Sep 16th 2011 
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Sep 2nd 2011
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This year has been a breakout year for filmmaker Dee Rees, and it’s been a longtime coming. Her debut film Pariah, the semi-autobiographical story of an emotionally conflicted 17-year-old Bronx girl who lives a dual life between her conservative family and her gay friends, premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Aug 26th 2011
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Police have confirmed the death of a 19-year-old college student who was brutally beaten in the early morning hours on Friday, and whose attackers shouted anti-gay slurs and kicked him in the face.
Aug 19th 2011
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One of the problems with this “either/or” approach—that this issue is either “black” or “white”—is that it creates a false dichotomy between LGBT issues and other issues of social justice. Another is that it fosters a hierarchy of oppression in which certain matters are placed at the top of the political agenda while others are tabled.
Aug 12th 2011
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Trans Woman Escapes D.C. Shooting Attack An unidentified suspect fired a semi-automatic handgun at a transgender woman at 2:45 a.m. on Sunday, July 31, just one block from the site where a transgender woman was shot to death less than two weeks earlier, D.C. police announced on Tuesday. Calling All Lesbians - Omarion Can Make [...]
Aug 5th 2011
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CDC: HIV Infections Up Among Black MSM New HIV-infection rates among young black men who have sex with men rose dramatically during a four-year study, while overall infections in the United States remained relatively stable, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Black Community & Gay Marriage, UltraMi & Drag Divas After gay [...]
Jul 29th 2011
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NAACP Host LGBT Town Hall Meeting The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) hosted its 102nd convention in Los Angeles on July 23 – 28. The convention included the organization’s first ever LGBT town hall to address issues that affect the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Gay Couple to Finally Wed After [...]
Jul 22nd 2011
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Pentagon to Certify Military Readiness for DADT Repeal The Pentagon is set to certify that the U.S. military is prepared to accept openly gay and lesbian service members, and doing so will not harm military readiness, a U.S. official told CNN on Thursday. Senate Panel To Consider End Of Gay Marriage Ban Back in February, [...]
Jul 15th 2011
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Gay Rights is a Civil Rights Issue Black and gay activists have always played a formidable role in the civil rights movement, but weren’t necessarily widely accepted…That wasn’t always the case. Consider Bayard Rustin, a civil rights activist who was the key organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 alongside Martin Luther King, [...]
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