Let’s Go Camping
Gay Campgrounds Offer Additional Appeal During COVID-19
The sounds of nature are calling as we slowly venture out after months of lockdown. Campfires and cookouts. Quiet nights gazing into the night sky.
Biden Secures Nomination
Primary Watch: Candidate Reaches Required Delegate Count for Democratic Presidential Nomination and Develops Plan to Capture Significant LGBTQ Vote
While there are still more primaries scheduled to take place, Former Vice President Joe Biden has officially earned the number of pledged delegates in order to secure the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.
Stand Up! Show Up! Wherever You Travel
Spiritual Reflections
What does travel look like this summer? The year 2020 presents unusual circumstances in the midst of global civil rights protests and the COVID-19 pandemic. In late May and early June, the murders of African-Americans at the hands of whites played out on televisions, cell phones, tablets, computers and other devices around the world.
LGBTQ Organizations Unite to Combat Racial Violence
More Than 100 LGBTQ+ Organizations Show Solidarity in Letter as Pride Month Began
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” Those words, written over 30 years ago by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, remind us that indifference can never bridge the divide of hate. And, today, they should serve as a call to action to all of us, and to the Movement for LGBTQ equality.
A Survivor of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ and Cancer
She Just Became a Major — On Her Porch
The UNC Charlotte alumna learned last summer that the U.S. Air Force would promote her to major this May, and she was excited by the prospect of her 3-year-old daughter Shiloh pinning the new rank insignia on her uniform in a formal military ceremony full of pomp and circumstance followed by a party packed with loved ones.
To Vote is Power…If You Can Do It
How LGBTQ Organizations Have Mobilized the Community
Human rights activist and lecturer Loung Ung once said “Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and to stand with those who support us and each other.”
Oregon and Nebraska Continue with Primaries
Primary Watch: Pandemic Challenges Thwart Georgia and Kentucky Election Process
Despite a number of obstacles being presented in the wake of a global pandemic, the 2020 presidential primary elections are prevailing.
Conspiracies, Family, Death and Discovery
Health & Wellness: Coping with big changes during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
I don’t know what switch got flipped, but I’ve already received three messages this morning related to conspiracies. What I’m about to share isn’t bragging or boasting, it’s an expression of gratitude.
2019: The Year In Review
News and Stories from Across the Nation
Unlike last year, LGBTQ issues did not figure as prominently in the news media. But don’t be fooled. Donald Trump and his administration have been hard at work, gutting nearly every protection put in place by former President Barack Obama.
National AIDS Memorial welcomes first panels of Quilt home
Beyond the Carolinas
On Dec. 1, more than 1,500 people gathered at the National AIDS Memorial to welcome home the first group of panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt (the Quilt) back to San Francisco and honor leaders who helped bring together the voices of the epidemic with “profound courage, unrelenting hope and unity of humankind,” organizers shared.
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