California Domestic Partner Law May Soon Apply to Straight Unmarried Couples
Bill would expand domestic partner law in California: Responding to the growing trend of couples raising children out of wedlock, a San Francisco lawmaker plans to introduce a bill today that would give young and middle-age heterosexual couples who are…
_Nobody Passes_ Book Launch
If you're in or around the Bay Area, stop by one of these two free celebrations of the launch of Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity. Tuesday, December 5, 2006 6 San Francisco Main Library 100 Larkin…
BETTY: Heroine Holidays (NYC Performance Featuring Emily Saliers and Gloria Steinem)
BETTY: Heroine Holidays will be held on December 21st, December 22nd, and December 23rd at The Public Theater. Join BETTY in a Winter Solstice celebration of wine, women and song, three nights long. The Rock/Pop band - whose theme song…
World AIDS Day edition of the International Carnival of Pozitivities
The International Carnival of Pozitivities is "a blog carnival for people living with HIV/AIDS around the world." From the carnival's online home: "The intent of this carnival is to provide an international forum for interaction among those of us who…
World AIDS Day: What to Watch
Early one morning in Manhattan, nearly 100 HIV-positive men and women assembled at a downtown restaurant with artist Spencer Tunick to participate in a unique experience: being part of an ensemble nude photograph to be featured on the cover of…
Are you a woman who lives in Atlanta and who identifies as femme or feminine?
Amy Palder, a Georgia State University Doctoral Candidate, is seeking interviewees for her research study to determine what femininity looks like when bio-males are out of the equation. You must partner exclusively with other women, transmen and/or genderqueers (you can…
Submissions for December’s carnival are due today!
Last call! The anniversary edition of the Carnival of Bent Attractions will be hosted at Spectrum Bloggers on December 10th. Submit your posts here. You can find Maria on MySpace here and read her current call for essays on femme…
Two Calls for Gay Erotic Writing
Richard Labonte is currently accepting gay erotic writing for two upcoming Cleis Press titles. City Boys Editor: Richard Labonte Publisher: Cleis Press Deadline: April 30, 2007 Not many gay boys are born in the Castro, West Hollywood, or Chelsea -…
Spreading a meme
This post will assist Scott Eric Kaufman in his quest to measure "the speed of meme." From Acephalous: What is the speed of meme? People write in general (typically truimphant) terms about how swiftly a single voice can travel from…
Ten Years Added to HIV+ Federal Prisoner’s Sentence
Last month, District Judge Ron Clark added an additional ten years to the sentence of an HIV + federal prisoner who bit a correctional officer on the arm. Clark stated that "here was a very real risk that the victim…