Life Power Now - for gay men

SEATTLE — The bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in Washington State is notable not just for the boldness of its ambition or for the fact that it was proposed by Gov. Christine Gregoire, a Democrat whose last memorable remarks on the issue placed her firmly in the not-yet camp.

Over 2,600 executives, human resources and diversity professionals, employee resource groups and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and allies gathered in Dallas, Texas, October 25-28, to share their best practices and ideas for creating workplaces where all people are safe, accepted, and valued, inclusive of all sexual orientations, gender identities, characteristics, and expressions.

Mayors of about 80 U.S. cities from New York to Los Angeles to Houston are backing a campaign to remove legal barriers to same-sex marriage nationwide.

On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 the American Astronomical Society at their annual meeting in Austin Texas awarded Frank Kameny a certificate of appreciation, received by Charles Francis.

As a mental health counselor for the past twenty years, I have listened to many painful stories by some of my lesbian and gay patients regarding growing up in a homophobic and heterosexist world. Many of my gay and lesbian patients, including a number of bisexual and transgender individuals, shared with me that as young as age five they felt different. They were unable to articulate why they felt different, and, at the same time, they were too afraid to talk about it.

Four decades after the Stonewall rebellion in New York and three decades after Harvey Milk made history in San Francisco, today’s gay generation is coming together to build on these legacies and redefine “Gay Liberation” for the twenty-first century.

In 2007, LPN interviewed author and AIDS activist Patrick Moore via email. Moore is the author of the 2004 published Beyond Shame, reclaiming the abandoned history of radical gay sexuality. We wanted to know how his views had changed since the publication of the book and his cross-country move to Los Angeles.

On a daily basis we spend a lot of time thinking about our life challenges and dealing with many conflicting thoughts in our heads. We think about all sorts of difficult life situations, including financial problems, and make ourselves believe we can’t handle them. Catastrophic thinking about our lives bombards us with anxiety and contributes to our feeling of insecurity. Life issues get blown out of proportion when we approach them with our exaggerated thoughts.

Steve Silberman is gay. I'm bi. Together, we realized that we'd never seen a Coming Out Day feature dedicated to the experiences of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered persons in the sciences and engineering. Science journalist powers: Activate! We hope today's two-part celebration will add to the diversity of stories and help science-minded young queer folks everywhere know that it does, indeed, get better—both through the course of history, and the course of an individual's life. Read more.

Last Friday, Germany's minister for foreign affairs, in the US he would be the secretary of state, Guido Westerwelle married his partner Michael Mronz.