Here's a touching account of the early years of AIDS and the Reagan administration as told by the son of a then-budding lesbian activist. Never forget when governments fail to protect and serve the people. For a bit more context, see this post by Clarknt67 on Daily Kos.
A 25-year-old Alabama woman who says she was beaten outside a bar by a dozen people and then arrested claims she's being unfairly targeted because she's gay.
Two lesbian high school students who fought for the right to walk together as part of a royalty court made their entrances Monday to the cheers of hundreds of classmates.
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Kelley Williams-Bolar, an Akron, Ohio, woman who served nine days in jail for lying to get her children into a better school system, was released earlier this week.
Child rearing among same-sex couples is more common in the South than in any other region of the country, according to Gary Gates, a demographer at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Jimmy Carter: Well I think the entire population of America has come tremendous strides forward in dealing with the issue of gays. And I would say that the answer is yes.
A rash of suicides has focused the country's attention on the problem -- but an expert tells the real story
Every year, hundreds of gay youths end up on the streets of L.A. County, where they make up a disproportionate share of the people under 25 who are homeless. 'They haven't been on the streets for years and years,' an advocate says, 'so they don't look bad.'
Persecution of gays is intensifying across Africa, fueled by fundamentalist preachers, intolerant governments and homophobic politicians. Gay people have been denied access to health care, detained, tortured and even killed, human rights activists and witnesses say.
Prosecutors say Serbian-born George Jakubec quietly packed the home with the largest amount of homemade explosives ever found in one location in the U.S. and was running a virtual bomb-making factory in his suburban neighborhood.
For the very first time, researchers have established a clear link between accepting familial attitudes and behaviors toward their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender children and a significantly decreased risk and better overall health in adulthood.
The upcoming Pentagon working group report on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" will show gays can serve openly in the U.S. military with minimal incidents of risk to current war efforts, according to the Washington Post.
He's best-known for opening San Francisco's City Hall to same-sex weddings and was once thought to be too liberal even for the bulk of California. But Gavin Newsom's decisive Nov.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says the Constitution doesn't outlaw sex discrimination or discrimination based on sexual orientation. Says Americans view bans on homosexual conduct as protection against an immoral and destructive lifestyle. Also calls the basis for Roe vs.
An analysis of 5 myths about the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy including how it came to be and how difficult repeal would really be.
In recent months there have been several studies suggesting that children raised by same-sex couples are certainly no worse off (and in some ways are arguably better off) than children raised by heterosexual couples.
Some have referred to her as "the Gay Community's Rosa Parks." She fought the police during the Stonewall Rebellion in 1969 and has been identified by many – and has identified herself – as the legendary "Stonewall Lesbian" whose assault by the police became the pivotal …
At Netroots Nation, (former) Lt. Dan Choi confronted Sen. Harry Reid to tell the Senate leader that he will hold him personally accountable for an unfulfilled promise to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
After the passage of Congress's financial regulatory reform bill, a heated debate has sprung up over who will get to chair the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — which will be in charge of advocating for consumers in their dealings with financial institutions and pro …
At this point, Westboro Baptist Church protests are not even newsworthy. But sometimes the counter protests are. This time they protested Comic Con and nerds responded--some in costume--with some hilarious signs.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves a possible hint about gay marriage in the Christian Legal Society v. Martinez decision.
Brittany Novotny, a Democrat and Oklahoma's first known transgender candidate, is running for a seat in the State House against Sally Kern, the Republican incumbent who gained national attention in 2008 for saying that "the homosexual agenda is just destroying this nation" …
A proposed K-12 health education plan in Montana causes a backlash among conservatives who criticize it for promoting homosexuality. I'm sure they could've found better ways to critique it than comparing gay people to plant life.
Iceland, the only country in the world to have an openly gay head of state, passed a law on Friday allowing same-sex partners to get married in a vote which met with no political resistance.
For alternative energy like solar and wind to work, an infrastructure upgrade on the electrical grid is needed. Microgrids are one possible solution.
For some very strange reason I'm unable to post on the 'it gets better' TRMS blog thread (your last post was "My first instinct…in the mid 1990s"), and, me being more anal today than usual wanted to reply and send it to you whatever way I can find if that's ok:
I hadn't thought of the title of the project, but you are right, I agree, my first thought isn't to offer/tell a kid it gets better - that's a subjective thing unique to each person. I also agree kids need to hear affirming messages like in the video even more so because of the plethora of anti-gay messages being sent by adults from all walks of life, especially authority figures. As you too say, I too was listening/looking for any/all messages of support/acceptance as a young gay kid – my difference being, I was a kid in the 70's, and those messages were few if at all, save mainly from a very loving and supportive mother. In truth, I likely was only able to be a self accepting out gay woman from very young adulthood only because of the support of a very small group of individuals, and, I completely understand the power of an accepting voice and the difference it can make..I hope you do make that video.
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