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 [...]
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Podcast: Interview with Jesse Garcia
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Today, I’m speaking with Jesse Garcia about the beginning of LULAC 4871 (also called “The Dallas Rainbow Chapter”), building bridges between the Dallas Hispanic and LGBT communities, and how immigration reform affect many more LGBT people than we may realize (and not just Hispanic people). Find out more at http://lulac4871.org
Our interview was recorded at [...]
Podcast: Thomas Glave, reading from The Torturer’s Wife
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Thomas Glave was born in the Bronx and grew up there and in Kingston, Jamaica. A 1993 Honors graduate of Bowdoin College and a graduate of Brown University, Glave traveled as a Fulbright Scholar to Jamaica, where he studied Jamaican historiography and Caribbean intellectual and literary traditions. While in Jamaica, Glave worked on [...]
Valiente, HRC discuss lack of diversity as barrier to equality
About 30 individuals from various Dallas groups, including Valiente-a prominent organization for LGBT Latino/as in Dallas, and the Human Rights Campaign local steering committee met Monday night at On The Border in uptown Dallas to discuss the barriers for diversity within mainstream equality groups like the HRC. The meeting was a initiative of HRC’s [...]
Podcast: Discrimination report from New York
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This case involves a mental health nurse who was daily ridiculed and finally injured by subordinates in the year that she worked for Beacon of Hope House because they did not want to be supervised by a B/black woman. Beacon of Hope House, an operation of the Archdiocese of New York, has residences for approximately [...]
Texas Queer People of Color Conference held May 16 & 17
Statewide Queer People of Color organization, allgo, is hosting the 2nd Annual Statewide Queer People of Color conference at the 7A Resort, 333 Wayside Drive, in Wimberly, TX. Here’s more from the organization’s website:
The Texas Queer People of Color Statewide Summit, is a gathering of individual and organizationally connected queer people of color [...]
YouTube/Facebook murder situation in Detroit – What about our daughters, indeed.
YouTube Facebook Murder: Black Woman Slaughtered by Crazed Fellow YouTuber and Facebook Stalker-Detroit Police Ignored Warnings by YouTubers | What About Our Daughters.
Gina McCauley brings a sad story about what happens when young women and men forget that the internet involves real people with some real twisted situations. Gina handles the excellent blog, What [...]
