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 …
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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, …
Protesting the 6th Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq 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 »
Until his death in 2011, Ifti Nasim was perhaps the most prominent political and cultural voice in Chicago’s vibrant South Asian community. A Pakistani-American who left his native country in the 1960s to escape homophobia and an arranged marriage, Nasim …
Ifti Nasim on War & Civil Liberties 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 »