Politics
Big Gay News – February 9, 2012
UK Muslims Convicted in Landmark Gay Hatred Case Reuters reports that three British Muslim men were found guilty in January of anti-gay rhetoric by distributing leaflets calling for the death of homosexuals. The men handed [...]
Against the Amendment: An Interview with Ann Kaner-Roth
Ann Kaner-Roth was appointed executive director at Project 515 in 2010. Prior to 2010, she served as executive director of Child Care WORKS; associate director of the Jewish Community Foundation; and Field Representative for the [...]
Commentary: Politics of Scandal
By Joe McHugh I was born Catholic and hope to die Catholic. Despite its scandals, the church still speaks words of healing, hope and freedom to me. Right now, however, I feel scandalized by how [...]
Commentary: Against the Amendment
December 3rd, 2011 my husband Dean and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary. Dean proposed to me on my 40th birthday. After being together for five years, and opening the Wilde Roast Café together, we [...]
Commentary: A Call to Action for Catholics
In 2012, Minnesotans will vote on an amendment to the state constitution that would officially define marriage as an institution between one man and one woman. The Catholic Church, a tax-exempt institution, is getting heavily [...]
Causes
A Word in Edgewise: Bats, Bees and Poisoned Gold
Amidst the arguments for and denials of global warming and its dire consequences, humans will probably exit suddenly, still squabbling, bequeath Gaia’s remains to the cockroaches. We might delay our demise by accepting the fact [...]
2012 Lavender Yellow Pages Cover Artist: Jane Weis
Koi. Colorful, orange fish that are actually carp–just the more colorful versions of carp. Colorful carp grace our cover of the 2012 Lavender Yellow Pages Edition, accenting it with a brightness that makes them pop [...]
2012 Lavender Yellow Pages: About the Organization
Message from 2012 Lavender Yellow Pages Recipient Organization, Minnesotans United for All Families: At midnight on May 21, 2011, the final legislative vote was taken in St. Paul to place a question on the 2012 [...]
Event: Center Stage For Marriage – Home for the Holidays, Dec. 12, 2011
Minnesota United For All Families held a fundraising event at The Cowles Center, “Center Stage for Marriage: Home for the Holidays,” on Monday, December 12, 2011. Lavender is pleased to present photos from this wonderful event [...]
Special Focus: Through the Rain: A Portrait of Homeless Youth
This story is true. Sincere thanks to Stephan Parker for his courage in sharing it. The boy sits on a park bench one night, and he stares. He stares at homes, some with their lights [...]
Workplace
New Year’s Resolutions: Human Rights Campaign and Corporate Equality
The non-profit’s evaluation of companies practices spurs hundreds of businesses nationwide to be more accountable to their GLBT employees, while giving consumers tools to make more informed decisions about where they spend their money. For [...]
Skirting the Issues: Gratitude
“You’re so brave.” People have often said that in the two and a half years since I transitioned from male to female. Hearing it is always a mixed bag; yes, it’s ego-feeding, but on the [...]
Corporate Giving: Employee Groups and Contribution Policy
To create a more rounded view of corporate giving, Lavender asked the top Fortune 500 companies in Minnesota about their giving policies. Information has been complied into a graph as well as the following explanations. [...]
Target Boycott Appears To Be Working
When Target Corporation donated $150,000 to the right wing, antigay, MN Forward last year, they were blindsided by the firestorm from outraged shoppers who were more socially conscious than the Target Board seemed to have [...]
Corporations Are People
Target Corporation has been bearing the brunt of scrutiny for their $150,000 donation to MN Forward, a political action committee supporting Republican Tom Emmer, who openly opposes same-sex marriage, while some Twin Cities non-profit organizations [...]
Books
James C. Hormel: Fit to Serve
The core of James C. Hormel’s memoir, Fit to Serve, is the book’s subtitle: Reflections of a Secret Life, Private Struggle, and Public Battle to Become the First Openly Gay U.S. Ambassador. Born in 1933 in Austin, [...]
Books: Dead Ahead, Buyer’s Remorse, For the Ferryman, and Fit to Serve
Dead Ahead: A Jo Spence Mystery Jen Wright Clover Valley Press $14.95 The third in Wright’s Jo Spence series finds Jo jolted awake. She’d been flying, without a helmet, along Lake Superior and onto the [...]
Books: Black and Blue, Southern Fried, Gay Bar, and Castles
Black and Blue and Pretty Dead, Too: A Paul Turner Mystery Mark Zubro MLS Press $14.99 Black and Blue is the tenth book in the author’s Paul Turner series, which includes Nerds Who Kill and [...]
Education
Are Two Transgender-Related Surveys Contradictory?
Two recent studies related to transgenders apparently contradict each other. One study, entitled “Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey,” was a joint project of the National Center for Transgender [...]
Big Gay News
Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, and in commemoration of the occasion, the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, headquartered at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, debunks the top 10 myths about HIV vaccine research. Myth No. [...]
From the Editor: Gifts. Holidays. Giving. Doing. Showing. Asking.
Researching and sourcing items for the Gift Guide has as much to do with you, as the readers, as it does with us, as the writers. We think about what you might want, being members [...]
A Word in Edgewise: School Priorities: Socialization or Survival?
This past month yet another gay teen, Ottawa 10th grader Jamie Hubley, committed suicide after having endured bullying since 7th grade. Hubley blogged, had friends and peers who cared, but still the loneliness and pervasive [...]
Glimpses
College of Visual Arts Leaders of Design Series Presents: WOMN: Women in Minnesota Design The College of Visual Arts (CVA) has announced is Fall 2011 Leaders of Design Series, celebrating women who have helped put [...]
Law & Finance
Lambda Legal: Transitioning at Work
By Greg Nevins, Supervising Senior Staff Attorney at Lambda Legal Q: I’m a transgender woman, and it is time for me to transition at work but I am concerned about being able to keep my [...]
Ask Lambda Legal – Public Accomodation
By Natalie Chin, Staff Attorney for Lambda Legal Q: The other week, a few friends and I were at a restaurant. We attempted to get the attention of the wait staff but it soon became [...]
Edgewise: For the Rain It Raineth Every Day
Five men in Britain, wrote The Washington Post recently, are on trial for distributing leaflets titled “The Death Penalty” calling for gay people to be killed, and depicting a noose. They were charged under a [...]
Ask Lambda Legal – Public Accommodation
By Natalie Chin, Staff Attorney for Lambda Legal Q: The other week, a few friends and I were at a restaurant. We attempted to get the attention of the wait staff but it soon became [...]
A Word in Edgewise: License to Bully?
Although Michigan toned down its recent hateful anti-bullying bill and passed a saner, more moderate version, the whole episode can still stand as a model of what to expect from bigots; tenacity, disingenuousness, and downright skullduggery. Into the [...]
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