HRC and Southern Boi Entertainment are co-hosting this month’s community mixer with Legacy of Success Foundation at Absinthe Lounge (1409 S. Lamar in South Side at Lamar lofts) from 6:30pm to 8pm on Wednesday, January 20, and it’s free to the public (although donations are accepted) and a good way to find out how you [...]
Posts Tagged ‘equality’
Podcast: Thinking about human rights
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A short show as the first Mandrake Society Radio podcast of 2010, and I’m thinking about Bayard Rustin and his work towards international human rights, which include economic rights, social rights, cultural rights, developmental rights, environmental rights, and sexual rights. Some links for today’s show:
J*Davey’s track can be found at Bandcamp as a free [...]
Not the Same Way: Uganda, sexual idenity and race
While reading Behind the Mask this morning, I ran across a repost of a story from the Daily Monitor which mentions Speaker Edward Ssekandi’s insistence to debate the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in the Ugandan parliament despite rebuttal from the international community and President Yoweni Musuveni’s pledge to the US State Department to veto the bill should [...]
A statement from the English Department of Indiana University honoring Don Belton
Thanks to the site, Justice for Don Belton, I learned of a moving statement recently released by Jonathan Elmers, Chair of the English Department at Indiana University. The open letter honors Don’s life and speaks of the acute pain friends and faculty are going through because of his violent death. Please read it [...]
Vendor & Exhibitor opportunities available at Creating Change conference this February in Dallas
Just a few days more before at least 2,000 visitors, along with over 600 locals, descend upon downtown Dallas, TX, for the 22nd National Conference for LGBT Equality: Creating Change happens at the Sheration Dallas, February 3 – 7, 2010. There are still opportunities available for vendors and exhibitors during the conference, according to [...]
NY Times articles highlight more of Ugandans side of the anti-gay conflict.
This special multimedia feature posted at NY Times features four individuals in Uganda, two transmen and two heterosexual men, and where they stand around the issue of the proposed “death to gays” amendment in the parliament. Since the recent retraction of support from key U.S. religious and political figures (also reported about in [...]
Organization suggests bi-racial LGBT couples list person of color as HOH on 2010 Census
The volunteer collective, Our Families Count, exists to educate and motivate all LGBT individuals and households to be visible and counted for on the 2010 U.S. Census. Their website, www.ourfamiliescount.org, is maintained by Bilerico Media (of whom you may be very familiar with the Bilerico Project website.)
One of the several tips provided at the [...]
Where’s the music for our liberation?
This video, now 20 years old, sparked a conversation on my Facebook page recently about rap music and its ability to influence with positive messages. One person asked in essence, “Where are those messages now?”. Like Avery R. Young from the Hetertosexism and Hip-Hop panel podcast I uploaded last month (which you should definitely [...]
