Archives for September 2015

Dusty Springfield: 5 of her best

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15:06 4th September 2015 by Dean Eastmond

To celebrate the fantastic Dusty being extended through to 21 November, it feels only appropriate to take a look back at some of Dusty Springfield’s most illustrious and definitive moments.

The multi-media “fusion musical” celebrates the life and career of Dusty, one of the most recognisable media figureheads of the 21st century. Using the most up-to-date 3D technology, the audience experiences Dusty’s finest moments and how she broke the rules of music.
Here are a few of the 60s icon’s best moments…
[01] Probably her campest moment of her life had to be her collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys. 1987’s What Have I Done to Deserve This — which we hope is on one of your playlists somewhere — resurged a new found love for Dustyamongst millennials. Lady Gaga joined the Pet Shop Boys at the 2009 BRIT Awards following an Outstanding Contribution to Music award.

2) The Grammy Hall of Fame awardee rose to fame following the release of Island of Dreams, and Say I Won’t Be There while in folk-oriented trio the Springfields. The early 60s trio; Dusty, her brother Tom Springfield and Tim Feild, had an impressive run with the release of three albums and a handful of EPs.

3) Dusty’s interview on infamous British TV show French and Saunders has proven to be one of the most iconic televised and hilarious interviews in modern history. The semi-comedic/semi-informative interview explored Springfield’s life and asked deeply personal questions like “what’s your favourite colour?”

4) Nothing Has Been Proved is one of those timeless “walk to work” tracks and probably one of Springfield’s campest songs. Most likely to appear as a lip sync battle on RuPaul’s Drag Race, the 1989 single dominated second place in both the UK and US charts.

5) And finally, you knew it was coming didn’t you? Dusty’s Son of a Preacher Man formed itself as one of the most quintessential sounds of the 20th century, let alone the 60s. This imperative soul classic really establishes Dusty as a cultural icon.
It’s impossible to watch this and not think of Pulp Fiction…

Due to popular demand the DUSTY show has been extended to 21 Nov! To celebrate we have a special offer – best price tickets are down from £49.50 to £20. It’s first come, first served and tickets should be booked using this link:www.ticketmaster.co.uk/promo/yik5pl. And if you mention ‘Memphis’ at the box office you’ll get a free brochure worth £8.

GLAAD discontinues report on TV’s LGBT characters!

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Nick Duffy

3^rd September 2015

All major networks were ‘adequate’ or above (Photo: Empire, Fox)

Media charity GLAAD has announced it will no longer publish an annual report monitoring the quantity, quality, and diversity of LGBT representation on TV.

The charity this week published its ninth annual Network Responsibility Index, which identifies TV networks who have excelled at representing LGBT people, storylines and characters, as well as those who have failed to do so.

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However, as the report enters its ninth year, nearly all US TV networks are ranked ‘adequate’ or above – with the FOX network becoming the first major broadcaster to be ranked ‘excellent’

The charity confirmed that its new report will also be the last.

GLAAD CEO & President Sarah Kate Ellis said: “The ninth edition of the NRI marks the first time in the report’s history that a major broadcast network – FOX – received an ‘Excellent’ as a grade.

“This milestone highlights real change across the media landscape – especially considering that the network received a ‘Failing’ grade in the NRI’s first two editions.”

She added: “GLAAD’s Network Responsibility Index has helped reshape the television landscape, inspiring LGBT characters and storylines that move acceptance forward.

“As representations of LGBT people in the media continue to rise in number, pushing television networks to make those representations more diverse is more crucial than ever. This requires a different set of tools than the NRI provides, and as such GLAAD will shift focus to its annual TV diversity and transgender reports.”

The organisation will now focus on its annual Where We Are On TV Report – which focuses more on the diversity of LGBT images.

Monitoring the original prime-time programming of major network, the final NRI awarded the grades:
Excellent: ABC Family and FOX
Good: ABC, CW, FX, HBO, MTV, Showtime
Adequate: CBS, NBC, TLC, TNT, USA
Failing: A&E, History

ABC Family, which was ranked excellent alongside FOX, hit a record high with 74% of original programming including LGBT people or characters – of whom 79% were lesbians and 49% were people of colour. It also featured a transgender character played by a transgender actor.

