Gay rugby team 'Nashville Grizzlies' welcome charitable tournament to Tenn.
Now in its eighth year, the tournament hasn’t been held in the United States since 2010 and the Nashville Grizzlies are pleased to host the contest in their own backyard. Named for Mark Bingham, the gay Flight 93 passenger who stood up against the …
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Blood Work: LGBT reaction to the FDA’s new donation policy
Blood Work: LGBT reaction to the FDA’s new donation policy
“About five or six years ago, Australia went to a one-year ban for gay and bisexual men, and there had been studies of the safety of the blood supply in Australia that say the move from essentially a lifetime ban to one-year ban has not resulted in the …
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Mihajlovic sees no end to speculation over Milan job
Mihajlovic sees no end to speculation over Milan job
The team are united and everything else that is said is just chit-chat,” he said. Seven-times champions AC Milan appear to have lost their way over the last few seasons, firing three coaches in the last two years and failing to qualify for European …
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'We need to cool off all the touching': CBB's Jeremy McConnell tells Stephanie Davis their flirtation is OVER as it's 'disrespectful' to her boyfriend
'We need to cool off all the touching': CBB's Jeremy McConnell tells Stephanie Davis their flirtation is OVER as it's 'disrespectful' to her boyfriend
I’ll stil be there for you, but I’m sick of it, I’m done’, he told the former Hollyoaks actress in an intimate garden chat. Stephanie revealed she was … I’d be the same if you were a gay lad or a girl, with your personality we just get on.’
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GLAAD launches #GLAADat30 to celebrate thirty years of progress
GLAAD launches #GLAADat30 to celebrate thirty years of progress
Over the last 30 years, GLAAD has been a key player in many LGBT media milestones and victories for equality and acceptance. From GLAAD’s formation in November 1985 to today, GLAAD has been at the forefront of changing hearts and minds.
In celebration of the last thirty 30 of progress, GLAAD today launched the #GLAADat30 campaign, which will explore the history of GLAAD and its most significant accomplishments. Through Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, GLAAD will post archival materials documenting our history. Photos, newsletters, invitations, newspaper clippings, advertisements, and letters will be posted every Thursday.
Starting today, we go back to the beginning of GLAAD’s history. GLAAD — originally named the “Gay and Lesbian Anti-Defamation League” and later the “Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation” — was formed in November of 1985 in response to the New York Post’s grossly defamatory and sensationalized coverage of HIV and AIDS. A small group of journalists and writers, including filmmaker and advocate Vito Russo, were among the organization’s founders, and their goal was to put pressure on media organizations to end anti-LGBT reporting. GLAAD’s first reported meeting took place on November 14, 1985, and in December, almost 1,000 people protested outside of the New York Post. That first protest is pictured in the Instagram post below.
As the year progresses, GLAAD will continue to share images of GLAAD’s history, moving chronologically from 1985 to 2015. In addition, we invite you to participate in the campaign by posting your own memories of GLAAD with the hashtag #GLAADat30 on your favorite social media platforms.
January 14, 2016
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Shutdown of sex-trafficking websites long overdue
Shutdown of sex-trafficking websites long overdue
That’s what it feels like to be an online sex worker: Years later, you start realizing that slavery does not have to include chains. Rather, you can be caged just as strongly by digital 1s and 0s. I watched as a Twitter storm ensued. A few sex workers …
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Hackers: We've got U.S. intel chief James Clapper's email
Hackers: We've got U.S. intel chief James Clapper's email
“I’m pretty sure they don’t even know they’ve been hacked,” Cracka said, in an online chat with Motherboard. Brian Hale, a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, however, said the feds were aware of the hac
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OITNB | Piper
OITNB | Piper
Diletta Strange Art posted a photo:
«I’m scared that I’m not myself in here, and I’m scared that I am.»
Meet the Refugees Living in America: Single Mothers, LGBT Youths and Victims of ISIS
Meet the Refugees Living in America: Single Mothers, LGBT Youths and Victims of ISIS
Gay meeting places aren’t popular tenants in Russia … In all, 18-24 months pass before the average refugee is cleared for travel to the United States. Those who make the cut are very fortunate. According to the US State Department, “Less than one …
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Inspired by Wisconsin Community, HRC and Youth Advocates Across Nation Host Readings of “I Am Jazz”
Inspired by Wisconsin Community, HRC and Youth Advocates Across Nation Host Readings of “I Am Jazz”
After legal threats by an anti-LGBT hate group forced a school in Mount Horeb, WI, to cancel plans last month to support a transgender student by reading “I Am Jazz,” a book by transgender teen and HRC Youth Ambassador Jazz Jennings, more than 600 residents showed up at a public reading organized by a parent to show the six-year-old and her family that the community respects and cares for them.
Days later, the school board adopted measures to fully accommodate transgender students. Said one board member: “We will not be intimidated, and we will teach tolerance and will be accepting to everyone.”
Today, inspired by Mount Horeb’s unequivocal repudiation of the Liberty Counsel’s bigotry and censorship, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation’s Welcoming Schools program and youth advocates across the country are hosting readings of “I Am Jazz” in more than two dozen schools, churches and community centers in eight states — from Tacoma, WA, to North St. Paul, MN; and Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, to Washington, D.C.
Jessica Herthel, co-author of “I Am Jazz”, is hosting a reading at a library in Orange County, CA, and Debi Jackson, the loving mom of a transgender daughter, is hosting one in a Kansas City, MO, church.
“Mount Horeb parents and school leaders acted with courage and showed that love, indeed, conquers hate,” said Mary Beth Maxwell, HRC Senior Vice President for Programs, Research and Training. “Today, in communities across the country, people are standing up and supporting the full humanity of transgender children and youth by lifting up the values of respect, compassion and love. They are helping all of our children thrive, and become better human beings for a better tomorrow.”
In a new video, Jazz, a Youth Ambassador for the HRC Foundation, the educational arm of America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, thanks the caring people reading her book today. Growing up transgender, she says, can be challenging, and kids–all kids–need the support, compassion and kindness of their parents, schools and friends.
HRC Foundation’s Welcoming Schools program offers professional development tools, lessons and resources that help elementary schools across the nation to embrace family diversity, be LGBT-inclusive, prevent bias-based bullying and gender stereotyping, and support transgender and gender expansive students. Welcoming Schools has created this guide to help organizers of “I Am Jazz” reading events build more affirming and supportive spaces for transgender and gender-expansive youth across the country.
The story of Mount Horeb and its support for the young student and her family will be featured during the HRC Foundation’s annual Time to THRIVE conference Feb. 12-14 near Dallas—and Jazz Jennings will speak. The conference is held in partnership with the National Education Association and the American Counseling Association.
