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| | GLSEN Scholarships Include Rustin Award
The Chicago chapter of GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) hosted its 8th annual Youth Scholarships event April 22. The youth were selected from a wide pool of applicants based on their demonstration of outstanding ... |
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| | The Black Gay and Lesbian Archive Project
The Black homosexual is hard pressed to gain an audience among his heterosexual brothers; even if he is more talented, he is inhibited by his silence or his admissions. This is what the race has depended ... |
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| | Into The Green and Beyond: Musician Paul Oakley Stovall
**Paul Oakley Stovall and his band Into The Green at Lyon's Den Pub (1934 W Irving Park, 773/871-3757) May 1 Actor, singer and songwriter Paul Oakley Stovall also has some athletic history. He played basketball in ... |
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| | Chicago Scholars Receive Awards
The Advisory Committee for the Paul Monette / Roger Horwitz Trust announces its awards for the year 2003. The awards go to innovators in providing services to the LGBT community and to groundbreakers in research about ... |
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| | S.A. ACTIVISTS LAUNCH CIVIL-DISOBEDIENCE CAMPAIGN
South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) launched a civil-disobedience campaign March 20 in hopes of forcing the government to make AIDS drugs available for the first time. About 110 protesters marched to the Caledon Square police ... |
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| | Black Leadership Forum Conference
The National Black Lesbian & Gay Leadership Forum (NBLGLF) and the Sexual Minority Alliance of Alameda County, Diversity 2003 (SMAAC Youth Center) announce that this year's Conferences will be held simultaneously in New Orleans Aug. 21-24. ... |
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| | Women's Treatment Center Gala
The Women's Treatment Center (TWTC) announced that U.S. Representatives Danny Davis and Jan Schakowsky have agreed to serve as Honorary Co-Chairs of The Women's Treatment Center benefit gala t Thursday, May 16, 2002. The rest of ... |
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| | Women In The life Wellness Kick-Off
Women in the Life, a national organization that serves lesbians and bisexuals of color, announced the creation of 'Proud and Healthy Sisters,' their new health and wellness campaign. The campaign is designed to address and increase ... |
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| | Director of Ruth Ellis Center Needed
The Ruth Ellis Center, an emerging organization located in Detroit, Mich., seeks a dynamic, well-organized leader to serve as its first Executive Director. The mission of the Ruth Ellis Center ('REC') is to provide residential safe ... |
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| | LA Black Pride
Want info on the 15th annual Los Angeles Black pride At The Beach events? See www.mirmedia.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11 ... |
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| | GLAAD People of Color Outreach
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) announced it has launched a People of Color (POC) Media Program to promote fair, accurate and inclusive representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people of color ... |
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| | LETTER: Help Needed
I am writing about a former tenant of mine, she is a middle-aged gay African-American woman named Ann Saucier. She was an avid reader of BLACKlines, in fact when I visited her today, I showed her ... |
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| | Latifah Plays Queen of the Court
Gay fave and Bringing Down the House babe Queen Latifah has become one of Tinseltown's hottest leading ladies. The big, beautiful Chicago star is now attached to the new Disney project Just Wright, set in the ... |
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| | DCFS Targets GLBT Youth
For years, GLBT youth in the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services system have felt discriminated against, harassed, and trapped by homophobia and transphobia. Windy City Times and BLACKlines have attempted to interview youth in ... |
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| | LEATHERLIFE: Spring Malaise
LEATHERLIFE Spring Malaise by Cain Berlinger It's difficult to write about leather politics when world politics is so volatile. I suggest catching the Oscar-winning movie Bowling for Columbine. Whatever your political stance, please offer a prayer ... |
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| | GURRRLology I Lost My 'No!'
Everyone's objective in life is to satisfy their personal needs, often 'by any means necessary.' People are pretty clear on their: likes, dislikes, beliefs, comfort zones, and aspirations. In other words, most of us know what ... |
