RAIN Founder Announces Retirement
Carolinas News Notes
RAIN has announced that its CEO and president, Debbie Warren, will be retiring in January 2021 from the HIV service organization she founded 28 years ago.
Capital Idea
An Interview with Kim Roberts, Editor of ‘By Broad Potomac’s Shore’
As compared to New York, San Francisco or Chicago, Washington, D.C. might not be among the first places the average person thinks of when it comes to poetry. But thanks to queer poet/historian/educator Kim Roberts, that is changing.
Equality Forum’s LGBT History Month Icons: Oct. 27 – Megan Smith
U.S. Chief Technology Officer
Megan Smith is an award-winning technology expert, entrepreneur and activist who served as the nation’s chief technology officer in the Obama administration. She is the first female and the first lesbian to hold the position.
QAnon’s ‘SaveOurChildren’ Slogan Has Long Anti-LGBT History
LGBTQ History Month Retrospectives from the LGBT History Project
Model and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen recently shared devastating news with her social media followers: she and her husband, singer John Legend, had lost their child halfway through her pregnancy.
Equality Forums LGBT History Month Icons: Oct. 21 – Jess O’Connell
National Democratic Strategist
Jess O’Connell is a national political strategist who works to advance progressive candidates, policies and organizations. She was the executive director of Emily’s list and the first openly LGBT CEO of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
The U.S. Supreme Court v. LGBTQ Americans
LGBTQ History Month Retrospectives from the LGBT History Project
June 30, 1986 was a broiling hot day in Washington, D.C. when the U.S. Supreme Court released the decision in Bowers v. Hardwick, a landmark sodomy decision. The press was huddled under the small bank of trees near the side entrance, waiting for the copies to be handed out. The fate of millions of lesbian and gay Americans lay in the hands of the high court.
International travel and the LGBTQ community
Legal Eagles: Tips for making it easier while abroad
The LGBTQ community and the immigrant community have additional considerations to take into account when planning to travel abroad.
Gays For Trump rally struggles to draw much of a crowd after a year of anti-LGBT policies
He blamed the weather
Peter Boykin, who organized the rally, is running for the North Carolina House and has said he wants to remove the T from LGBT.
U.S./World: News Shorts 06.30.17
Beyond the Carolinas
News shorts from across the globe for 6.30.17.
Jesse’s Journal: Equality March
For Unity and Pride
On Oct. 14, 1979, over 100,000 people (including this author) took part in the first March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. Since then, LGBT people and our allies marched on Washington in 1987, 1993, 2000 and 2009.
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