Month: September 2018
Silence is deadly: Bisexuality Day and coming out.
September 23 is officially “Bisexuality Day”, also variously known as Bisexual Pride Day, Bi Visibility Day, and Bisexuality+ Day. Additionally, in 2014 BiNet.org declared the seven days around September 23 are also marked for observing Bisexual+ Awareness Week…
Priest who burned rainbow banner removed from church.
Days after it was revealed that the Rev. Paul Kalchik of Avondale’s Resurrection Catholic Church burned a rainbow banner that once hung in the church, Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, has removed him…
The pressure to be ‘macho’ causes damage to gay men.
Living in a hetero-normative world often demands men to act according to strict societal rules on “masculinity.” I remember when I first thought my body was not good enough to be desired by other men. This feeling of…
Pence urges voters to back Trump’s anti-LGBT agenda.
Vice President Mike Pence counted on Saturday President Trump’s actions in favor of “religious freedom” — considered by LGBT rights supporters as means to enable anti-LGBT discrimination — as reasons for why conservative voters should…
Judge lifts ban on controversial lesbian movie ‘Rafiki’.
A Kenyan judge has temporarily lifted the ban on Wanuri Kahiu’s “Rafiki,” paving the way for the LGBT love story – which premiered in Cannes – to be submitted for the foreign-language Oscar race…