By John Mack Freeman Curt Schilling, a former professional baseball player and current ESPN commentator, has been fired from ESPN for sharing a transphobic meme and making transphobic comments on Facebook. Via New York Times: Schilling, who had worked for the network since 2010 and most recently offered analysis on “Monday Night Baseball,” was dismissed […]
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Watch: SNL Takes On ‘Religious Freedom’ Legislation
By Ashley R. Lierman A recent parody on Saturday Night Live took aim at the entire basis of recent anti-LGBT “religious freedom” bills. In the form of a satirical movie trailer, the clip presents a right-winger’s paranoid fantasy of an America where Christians are oppressed, gays are the most powerful people in the country, and […]
New resource announcement: LGBT Issues in Higher Education
By Cat Walker A new resource added to the GLBTRT Professional Tools page is a guide to print and online resources regarding LGBT issues in higher education. While over the past few decades, conditions have improved for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender college students, faculty, and staff, they still have to face generations of stigma […]
Queer Quest 19: A Bag of Bones
Gay author James Hannaham wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
By John Mack Freeman James Hannaham has won the 2016 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his book Delicious Foods. Via the Pen/Faulkner Foundation: James Hannaham’s Delicious Foods is at once a sweeping American tale of race and exploitation, a darkly comedic thriller, and an intimate portrayal of a troubled mother and her damaged son. The narrative follows the lives […]
Pennsylvania governor signs non-discrimination orders
By John Mack Freeman Governor Tom Wolf (D) signed two executive orders that ban anti-GLBT discrimination in the state of Pennsylvania. Via The Washington Blade: The first order prohibits discrimination against state employees based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, HIV status and other factors. The second mandate bans state contractors from discriminating against their LGBT […]
Chinese court blocks same-sex marriage in first case of its kind
Watch: New Google ad features gay breakup and dating goal
North Carolina continues to suffer backlash due to anti-GLBT law
By John Mack Freeman It has not been a good month to be North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory. Last month, he signed into law HB 2 that, among other things, stripped cities of their rights to develop protections for GLBT people and that also blocked trans people from using public restrooms that align with their gender […]