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 [...]
With the temps skyrocketing, there’s no need to compromise your daily workout routine. Fitness guru, Aja Davis, has the solution to your warm weather woes! You asked… Is there a way to enjoy the outdoors without being uncomfortable during the warmer months? Aja answered… The best way to enjoy the outdoors is to be prepared. [...]
InspiHERed By spotlights phenomenal women in the Black queer community—everyone from artists to activists. Each week ELIXHER features someone whose personal journey and individual craft inspire us to dream bigger, laugh harder, and love deeper. This week Lyric Cabral, a photojournalist and filmmaker, shares. ELIXHER: Tell us a little about yourself. LYRIC: I’m 28 from Washington, DC originally. Now I have lived [...]
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, [...]
Our Family is a series that celebrates two-mommy families and delves into some of the challenges they face. The goal of the series is to depict same-sex parent families in a way that’s authentic and dispels myths associated with same-sex childrearing. Today we talk to Davone, 37, and Tiffany, 30, about what family means to them, [...]
InspiHERed By spotlights phenomenal women in the Black queer community—everyone from artists to activists. Each week ELIXHER features someone whose personal journey and individual craft inspire us to dream bigger, laugh harder, and love deeper. This week we caught up with Stephanie Russell, a 26-year-old Houston native, chief of staff for a state representative by day, creative writer by evening and bartender by [...]
bklyn boihood, a collective that creates visibility and builds community within masculine of center bois, lesbians, queers, trans-identified, studs, doms, butches and AGs of color through online media, events, workshops and collaborative projects, is producing their 2012 calendar. They need your help! Here’s what you can expect from this year’s calendar and why it’s so important. [...]
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, [...]
bklyn boihood, a collective that creates visibility and builds community within masculine of center bois, lesbians, queers, trans-identified, studs, doms, butches and AGs of color through online media, events, workshops and collaborative projects, is producing their 2012 calendar. They need your help! The money raised will fund printing the calendar, the production team, photographers, editors, filmmakers, [...]
InspiHERed By spotlights phenomenal women in the Black queer community—everyone from artists to activists. Each week ELIXHER features someone whose personal journey and individual craft inspire us to dream bigger, laugh harder, and love deeper. In the spring we featured Shawn Smith, creator of HerSaturnReturns.com, in our “Friends We Follow” column. This week we learn more about Shawn’s personal journey, her thoughts [...]
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