Submitted by ONE Community on March 29, 2013 - 3:44pm
America’s sixth-largest city is often associated with the conservative politics that have shaped the state’s national reputation.
But Phoenix’s recent decision to add lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and disabled residents to its anti-discrimination ordinance suggests public policy is catching up with social change and public attitudes, said Kristin Koptiuch, an Arizona State University associate professor of anthropology.
“It’s a way that Phoenix can assert itself and not to be tainted by all of (the high-profile conservative measures by the state),” said Koptiuch, a board member of Ubiquity, a group of ASU staff and faculty concerned with LGBT issues. “We are an exception to what the state image is at large.” Read more »
Submitted by ONE Community on June 19, 2012 - 5:03pm
It happens so often that you'd imagine Neil Giuliano would be used to it by now.
It started in 1996. That's when Giuliano, then mayor of Tempe, publicly disclosed that he was gay after a voter threatened to out him. Once he spoke openly about his sexuality, the letters started to come in. And these were actual handwritten letters, he likes to point out.
"E-mail was just getting started," he says, smiling. "I received literally thousands of letters and notes and cards."
The people who wrote came from both ends of the spectrum. There were teenagers who were grappling with their own sexuality. There were men in their 70s who had never come out of the closet, deeply ashamed of the secret they were hiding. Read more »
Submitted by ONE Community on June 17, 2012 - 11:31am
President Obama acknowledged the frustrations in the gay community at the pace of progress — saying that gay activists had every right to push for change forcefully.
"I’ve said before that I would never counsel patience; that it wasn’t right to tell you to be patient any more than it was right for others to tell women to be patient a century ago, or African Americans to be patient a half century ago," Obama said at a LGBT pride month reception Friday. "After decades of inaction and indifference, you have every reason and right to push, loudly and forcefully, for equality." Read more »
Submitted by ONE Community on May 19, 2012 - 12:23pm
A prominent retired psychiatrist is apologizing to the gay community for a decade-old study that concluded some gay people can go straight through what's called reparative therapy.
Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, formerly of Columbia University, now says he no longer believes his work showed that.
For the study, Spitzer had interviewed 200 people who'd claimed some degree of change. The "fatal flaw" is that there is no way to judge the credibility of their accounts, Spitzer says in a letter he submitted last month to a journal that published his work in 2003. Read more »
Submitted by ONE Community on April 25, 2012 - 9:35pm
Earlier this month, psychiatrist Bob Spitzer made headlines after he retracted his controversial 2001 study proclaiming that "highly motivated" gay and lesbian people could change their sexual orientation. But Spitzer is now going even further by making what has been described as "an unprecedented apology" to both former patients of reparative therapy as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community at large.
Truth Wins Out has obtained a copy of the letter, addressed to Dr. Ken Zucker: Read more »
Submitted by ONE Community on April 14, 2012 - 6:39am
When word got out that a server objected to a lesbian couple kissing at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel in late February, the incident shocked most everyone who heard about it.
For days, friends and strangers took to the Facebook page of the District American Kitchen and Wine Bar, the hotel's restaurant, to express outrage that a couple's anniversary dinner could be ruined in a public space in 2012. Read more »
Submitted by ONE Community on January 24, 2012 - 6:04pm
From ABC News:
Cynthia Nixon stands by her statement that she is gay by choice, despite the backlash she’s received from members of the gay community.
The “Sex and the City” star recently clarified remarks she made during a speech to a gay audience in which she declared, “I’ve been straight and I’ve been gay, and gay is better.” Read more »
Submitted by ONE Community on July 11, 2010 - 12:17pm
Filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko can only hope that her lesbian-marriage comedy "The Kids Are All Right" can attract the degree of attention and animosity from the family-values right that it has already attracted from certain quarters of the lesbian and gay community.
Submitted by ONE Community on February 26, 2010 - 2:12pm
Wanda Sykes called in to Rosie O’Donnell’s Sirius radio show to talk about a wide range of topics, including how Wanda met her wife, Alex (on Fire Island), and what it felt like for both comics to come out.
O’Donnell remembered that she felt “stalked” and pressured to come out by former Advocate editor in chief Judy Wieder: “She’d be at every event I was at and she’d say, ‘I really want to talk to you about coming out.
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Wanda Sykes called in to Rosie O’Donnell’s Sirius radio show to talk about a wide range of topics, including how Wanda met her wife, Alex (on Fire Island), and what it felt like for both comics to come out.
O’Donnell remembered that she felt “stalked” and pressured to come out by former Advocate editor in chief Judy Wieder: “She’d be at every event I was at and she’d say, ‘I really want to talk to you about coming out.
