A story about Tel Aviv Municipality "green watch"'s harassments in one of the city's first-ever gay sex meeting points allows a peak into the price paid by the LGBT community in Tel Aviv for its leaning towards the establishment and its appropriation as a tourist destination

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I think we should support this, and you should convince everyone you know to sign on. The Democrats are playing to the Right and sucking up to the insurance industry because they think they can get away with it and no one is standing up to them. I have always believed that we need to go even further, and, as I've said before, divest ALL funds from ALL Democratic candidates--even the progressive ones. But I understand I'll get a lot of pushback on that one. This is a good first step.… Continue

On Tuesday, Nov. 3, Ohioans elected 10 public officials from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, bringing in a record number of progressive LGBT voices, with positions ranging from school board to municipal court judge.

“The Ohio Democratic Party is proud to have recruited and groomed candidates across Ohio who reflect the great diversity of our party and our state,” Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern said.

Amanda Armstrong, a third-year student at the College of Wo… Continue

During the past two years over $46,000,000 was spent on marriage equality campaigns in Maine and California. There have been 29 other states with marriage initiatives bringing the total amount spent on losing marriage equality campaigns to somewhere around $100,000,000.

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1. How did you get involved in planning the National Equality March? Tell us a little bit about what the experience was like for you.

Right after David Mixner called for the march, I sent him a very simple email: "Dear David, Put me to work." He let me know that Cleve Jones would be le… Continue

Ah, LGBTTI2QA retirement! A new vision of LGBTTI2QA old age is emerging from the trauma of the credit crunch and the Great Recession: Forget retirement. Keep working. Surveys show that a majority of older LGBTTI2QA people say they want to work during their golden years. They're going to get their wish. The key question is no longer "How early can I retire?" It's "Why retire?" Of course, like all tectonic social and economic shifts, the trend isn't new. It has been building for the past three dec… Continue

This month's Cincinnati Guerrilla Queer Bar event took place at Million's, sibling bar to Mount Lookout Tavern. Not unlike queerings past, women were allowed to dance on the stage or poles but men were not, resulting in the use of force against a gay man.

Many men were asked to leave the stage and were pulled down by a bouncer. Some tried to resist, but it wasn't until a pair refused to leave the stage that the situation began to escalate, as evidenced in the video below.

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[What I am about to say in this post may come across as controversial, as unreasonable and probably as anti-queer? Please feel free to disagree with me and let me know what you think. I'd rather stir a debate than keep quiet.]

Navel-gazing, I said: the narcissistic act of always looking at oneself, at staring at ones figure in the mirror and telling oneself: "I am important, I am important and I want the world to turn its gaze on me..." I acknowledge that I am narcissistic in many ways a… Continue

The ongoing fight of young workers, students, women and our own LGBT brothers and sisters in Iran to destroy the rightwing pro-business theocracy of the ayatollahs had been met by a tenfold increase in government repression.

Protesters are being murdered both on the streets and following sham trials, beatings and torture. This is a regime that’s tortured and killed thousands of young gay men and boys, feminists and lesbians, union organizers and students. And now they’ve added a nasty new twist… Continue