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Interview with K. Dapree a.k.a. Kevin Anderson about the HeART & Soul collective in Houston, Texas, supporting artists in all their disciplines and all their truth. HeART & Soul comes to Dallas on 4/17/10. Mark your calendars. Also, words from Amiri Baraka speaking at UC Berkley on jazz-America’s classical music, poetry by Athens Boys Choir [...]
As you consider taking time to honor our veterans today in a moment of silence or watching a parade, consider listening the stories of two veterans, one gay and one bisexual, from the Mandrake Society Radio podcast series. Robaire Watson served in the Navy and you can hear his story here. Nate served in the [...]
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As tempers in our community flare about “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (more acronymically known as DADT these days), one West Texas-born soldier wanted to tell me his story about his military service with no issues from fellow or commanding officers about being openly gay. He also believes his story (and others’ stories with a similar [...]
The National Black Justice Coalition has released a statement yesterday via their website that they’ve joined forces with Black Leadership Forum, an alliance which includes members from NAACP and the Congressional Black Congress, to demand a full investigation into the murder of the Houston-native, Navy Seaman August Provost III. We are deeply troubled by the [...]
Great to see a focused voice in the LGBT ranks that is firm on his stand to end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and is also not bashing President Obama after 6 months in office. Good on you, Anthony!
Lately, I’ve been hearing lots of talk from various gay activists groups about President Obama letting the gay community down for not taking a tougher stance on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and gay marriage rights. Even here in Dallas, at the recent Prop 8 protest by Queer LiberAction, where black lesbian activist Chasity Kirven, is [...]
