With just one more day until the window for enrolment on Australia’s landmark same-sex marriage plebiscite is closed, interest groups on either side of the debate are focusing hard on mobilising turnout. Advocates in the LGBTI community have been at turns frustrated and appalled at the expensive and non-legally binding nature of this voluntary
This guest post is by Rodney Wilson, founder of LGBT History Month and GLSEN-St. Louis. As the first openly-gay public school teacher in Missouri, his story was chronicled in a Teacher Magazine cover story, in local and national press, and on “Dateline NBC.” He now tutors and teaches history, politics, and comparative religion at a
By Eric Gonzaba Recently, when St. Mary’s Academy in Portland decided to fire an academic advisor after learning she was a lesbian, students and alumni gathered and protested the high school’s decision. They painted homemade rainbow t-shirts that read, “Who am I to judge,” a reference to the Pope’s 2013 famous remarks about accepting homosexuality. The high
I was invited to speak at the #unit Festival in Berlin but I can’t make it! If you can, you gotta go. #unit Festival is the only tech event – as part of Berlin Web Week – that actively promotes the visibility of LGBTQ+ individuals in the tech world and aims to bring together the
It was a pleasure to attend the LGBT Technology Partnership‘s first national forum this morning. The impressive roster of speakers and attendees came from organizations such as Facebook, GLAAD, Trevor Project, the FCC, CenterLink, and more. Here is a detailed summary of what was discussed today around the LGBT issues in tech, from access to
Today in 1987, Bayard Rustin passed away. I watched Brother Outsider last night and learned even more about this inspirational man. He was not ashamed about his homosexuality, but had to stop being as open to be able to participate as a leader in the black civil rights movement. People on both sides of the
I married my wife two years ago today. I didn’t want it to be political or historic, but same-sex marriages of this generation are, no matter what. I’ve embraced this aspect of our love story now, even if it is just a small part of it. Tracy Ahlquist is on the end in the
I just posted this to the Facebook page and wanted to share it here: The Supreme Court arguments have drawn a lot of discussion to this Facebook page this week. Since LGBToday is a project about history, I feel compelled to reply specifically to one of the lawyer’s arguments that we should not make marriage genderless