• david-davies_protestersx400
    May 21, 2013

    Marriage Equality Makes Progress in U.K....

    Approval by the House of Commons moves the marriage bill forward. BY TRUDY RING from advocate.com The United Kingdom is moving closer to marriage equa...
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    May 21, 2013

    7 Gay Bashings in 30 Days

    New York City has seen a number of attacks, all appearing to be hate crimes against the LGBT community in the past several weeks. Nick Porto, 27, and ...
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    May 21, 2013

    Psychiatrists’ Group Names First O...

    Saul Levin has been named to the APA’s top post. BY TRUDY RING from advocate.com Forty years after declaring that homosexuality is not a mental ...
  • Sustainer.013
    May 6, 2013

    PrideFest 2013-Volunteers Needed

    Rhode Island Pride is the non-profit organization which, among many things, plans and executes the largest annual LGBTQ event in RI…PrideFest! I...
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    April 29, 2013

    Jason Collins Changes the Face of Sports...

    “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.” These are the words NBA center Jason Collins chose to start his ...
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Marriage Equality Makes Progress in U.K.

Approval by the House of Commons moves the marriage bill forward. BY TRUDY RING from advocate.com The United Kingdom is moving closer to marriage equality, with the House of Commons…

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7 Gay Bashings in 30 Days

New York City has seen a number of attacks, all appearing to be hate crimes against the LGBT community in the past several weeks. Nick Porto, 27, and his partner,…

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Psychiatrists’ Group Names First Out Gay Leader

Saul Levin has been named to the APA’s top post. BY TRUDY RING from advocate.com Forty years after declaring that homosexuality is not a mental disorder, the American Psychiatric Association…

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PrideFest 2013-Volunteers Needed

Rhode Island Pride is the non-profit organization which, among many things, plans and executes the largest annual LGBTQ event in RI…PrideFest! It takes the effort of over 100 volunteers to…

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Jason Collins Changes the Face of Sports Forever By Coming Out

“I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.” These are the words NBA center Jason Collins chose to start his historic coming-out essay which appears in the May 6 issue of Sports…

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Rhode Island COLAGE Chapter Enjoys New Energy

By Kim Stowell In 1988, a small group of young people with gay and lesbian parents came together while their parents were attending an annual Gay and Lesbian Parents Coalition…

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Truth, Justice and the American Way: Superman and Homophobia

By Nathaniel Zane It all started when DC Comics recently decided to run an anthology for Superman featuring different authors for each story that would begin in digital format, then head…

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Editorial: Less Than

3/29/2013 Yesterday, two of my loved ones posted articles on Facebook that explored why it is okay to be against same-sex marriage. I responded to both, fully aware that Facebook is not…

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Inside the Supreme Court: The Case for Marriage Equality and Oral Argument

AFER Blog Post from 3/23/2013: Click to view larger> The Cases The U.S. Supreme Court is considering two cases that deal with marriage equality for gay and lesbian Americans. On…

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RI Lesbian Novel Released on March 18th

Rhode Islander Jesse Thoma has written her first book, The Chase, a lesbian novel that takes its characters on “a perilous journey through an underworld of drugs and underhanded deals,…