Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender seniors face unique challenges as our identities and relationships are not always respected by institutional and government authorities. The vulnerabilities that all elders are potentially prone to are thus accentuated for LGBT seniors. In this …
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Americans For ‘Truth’ About Homosexuality (AFTAH) is a suburban-Chicago based organization which uses fake “studies” of gay people to rationalize why LGBT should not have legal equality. Its dishonesty in this endeavor is so persistent that it has been designated …
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La Fiesta restaurant in south suburban Alsip did its level best to deny service to a local gay couple, Frankie Nielsen and Danny Hankes. What Frankie and Danny found out was that the enforcement provisions of Cook County and Illinois …
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The Gay Liberation Network’s Brent Holman-Gomez and Roger Fraser discuss the series of direct action protests demanding repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the ban on employment of openly gay, lesbian and bisexual people in the military. Brent and Roger …
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” & Update from Moscow Pride Read more »
Harvey Milk was one of the most prominent gay activists in history, successful in leading the fight to defeat an anti-gay ballot initiative in California three decades before Proposition 8. Tragically he was gunned down by an anti-gay assassin in …
Celebrating Harvey Milk Read more »
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 »
Missy Lorenzen of Join the Impact-Chicago and Andy Thayer of the Gay Liberation Network discuss the anti-gay federal “Defense of Marriage Act,” also known as DOMA. DOMA was signed into law by President Clinton in 1996 and forbade any federal …
REPEAL the “Defense of Marriage Act” Read more »
Many LGBTs were lynched both before and after the murder of Wyoming gay college student Matthew Shepard in 1998. Several gay riots happened before the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion. What made both events different from many other similar ones was that …
The 10th Anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s Lynching Read more »