Only a handful of Nashville’s official historical markers recognize contemporary achievements, but the city is getting another. The Metro Historical Commission has approved Nashville’s first marker recognizing an LGBT rights activist.
People have come up with some interesting terms to describe gay and bisexual people over the last few centuries. While I could fill up a lake with slang terms for queer people, I find the non-slang terms more interesting because it means that someone was taking us seriously, but sometimes from a strange point of view.
One Iowa, an organization that advocates for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning community, hosts its first LGBTQ Workplace Culture Summit from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, at the Kirkwood Regional Center at University of Iowa, 2301 Oakdale Blvd., Coralville.
The B in the LGBT community often comes as an afterthought. There are fewer resources dedicated to bisexual people than to gay, lesbian and transgender people. The 40th annual LGBT Funders Report, which tracked funding to LGBT organizations from 1970 to 2010, found that, of the $487 million that went to programs and organizations that serve the overall LGBT population, a mere $84,000 went to groups that specifically serve bisexuals.
The Year 1987 saw President Ronald Reagan challenge Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall. Microsoft released Windows 2.0, the Dow Jones broke the 2,500 mark for the first time, and a church in Boulder crossed a threshold no congregation of its denomination in the state had bridged before.
A bill to amend Finland’s “Trans Act” that forces trans people who wish to change their legal gender to be sterilized still doesn’t have enough support in the Finnish Parliament to be heard by the body’s social affairs and health committee.
Indonesian police have detained 58 men including several foreigners in a raid on a gay sauna, an official said Saturday (Oct 7), the latest sign of a backlash against homosexuals in the Muslim-majority country. Police late Friday raided a building in the capital Jakarta that houses a sauna and a gym after they received information from the public that it was being used for prostitution.
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