Professional organizations like the American Psychiatric Association (APA) have designated Transgender people “sick.” Until 1973, the same “sick” designation was applied to gays – but protest forced a change. GLN’s Dr. Ronnie Drantz and Brent Holman-Gomez discuss the very political, …
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Andre Perez leads a discussion of a new project he’s launching focusing on an often-neglected portion of the LGBT community, recording the histories of Transgender, Transsexual,Intersex, and Genderqueer people. Since our show is for a general audience of people who …
Transgender Oral History Read more »
Despite spending more per capita on healthcare than any other nation in the world, the United States ranks worse than 30 other countries in the quality of care it delivers to its residents. Many preventable diseases are allowed to fester, …
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How did the modern gay political movement emerge onto the public stage after decades of repression? What can we learn from the early modern gay movement of the early 1970s? On the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion in New …
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The Gay Liberation Network’s Scott Free discusses Chicago’s premiere LGBT music/performance event, Alt Q, which aims to bring together leading Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans performers in one venue each year. For too many years, street fairs and entertainment events …
Alt Q Festival: A Celebration of LGBT Music and Performance Read more »
Many Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people are undocumented immigrants, and obviously have an interest in genuine immigration reform. But the crossover benefits of immigration reform for LGBT people are far more than that. Tanya Unzueta, an undocumented immigrant, …
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Jamie Moran, a Masters candidate in Women & Gender Studies, leads a discussion of the political and social issues that Transgender people face, including basic living issues like laws relating to gender, public restroom use, to cost and available of …
Transgender Issues and Rights Read more »
Camilla Taylor, senior staff attorney for the Midwest Office of Lambda Legal, is our guest as she discusses the anti-equal marriage rights “Proposition 8” ballot proposition in California, shortly after the oral arguments before that state’s Supreme Court aimed at …
Prop 8 & the Upcoming California Supreme Court Decision Read more »
State Representative Greg Harris joins the Gay Liberation Network’s Andy Thayer to discuss the prospects for winning the equal rights for same-sex couples in Illinois. Harris is the lead sponsor of a bill for civil unions, a lesser form of …
Equal Marriage Rights in Illinois Read more »
Vicki Cervantes of La Voz de Los de Abajo leads a discussion about events to protest the U.S. war on Iraq on the sixth anniversary of the American invasion. To protest not only that war, but the war in Afghanistan, …
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