Lgbt Community

America's Health Care System is Failing LGBT Citizens: Learning from Reagan's Mistakes

Jeff Krehely | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, LGBT Community, Health Care Hiv/Aids, Health Care Lgbt Community, Health Coverage Lgbt Community, Health Care Reform, Obama Hiv/Aids, Lgbt Community Hiv/Aids, Health Insurance Reform, Obama Lgbt Community, Politics News
Jeff Krehely

America's health system is failing its LGBT citizens. President Obama should establish a federal Office of LGBT Health to tackle the unique dangers that threaten this community.

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A Test for LGBT Equality: Why I Support Dan Hynes for Illinois Governor

Tobias Barrington Wolff | Posted 12.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Lgbt, LGBT Politics, Equality Illinois, New York Senate, Illinois Governor, Pat Quinn, LGBT Community, Dan Hynes, Stonewall Democrats, LGBT Rights, Democratic Party, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage Equality, Chicago News
Tobias Barrington Wolff

Pat Quinn opposes marriage equality, and LGBT people and issues are nowhere to be found on his campaign website. The choice in this race was a clear one for me.

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Gay Dating: Can You Be Too Gay Online?

Mike Alvear | Posted 10.29.2009 | Style

Read More: Gay Online Dating, Gay Dating, Gay Nightlife, Lgbt, Gay Rights, LGBT Community, Gay Issues, Style News
Mike Alvear

What if you're too effeminate or too Goth and you know most guys aren't into that? Here's how to, ahem, massage the truth, without actually lying.

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Gillibrand Talks "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," Gay Rights

gaycitynews.com | Paul Schnidler | Posted 10.29.2009 | New York

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Lgbt, Dadt, President Barack Obama, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Gillibrand LGBT, Gay Rights, LGBT Rights, Gillibrand Gay Advocate, LGBT Community, New York, New York City, New York News

"For himself, I think, he's going to take all the time he believes he needs in order to be successful, because it's all about being successful." Thos...

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Ambassador Jim Hormel: "I Don't Have Time to Wait!"

Karen Ocamb | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Politics, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Doma, Enda, Barack Obama, Jim Hormel, Lgbt, Gay Rights, LGBT Community, Gay Rights Speech, Gay Activism, Politics News
Karen Ocamb

"I am as eager as anyone else to have action .. So when I exercise any restraint, it's out of knowledge and awareness of the atmosphere under which the president is operating," says Hormel

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It's Chow Time at the White House, Brother

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elaine Donnelly, Politico, David Wochner, Senator Richard Russell, General Omar Bradley, President Obama, U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, Admiral Mike Mullen, Anderson Cooper 360, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Victor Fehrenbach, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Military-Readiness-Enhancement-Act, Victory Fund, National Equality March, LGBT Community, Joint Force Quarterly, John King, Jon Stewart, Col. Om Prakash, Dadt, President Truman, Sldn, Joint Chiefs Chairman, General James Jones, National Security Adviser, Saturday Night Live, Us Military Desegregation, State of the Union, William Gladstone, Politics News
Aubrey Sarvis

What gays and lesbians are looking for -- and will be marching for on Sunday -- is nothing special, and that's exactly the point. It's what every other American already has: equal treatment under the law

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Out of my Black Church, Into the Streets

Irene Monroe | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Lgbt, National Equality March, LGBT Issues, Gay Civil Rights, LGBT Community, Faith in America, Civil Rights, Black Church, Living News
Irene Monroe

Because of religion-based bigotry spewing from the pulpits of many black churches, we have a crisis in the African-American community: an epidemic of homelessness among LGBTQ youth.

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Black Queers Are Tying the Knot

Irene Monroe | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Lgbt of African Descent, Loving v. Virginia, LGBT Issues, LGBT Community, Black Gay Marriage, Lgbt Black, Coretta Scott King, Lgbtq Rights, Gay Civil Rights, Black Gays, Gay Marriage, Living News
Irene Monroe

An idea that was once anathema to black queer identity, marriage, in our LGBTQ communities, is being celebrated and on the rise. And many of us are now proudly walking down the aisle to tie the knot.

