Gay Media and Press Network

San Francisco – Transgender Law Center (TLC) is proud to announce the hire of Ilona Turner as Legal Director.
“Ilona has shown immense dedication and skill in working to end discrimination against transgender and gender non-conforming people. We’re ecstatic to have her join our team,” said Masen Davis, Executive Director, “We’re thrilled that she has experience advocating for equality in the courtroom, statehouses, city halls,… Read the rest

(West Palm Beach, Florida)  The Palm Beach County School Board unanimously voted this evening to move forward with a policy allowing school district employees with domestic partners to take the same family and medical leave granted to opposite-sex, married employees under federal law.  Final approval is expected to occur before year’s end.The action was taken at the request of the Palm Beach County Human Rights… Read the rest

(Boca Raton, Florida) Following more than a decade of lobbying by faculty members, admistrators and students, the Board of Trustees of Florida Atlantic University voted this morning to specifically include “sexual orientation” among the classes protected from discrimination and harassment.
“This is a small step forward for FAU,” said Rand Hoch, President and Founder of the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council, a local nonprofit… Read the rest

As Reported by Change.org, Paola Ziritti is unthinkably brave to speak publicly about the “clinic.” She endured physical assault, sexual abuse, and a constant battery of insults. Guards would even throw buckets of cold water and urine on her. For two years, this was Paola’s waking nightmare… because she’s a lesbian. The “doctors” and guards at the clinic were trying to “cure” her.
Paola lives… Read the rest

Tampa, Florida - The Florida Consortium for HIV/AIDS Research (FCHAR) is the scientific arm of the public policy research, advocacy and educational nonprofit organization, The AIDS Institute. Conceived in 2010, the Consortium now comprises 116 academic, public health and private HIV researchers from seven universities, the Florida Department of Health’s Bureau of HIV/AIDS, county health departments, the state laboratory, and the private sector. FCHAR members… Read the rest

The AIDS Institute has announced they are launching a 2011 web site design competition and internship.  Graphic and web design students are encouraged to apply.  The winning entry will be: announced broadly, chosen for TAI’s 2012 spring internship (January 2012 – June 2012), and the selected individual(s) will be credited with the design – all of which assures general exposure to the creators of this… Read the rest

The Gay & Lesbian Review (www.glreview.com) is a bimonthly magazine of history, culture, and politics. When it was founded in 1994, the GLR filled a major void in gay culture: an intelligent, probing magazine for thinking readers that covered the full range of topics of interest to GLBT people.
The fact that the GLR is still around 18 years later is a testament to the… Read the rest

Look at your hand: four fingers and a thumb, right?  But what if you woke one morning and rather than four fingers and a thumb you are … short?  How would you feel?  What would you do?  What would you become?
The city is terrified: a mysterious figure is haunting the streets of near-future San Francisco, drugging and amputating the fingertips of queer men.  But… Read the rest