Learn about gay icons Bill T. Jones, Rosie O’Donnell and Jann Wenner at glbthistorymonth.net.
Thousands united Nov. 12 in front of a Mormon temple in Midtown and marched to Columbus Circle to protest Proposition Hate, er…Proposition 8.
A new generation of activists unites via the Internet. Log on and Join the Impact.
A multimedia SAGE campaign makes LGBT elders more visible—even on New York’s subways and buses.
How will his departure affect LGBT issues in Albany?
Industry leaders powwow to raise questions about the persecution of clubland.
Anti-gay hate crimes are on the rise across the U.S.—homophobic incidents have even surfaced at a local production of play “Judy and Me.”
Spurred by a gay marriage ban in California, simultaneous protests were
held Nov. 14 across the nation. In Manhattan, 4,000 rallied at City Hall.
Next up: A Dec. 10 event called A Day Without a Gay.
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By Trenton Straube
Monday, October 06, 2008
If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere—you can even make history. At least nine New Yorkers are included in this year’s 31 Icons for GLBT History Month, celebrated each October.
In an effort to educate students and the general public about gay history, Equality Forum, a gay civil rights group based in Philadelphia, posts a superb video and biography about a different gay icon each day in October. The legends—some living, some dead—range from AIDS quilt founder Cleve Jones and Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë to Renaissance artist Michelangelo and pioneering lesbian activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, who married this summer in California (Martin died shortly thereafter).
Gay Straight Alliances at high schools and colleges download the bios and create displays in their schools, said Equality Forum’s executive director Malcom Lazin. Not only are more folks learning about contributions of LGBT people, he said, but they’re becoming more tolerant in the process.
Visit glbthistorymonth.com to learn about the icons of 2006 and 2007 and to sign up to receive e-mails about each day’s icon this month. It won’t even take a New York minute
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