Washington Blade –Lou Chibbaro Jr. As the 50th anniversary of the U.S. war on poverty launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 is commemorated this year, LGBT advocates are pointing to little noticed studies showing that the rate of poverty in the LGBT community is higher than that of the general population. In a […]
Read More →The Inquirer –Kevin Riordan With same-sex marriage on the rise nationwide and celebrities coming out all over the place, one might suppose that young gay men’s lives have become “easy, breezy, and free,” says Jerome T. Pipes. This seems particularly true when compared with my own youthful emergence from the closet, back in the day […]
Read More →EDGE –Conswella Bennett It’s one thing to read that the rate of HIV infection continues to be alarmingly high among African-American young men. It’s quite another to give it a name and a place. Unlike many young men of color who have sex with men, Detroit native Dwayne Washington has always identified as gay. Even […]
Read More →October 23, 2013 From National Black Gay Men’s Advocacy Coalition (NBGMAC) With the coming of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the nation must prepare for a turning point in health care for US citizens. However, despite the possibilities and promises of the ACA, the law still hinges on our collective ability to inform and get […]
Read More →Physical, sexual and emotional abuse among young gay black men is a pervasive problem, yet there remains a lack of social services and resources available to help them, a Michigan State University scholar argues in a new study. The trauma they experience – often at a young age – is related to depression, substance abuse […]
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