Of Milk, the Military, and the Plague
Shilts became the first openly gay reporter for a mainstream newspaper, San Francisco Chronicle, and the first to cover the queer community full time, writing three seminal books on the subject.
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Election Aftermath: Silver Linings
THE RESULTS of the November election are both too sweeping and too dismal to cover in a single op-ed piece. Here are a few takes on the election as excerpted from LGBT media sources soon after November 5th.
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Who’s Left on the Right?
Coming Out Republican ends with a brief vignette about Donald Trump’s lack of more than a pro forma interest in the anti-gay agenda. There is little conservative about Mr. Trump, whose blaring, elephantine ruckus conserves nothing and damages institutions as old as the nation. We are left wondering whether most of today’s Republicans are in fact conservative.
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Reality Bites After Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) president Charles Moran went on X to proclaim that the RNC Platform had been “stripped of all anti-LGBT language,” he was shocked when…More
The Anti-LGBT Tide Is Turning in Florida
FLORIDA’S LEGISLATURE adjourned its session in March with 21 out of 22 anti-LGBT bills effectively killed, handing Governor Ron DeSantis a humiliating defeat and leading the Human Rights Campaign to conclude that “the tide has turned” on such legislation in Florida.
MoreHow Russian Media Demonize LGBT People
The only thing we can hope for is that the media don’t make too many stupid mistakes, and that the work of Putin’s propaganda machine doesn’t hurt too many innocent people. Fortunately, the times we live in still give LGBT people in Russia access to alternative online media and to very important information that cannot be found in the vacuum inside the country.
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