Year: 2020

Doctors concerned over new rule that could exclude transgender patients

Posted on by Kathleen Baril

Doctors are concerned about a new final rule that Health and Human Services has introduced to be implemented mid-August that excludes specific protections for transgender people.   https://abcnews.go.com/Health/doctors-concerned-complex-legal-landscape-transgender-patients-analysis/story?id=72148509

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“Stuck Rubber Baby” is reissued for its 25th anniversary

Posted on by Jim Collins

First Second Books has published a 25th anniversary edition of the late Howard Cruse’s classic graphic novel, Stuck Rubber Baby. Alison Bechdel has written an introduction for this edition: https://slate.com/culture/2020/07/alison-bechdel-howard-cruse-stuck-rubber-baby.html

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“The Deviant’s War”: New book explores early LGBTQ rights movement

Posted on by Jim Collins

Eric Cervini’s new book, The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America (which recently became the first LGBTQ history book to appear on the New York Times bestseller list in over two decades), explores the early LGBTQ rights movement focusing on Frank Kameny’s activism while tracing its ties and debts to other […]

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Art museum exhibit examines the relationship between James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney

Posted on by Jim Collins

“Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door”, an exhibit at the Knoxville (TN) Museum of Art explores the 38 year relationship between artist Beauford Delaney and author James Baldwin, a friendship that “shaped one another’s creative output and worldview”, and the exhibit tells their story while exploring the “nature of the racial and […]

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