All Posts Tagged With: "lgbt community"

Drug Rehab

Drug rehab and alcohol rehab are a major subject in the LGBT community. As sad as it sounds many in this community end up addicted due to the way society has treated us over the years and in many cases still treat us. I have seen too many friends end up down this bad road [...]

24Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

LGBT community looks back at year without 377

Source: The Time of India MUMBAI: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community of India came together at Azad Maidan on Friday to celebrate one year of life after Delhi high court’s historic decision to revoke Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. The event, `365 without 377′ also marked a protest against intervention [...]

5Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexuals call for improved rights

IŞIL ARSLAN-HÜSEYİN TÜCCAR BURSA – Doğan News Agency A lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, association in the western province of Bursa has called on the government to start an initiative to institutionally secure the rights of members of this marginalized group. Öykü Evren, the head of the Bursa-based association known as Rainbow, which [...]

30Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay sex assaults ‘not reported’

BBC News Police in Lancashire say many sexual assaults in the gay, lesbian and transgender community are not reported. Officers who usually deal with rape cases have been working with members of Blackpool’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transexual (LGBT) forum. The officers from Operation Aquamarine believe that some victims are not reporting sexual assaults. Only [...]

17Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay Couple Banned From Wal-Mart For Life (And More Gay News)

From Chicagoist While we’ve been busy watching just a few of the many fine films screened at Reeling this year, a mighty lot of gay-centric news has come across our desk. Consider this little round-up a crash course in the past two weeks in the world of LGBT Chicago, headlined by a gay couple that [...]

14Nov2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

ACLU-NJ helps resolve issue between black police officers group and LGBT community

— ANDY LAGOMARSINO, NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (ACLU-NJ) and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) announced the resolution of a dispute involving two women who were turned away from a fundraising dance hosted by the organization. The women claimed they and their friends were excluded based on [...]

4Nov2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

LGBT students praise gender-neutral housing program

By Nava Friedman – Daily Princetonian When Arlyn Katen ’12, an LGBT peer educator, read about gender-neutral housing in the Princeton Progressive Nation last year, “It just seemed like a very far-off decision,” she said, noting that she was “very surprised” when the University announced last week it would pilot a gender-neutral housing program next [...]

26Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

India Unbound

Insiya Amir – The Times of India LGBT — that’s the omnibus term society uses for people with alternative sexuality. But lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders or LGBT is not a homogenous group. There are sections with distinct identities and some fluid ones. As the debate moves forward on creating more awareness of alternative sexuality, [...]

24Oct2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

UK’s first gay tourist office opens in London’s Soho

By Sarah Gordon – The Daily Mail The first centre dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) visitors started operating in London this week. The Gay Tourist Office opened in the city’s Soho district yesterday to provide visitors with LGBT-specific information about the capital. Both visitors and Britons will also be able to book [...]

23Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

American Labor Movement Calls for Full Inclusion of LGBT Workers

AFL-CIO Convention Passes Historic Resolution on Diversity From Windy City Times PITTSBURGH, PA — If there were any doubts that the American labor movement stands strongly in favor of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) rights, they were set to rest the minute former United Mine Workers president Richard L. Trumka took the [...]

23Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender Chicagoans find refuge in their city

by Joseph Erbentraut EDGE Great Lakes Regional Editor When transgender activist and performer Alexandra Billings grand marshaled Chicago’s Pride parade last month, the broader LGBT community was offered an opportunity to ponder a few questions: “What does our city offer for our transgender community? Is Chicago a safe, welcoming place for the ’T’ of our [...]

10Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

City prepares for gay pride march

Times of India CHENNAI: They’re a section that’s often invisible in a society that still disapproves of alternative sexual choices and even criminalises homosexuality. But, for the first time, members of the lesbian , gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the city are making their voice heard by celebrating LGBT Pride Month, with a [...]

11Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued