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| | Candlelight Vigil Set for Trans Day
On Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 6 p.m., a candlelight vigil will be held at the Thompson Center Plaza, 100 W. Randolph St. The event is part of a nationally coordinated Transgender Day of Remembrance to be ... | |
| | Shepard March to Focus on Rights for Trans
With this year's murder rate of transgendered and gender-variant people running ahead of any previously recorded year, the 4th Matthew Shepard March Against Anti-Gay Hate Sat., Oct. 5 will focus on the need to oppose anti-trans ... | |
| | Hall of Fame
Oct. 15
Mark your calendars for the 2002 city Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame Tuesday, Oct. 15, 5:30 p.m., Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph. Individuals inducted this year: Amigas latinas co-founder Evette Cardona; writer C.C. Carter; ... | |
| | South Africa OKs Gay Adoption
South Africa's Constitutional Court ruled Sept. 10 that gay couples have the right to adopt children. The court based its ruling on the nation's post-apartheid constitution, which bans outright all discrimination based on sexual orientation ... | |
| | Beenie Man Denies Homophobia
Jamaican reggae star Beenie Man says he's not a homophobe, worldpop.com reported Sept. 10. The British activist group OutRage! called a boycott of Beenie's new single, "Feel It Boy," a duet with Janet Jackson, charging that ... | |
| | West Side Activists Celebrates 70th
A group of well-wishers as diverse as the many interests and issues for which she has championed throughout her life honored West Side legend Brenetta Howell Barrett recently at Malcolm X College. The celebration not only ... | |
| | ONYX: Brothers in 'Black' Celebration
The Men of ONYX Inc., known throughout Chicago and other cities like Atlanta, New York and Detroit, as a brotherhood of leather-wearing, swaggering African Americans who know how to throw a "fantastic party," will celebrate their ... | |
| | Norton Gets Assurances of Hate Crime Treatment of Murdered Teens
Washington, D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey has called Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) to assure her that D.C. Police are investigating the killings of Deon "Ukea" Davis and Wilbur "Stephanie" Thomas, two transgender teens, as a ... | |
| | Black Like Us Offers Best of the Century's LGBT Black Fiction
"It is not enough to tell us that one was a brilliant poet, scientist, educator or rebel. Whom did he love? It makes a difference. I can't become a whole man simply on what is fed to me: watered down versions ... | | 
| | In Consideration of Black Masculinity Author examines the fears and fantasies
In the history of Western civilization, the issue of race has often been the linchpin upon which family feuds were started, states and the nation became divided and fortunes were made or lost. Carefully woven into ... |
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