Everything You Need to Know Now About Marriage Equality in Texas
Get up to speed on the flurry of legal moves that keep trying to bring marriage equality to Texas.
Matt Baume
Black, Gay And Shot Dead In His Own Car: This Is Another Missouri Killing We Should Talk About
Black, Gay And Shot Dead In His Own Car: This Is Another Missouri Killing We Should Talk About
Can you hate part of yourself so much that you want to kill people like you? And is that a hate crime?
Those are the questions being whispered at gay bars, asked behind tears in family living rooms, andt maybe even being answered by the police force here – on the other side of Missouri from Ferguson – after the shocking and complicated death of 22-year-old Dionte Greene, who was shot and killed on the morning of Halloween in his still-running car, possibly by a “straight” man who may have agreed to meet him for sex.
HRC Leaders Honor World AIDS Day at White House Event
HRC Leaders Honor World AIDS Day at White House Event
HRC joined other community advocates, researchers, and governmental and NGO leaders engaged in the fight against HIV/AIDS at the White House’s annual event to commemorate World AIDS Day.
HRC.org
Frat Boy Dishes On What It’s Like To Be Gay And Greek
Frat Boy Dishes On What It’s Like To Be Gay And Greek
“People assume that gay individuals would be completely disinterested in the prospect of joining a fraternity,” Kohlman Harshbarger (pictured) writes in a new op-ed published by The Odyssey. “This isn’t exactly a warped perspective, but it certainly isn’t one of crystalline clarity either.”
Harshbarger is a Marketing and Graphic design major at the University of Minnesota. He is also the current social chair for his fraternity.
He acknowledges the “hyper-masculine, weight-lifting, polo-wearing, country music-listening” reputations that many frat houses and their occupants have.
“They like their beer and their women equally. Both a lot,” he says. “Nowhere in this list do you find Beyoncé or skinny jeans.”
But, he says, there still plenty of gay guys amidst all the rampant heterosexuality.
“[Gay people] join fraternities for the same reason that straight people do,” Harshbarger writes. “For me, an out-of-state student (1,406 miles out of state to be exact), my fraternity is like my family away from home. It’s a support system of 107 best friends that are just as ready to shotgun a brew with me at 8 a.m. on gameday as they are to sit and listen to me lament about how shitty my day was. Surprisingly, brotherhood isn’t contingent upon sexual orientation!”
Maybe not in Harshbarger’s case. But there have been plenty of stories about fraternities rejecting pledges for being gay.
In October, the Lambda Phi Epsilon fraternity at the University of Texas was suspended after being accused of withholding membership from a rushee simply because he was gay. And last year, the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland was put on probation for rejecting an applicant on the basis of his sexual orientation.
Lucky for Harshbarger, that wasn’t the case for him. He says being gay has never been an issue in his frat house.
“I can tell you first hand that nobody cares,” he writes.” When my pledge class found out from our pledge educator that there was a gay pledge in their class, they pegged another pledge brother as the culprit (but never suspected me).”
He continues: “I didn’t have a ‘gay’ voice and seemed like I’d ‘pull’ hard. I didn’t wear ‘gay’ clothes (although I did dress a bit better than everyone else). … Once the news was out (pun intended), the summative reaction was… well… there wasn’t one. No one cared. And they shouldn’t.”
Thought Harshbarger says he’s never personally suffered any sort of discrimination for being gay, he has witnessed it happen to others.
“There are still those in our community that hold opinions contrary to mine,” he writes. “I’ve seen Yik Yaks that continually target and degrade members of our Greek community because of their sexuality; thus far they’ve been kept anonymous. And that’s probably a smart move.”
“Although I might feel like delivering a swift throat chop or throwin’ some Judo on you if you called me a fag, I wouldn’t,” he concludes. “But I can’t say as much for the 107 other guys you’d also need to deal with.”
Ah, brotherhood.
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Graham Gremore is a columnist and contributor for Queerty and Life of the Law. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
Graham Gremore
Bruce Springsteen, Chris Martin Step in for Bono at U2 'World AIDS Day' Concert in Times Square: FULL VIDEO
Bruce Springsteen, Chris Martin Step in for Bono at U2 'World AIDS Day' Concert in Times Square: FULL VIDEO
U2 played a surprise World AIDS Day concert for (RED) last night in Times Square but had some last minute substitutions.
Because Bono is still recovering from a November 16 bicycle accident in Central Park, the band announced via its Facebook page at 3 pm yesterday that Adam Clayton, The Edge and Larry Mullen Jr. would be joined by Chris Martin and Bruce Springsteen, who donated their time and talents.
Martin wore a t-shirt that read ‘SUBSTITU2’.
Carrie Underwood and Kanye West performed as well. Former President Bill Clinton introduced the band.
Watch the full concert, AFTER THE JUMP…
Individual clips of the U2 performances:
Andy Towle
LGBT in Music videos
Op-ed: When Trans Men's Visibility Comes at the Cost of Self-Esteem
Op-ed: When Trans Men's Visibility Comes at the Cost of Self-Esteem
When Gay Star News published its list of ’11 Insanely Hot Men You Will Not Believe Are Trans,’ it perpetuated some of the most damaging social messages about trans men’s bodies and appearances.
Mitch Kellaway
www.advocate.com/commentary/2014/12/02/op-ed-when-trans-mens-visibility-comes-cost-self-esteem
Cape Town, the vibrant heart of Africa: part 2
Cape Town, the vibrant heart of Africa: part 2
Spectacular vistas and foodie heaven in the South African capital
jamiet
www.gaystarnews.com/article/cape-town-vibrant-heart-africa-part-2021214
Richard Chamberlain Reveals Why He Waited So Long To Come Out Publicly
Richard Chamberlain Reveals Why He Waited So Long To Come Out Publicly
When you grow up in the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s being gay, it not only ain’t easy, it’s just impossible. You cannot do it. (He learned growing up) that being gay was the worst thing you can possibly be. I assumed there was something terribly wrong with me. And even becoming famous and all that, it was still there.”
— 80-year-old acting veteran Richard Chamberlain discussing in a New York Times profile why he waited to come out publicly as gay with the release of his 2003 memoir Shattered Love.
Jeremy Kinser
TV Liberty Diskriminacija i nasilje nad LGBT osobama
TV Liberty Diskriminacija i nasilje nad LGBT osobama
Koliko je diskriminacija i nasilje prisutno u BiH? Da li postoje stratetgije za borbu protiv istih i kakva je zakonska regulativa koja štiti prava LGBT osoba? Šta je zadatak policije, sudstva,…
