April 2011
The Power Of Music, Life And A Beautiful... →
Well, it has been a haunting 12 hours, “Thunder only happens, when it rains”, after my mom and I spent an awesome night with Stevie Nicks, feeling joy and love we came home and feel asleep to Crystal Visions, but with dawn came the beginning of a new storm. My grandmother who has been in a journey to stay here in the living for the past few months, has turned down the path of leaving this planet,...
QBliss Question Of The Day: How Did You Come Out...
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Trans Performers Wanted! →
Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference’s Blender will showcase a spectrum of gender non-conforming, genderqueer, gender variant, & transgender performers from across our community. Blender is looking for music, spoken word, dance, performance art, drag, and burlesque! To submit a piece go to: http://trans-health.org/content/event-blender
Tyler Clementi's roommate indicted →
Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers student who posted a sexually explicit video of his roommate Tyler Clementi, has been indicted on 15 counts by the Middlesex, N.J. County Prosecutor.
Ravi was supposedly helped by Molly Wei, another former student against whom a case is forming. The pair allegedly recorded Clementi in a sexual encounter with another man and posted it online. Clementi committed...
“You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.”
– Judith Light, born February 9, 1949
Manchester: Give us back our Pride! Carnival’s... →
Hungary's new constitution outlaws gay marriage →
Legislators in Hungary passed a new constitution yesterday that took a sharply conservative twist.
The constitution strictly limits marriage to heterosexual couples, although gay couples will apparently be able to register their relationships in a manner similar to domestic partnerships.
In addition, the constitution’s ban on discrimination doesn’t include sexual orientation as a protected...
OUTing The Music Industry: Verizon ‘test man’... →
Paul Marcarelli
The Verizon ‘test guy’ who rose to fame with the catchphrase ‘Can you hear me now?’ is speaking publicly for the first time, and now that his contract is ending, he is discussing the pain he endured from becoming a celebrity — and has revealed…
Gay Christian group marks 5 years →
Progress for trans workplace protection in Nevada... →
Two pieces of related good news!
Legislation was approved (at some level) in both Nevada and Hawaii to protect transgender people against workplace discrimination.
In Nevada, a bill protecting against trans discrimination cleared the state’s general assembly and will move onto the senate. Afterwards it goes to the governor, who may or may not sign it.
In Hawaii, similar legislation has...
Representation of transsexual women in prison →
The fight of transsexual women in prison for transsexual medical treatment, our human dignity and other things, is an extremely personal fight, very direct, very close, touching. This intimate experience - to the day, hour, minute, second, and thought - is ongoing. There is no broken space. Only…
Is Kobe Bryant Anti-Gay - Or Just a Closet Gay? →
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Positively dripping with homoeroticism, this 1950s film needed some editing and a new soundtrack, which I have provided.
OUTing The Music Industry: Matt Damon poders... →
By Damian Grass AHN Kissing beautiful leading ladies like Angelina Jolie and Minnie Driver on the big screen comes easy for Matt Damon, but he said his next on-screen kiss will be quite the challenge.
According to People magazine, Damon is set to star with Michael Douglas in a…
Malaysia: 'Gay' Teens Sent To Masculinity... →
Malaysian authorities have sent 66 Muslim schoolboys identified by teachers as effeminate to a four-day camp where they will receive counseling on masculine behavior to discourage them from being gay, an official said Tuesday.
OUTing The Music Industry: GBM News Countdown: 15... →
Our Response To MSN’s All-White ‘Wonderwall’ Feature By Nathan James GBMNews Editorial Recently, MSN TV posted their “Countdown: 15 Most Powerful Gay Celebrities” slideshow list online, as a way of highlighting the progress of the LGBT community in contemporary society….
Barney Frank: Playboy Interview
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Barney Frank: Playboy Interview
By David Sheff
United States congressman Barney Frank is inarguably one of the most powerful and effective legislators in the House of Representatives. What’s arguable is whether he’s a good guy or a bad guy. Like so much in Washington, the answer usually comes down to party lines....
Addressing antigay violence in Uganda →
An activist group is urging Dr. John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, to “condemn threats, harassment and attacks on any individual due to their actual, or perceived, sexual orientation.”
This is in light of the recent murder of David Kato, a prominent LGBT rights activist in Uganda.
Sign the petition here. Poke around the site and it’ll explain to you exactly why this campaign is doing what it’s...
Boehner seeks to divert funds for gay marriage... →
Environmentalists seek gays' advice on President... →
Planned Parenthood Opens Doors for Transgender... →
Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania is planning to keep an eye on transgender health by offering extended hours at their clinic in downtown Pittsburgh.
“Around half of all transgender people who seek medical care are served by uninformed doctors,” says the clinic’s president and chief executive officer, Kim Evert. “These same patients are expected, by default, to teach their doctors...
“I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s...”
– Ellen Degeneres
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Groove to the music and fashion of the fabulous ’60s in this television commercial for the Kodak Instamatic camera. The music, by the way, is a blatant rip-off of the Beatles song, ‘Can’t Buy Me Love.’ I wonder how they got away with it!
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Go! Go! Go back to the Swingin’ 60s for this TV commercial.
Transgender Woman Returns to Scene of the Crime →
An assault victim returned to the scene of her attack to reclaim it as a safe place.
Two men attacked 20-year-old transgender woman Mia Tu Mutch April 1 in San Francisco’s Mission District. She said she was sitting on a bench at 16th and Mission when the men started saying hateful things to her about dressing like a woman.
When no one stepped in to stop the beating, she thought should...
2011 SAN FRANCISCO LGBT PRIDE GRAND MARSHALS... →
