Seldom do I see my image anywhere, especially portrayed in non-stereotypical and non-heterosexist ways on the silver screen. As a matter of fact, if you Google "black lesbians" or "...
2012-01-12 21:39
Having voice in the Black Community is still an arduous struggle for its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTQ) members. As we cross over into 2012, one of our biggest accomplishments in 2011...
2012-01-05 20:59
Every year I submit this piece for Thanksgiving because it captures, in my humble opinion, the best way I can express my outrage of the genocide of Native Americans that is summarily glossed over...
2011-11-23 14:27
Homophobia runs deep!
So deep that it also impinges on the animal world.
Toronto’s zoo is splitting up a pair of same-gender penguins. These Happy Feet males, Pedro and Buddy -- jokingly...
2011-11-17 14:36
It’s not easy for any person of African descent to be LGBTQ in our black communities, but our transgender brothers and sisters might feel the most discrimination.
2011-11-03 14:37
In the words of the lesbian poet and scholar Judy Grahn, Halloween is "the great gay holiday."
And this weekend of lavish costumed theatricality will attract everyone, but especially...
2011-10-27 15:57
Before returning to New England for the second time, I served two African American Presbyterian Churches. And during that time I never thought, two decades ago, that the entire church body...
2011-10-20 17:00
Southwest Airlines has issues.
2011-09-29 15:30
One minute past the stroke of midnight on Sept. 20 the long-awaited repeal of President Bill Clinton’s 1993 "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" (DADT) policy went into effect.
At...
2011-09-22 15:56
If you are "chomping at the bit” for down-to-earth Jersey girl Dana Owens a.k.a reigning Hip-hop’s Queen Latifah to come out of her open closet, don't hold your breath.
If,...
2011-08-12 14:30