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Saving Small Businesses, The Brooklyn Way

Jim Luce | Posted 09.23.2009 | New York

Read More: Alan Fleishman, Responsible Development, Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, Cobble Hill, Upper West Side, Emory University, Grant Neumann, Stonewall Democratic Club New York City, Gay, Manhattan, Jonathan Bing, Retail Condos, LGBT Community, Micah Kellner, Gowanus Canal Conservancy, West Village, Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation, Planned Parenthood New York, Non-Profit Organizations, American University, Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, Bob Zuckerman, Washington D.C., Fort Greene, Twitter, Atlantic Yards, Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Mom and Pop Store, New York City Council, Property Tax Incentive, 39th District, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus Canal, Main Street, Richard Gottfried, Matt Titone, Danny O’Donnell, Kensington, Marty Connor, Retail Condominiums, Long Island Railroad, Deborah Glick, Storefront Space, Dirk McCall., J.D. Degree, Bill Clinton, Anthony Weiner, Economic Stimulus Package, Tom Duane, Brownstones, Alan Gerson, Park Slope, Borough Park, Lambda Independent Democrats Brooklyn, Flatbush, Facebook, Eminent Domain, Harvey Milk, Jewish, New York City, Progressive Brownstone Brooklyn, Carolyn Maloney, New York League of Humane Voters, David Nimmons, San Francisco, Zuck Mobile, Tom Smith, Small Business, Bensonhurst, Eshow, Bangladeshi-Americans, New York News
Jim Luce

Bob Zuckerman does not want to wait for the economic stimulus package to drip down to Brooklyn's quickly emptying storefronts.

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Let the Money Laundering Begin

Fred Karger | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Mormon Church, California Gay Marriage, Californians Against Hate, National Organization for Marriage, Maine Gay Marriage, Focus on the Family, Gay Marriage, Prop 8, No on Prop 8, Prop 8 Protests, Yes on Prop 8 Mormons, Same-Sex Marriage, LGBT Politics, Lgbt, Yes on Prop 8, Mormon Prop 8, LGBT Community, LGBT Youth, Maine-Same-Sex-Marriage, LGBT Rights, Gay-Rights-Mormon-Church, Fundraising, Mormon Church Gay Marriage, Mormon Church Prop 8, Politics News
Fred Karger

The Mormon Church has been destroying lives, intimidating people and demonizing an entire class to solidify their base and raise millions and millions of dollars.

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Iraq: Stop Killings for Homosexual Conduct

Human Rights Watch | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

Read More: Lgbt, LGBT Rights, Gays in Iraq, Iraq, Gays, Unhcr, LGBT Issues, Mahdi Army, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Sadr City, LGBT Politics, Sadr City Violence, Homosexuality, Iraq-Gays-Targeted, LGBT Community, Human Rights Watch, Iraq Gay Murders, Iraq Gays, Homosexuality and Religion, LGBT Families, World News
Human Rights Watch

The killings -- committed without evidence or trial, on the basis of prejudice and whim -- violate standards in Sharia law for legality, proof, and privacy.

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Pandora's Box: The National Equality March

Bil Browning | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Equality March, March on Washington, Equality Across America, Hope, Pandora's Box, Eaa, LGBT Politics, Lgbt, LGBT Issues, LGBT Community, Obama LGBT, LGBT Rights, Pandora, Politics News
Bil Browning

The LGBT community is used to being downtrodden and dismissed. Prejudice, animosity, and apartheid flew out of Pandora's Box long ago.

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Anglican Church: LGBT Recognition Raises Possibility Of 'Two Track' Structure

AP | MEERA SELVA | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

Read More: England, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Anglican Church, Global Anglicanism, Lgbt, LGBT Rights, LGBT Issues, LGBT Politics, LGBT Community, Anglican Church LGBT, Catholic Church, Episcopal Church, Anglican Communion, World News

LONDON — The worldwide Anglican Communion may have to accept a "two track" system in which churches can hold different opinions about gay clergy...

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Gay & Lesbian Manners: A Lesbian Stereotype That's Not a Subaru

Steven Petrow | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Lgbt, Potlucks, LGBT Community, Lesbian, Subaru, Gays and Lesbians, Etiquette, Gays, Parties, Manners, Living News
Steven Petrow

Just because you want to invite them all doesn't mean you should. Masked or unmasked bitterness, rage or jealousy can quickly tank the best of parties.

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Queeries: Beware of Sexting

Steven Petrow | Posted 05.23.2009 | Style

Read More: Lgbt, Pornography, Sexting, LGBT Issues, LGBT Community, Lesbian, Teens, Gays and Lesbians, Gay, Gay Issues, Style News
Steven Petrow

It's simple enough: Sexting is the sending of nude (or semi-nude) photos with your cell.

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Arthur Delaney

Gay Activists Plan Their Own Tea Party At Boston Harbor

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Community, Boston Tea Party, Tax Day Tea Parties, Politics News

Tea party protests won't be limited to the rightward-leaning, anti-spending, anti-tax crowd come April 15. In Massachusetts, the LGBT community is pla...