Meanwhile, FOX won praise for representing LGBT people of colour on hit shows including Empire and Gotham

China Approves First Film About Gay Relationship

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By Natalie Ilsley | International Business Times

Chinese Director

Chinese film regulators have approved screenings of a movie featuring a gay relationship for the first time, according to its director, Wang Chao, who broke the news via a post on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. Chao described the decision as “a small step for the film department and a big step for the members of the film industry.”
The film, called Seek McCartney, follows a secret cross-cultural relationship between a French and Chinese man and is being hailed by critics as “a breakthrough in the country’s heavily censored media,” reports AFP. It was co-produced by studios in France and China, and stars popular Chinese singer and actor Han Geng and French actor Jeremy Elkain, playing the lead roles.
However, Chinese LGBT filmmaker and rights activist, Fan Popo, said it was too soon to celebrate given the Chinese government’s unpredictable implementation of censorship. “The fact that this film can be released in theatres doesn’t mean gay films in the future will be able to be released in China,” he told AFP, adding that the screening “depends heavily on the individual censor’s whims.”
While gay characters have appeared in supporting roles in Chinese films, Seek McCartney is the first film permitted for release in the country to feature a plot centered entirely on a homosexual couple. Previously, films with narratives about homosexual relationships have been banned from release in China, including Ang Lee’s Oscar-winning cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain in 2006. Chinese regulators Variety.

Homosexuality in China was only decriminalised in 1997 and removed from the Ministry of Health’s list of mental illnesses in 2001. According to newspaper US-China Today, homosexuality is reportedly becoming more accepted in cities. Walter Williams, a University of Southern California professor who has been studying gender and sexuality in Asia since 1983, told the newspaper: “China right now is very similar to the U.S. in the 1960s, in regards to homosexuality…but I think that at the rate China is moving along, we will see China at the forefront of gay liberation.”

NCTC Stages U.S. Premiere of FOR THE LOVE OF COMRADES

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by BWM Newsdesk

In September, New Conservatory Theatre Center opens its 2015-16 Season with the U.S. Premiere of For the Love of Comrades, the impassioned, gritty and inspiring new play by Micheál Kerrigan, with script development by Patricia Byrne and Mary Connors.
After a rapturous reception upon its Northern Ireland premiere in 2013 and subsequent U.K. tour on the 30th anniversary of the strike, the play uncovers the largely unknown but fascinating alliance between Welsh miners and the lesbian and gay community during the 1984 British Miner’s Strike, what would become the Lesbian and Gays Support the Minors (LGSM) campaign. (The captivating true events also inspired the 2014 film, Pride, which was developed alongside the play.) Kerrigan wrote his debut play from his own experiences as an Irish gay activist and a member of the LGSM Group, along with extensive archival research.
For the Love of Comrades runs tonight, September 4, through October 11, 2015. Opening Night is Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 8pm. Tickets are $25-45 and available at nctcsf.org or by calling (415) 861-8972.
“This is an untold story,” says Kerrigan, “Everyone remembers the strikes but few people knew of the gay community’s support for the miners. They play also looks at the parallels of the Northern Ireland situation, the miners’ strike and the struggle for gay rights.”
For the Love of Comrades was hailed by critics and embraced by central figures of the LGSM movement and those who lived through the historic events.
Mike Jackson, co-founder of LGSM proclaimed For the Love of Comrades a “masterpiece,” hailing its embrace of “so much important detail, so much historical truth, the pain and the joys.”
Playwright Micheál Kerrigan is a long-standing gay activist who was a member of the LGSM Group in the 1980s. With script development by Patricia Byrne and Mary Connors, Kerrigan was able to translate his life experiences into his first professional play. His extensive work as an activist includes organising the first ever Gay Pride March in Ireland in Dublin in 1973 and in 1993, the first Gay Pride Festival in Derry~Londonderry, where he currently lives.
Script Developer Patricia Byrne is a writer, performer and Artistic Director of Sole Purpose Productions. She has written six plays for Sole Purpose, including Don’t Say A Word which has been touring extensively throughout Ireland since 2004. It was staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2008 and was nominated for an Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. Other performance work includes The Peace Process Trilogy and The Recruiting Office by Dave Duggan. She has a BA Hons in Theatre and Media Studies and an MA in Film and Television Management and Policy from the University of Ulster.
Director Jeffrey Hoffman helmed Bay Area productions of How the Horn Ended You for Bindlestiff, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for Boxcar Theatre, Cat’s-Paw for Dragon Productions, History of the Devil for Ragged Wing Ensemble, and Cloud 9 and Walking the Dead for Theatre Q. Hoffman was a participant in Theatre Bay Area’s inaugural ATLAS for Directors program. Hoffman’s extensive acting experience includes many appearance at NCTC, including last season’s Compleat Female Stage Beauty.
The cast of features Miles Duffield, Stephen McFarland, Shane Fahy, Paul Rodriques, Alyssa Stone and Adam Odsess-Rubin.
The creative team of For the Love of Comrades includes scenic design by Devin Kasper, costume design by Corrida Carr, lighting & projection design by Christian Mejia, prop design by Adeline Smith, dialect coaching by Particia Reynoso.
New Conservatory Theatre Center is San Francisco’s premier LGBTQIA and allied performing arts institution and progressive arts education conservatory since 1981. NCTC is renowned for its diverse range of innovative, high quality productions, touring productions and shows for young audiences; its foundational anti-bullying work with youth and educators through YouthAware; and its commitment to nurturing emerging artists and playwrights to expand the canon of queer and allied dramatic work

