'Pariah': Finding Love and Loving Hip-Hop
After only hearing about Pariah , Dee Rees' smart, heartbreaking film of a young black lesbian growing up in Brooklyn, a friend of mine compared it to Boys Don't Cry . Meaning: It's obviously another one of those feel-good-about-feeling-bad, issue-heavy melodramas that pop up on the indie film landscape every few years. Pariah however, goes to great lengths to confuse and confound its ...
Elementary LGBT Children with Same-Sex Parents Bullied More
In light of several youth and teen suicides, bullying has been a hot news topic, says ABC News. A new survey by GLSEN found that LGBT kids and kids with same-sex parents are bullied even more. Here are details about gay and lesbian parenting and gender orientation bullying and what families can do to protect kids.
Solitary Confinement: As a child, I learned that being gay meant being alone; as a gay man, my community has taught me ...
Opinion: After coming out to my mother during college, she and I entered into one of those melancholy conversations familiar to so many of us who faced parents who obviously loved us yet had some intense feelings of loss and sadness at the news their child was going to be different. So we discussed, obliquely, some of those feelings, such as the sudden removal of potential grandchildren from her ...
Text of Gov. O'Malley's State of the State address
Following is the text of Gov. Martin O’Malley's State of the State address as released by his office: A Balanced Approach Governor Martin O’Malley's State of the State - 2012 Thank you all very much. Let me begin by thanking God for the goodness of Maryland – for her natural beauty, for the goodness of her people, for the hope we see in the eyes of each of ou...
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Sex A-Z
This sex A-Z is a lesson in love that will top up your lover lingo in just 26 words:
B.J. Epstein: "You Are Worth Keeping Safe": Condoms, Teenagers and the Media
Young adult literature -- which is where adolescents might get some of their ideas about sex -- is not quite there in terms of safe sex.
What Did MLK Think About Gay People?
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was writing an advice column in 1958 for Ebony magazine when he received an unusual letter. ...
Opinion: State needs to implement sex-ed | Guest Column
I attended kindergarten through 12th grade in the Cocke County School System where recess doubles as a smoke break for teachers and the teenage pregnancy rate often rivals the graduation rate. The first time I was exposed to pregnancy was in eighth grade. At the ripe age of 13, two ...
Héloïse Goodley swapped her designer heels for Army boots and training at Sandhurst
She thought she had a dream job when she started work as a City banker. But at the age of 27, she traded it in for four-minute meals, ironing her own bed and singing in Nepalese.