LGBT History Month

 In parts of Cape Town, South Africa, corrective rape has been taking place. Corrective rape is a terrible hate crime in which men rape lesbian women, attempting to cure them of their sexual orientation. Worldwide, activists have petitioned to the South African Parliament, urging the government to respond...

LGBT History Month

LGBT History Month provides an opportune moment to remember that not all cultures see gender as a dichotomy.  Modern, Western, Judeo-Christian society is such a powerful force that in today’s world we often forget that gender and sex (and sexuality) are not always a neat little, rigidly defined...

LGBT History Month

Tomorrow, October 12, 2011 will mark the 13th anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s death. In 1998, Shepard–who attended the University of Wyoming in Laramie was murdered because of his sexual orientation. His death has impacted the way people think, behave and how social equality laws were created....

LGBT History Month

Sheryl Swoopes is a three-time Olympic gold medalist (1996, 2000, 2004), four-time WNBA champion (1997–2000), three-time WNBA MVP (2000, 2002, 2005), and one of the first female athletes to have a shoe named after her, Nike’s Air Swoope. In her WNBA career playing for the Houston Comets, she has...

LGBT History Month

One man, one seat, no doubts. That was Milk. Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California. During 1977, Harvey won the seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. During the 1970′s, being a homosexual was considered a mental illness, according to...

LGBT History Month

In Germany, homosexual acts (specifically between 2 men) had been made illegal, punishable by imprisonment in 1871, though homosexual behavior between two women was not criminalized in nearly the same way.  In the early 1900s, community meeting places for gay men and (especially) lesbians began popping up...