All Entries Tagged With: "bisexual"
Do You Know Your Status? If Not, Get Tested for HIV & Hepatitis Today!
By: Eric Brus*— Last month, the U.S. Prevention Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued new recommendations that healthcare providers should offer routine HIV testing to all adolescents and adults between 15 and 65 years old. IF you don’t already know your status, you should get tested, particularly if you are at increased risk of HIV infection, [...]
Gayborhood News: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
By: Emily Scagel/TRT Assistant Editor– Boston, MA Report outlines how religious arguments undermine women and LGBTs A report entitled Redefining Religious Liberty: The Covert Campaign Against Civil Rights details how a network of Christian organizations has successfully fought pro-choice and LGBT civil rights legislation by saying that it infringes on religious liberty. The findings state [...]
Gayborhood News: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
By: Emily Scagel/TRT Assistant Editor– Albany, NY NY to introduce transgender nondiscrimination measure A bill is making its way in NY state legislature that would protect gender identity and expression from discrimination. This measure would add gender identity to state law that already prohibits discrimination based on race, sexual orientation, age and more. Law enforcement [...]
La Pregunta Que Nos Debemos Hacer: ¿Existimos o Vivimos?
Por: Wilfred Labiosa*/Columnista de TRT– Estas dos palabras significan algo diferente. Existir es ir a través de la vida sin pasión o energía. Vivir, vives es poder ir a través de la vida con pasión y energía. La monotonía de cada día puede llevar a una persona en seguirla y sólo existir. Haciendo trabajo comunitario [...]
Gayborhood News: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
By: Emily Scagel/TRT Assistant Editor– Baltimore, MD Marriage equality approved at ballot box in Maryland Maryland voters approved the Civil Marriage Protection Act, which paves the way for gay and lesbian couples to receive a marriage license. This is the first time that any state has voted on and passed marriage equality on the ballot. [...]
Pregúntale a Lambda Legal – Donativos de Sangre Gay
Por: Scott Schoettes/Director del Proyecto de VIH para Lambda Legal– Estimado Lambda Legal, P. Yo soy un hombre gay y por mucho tiempo he querido donar sangre. ¿Escuche que podría cambiar la política sobre los donativos de sangre por hombres gays, es verdad? R. Desde 1983, se ha prohibido que hombres gay donen sangre – de hecho, la política dice que si eres [...]
Screen Queen: The Halloween Edition
By: Chris Azzopardi/Special for TRT– Hocus Pocus When Hocus Pocus flew into multiplexes on a broomstick in 1993, it was a silly farce that, in hindsight, had lots of gay cred going for it: Besides Bette Midler, it also starred a pre-Sex and the City/Glee Sarah Jessica Parker. Ahead of its time, it was already [...]
James Franco’s Cruising, Wanda Sykes, Neil Patrick Harris & Lana Wachowski
By: Romeo San Vicente*/Special for TRT– James Franco’s Cruising is a thing that’s really happening If you’re a film festival nerd or just really into arty-dirty stuff like BUTT Magazine, you probably saw or at least heard about I Want Your Love, the indie movie from director Travis Mathews that featured actors having real sex [...]
Nelly Furtado’s 1st Drag Experience, Coming Full-Circle with Her New Album, More
Pop singer on first drag experience, musical ADD and how she’s still like a bird By: Chris Azzopardi*/Special to TRT– There’s a story Nelly Furtado likes to tell of her seeing two lesbian teens squeeze each other while crying as she sang “ … On the Radio (Remember the Days)” on one of her first [...]
Transgender Activist to Give Keynote at HBGC’s LGBTQ Youth Empowerment Conference
BOSTON, Mass. — Janet Mock, People.com Staff Editor and nationally-renown transgender activist, will give the keynote address at the Hispanic Black Gay Coalition’s 2012 LGBTQ Youth Empowerment Conference. The free conference, which takes place Saturday, October 20, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., educates and inspires LGBTQ youth of color under age 25 to use their [...]
WAGLY Receives Grant from Foundation for MetroWest
Provided by WAGLY Youth in Philanthropy Program at Concord Carlisle High School Recommended WELLESLEY, Massachusetts – West Suburban Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Youth (WAGLY), founded in March 2011, received a grant from Foundation for MetroWest to assist in the development of its organizational infrastructure. The award was based on the recommendation [...]
It’s Time to Reach Out to, Fight for and Listen to Our Youth
By: Lorelei Erisis*/TRT Columnist– Last month, I had the opportunity to attend and speak at The Massachusetts Commission on GLBT Youth Hearings, held locally at Holyoke Community College. And some of the testimony was quite emotional. That testimony and those youth who so desperately need our help as allies, role models and advocates, in all [...]
Katy Perry: Kissing Gay Boys, 3D film, Madonna & shooting down hate with ‘love bullets’
By: Chris Azzopardi*/Special for TRT– Not exactly last Friday night, but it still happened: Katy Perry called us from London, where it was nearly 1 a.m. If life really does imitate art, she smelled like a mini-bar on a night that’s soon to be a blacked-out blur, right? “Not tonight,” she insists. “I have to [...]
Boston Pride Announces 2012 Marshals for Boston Pride Parade
Boston– May 3, 2012 –Boston Pride is pleased to announce that Mix 104.1’s Fast Freddy and the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition have been named Grand Marshals of the 2012 Boston Pride Parade. Additionally, the late Brendan Burke has been chosen as an Honorary Marshal. The Boston Pride Parade is a march to celebrate and promote [...]
Hay que celebrar la Jornada contra la Homofobia, en Cuba ¡celebra los 5 Años!
Por: Wilfred Labiosa*/Columnista de TRT– Por quinto año consecutivo Cuba celebrará en mayo la Jornada contra la homofobia, para beneplácito de muchas personas, e incomodidad de otras que todavía albergan prejuicios en relación con el respeto a la libre orientación sexual e identidad de género y no entienden la necesidad del reconocimiento pleno de todos [...]
