What is Juneteenth and why is it so important?
First celebrated in 1866 in Texas, it's now a federal holiday.
June 18 2024 8:21 PM
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First celebrated in 1866 in Texas, it's now a federal holiday.
The queer former Disney star opened up on her podcast about comments she made in 2014.
What does Trayvon Martin’s murder have to do with gay civil rights protection? The quick answer: The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act (mostly known by Matthew Shepard’s name). And this might be the only option the Florida Justice Department has in moving forward to arrest George Zimmerman and charge him with murder.
The former Disney star sat with Oprah and fielded questions about her sexuality and her current work.
African Americans have worked hard to get the vote and to get a man of African descent in the White House. In 2008 we came out in unprecedented numbers with Obama taking 95% of the black vote, thanks to the help of his biggest support base - African American ministers and their parishioners.
Women, Mexican-Americans, and African-Americans have it easier than men, according to a new survey that sampled Trump and Clinton voters.
February 1 begins Black History Month, a national annual observance since 1926, honoring and celebrating the achievements of African-Americans. Within the African- American lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community, Black History Month has always come under criticism.
When Viola Davis lost the Oscar for best actress portraying an African American maid in Katherine Stockett’s The Help to Meryl Streep portraying former Britain Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, there was a collective sigh of relief from many of us African American sisters.
Missing from the annals of African American history and the history of Nazi Germany are the documented stories and struggles of African Americans, straight and "queer." Valaida Snow, captured in Nazi- occupied Copenhagen under the umbrella of lesbian and interned in a concentration camp for nearly two years, is one such story forgotten every Black History Month in celebrating our heroes and survivors.
Every year Mayor Tom Menino's Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events puts on its annual Boston GospelFest at City Hall Plaza. And because the Gospelfest is a public and taxpayer-funded community event, it’s open to all -- even its African American lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities. But with Pastor Donnie McClurkin, the poster boy for African American ex-gay ministries, who spews anti-gay religion-based vitriol, billed as the main event, many in the African American lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) communities will not be in attendance at this year’s event. And neither will the mayor.
Gladys Bentley (1907 -1960), was born in Philadelphia, and ran away from home as a teenager. Like many African Americans of her generation, she traveled north to the black metropolis known as Harlem. Bentley, a 250-pound African-American lesbian (who today we would consider transgender), was known as “America’s Greatest Sepia Piano Player” and the “Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs.”
African American lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities have always existed in Harlem, residing here since this former Dutch enclave became America’s Black Mecca in the 1920s.
The world’s oldest and strongest international community of women of the African diaspora are the black sororities. Developed at a time when African Americans were barred entry into America’s hallowed halls of higher education, both black fraternities and sororities promoted excellence in scholarship and leadership in service. Black sororities arose at a time when traditional roles of women were being challenged, and stereotypes of African Americans were the iconography of the American landscape. There are four major sororities, all of which were established in the early 20th Century, including Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (Howard University, 1908), Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (Howard University, 1913), Zeta Phi Beta (Howard University, 1920), and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority ( Butler University, 1922).
Lena Horne, 92, the first African American actress and performer to be contracted with a major studio, died Sunday at the New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, according to the New York Times. The cause of death was not listed.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger said she dined with an African-American friend and a gay friend after she announced her retirement from radio, and all agreed that the controversy over her n word rant amounted to censorship.
Irish and African-American lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) communities share a lot in common when it comes to being excluded from iconic institutions in their communities. For LGBTQ African Americans, it's the Black Church, and for LGBTQ Irish, it's the St. Patrick's Day Parade. St. Patrick's Day has rolled around again, and like previous March 17th celebrations nationwide, its LGBTQ communities are not invited. As a contentious and protracted argument for now over two decades, parade officials have a difficult time grasping the notion that being Irish and gay is also part of their heritage.
Rev. Irene Monroe shares her experience as one of the a group of black lesbians and gays who were invited to the White House. 'Just as my enslaved ancestorscould have never imagined an African American family residing in the White House, nor could my African American lesbian, gay bisexual transgender and queer (LGBTQ) brothers and sisters who fought in the Stonewall Riots of 1969 in New York's Greenwich Village imagine that one day a special invitation from the White House would openly welcome us in.'
Last month, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Americans and our allies celebrated New York State becoming the sixth and largest state to allow same-sex marriage. But what does it signal to us LGBTQ citizens when the first African American president wants to employ states’ rights, which once upon a time in this country federally mandated racial segregation and sanctioned American slavery, to address the issue of same-sex marriage?
Gabrielle Christina Victoria "Gabby" Douglas is one of this year's Olympic darlings. As a member of the U.S. Women's Gymnastics team, Gabby is the first African American gymnast and woman of color, in Olympic history, to win gold medals in the individual all-around and team competitions at the same Olympics.
Cathy DeBuono compared the current fight for gay rights to the civil rights movement of the 60's and was told by her 20-year-old friend that we, as gays, had no business comparing our struggle to that of African Americans. This was her reply: Is Gay the new Black?