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Fascinating Virtual Archive of Black LGBTs on Chicago's South Side

Death of Sailor May be a Gay Hate Crime

Chicago Tribune Goes "Beyond Boystown" and Looks at Black LGBTs on the South Side

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Homophobia in Jamaica: Thoughts Intersecting Current Politics, Dancehall, Colonialism, Religion, Slavery & Jamaican Patriarchy.

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Race, Superstition, and Marriage Equality

Another Historic Meeting, Another Melanin Free Transgender Contingent

Metting Sylvia Riveria

Lessons from KRXQ-FM: Hate Speech Shouldn’t Go Unchallenged

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Lives of the Transgendered Women of India

This video is of Glady, a transgendered woman in India, who is currently enrolled at University of Madras. Glady has been going to graduate school for Mass Communications while working part time. Many transgendered women in India are pushed to the margins of society where they are not able to do any work other than begging or prostitution. Many are subject to violence and inhumane oppression. With no family support and a very hidden life, she struggles to be the first transgendered woman graduate from the University. I have been helping Glady garner financial support to make it through graduate school, and together we have raised over half of her school finances! We only have $300 to go! Please help Glady in this final amount to one day become a journalist and ultimately a dignified human being.

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French Black Gay Activist Behind United Nations Declaration

There is a brilliant footnote to the United Nations declaration that calls for the universal decriminalization of homosexuality. The resolution is the brainchild of French black gay activist Louis-Georges Tin.
The founder of the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) tells UK Gay News, "We are proud of the historical Declaration that was read. This is an historical event. For the first time ever, such a text has been read in the General Assembly of the United Nations."
Tin was profiled on this blog in November 2006 and in The Advocate by journalist Doug Ireland. The French activist said then he would launch a global campaign for a United Nations referendum to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide. It took two years to materialize but how sweet it is ....MORE

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Meet ... Krystian Legierski (2006 Article)

It's almost impossible to ignore the recent trend of homophobic violence in Poland—which, according to the State Department, has the distinction of being one of the Top Ten Worst Countries for Gays. (But let's not even talk this country or even Secretary Rice's record on gays.) Let's introduce you to one of the most influential leaders in Poland's fight for gay equality:
Krystian Legierski is a Polish-born black gay activist. He is 27 years old and the owner of Le Madame, the influential Warsaw club that was recently shut down by the government. From a recent article in The Gully: "In addition to being the hub of Poland's queer culture, offering plays, music and performance art, Le Madame hosted a wide array of other counter-cultural, avant-garde, and political events. The Warsaw Green Party, for example, had its offices on the club's first floor."
Legierski is also one of the leaders of the Greens and has been targeted by a relentless hate campaign based upon his skin color, such as leaflets at one march that read "Krystian Legierski: fag and nigger. How much worse can you get?"MORE