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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, the Justice Department said it would no longer defend the federal law that restricts marriage to heterosexual couples, citing doubts about its constitutionality. This week, the White House said President Obama wants to overturn the law. On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider a bill that would do that — and for the first time give federal benefits to same-sex couples who marry.
Black and LGBT in the Black Church
“Hiding [your true self] can cause one to suffer from depression, anxiety, anger and sadness,” she says. “It is not a healthy or self-empowering way to live your life, let alone worship.”
WATCH: Being Black & Transgender
Some may recognize Tiq Milan from MTV’s 2007 reality series, I’m From Rolling Stone, where several aspiring writers competed for a chance to win a full-time position with the entertainment magazine. Back then, he still went by his birth name, Tika, and responded to “she.” Today, however, the education specialist/HIV prevention counselor and editor-in-chief of IKONS Magazine, a LGBT lifestyle publication, lives life as a [transgender] man.
Our Bi-Phobia Placed on Sheryl Swoopes
Bisexuals are an underrepresented, if not invisible, group to those- in both heterosexuals and LGBTQ communities- who can only conceive of a gay/straight binary paradigm. The Kinsey scale, developed out of Alfred Kinsey’s research on human sexuality in the 40′s and 50′s, explains the fluidity of sexuality ranging from 0 to 6, meaning exclusively heterosexual to exclusively homosexual, respectively, and where a bisexual is 3.
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