Category: Inclusion

African American voters are President Obama’s largest and most steadfast supporters. They are also one of the largest and most steadfast opponents of marriage equality. So, when President Obama finally made public his support of same- sex marriage, one group wondering how they might parlay their support against him with African American voters are white…

To hear of human rights abuses of Uganda’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) population is, sadly, not new. Gay activist, David Kato, was the father of the Uganda’s LGBTQ rights movement. To many of his fellow countrymen, Kato was a dead man walking once his homosexuality became public. The country’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill dubbed…

Why is Pop Science of late interested in �gaydar�? And do ovulating women have better �gaydar�? What was once considered a myth or anecdotal knowledge is now being lauded as a scientific fact. Gaydar is real! What is �gaydar�? If you�re reading this in an LGBTQ zine it�s likely you know what �gaydar� is. But…

When North Carolina amended its constitution last month prohibiting any possibility for LGBTQ couples to wed, it comes as no surprise the loudest voices condemning President Obama�s support of marriage equality is presently coming from there. �The last time NC amended the constitution on marriage was in 1875 to ban interracial marriage. We look like…

African-American ministers have come out for, and against, Obama’s stance on marriage equality. LGBTQ activists of African descent have pondered what would be the catalyst to rally those African-American Christian ministers to support same-sex marriage and engage the black community in a nationwide discussion. Last week the answer arrived in President Barack Obama’s support of…

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, likes to play it safe. And Romney avoids controversy, by any means necessary- even if he has to lie to, flip-flop for, or somersault for his supporters. When the news hit the airwaves on the evening of April 19th that Richard Grenell, an openly gay Republican, was appointed…

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If you love John Grisham�s fictional legal thrillers, you�ll be riveted to Dale Carpenter�s real life page-turner Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas. Carpenter is a Law professor at the University of Minnesota and is involved with LGBTQ legal issues. Told from the perspectives of the plaintiffs, arresting officers, attorneys, judges and prosecutors,…