Tag Archives: LGBTQ
‘Griot Circle’ is a haven for Black LGBTQ elders
By Justus Wilhoit The night they met in 2005, Regina Shavers offered Sandie Green an opportunity. Green, queer and Black like Shavers, immediately agreed to volunteer — on a full-time basis — to organize what now is a 30-year-old center reserved for LGBTQ people who look like them. “It’s very hard when it comes to […]
Protesting NY Times’ LGBTQ coverage
By Gray Fuller — Standing on the sweltering sidewalk at the entrance to The New York Times, a group aggrieved by the paper’s coverage of transgender people spelled out their complaint: Gray Lady Lies Trans People Die. In the bottom corners of the white poster board bearing those words, two handprints were pressed in red […]