Thinking Out Loud: In a Family Way, Why reproductive rights should matter to the LGBT community
By: Abby Dees*/Special for TRT– If you’re like me, you don’t think a whole lot about birth control. You probably don’t have much heterosexual sex,…
Opinion
Ask Lambda Legal: The Affordable Care Act and HIV
By: Scott Schoettes/HIV Project Director for Lambda Legal– Q: I recently tested positive for HIV, and a friend told me that I might have a…
Creep of the Week: Pat Robertson for heterosexuality with demonic possession
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special for TRT– Congratulations, Pat Robertson, for being chosen as Creep of the Week. There were a lot of outstanding candidates this week,…
Creep of the Week: Utah Legislature at the first sex-free state!
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special to TRT– Yes! Utah is on a fast track to becoming the first sex-free state in the country. I know, I know,…
Creep of the Week: Kirk Cameron & His Extreme Right “Beliefs”
By: D’Anne Witkowski/Special for TRT– On March 2 Kirk Cameron was on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight for some reason. To many viewers it must have…
Thinking Out Loud: Why Waiting for LGBT Equality is a Waste of Time
By: Abby Dees*/Special for TRT While my home state of California is still wrestling with whether allowing gay marriage will send us floating into the…
Creep of the Week: Rick Santorum, Yes Again, How Can We Not?
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special for TRT– America loves a circus. Doesn’t even matter if it’s ethical. Tigers locked in cages all day? Elephants viciously whipped? We…
Funding for Abortions: Essential Part of Queer Life & You Can Help
By: Jason Lydon*/TRT Columnist– The Eastern Massachusetts Abortion (EMA) Fund is currently engaged in their second annual “Triathlon” fundraiser. This innovative triathlon includes Wii bowling,…
Doctor’s Office: What to Expect When You Are Transgender
By: Deja Nicole Greenlaw*/TRT Columnist– Everyone needs to go to the doctor for their physical well-being. We need to have whatever’s in our bodies checked…
Faith, Family, and God – Some LGBTQS Prayers to Consider
By: Paul P. Jesep*/TRT Columnist Depending on family and personal experiences, LGBTQS attitudes about prayer may range from curious to ambivalent to negative. Because a social…
Letters to the Editor: The Rainbow Times’ March, 2012
Letters to the Editor (March 1, 2012) Tynan Power’s column: TransMan Dear Editor, I really appreciated Tynan Power’s piece Stretching those tired gender boxes (2/2)… I’ve friends…
Fried-Oppenheim Case: When transphobia arrives, we’re all on trial
By: Tynan Power*/TRT Columnist– In February, my community was gripped by the unfolding trial of David Fried-Oppenheim, founder of a popular local performing arts center….
Ask A Transwoman: A rose by any other name … is whatever she says it is!
By: Lorelei Erisis*/TRT Columnist– If you were talking to someone and in the conversation they referenced your old birth/boy name (several times), what would you…
Visión Latina: Nuestra Hermandad Latina LGBT
Por: Wilfred Labiosa/Columnista de TRT– ¿Qué nos une como comunidad Latina? Tenemos tantas diferencias pero a la misma tenemos muchas similitudes. Por supuesto que nos…
Pregunte Lambda Legal – Transición en el Trabajo
Por: Greg Nevins/Abogado de Lambda Legal– P: Soy una mujer transgénero, y es hora de comenzar mi transición. ¿Me protegerá la ley de la discriminación en…
Creep of the Week: Mitt Romney’s vitriolic opposition to the LGBT community
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special for TRT– It makes me sad that there are LGBT people in America who will vote for Mitt Romney should he get…
The Most Dangerous Candidate In Modern Politics
By: Nicole Lashomb, Editor-in-Chief– The views of Rick Santorum are fundamentally radical to say the least. What concerns me the most is how exuberantly he…
The Kate Clinton Q&A: Her responsibility to be political
Comedian talks election, pissing off right-wingers By: Chris Azzopardi*/Special for TRT– Times like this – election years, when politics are a comedian’s punching-bag – were…
Creep of the Week: One Million Moms
By: D’Anne Witkowski/Special for TRT– Lest there be any confusion, last week’s Creep is not just a million random ladies with kids. One Million Moms…
Thinking Out Loud: Two Lesbians Abroad
What our guidebook didn’t tell us about being out of the closet in Egypt By: Abby Dees/Special for TRT– Nearly 3500 years ago, the female…
Creep of the Week: Stacey Campfield (R-Tennessee) On Forbidding Sex Ed
By: D’Anne Witkowski/Special for TRT– There are a lot of things wrong with State Senator Stacey Campfield (R-Tennessee). Mainly mouth things and brain things, as…
Op-Ed: CNN Suspends Roland Martin: Says His Words Are Intolerable
By: Christian Langstaff/Special Op-Ed– After several hate-filled tweets, by CNN’s Martin, the contributor has been suspended, The Advocate reported. Allegedly, Martin’s anti-gay comments were tweeted while…
Killer Food!–Second in a Series concerning Food & Politics and the 2012 Elections
To Cook is To Love: A Foodies Journal By: John Verlinden/TRT Cuisine Expert– Our food supply isn’t always as safe as we’d like. Each year…