always-Welcoming Culturenew
The queer subculture that exists within San Antonio and other heavily concentrated Latino communities maintains itself despite cultural stigmas associated with being gay.
San Antonio Current |
Christine Garza |
06-29-2011 |
LGBT
New York Lawmakers Approve Gay Marriagenew
New York State has become the sixth and largest in the nation to legalize weddings between gay and lesbian couples.
Long Island Press |
Rashed Mian, Timothy Bolger, Jaclyn Gallucci and Christopher Twarowski |
06-24-2011 |
LGBT
Tags: Fuck Yeah