Straight guys answer ‘gay questions’ in hilarious video

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Posted On 03 Sep 2015 16:46

By : Shaun Kitchener

Tags: news, video, YouTube

A pair of YouTubers turn the tables on the kinds of dumb questions gay men are often asked in a great new video.
Davey Wavey and Riyadh ask three straight guys a string of ridiculous questions in a bid to show how stupid they are in real life.

Questions like “What man hurt you that made you decide to be the way you are?”, “What is the PC term for people like you?” and even “When did you first decide to be straight?” are put to the slightly confused guys by the deadpan pair, and the results are brilliant.
When they ask what “coming out to your parents as straight” was like and one of their participants answers, “I didn’t tell them”, they fire back: “So you’re not out to them?… It’s like an unspoken truth?”

Davey Wavey has nearly 1 million susbcribers, while the three ‘subjects’ are also internet celebrities: Derek Deso, who has over a quarter of a million subscribers; Vine star Nick Pallauf, who has 754,000 followers; and LiL MoCo, who boasts almost 800,000 fans on YouTube.
Watch the video below:

Davey Wavey’s done a lot to bridge the gay/straight divide lately – he recently tested if straight guys could tell the difference between a kiss from a woman or a gay man (FOR SCIENCE).

LGBT tourists contribute $6.8 billion to Spanish economy

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16:10 1st September 2015 by GT

Madrid Pride

Spain is now Europe’s top LGBT tourist destination, with gay and lesbian visitors contributing $6.8 BILLION to the country’s economy.

LGBT Capital – an investment firm that focuses on “gay-themed assets” – says that Spain has now claimed the crown from France, which receives a slightly more modest $6.6 billion from LGBT tourists.
Gay people apparently spend around 30% more on average than straight tourists, according to government estimates.
It’s perhaps not too surprising that so many are visiting Spain, as it was one of the first countries in the European Union to legalise same-sex marriage way back in 2005.
Barcelona hosts Europe’s largest gay festival every August – The Circuit Festival – which attracted 71,000 people alone this year. Organisers say that the two week event brought 150 million euros into the local economy. It’s so successful, organisers are now looking to expand to Ibiza and the Canaries.
Carlos Kyta, executive director at the Gay European Tourism Association, which works with hotels in Europe, explained: “This is a high-income travel market that is not tied down by school holidays and is generally more adventurous.”
Even the country’s right wing politicians are getting in on the action.
President of Madrid, Cristina Cifuentes, symbolised her support for gay people during this year’s Pride celebrations by flying the Rainbow Flag from the city’s parliamentary buildings for the very first time.
It’s staggering when you consider her colleagues from the People’s Party – led by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy – led 100,000 protesters in a march against same-sex marriage back in 2005.
But it’s less surprising when you know that Madrid’s Pride events generated around 120 million euros this year

