Tag: politics
Bermuda tries to rescind same-sex marriage rights
A vote by Bermuda’s lower chamber to rescind same-sex marriage rights granted only months ago has drawn sharp criticism from island groups and many politicians in the British overseas territory. The House of Assembly voted late Friday, by a margin of 24-to-10, to replace same-sex marriage rights with a domestic partnership status. Jeffrey Baron, shadow…
ART & AIDS: 35 Years of Survival
ART & AIDS: 35 Years of Survival Exhibit at the Leslie-Lohman Museum will commemorate GMHC’s 35th anniversary and will feature dozens of works created by people living with HIV and AIDS. The artworks, created in a variety of media, are the products of GMHC clients and weekly therapeutic art classes run by GMHC’s Volunteer, Work…
Christine Keeler : ‘Nothing Has Been Proved’
Christine Keeler the ‘model’ who single-handedly almost brought down the British Government in 1963 when she was dating the married Secretary of State for War John Profumo at the same time she was stepping out with a ‘Cultural Attache’ cum spy at the Russian Embassy , has died aged 75. Just a teenager at the…
#Love Is The Only Law
A whole coterie of Brit pop singers and actors have joined veteran EastEnders star June Brown to release a Christmas charity single for UK LGBT charity The Albert Kennedy Trust. Love Against The Machine have recorded a new track ‘Love Is The Only Law’, which is being released to mark 50 years since the partial decriminalization of homosexuality…
Ruthie & Connie are Honored in Congress
Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz are not just heroes of the LGBT Community, but without exaggeration, they are also the nicest lesbian couple we have ever had the pleasure to meet. Over 30 years ago this remarkable pair of feisty colorful outspoken Jewish women from Brooklyn divorced their husbands and left their children to start a…
