LGBT Families of Color: Facts at a Glance details the disproportionate economic and healthcare struggles facing LGBT families of color which stem from the combination of stigma and outright discrimination. The report not only explores these inequities, it also provides policy recommendations to address them.
The brief, which is based ...

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*Masculine of center (MoC) recognizes the cultural breadth and depth of identity for lesbian/queer womyn who tilt toward the masculine side of the gender scale, and the term includes a wide range of identities such as butch, stud, aggressive/AG, tom, macha, boi, dom, etc.

-B. Cole, 2008

*From ...

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Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life is for queer women too. While it appears the book’s author Samhita Mukhopadhyay (Executive Editor at www.feministing.com) initially geared the guide toward straight women, its framework for assessing societal messages about dating and its toolkit for navigating casual sex ...

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Today Reverend Alicia Heath-Toby will share with us an excerpt from her essay "What Would Jesus Do?: The Care of the LGBTIQ Communities in the Face of HIV/AIDS." Rev. Alicia Heath-Toby, hails from New York City. For the last 18 years, she and her wife, Saundra "Ms. Honei" Toby- ...

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Our Families: LGBT Latino Stories

Our Families: LGBT Asian and Pacific Islander Stories

Our Families: LGBT African-American Stories

This series of interviews and stories about LGBT people in African-American, Latino and Asian and Pacific Islander communities was created as part of BasicRights' Our Families campaign in Oregon that gives LGBT ...

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Registration for The Zuna Institute's 2011 National Black Lesbian Conference opens Fall 2010! Right around the corner.

This conference is the only event of its kind, creating an opportunity for black lesbian activists, educators, community organizers, and professionals to share knowledge, skills, and to develop the platform and foundation ...

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An article on the CNN website yesterday, June 7, 2010, reports findings of a 25-year study on children raised in Lesbian households, which concluded that they were psychologically well-adjusted and had fewer behavioral problems than their peers.

Beginning in 1986, Dr. Nanette Gartrell, the researcher and author of the study ...

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The following information was compiled by S.H.E. Circle - Spirit Health Education Circle - in a pamphlet called Making the Journey.

S.H.E. Circle is a wellness community by and for African American lesbian and bisexual women, and is actually the first national organization doing health programming specifically focused ...

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Today is International Women of Color Day! And because it's also the first day of LGBT Health Month in Rochester, NY AND the first day of Women's History Month, I wanted to take this opportunity to show some extra special love to women of African, Alaskan Native, American ...

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