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Top 10 LGBT Stories of 2009
2009 was a year of momentum for the LGBT community. For the first time, federal legislation was passed that included sexual orientation and gender identity, over 250,000+ LGBT people and allies marched on Washington for civil rights, same-sex marriag...
Gay professor killed, murderer claims he was sexually assaulted
An Indiana University English professor was found stabbed to death in his home. The professor was African American and gay, wrote for The Advocate and Newsweek, wrote a novel, and edited an anthology of essays on black masculinity. A suspect has bee...
Goodbye 2009, Bring on 2010
First apologies for not showing my face here for a while. Let's say the year is ending with a rollercoaster ride and a bit of a bang, both personally and professionally. Since many of you know me I will not offer up the wisdom, stories and joy my wi...
Goodbye to Oughts That
The beginning years of this decade were like being in an eight-year abusive relationship. George Bush was on crack. It was Iraq. He and his thug pals terrorized the neighborhood, especially the gay kids. He ran up the credit card bills. He left the p...
LGBTQ progress since 2000
Matt Foreman, who works for the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr., Fund now, sent us this summary of the work that has been done in the past decade to advance that LGBTQ agenda. Looking at the diverse contacts at the bottom of the press release, you could ca...
HRC\'s 2009 Board Memo on LGBT Progress
HRC released Joe Solmonese's memo to board members about the progress of LGBT rights in 2009 [pdf]. It's a thorough listing, but I can't help but think that the first thing that stood out to me was, well, nothing. It's mind-numbingly boring. While t...
No To The Notion Of Irresponsibility. Yes To Embracing Our Past And Our Future.
Part One: No To The Notion Of Irresponsibility. As a contributing writer to The Bilerico Project, I denounce the piece that ran on Thursday, Ronald Gold's "'No' to the notion of transgender" and its publishing. The piece was offensive, insensitive, ...
Where to find a same-sex couple
This map is not a map of where gay people live. Rather, it's a map of where same-sex couples are, specifically same-sex couples who identified themselves to the Census Bureau. Since the average is 4.7 same-sex couples per 1000 couples, I'm guessing t...
Sacred cows and sacrificial lambs
That post about rich people getting kicked out of the LGBT movement the other day was intended as satire. I see from the comments that a lot of people didn't get it, even though the proposition was ridiculous, untenable, contradicts the general gist ...
Hate crimes up in 2008
It's not really surprising that the FBI is reporting that hate crimes based on sexual orientation went up in 2008. The trend has already been remarked in New York and in California. It's almost as if demonization of LGBTQ people being given such a hu...
"I\'m getting married!" A New Way of Coming Out?
Editors' note: Alan Schwartz, M.D., a member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, is also Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health. He is a psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute and has a private p...
Bash Back disagrees with calling vandalism "homophobic"
Yasmin Nair emailed me a link with the subject: "I think you called this when it first happened..." Back in September, a Memphis billboard put up by the LGBT community center went from this: To this: Folks were quick to point to homophobes, bu...