Mormon apostle Ballard to keynote next month’s World Congress of Families gathering in Utah

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By PEGGY FLETCHER STACK | The Salt Lake Tribune

First Published Sep 01 2015 11:39AM

(Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) Elder M. Russell Ballard speaks in the 185th Annual LDS General Conference Priesthood Session in April.

Mormon apostle M. Russell Ballard will be a keynote speaker at next month’s meeting of the World Congress of Families, an international organization billing itself as “the largest gathering of pro-family advocates in the world,” the group announced Tuesday.
The World Congress of Families IX, which will be staged in Salt Lake City from Oct. 27 to 30, promotes what it calls “the natural family — meaning a man and a woman rearing children — and believes the LDS Church’s 1995 document “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” supports that view.
Ballard defended the Utah-based faith’s proclamation in 2005, saying, “It was then and is now a clarion call to protect and strengthen families and a stern warning in a world where declining values and misplaced priorities threaten to destroy society by undermining [the family which is] … the basic unit of society, of the economy, of our culture, and of our government.”
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints “has long been a strong ally to the World Congress of Families,” Janice Shaw Crouse, a member of the board of directors of WCF and executive director of the World Congress of Families IX, said in a news release, “and it is an honor to have one of its senior apostles speak at our conference — particularly someone whose lifelong commitment and leadership have been to preserve and strengthen the family unit.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center, however, has declared the World Congress to be a “hate group” for fostering homophobia under the guise of protecting families.
“Many of those who claim the designation of pro-family are actually not,” Mark Lawrence, who heads the group Restore Our Humanity, said in May. “Many of them claim that families must meet a very narrow and restrictive definition.”
Local gay and allied groups will host their own Inclusive Families Conference, scheduled for Oct. 23-24, at the University of Utah.
WCF officials balk at the hate-group allegation, saying they are “not ‘anti’ anything.” Members, they say, are simply people of faith who celebrate the natural family and focus on how to make families stronger.
pstack@sltrib.com
Twitter: @religiongal

Op-ed: The Story Behind the First LGBT History Month

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BY ORIGINAL LGBT HISTORY MONTH COMMITTEE MEMBERS

SEPTEMBER 02 2015 4:30 AM ET

Four academic leaders describe how LGBT History Month was launched, amid stiff resistance, more than two decades ago

