Happy New Year! The New Year’s Eve festivities reminded me of when it was obligatory for gays and lesbians of my era to not just attend New Year’s Eve parties, important school dances and formal proms, but horror of horrors, show up with a date of the opposite sex! These ordeals started with a push…
Once again, a big thank you to everyone who gave to our community’s holiday food, grocery vouchers, toys and clothes drives. Your generosity and caring made our work projects much more successful. Going to Church on New Year’s Day Many of us in our GLBT community are spiritual. I have many Christian and Jewish friends….
thursday, jan. 5 Meshell Ndegeocello Meshell Ndegeocello is more than an American singer-songwriter, vocalist, bassist and rapper. She’s credited with helping to spark the neo-soul movement. Her most recent release is titled Weather , and according to Meshell, the record is more peaceful than her previous releases. The album covers the ups and downs of…
A new experimental vaccine shows promise in helping to protect some mammals against contracting the HIV virus, an auto-immune deficiency disease that often leads to AIDS. Scientists have used the vaccine on monkeys with a level of success, and hope to eventually develop the vaccine for human use, ABC News is reporting. The study published…
A New Zealand tampon company is apologizing for an offensive television ad that depicts a transgender female competing with another woman in what the company alludes to natural differences between the two. Libra is removing the ads after equality groups say the commercials “ridicule” transgender women. The ad features a blonde woman and what appears…
An Israeli man and his partner are celebrating the birth of their child after he delivered at Sheba Medical Center Thursday evening. Yuval Topper, 24, a transgender man, reportedly stunned medical personnel when he walked into the facility appearing in every way a man, ready to give birth, Israeli newspaper Y Net is reporting. Topper…
Iowans gather Tuesday for the nation’s first primary season caucus BY JOEL TRAMBLEY Tuesday evening, 100,000 or so Iowa voters will bundle up, brave the cold and head out to one of 800 political gathering places. At 7 p.m. (CST), they will begin the process of picking our next president. Below is a primer on…
