By Guest Contributor Dumi R. L’Heureux Lewis, originally published at Uptown Notes
So for the past few years I’ve been jousting with my family and loved ones around the issue of same sex marriage and repeatedly found my argument falling on deaf ears. In fact what I most often heard was, “I am for gay rights [...]

By Guest Contributor jbrotherlove, originally published at jbrotherlove

In case you missed it, CNN aired Black Men in the Age of President Obama this weekend. The special was hosted by Don Lemon who I’ve applauded in the past for his insightful coverage and inclusion of social media in his journalism.
Black Men showed how the interest in [...]

By Guest Contributor Chris MacDonald-Dennis, originally posted at  The Pink Pink Elephant
“But you all have the same issues we do! I mean, why are we even dividing ourselves, race doesn’t matter—we are all gay.”
Fifteen years ago, a white gay male friend said this to me after I asked him how responsive the LGBT group he [...]

by Guest Contributor Andrés Duque, originally published at Blabbeando
What’s up with the Spanish-language version of “Yahoo! Answers”?
As the moderator of a couple of online news lists on LGBT issues, I sometimes rely on Google Alerts to keep up with the latest news on the LGBT community. Once in a while the results will highlight links [...]

by Guest Contributor Andrés Duque, originally published at Blabbeando

The Austin American-Statesman reported yesterday that a local Hispanic contractors’ organization had removed a video from its website and given apologies after a local television station received complaints that it contained demeaning portrayals of gays (”Hispanic contractors’ group pulls video called demeaning to gays“).
The U.S. Hispanic Contractors [...]

by Latoya Peterson
I’m starting to love air travel. It is really the only time where I actually have to disengage from the internet, which becomes time to read actual books.
On this trip, I packed Kenji Yoshino’s Covering, a book I had been intending to read for quite some time. In Yoshino’s gut-wrenching [...]

By Guest Contributor Monica, originally published at TransGriot
Racialicious Note: This post from TransGriot is from mid-June, so this festival has passed. But we thought this great list of African American LGBTQ films was worth posting anyway.
TransGriot Note: Received this interesting e-mail from the Maysles Institute in NYC about a TBLG film retrospective slated to kick [...]

By Guest Contributor Angry Asian Man, originally published at Angry Asian Man

Mia Mingus
Age: 28
Co-Executive Director, SPARK Reproductive Justice Now
Why she’s influential: Because she’s an agent of real-world change in the reproductive justice movement. Mia Mingus is a queer, physically disabled Korean American transracial/ transnational adoptee, living and organizing in the Southeast. She currently serves as [...]

By Guest Contributor Monica, originally published at TransGriot
The episode entitled ‘Just A Friend’ from the fourth season of ‘The Jeffersons’ was groundbreaking in many respects. It was the first time that an African descended transwoman character was shown on TV who didn’t fit the stereotypes we all know and loathe.
It was also broadcast in 1977.

While [...]

Excerpted by Latoya Peterson

A variety of clubs cater to queer women of color in the San Francisco Bay area. Some are wall-to-wall women of color – Black, Latina, Asian and most play hip-hop music non-stop. In each club, there are all different kinds of women. For instance, there might be women over [...]

by Guest Contributor Monica Roberts, originally published at TransGriot

One of the memes that has irritated many Black people gay, transgender and straight since the Prop 8 debacle has been the ‘Black people are more homophobic’ one.
You’re kidding, right?
Every time I’m watching TV I see predominately white ministers such as James Dobson, other white fundamentalists, white [...]

by Guest Contributor Monica Roberts, originally published at Transgriot

I was checking out the recent story of transman Devin Alston-Smith and the drama that ensued between him and his local Zeta chapter.
It made me recall a March 2007 post I wrote in which I asked the question are the Divine Nine frats and sororities ready to [...]