Rodney Wilson

In August, The Advocate ran an op-ed that seemed to suggest that LGBT History Month was founded a mere decade ago. As those who were there at the start, more than two decades ago, we’d like to set the record “straight.”
In January 1994, a suburban St. Louis high school history teacher, Rodney Wilson, suggested that LGBT history — like women’s history and African-American history — needed a month devoted to its study. But which month? Pride Month, June, would not work because school was out, and other months were spoken for by other groups. But October was free of conflicts, came during the academic year, and serendipitously was the month of both the first and second LGBT Marches on Washington (1979 and 1987) and National Coming Out Day (October 11). He selected October and a draft proposal was written.
Johnda Boyce, a graduate student in women’s studies at Ohio State University and Wilson’s best friend from college, was the first to learn of the idea. After her input, a revised proposal was sent — via postal mail (!) — to organizations, community notables, education and advocacy groups, and potential supporters and historians all over the country.
One copy landed on a desk of the Gerber/Hart Library and Archive in Chicago. Another found its way to the office of the nascent Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Teachers’ Network (now GLSEN). Kevin Boyer, of Gerber/Hart, and Kevin Jennings, founder of GLSEN, joined Wilson, Boyce, Jessea Greenman of the University of California, Berkeley, and Torey Wilson, a suburban Chicago history teacher, on the first LGBT History Month Coordinating Committee. (It was then called LG History Month. Adding a “B” to the official name happened only after heated debate, and at that time, there was no thought of adding a “T.”)
With the institutional backing of Gerber/Hart and a lot of hard work by members of the national coordinating committee, endorsements came rolling in. The governors of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Oregon made official proclamations recognizing October as LGBT History Month. All the LGBT civil rights and education and advocacy organizations of the day came on board: Project 10 (and its founder Virginia Uribe), GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, Gay & Lesbian Americans, NGLTF, and, of course, GLSEN. Endorsements arrived from esteemed historians like Jonathan Ned Katz, William A. Percy (chair of the American Historical Association’s Caucus for Gay and Lesbian History), George Chauncey, and Martin Duberman (who sent his endorsement on a hand-written postcard). From the beginning, Windy City Timessyndicated columnist Paul Varnell gave the movement his pen and wrote eloquently of LGBT History Month every October until his death in 2011.
For $5, the committee mailed out packets of material with history month curriculum suggestions for secondary schools, colleges and universities, and community groups. Packet after packet after packet were mailed out of Gerber/Hart library. That first October, Jennings’s GLSEN sponsored a history conference in Boston attended by 200 educators and keynoted by Eric Marcus, author ofMaking Gay History. The history department at the University of Missouri at St. Louis, where Wilson was a graduate student, sponsored a month-long LGBT history film festival. News stories started to appear; a few teachers had their history month displays taken down by school districts; some parents approved and many others did not. But many schools, colleges, and universities ran with the idea, and October was cemented in the community’s mind as LGBT History Month.
In time for the second annual celebration in October 1995, LGBT History Month had received mainstream coverage in Newsweek magazine. But early efforts weren’t without controversy.
When Wilson and the Gay and Lesbian Caucus of the National Education Association pressed for and received an endorsement of LGBT History Month, the backlash was enormous. Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum and Beverly LaHaye’s Concerned Women for America bought full-page ads in newspapers condemning the NEA and scaring parents: “It [LGBT History Month] may be celebrated at your school before the month is over. Please call now. This must be stopped.”
Under pressure, NEA delegates at the 1996 Representative Assembly voted to remove specific mention of all history months from their resolutions, even long-established Black History Month and Women’s History Month. NEA was and remains a strong LGBT ally, but history month celebrations are still encouraged only generically.
Over the next 10 years, LGBT History Month continued to grow organically, without need of centralized organization. Hundreds of colleges and universities, community libraries, and even some high schools faithfully commemorated October as LGBT History Month — and still do.
Since 1994, the LGBT community and its history have become more mainstream. Community-based history projects and archives now stand alongside major collections at universities, city libraries and museums, not to mention historical inclusion in film, radio, documentaries and books. In 2006, Philadelphia’s Equality Forum created LGBTHistoryMonth.com, a website that highlights 31 diverse icons each year to help drive a national LGBT history conversation. And many cities throughout the USA officially commemorate LGBT History Month.
We who were there at the beginning are proud of what we created, and we look forward to this October’s celebrations that will mark a very healthy tradition now in its 22nd year. Happy Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History Month 2015!
—Four of the six original LGBT History Month Committee Members: Rodney Wilson, Kevin Boyer, Johnda Boyce, Kevin Jennings

RODNEY WILSON founded LGBT History Month and GLSEN-St. Louis. He was the first openly gay K-12 teacher in Missouri and wrote the first history of gay St. Louis to be published by the Missouri Historical Society. After many years teaching in Massachusetts, in 2011 he returned home to Missouri, where he teaches at a community college and produces independent films for Circa87.

KEVIN BOYER was chair of the Gerber/Hart board of directors in 1994. He went on to cofound the Chicago LGBT Chamber of Commerce, was CMO of the 2006 Chicago Gay Games, and was elected to the Chicago Gay & Lesbian Hall of Fame. Today he works in marketing for tech agencies and start-ups.

