January 2012
428 posts
Latin American airline creates LGBT-specific... →
gaywrites:
LAN Airlines recently launched a web site geared specifically towards LGBT travelers. The site, LAN Diversity, is committed to showing travelers the diversity of South America and providing information that can make travel more enjoyable for LGBT people.
LAN Diversity includes descriptions of South American travel destinations with information specific to LGBT travelers, like...
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“One thing about HIV, is that is has peoples bodies but not their minds, their...”
– Me, Myself & HIV (via xavieralexay)
December 2011
333 posts
“Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.”
– Jay Bell (Something Like Summer)
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I'm From Ulster Park, NY →
by Kyle W.
It was the first full day back after Winter Break. I had actually decided to do it the day before, the minute I entered the dorm, because I knew that he would be there already. Unfortunately, another one of my roommates was also there, so it didn’t happen then. It was a Monday, January 14th. I remember being nervous all day. I asked my best friend if he wanted to go on a walk after...
Everyone is Gay: "Okay guys, when someone says the... →
everyoneisgay:
-Question submitted by Anonymous
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Dannielle Says:
I’m assuming this is in the middle of a conversation about you being a gay. And this human is like ‘oooh you’re a gay, have you ever had sex tho’ and you’re like ‘yea i bone same-sexed people all the time’ and then they’re like ‘but that’s…
Psychological association takes down gay marriage... →
gaywrites:
The North Carolina Psychological Association has published a straightforward list of reasons why opposing marriage equality is simply incorrect. This comes at a time when North Carolina is considering an amendment to ban same-sex marriage in the state.
A summary of the reasons:
1. There is no empirical evidence that supports the denial of marriage rights to people in same-sex...
“…Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about...”
– Maryanne Williamson (via myowngirlfriend)
New Trans Health Clinic in NYC →
max-transformer:
fuckyeahftmsofcolor:
APICHA, one of New York’s most progressive community health centers, officially opens the doors to a Transgender Clinic. Designed to accommodate the distinct needs of transgender and gender variant/genderqueer individuals with particular focus on communities of color. The groundbreaking APICHA…
Health clinics NYC
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QBits: Gay activist put forward for Nobel Peace... →
qbits:
French activists launch bid for Nobel Peace Prize for international gay rights campaigner Louis-George Tin
27 December 2011 | By Nick Rutherford
Activists in France have launched a bid to win the Nobel Peace Prize for gay rights campaigner and author Louis-Georges…
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I’m From San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon,... →
by G. Heron
I came out to my sisters and friends when I was 17. It came as a shock but they accepted me and loved me for who I am.
I’m American but was born and raised here in Mexico because my father lived here before he met my mother. It’s hell to live in a place like this even though I might sound ungrateful and spoiled. Most of the time I got things that I wanted and drove a fancy car...
Pick A Number →
Alfred Kinsey believed that human sexuality could be charted on a scale of 0 to 6, with 0 being “Exclusively heterosexual” and 6 being “Exclusively homosexual.” Owing to changing cultural boundaries and advanced research, Kinsey’s scale has recently been expanded:
0. So heterosexual that you think all other heterosexuals should be shot, because they seem a little gay.
1. So heterosexual that...
Brown Girls And Bois: Use of the "genderqueer"... →
cuntofdoom:
queerbrownxx:
I identify as genderqueer even though I ID as female because my gender expression is very queer. Not just my clothing/fashion sense, but also my personality, mannerisms, etc. I’m a strange mix of stereotypically male and stereotypically female traits. I’m…
QWOCMAP FILMMAKER TRAINING PROGRAM →
thegang:
Each year, QUEER WOMEN OF COLOR MEDIA ARTS PROJECT offers 4 free Filmmaking Workshops through our award-winning Training Program. Our workshops serve teenagers to elders. To better serve our community, QWOCMAP has conducted Training Program workshops specifically for youth (ages 18 to 25), queer folks of color who are butch/genderqueer/transgender, Asian/Pacific Islander, Black/African...
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
– William James (via pinkpanthers)
“Using ‘gay and lesbian’ as a phrase that’s supposed to include the whole queer...”
– Lindasusan Ulrich, bisexual-identified LGBTQ+ activist and principal author & editor of the 2011 San Francisco Human Rights Commission report “Bisexual Invisibility: Impacts and Recommendations” (via bialogue-group)
trans things: Trans* Friends →
leotron:
I’ve known Kate since we were in Kindergarten. We befriended one another in high school, dated for 3 1/2 years, attended colleges in the Hudson Valley region of New York, and both came out as trans* during adulthood.
Kate usually prefers not to subscribe to any particular…
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“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the...”
– Freya Stark, The Journey’s Echo (via gaywrites)
LGBT Student Scholarship Database →
gqid:
The above link is for the Human Rights Campaign’s comprehensive scholarship database. If anyone knows of any scholarships for queer students that has an upcoming or 2012 deadline, please let me know!
