The Slow Coming Out of Young Lesbians on TV
NOW Membership VP Allendra Letsome asks: Why do TV shows about and for young adults often include gay male characters from the start, but take their time introducing lesbian characters?
Category: LGBTQIA Rights
NOW Celebrates Repeal Of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
The Senate’s vote today to repeal the military’s unjust Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy is a landmark victory that ends the 17-year policy of discrimination against lesbians and gay men in the military and moves our nation one step closer to realizing the promise of equality.
Pentagon Report Supports the End of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
“The Pentagon survey makes it clear that lesbians and gay men serving openly in the military are not the problem,” said NOW President Terry O’Neill. “The problem is Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, which should have been repealed long ago.”
Stopping the Culture of Hate
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips issued an injunction immediately stopping enforcement of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that prohibits lesbians and gay men from serving in the military. I am holding my breath hoping that the U.S. Department of Justice will do the right thing and not appeal the injunction of this 17-year-old policy of state sanctioned discrimination.
LGBT ‘Bullying’ Must Stop
Many of us have seen the numerous LGBT suicide stories in the news recently — the most high-profile being the tragic death of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi. A college freshman, Clementi completed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate secretly recorded his sexual encounter with another male and streamed it live on the internet. These news stories, however, highlight but a few of the many LGBT youths who have died by suicide as a result of anti-gay harassment, bullying and social homophobia.