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…
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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…
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…
Congratulations to MetLife, our newest Corporate Partner
By: Jenn Tracz Grace*/CABO’s Executive Director– 2012 is off to a wonderful beginning for the Connecticut Alliance for Business Opportunities (CABO), the statewide affiliate of…
Creep of the Week: Pope Benedict XVI
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special for TRT– You know, whenever I’m in the market for marriage advice, the only person I trust is an unmarried guy in…
Black History Month: Reflecting on the gay black feminist movement
By: Jason Lydon/TRT Columnist– February is Black History Month, a reminder to the dominant culture to lift up the stories and lives of black people….
Islamaphobia, gender phobias and immigration issues persist in 2012
By: Jason Lydon/TRT Columnist- As 2012 begins, I am afraid. No, I am not afraid of the ridiculously misinterpreted Mayan prophesies of the end of…
Pinkwashing in Israel distracts attention from larger human-rights violations, a call to action
By: Jason Lydon/TRT Columnist* The month of November was “Out in Israel Month,” as organized by the Consulate General of Israel, Israel Campus Round Table,…
Calling all LGBT business owners, here’s an opportunity for you
By: Jenn Tracz*/CABO’s Executive Director- Are you LGBT? Do you own a business? Did you know there is LGBT business certification you can receive that…
Homosexual Difficulties: The scary truth about one Osmond brother’s family-friendly website
By: Abby Dees*/Special for TRT- I had meant to write about serious LGBT news this week, but I accidently fell down the sinkhole of celebrity…
The Occupy movement could grow even stronger by joining other local activist groups
By: Jason Lydon/TRT Columnist- Mike Konczal, a fellow with the Roosevelt Institute who focuses on financial reform, structural unemployment, consumer access to financial services, and…
Thinking Out Loud: Am I post-gay yet? Or am I just overcompensating for gay stereotypes?
By: Abby Dees*/Special for TRT- Have you become complacent about being gay? I have. As LGBT rights evolve, and LGBT life becomes more normalized to…
Thinking Out Loud: Who you calling a hater?
By: Abby Dees*/TRT Special Telling people who are uninformed or locked into intolerant thinking that they are in fact hateful isn’t going to bring about…
Thinking Out Loud: The biggest threat for our youth
By: Abby Dees*/Special for TRT- Forget politics – the real challenge is our families In my travels lately as a professional gay I’ve been speaking…
Free LGBT Expo in Middletown, CT
By: Jenn Tracz*/CABO’s Executive Director Join us on October 18th for our 4th annual LGBT business expo! This event is FREE for anyone who RSVP’s on the…
Expressing myself in ink this National Coming Out Day
By: Jason Lydon/TRT Columnist- This summer, I spent a good amount of time on the road, traveling around in an adorable red Toyota. I drove…
It’s Back to Business
By: Jenn Tracz*/CABO’s Executive Director- Well, it’s September and everyone is heading back to school, back to work and back to business. The summer months…
There’s a lot we can learn from the too-early death of Amy Winehouse
By: Jason Lydon/TRT Columnist- Amy Winehouse is the newest member of the 27 Club, joining Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain as artists…
Regional LGBT chambers and their importance
By: Jenn Tracz*/Special for TRT- Back in November I wrote about an amazing experience that I had at a conference in Washington D.C., hosted by…
Police repression: Third largest perpetrators of anti-LGBT violence
By: Jason Lydon/TRT Columnist- On March 25, 2011 former City Councilor Chuck Turner reported to the Federal Bureau of Prisons to begin his three year…
Is Serotonin the Gay Chemical?
By: Echo Brooks/ TRT Online Columnist- A Chinese scientist states he has found that removing serotonin from a male mouse will decrease his mating desire…
Alliances in School
By Echo Brooks/TRT Online Columnist- Gay straight alliances are typically student based programs within school systems that provide meeting places, ideas, support and events that…