JOHNDA BOYCE is a staff attorney at Legal Services of Southern Missouri, in Springfield, Mo. She sits on the board of her local PFLAG chapter and volunteers for campaigns to add LGBT protections to local nondiscrimination ordinances.

KEVIN JENNINGS is the founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, served as assistant deputy secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools at the U.S. Department of Education during President Obama’s first term, and today serves as executive director of the Arcus Foundation.

Gay comedy to launch on YouTube this month

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14:32 2nd September 2015 by GT

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Guys Guys, a British comedy series, is to be played in weekly episodes, launching its first three episodes on 7 September.
The series follows the dating misadventures of a newly single guy who’s just moved to London. The guy, played by Kes Baxter, is put in different dating scenarios with a different guest character in each sketch, which undoubtedly goes very wrong, very quickly.
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Written by Kes Baxter along with Lee Butterley it’s based on the successful Dutch web series ‘De Meisjes van Thijs’. Originally starting as an online sketch, it has since been broadcast on Comedy Central in the Netherlands.
Kalki Aporos the series director instantly liked the idea of creating the British version saying: “We loved the character of Thijs and saw a market for something similar in the London gay scene. Guy’s Guys proves that the struggles for awkward people to get a date are universal.
“We have made Guy’s Guys with love and enthusiasm as we basically had no money. Lots of people have dedicated their time and energy into the series, and we hope we’ve produced something that the audience will be able to not only laugh at, but also relate to in some way.”
Check out the trailer for Guy’s Guy here:

Follow Guy’s Guy at their YouTube channel and Facebook for all the info.
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New project at Atlanta museum focuses on LGBT civil rights

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By ASSOCIATED PRESS

PUBLISHED: 00:44, 3 September 2015 | UPDATED: 00:44, 3 September 2015

ATLANTA (AP) — Leaders of an Atlanta museum want the space focused on modern and historic civil rights to contribute to a national push to ensure LGBT rights, particularly in southern states.
Wednesday marked the formal launch of the LGBT Institute, housed at the Center for Civil and Human Rights less than 15 months after the museum opened.
The museum includes galleries on LGBT issues and connects its history to the civil rights movement. But officials heard from LGBT organizations and individuals who wanted more, and they began planning the new project last fall.
LGBT Institute interim executive director Ryan Roemerman said organizers hope to perform research in cooperation with universities and host events connecting independent groups already working on LGBT rights beyond same-sex marriage.
“It’s the perfect time and the perfect place to shine a spotlight on issues that don’t often get a platform,” Roemerman said.
The project’s programming board members are a mix of researchers and people with a background in personal or professional LGBT advocacy. Member Tracee McDaniel, who founded the Juxtaposed Center for Transformation and identifies as a transgender woman of color, said she’s pleased with the group’s diverse members and the Center for Civil and Human Rights’ involvement.
“It lets other people know that this is about human rights for all people — whatever identity you have or labels others associate with you,” she said.
Tim’m West, a board member, said the LGBT Initiative will address a broad variety of issues.
“Marriage does not make life wonderful for all,” said West, a gay man who works with Teach for America to improve classroom environments for LGBT students. “For some, it’s the one box to check. For others, there are four or five more that we need to work on.”
Details still are in the works, but organizers have settled on three broad areas of focus: education and employment, public health and wellness, and criminal justice and safety. A new exhibit inside the museum details Atlanta’s LGBT community since a 1969 police raid of a New York bar sparked the Stonewall Inn riots, considered the start of the modern gay rights movement.
This summer’s Supreme Court ruling establishing same-sex marriage has prompted organizations working on LGBT rights to focus on “lived equality,” said Beth Littrell, an Atlanta-based senior attorney for Lambda Legal. Littrell said LGBT people may be discriminated against for their gender identity or sexuality, but also feel targeted for their race or income.
“We’re all, to a certain extent, underfunded and under-resourced,” Littrell said. “Having a space that is dedicated to highlighting injustices in all incarnations can only help us become a stronger community.”
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