Thanks to a tip from AlterNet and reading more from SPARK Reproductive Justice Now out of Atlanta, I’ve learned about some billboards that are going up around the city and especially in the predominately black areas that read, “Black Children are an Endangered Species”, with the website, www.toomanyaborted.com as the lone bottom tag. The [...]
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Six rules for being a real ally.
I really want to thank Sharon Bridgforth for sharing this video called “6 Rules For Allies”, as I learned about through it my friend, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano. Definitely food for thought for me in light of my recent posts about support the queer family in Africa. It’s food for though for me speaking [...]
UK theater company, The Red Room, presents GAY AFRICA
Just received a note from Topher Campbell, the Artistic Director of London-based theater company, The Red Room, about a exciting and daring event happening February 28 called GAY AFRICA. In partnership with fellow London-based free speech and human rights organization, English PEN, GAY AFRICA is a free event that will bring together a mix [...]
Equality March Texas presents “The First Annual Holocaust Candelight March” in Dallas
Here’s a note from my friends in Equality March Texas:
The First Annual Holocaust Candelight March will be this January 27th, 2010 at 7:00pm. We will walk on the sidewalks from the Fountain at Oak Lawn/Armstrong to the Oak Lawn/Cedar Spring’s Memorial.
The event will then move inside the Melrose Hotel where free Hot [...]
Seeking African voices on African issues: on Uganda
In light of heightened awareness in the LGBT community over recently introduced legislation affecting sexual minorities in Uganda and possibly soon (if you haven’t heard, Rwanda), I’m looking for and sharing as many African queer voices here on the blog as I can find. I need their written voice, as do you. Living [...]
Cliff Notes is inviting you to a unique teaching opportunity
Carlos and Opalina Salas are looking for experts in their community to begin teaching classes as an outreach of their bookstore, Cliff Notes Prolonged Media, located on 416 N. Tyler Avenue in Oak Cliff. Here’s the word from Opalina:
We are now providing our community with a series of workshops to educate, enhance and entertain! [...]
Ugandan sexual minorities fighting for better health care
Even in the face of the Anti-Homosexuality bill currently before the Ugandan parliament, the groups, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), is still working to reduce the stigma of HIV/AIDS being a gay disease and urging the government for more inclusive health care as a human right, according to a new article at Behind The Mask. Frank [...]
