AltWeeklies Wire
To be Free...and Safenew
The LGBT's Rainbow Riverfest highlights progress made and work still to be done.
Valley Advocate |
Maureen Turner |
09-25-2012 |
LGBT
After the Arab Spring, the Future is Uncertain for Muslim Gay Youthnew
A year and a half after the revolution, gays remain marginalized and excluded from discussions about human rights in the new democratic Tunisia.
Homophobic Attacks on the Rise in Michigannew
The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs last week released a report showing a 24 percent increase nationally in reported anti-gay hate crimes from 2006 to 2007 -- Michigan had the largest increase among the states, jumping from 97 to 226.
Metro Times |
Staff |
06-03-2008 |
LGBT
The Shawnee Mission East Class of '08 Loves its Gay Homecoming Kingnew
Matthew Pope is an openly gay co-captain of the cheerleading squad at a school that's often stereotyped as conservative and snobby.
Verizon Says No to Trans-Inclusive Policynew
What would make a company who ranked number one on DiversityInc's "Top 50 Companies for Diversity" the past two years take a less than favorable action on a policy to included gender identity and expression in its non-dsicrimination policy?
What it Means to be Gay, Iranian and Living in Philadelphianew
S, now 46, is an openly gay lesbian living and working in Philadelphia with her girlfriend, P, a doctor who is also from Iran. "It's a struggle," says S, who has never returned to Iran since she was a teenager, eager to study in America.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Natalie Hope McDonald |
05-06-2008 |
LGBT
Is Oregon's Anti-Gay Initiative Effort on the Verge of Failure?new
Even if the Supreme Court OKs the petitions in the next few weeks, the anti-gay activists would have just two months to collect 82,769 valid signatures -- or 34,590 more than they failed to collect before, with one month less to do it.
The Portland Mercury |
Amy J. Ruiz |
05-01-2008 |
LGBT
Public Health Advocates Want Gay Hookup Websites to Promote Safe Sexnew
For public health advocates, the internet is the new tobacco. Just as the "right to smoke" as an important civil liberty has been largely discredited, the "right" of sex website owners to profit unfettered from the spread of diseases such as syphilis and AIDS should also go by the wayside.
Rifts in Church Reveal Plight of Christian Homosexualsnew
Peter Mitchell has "suffered from same-sex attraction" all his life and still feels tempted in "really insecure moments when life is particularly hard," but he's as convinced as anyone that homosexual behavior is a sin.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
11-07-2007 |
Religion
Inside Larry Craig's Closetnew
At some point in my 20s, I chose to come out completely and, at the same time, to forgo any thought of a political career. Sadly, my decision seemed that binary -- I wonder if that's what Sen. Craig struggled with in his youth.
The Death of San Francisco's Polk Streetnew
Gentrification is destroying the home of a vibrant, if marginalized, queer community.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Joseph Plaster |
08-29-2007 |
LGBT
