4 Great but Perhaps Lesser Known LGBT Destinations - GayRealEstate USA

Every year Anchorage also hosts the fun-filled Alaska Pride Fest, a celebratory event that includes a LGBT festival and gay pride parade. Carrboro, North Carolina. Just west of the university city of Chapel Hill is Carrboro, a small town with a bohemian attitude and a penchant for arts and ... Whatever people refer to them as – gay ghettos, lesbian enclaves, rainbow districts, or “gayborhoods” – they all represent diverse, fun, open-minded and welcoming communities. ...

Bent Alaska: Obama declares June Pride Month 2010

President Obama proclaimed June as LGBT Pride Month again this year, in the statement posted below. He lists the progress made by his administration and the struggles that remain in the movement for LGBT equality. ... An important chapter in our great, unfinished story is the movement for fairness and equality on behalf of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. This month, as we recognize the immeasurable contributions of LGBT Americans, ...

Is Karen Handel, Possible GOP Gubernatorial Candidate, the Best ...

Can possible GOP gubernatorial candidate Karen Handel best represent blacks, Latinos and the GLBT communities in Georgia? As a resident of the Peach state, Georgia, I have been following the campaigns Republican gubernatorial candidates ... The former head of the Log Cabin Republicans, a group of gay and lesbian GOP voters, recently released emails from 2002 and 2003, all sent from Ms. Handel's e-mail address, indicating she supported granting benefits to county employees ...

Watch: Obama Remarks at White House LGBT Pride Reception ...

Watch: Obama Remarks at White House LGBT Pride Reception. Wh2010_obama. President Obama today addressed a group of local LGBT leaders and gay youth this evening at the White House, touting passage of the Matthew Shepard hate crimes .... And the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mike Mullen, has repeatedly and passionately argued for allowing gay men and women to serve honestly in the military. (Applause.) We know that forcing gay and lesbian soldiers to live a lie or ...

Taking Back Pride: Putting the Politics Back in Pride Parades ...

(But a black lesbian still got elected to the General Assembly!) What the GLBT community needs is cohesive leadership, someone (or a small group of people) like Dr. King and his co-workers that can rally the troops and demand equality. Unity has never been big in the ... And until that happens from Louisiana to Alaska, from South Carolina to Washington State, we will need a Pride that is both social and political and celebrates both who we are and who we wish to become. ...