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Re-Gifting

Kate Clinton | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living

Read More: George Bush, Glbt, Lgbt, Hiv, Gay Community AIDS, Gay-Lesbian Community, Ronald Reagan, Lesbian Comedian, George W. Bush, Lesbian Comedy, Bush, HIV/AIDS, Pope John Paul, LGBT Community, Careers, Auto Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Aids, Stonewall, Comedy, Living News
Kate Clinton

The same year I began my career, Pope John Paul and President Ronald Reagan began their careers. It was also the year that gay men began dying from AIDS.

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A St. Patrick's Day to Remember

Christine C. Quinn | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Christine Quinn, LGBT Community, St. Patrick's Day, Gay and Lesbian Rights, Gay Issues, Politics News
Christine C. Quinn

St. Patrick's Day has always been a high holiday in the Quinn household. But now the day is tinged with sadness, because of the exclusion of the Irish LGBT community from the 5th Avenue parade.

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Marriage For Everyone: Worth the Fight

Sara Whitman | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Politics, LGBT Issues, LGBT Community, LGBT Rights, Glad, Families, Social Security Benefits, LGBT Families, Marriage Equality, Massachussets, Lesbian, Gay, Gay Rights, Gays and Lesbians, Lesbian Moms, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Politics News
Sara Whitman

Today, we are approaching the fifth anniversary of marriage equality in our state. We have pushed the envelope, no question. And we will continue to.

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What Would Harvey Milk Say About President Clinton's Speech at the Manchester Hyatt?

Cleve Jones | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Yes on Prop 8, California Gay Marriage, Proposition 8, Gay Rights, LGBT Issues, Prop 8, LGBT Community, No on Prop 8, LGBT Rights, Milk, California Prop 8, California Gay Marriage Ban, Manchester Hyatt Boycott, Harvey Milk, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Cleve Jones

By violating the Manchester Hyatt Boycott, President Clinton will be doing more than just dishonoring the hard work of labor unions and gay activists, he will be casting aside the groundwork we are laying for a national coalition for equal rights.

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The Mantra to End DADT: Yes We Can!

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dadt, LGBT Community, 60 Minutes, Ellen Tauscher, President Obama, Admiral Mike Mullen, New York Times, Obama Transition, Congress, Robert Gibbs, Ted Kennedy, Yes We Can, US Military, Obama Gay Rights, Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gay Rights, Military, 100 Days, Politics News
Aubrey Sarvis

There is no question that our next president is facing a host of truly awful problems. Cut the Administration some slack regarding Don't Ask Don't Tell, yes -- but not too much.

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Rick Warren Announcement Is Slap In The Face To GLBTQ Army

Scott Foval | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Equality, Barack Obama, Rick Warren, Glbtq, Scottsbigmouth, Social Conservatives, Rick Warren Invocation, Prop 8, Inauguration Day 2009, Obama Gay Rights, Rick Warren Obama Invocation, Obama Inauguration Day, Same-Sex Marriage, Gay Rights, Obama Change, LGBT Community, Obama LGBT, Religious Right, Gay Civil Rights, Obama Warren, Gay Marriage, Rick Warren Inauguration, Politics News
Scott Foval

Mr. Obama, by choosing Rick Warren, you have sent a shiver up the spine of every GLBTQ American who believed that you might actually be the voice and actor of real change.

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Marriott and Milk

Marc Gunther | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Proposition 8, Gay Rights, Milk, Bill Marriott, Gay Marriage, Marriott Corp., Lgbt, Religion, Prop 8 Donations, Milk Movie, LGBT Community, LGBT Rights, Religion and Politics, Religious Faith, Harvey Milk Movie, Politics News
Marc Gunther

What role should CEOS and big companies play when confronted with controversial issues? Ought they not take a stand on social issues, too?

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Changing Tides in the Fight for LGBT Rights

Neil G. Giuliano | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate Crimes, Anti-Hate Crime Laws, Prop 8, Glaad, Gay Rights Activism, Anti-Gay Ballot Initiative, Civil Rights Activism, Gay Activism, Gay Adoption, Social Activism, Marriage Equality, American Support Gay Rights, Gay Rights, LGBT Community, Pulse of Equality, LGBT Rights, Gay Marriage, Political Survey Call, Politics News
Neil G. Giuliano

Despite the setback of Proposition 8, the LGBT community has seen meaningful progress in recent years, and we need to continue building on that progress.

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