Iowa Western Community College will offer its students an option to choose an LGBT community dorm this fall. Step forward or segregation? The concept of community based dorms has both supporters and detractors. Supporters suggest that this community based dorms help students to better integrate with the broader college community by providing them a haven…
A transgender woman arrested during the anti-police riots in Baltimore was detained Wednesday in an all-male holding facility. She was released Friday. According to an Advocate.com report, Deairra Venable, 30, was originally booked as female, but when central booking authorities discovered she was trans, she was transferred to an all-male facility, Venable’s lawyer, Astrid Munn…
May is National Foster Care Month. Throughout the month, HRC, in partnership with FosterClub, will highlight the issues facing LGBTQ youth in foster care and the families and organizations that work to support them. In the United States, nearly 400,000 children and youth are in foster care because they have been removed from their homes due to abuse…
Back in early 2009 when almost nobody thought an out lesbian could be elected mayor of Houston Annise Parker captured the deep respect of the city’s business community, but didn’t have their support because, they told her, a lesbian couldn’t win. Then Parker received the endorsement of the Victory Fund giving her campaign a financial…
The ol’ boys club of corporate leadership so poignantly portrayed by “Mad Men” should end at the same time as the TV show. In the place of corporate boards who undervalued women, LGBT people and minorities, there is now a growing sentiment that a diverse board of directors is essential for business. Times have changed….
PHILADELPHIA — The American College of Physicians (ACP) today released the second edition of The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health during its annual scientific meeting, Internal Medicine Meeting 2015. The textbook is edited by Dr. Harvey Makadon, Dr. Ken Mayer, and Hilary Goldhammer of The Fenway Institute at Fenway Health, and…
In the race for the Third District seat on the San Diego City Council, there has been an outpouring of pervasive dialogue insinuating that the District Three Councilmember must be from the LGBT community. This insinuation has even gone so far as to suggest that every seat on the San Diego City Council is reserved…
This week the LGBT community finally hit what I hope is rock bottom. Two prominent gay hoteliers met with Ted Cruz to reputedly have a “fireside chat.” Mati Weiderpass and Ian Reisner hosted Sen. Cruz, who is a vocal opponent of same-sex marriage and has said that the “gay” community is waging a “jihad” on…
pride prīd/ noun: A feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired verb: To be especially proud of a particular quality or skill The inaugural 2015 Pride Health Challenge is about transformation; helping…
“I want to live my life and create art that inspires people to be brave and courageous. To believe in themselves and never take no for an answer.” — Frenchie Davis There are a lot of people, and performers, who have looked in the face of adversity and said “Think what you wish, I’m going…
