Many LGBT people feel as though they must choose between faith and being themselves when they come out.  For Matthew Vines, who is not only gay but also a devout Christian, making that choice was not a viable option.  According to The Harvard Crimson, Matthew came to terms with his ...

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As an LGBT youth, you probably experienced some sort of inadequacy in your sexual health class in school regardless of whether or not your health teacher taught comprehensive sex ed or abstinence-only.  However, abstinence-only sex ed programs are particularly damaging to the self-esteem of LGBT youth, though, and more so ...

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Judge Karen Atala of Chile lost custody of her three daughters in 2004 when she announced she was a lesbian.  But now, she has reason to celebrate:  after eight years of court battles, Atala, 48, learned Tuesday that the Inter-American Court (IACHR) ruled in favor of her right to the ...

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As a part of LGBT Health Month, on Thursday, March 22 we screened We Were Here:  The AIDS Years in San Francisco at the Little Theatre on East Avenue.  The screening was free and open to the public, and was followed by a panel discussion consisting of Stanley Byrd of ...

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There can be some inherent dangers in dating and hooking up within the LGBT community, especially if you are not in a committed relationship.  Now there’s a new way to keep yourself safe while you’re out enjoying yourself.  It’s a new iPhone app called Circle of 6 ...

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In LGBT communities across the country, we have known that our youth have been enduring bullying in schools for quite some time.  It’s quite sad, really, that it’s taken so long (and an epidemic of bullying-induced suicides) to grasp the attention of the media so that our educators ...

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Last Thursday, March 1, 2012, the first LGBT-specific senior center in the country opened its doors with a ribbon cutting ceremony in the Chelsea neighborhood of New YorkCity. The SAGE Center is a collaborative effort between the nonprofit SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders) and New York City’s ...

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On February 29, 2012, WikiQueer officially launched onto the World Wide Web. WikiQueer is a web-based, not for profit, free-content encyclopedia and resource hub project, based on an openly editable model, specifically for and by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and ally communities. 

Essentially WikiQueer is an LGBT-specific version ...

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So by now, I think we have established that everybody is good, and that no one is inherently bad or
evil.  So where does this idea come from, anyway?  The idea that there is a “right” way to live and that there are rules to living that way is hardly ...

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Hello Rochester. My name is Em Scrivani and I am the new intern here at www.everybodysgood.com.  I will be focusing primarily on blogging and community outreach.

A bit about me:  I’m in my last semester at SUNY Brockport.  I’m majoring in Women and Gender Studies and ...

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