“I’ve always been a tomboy!” I exclaimed with a force that I hoped would resonate long after the conversation ended. My mom proceeded to say, “No, you haven’t, you liked wearing dresses.” After sincerely expressing that I never liked or enjoyed wearing either she... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

As any activist in our community knows, one of the ways that we describe our community involves unwieldily odd acronyms that don’t slip off the tongue quite easily like LGBTQIA and with those acronyms, you are always leaving SOMEONE out. Well, I remember reading something in the way early stages of my transition, long before I started on my hormones and moved to Denver due to the allure of Naropa and it was very good. Hell, it was and is something that we definitely need to help show what our community truly is about, with little ambiguity. It’s, yep, you ...

Guess what, dear readers! Score one for the Unenlightened! That’s right! Miss Invisible (that’d be me), has suddenly skyrocketed to the pinnacle of lez badassery. “How?” you ask. Well, let me explain first off that I’m what my friends like to call ’stealth.’ I’m that lesbian. You know, the one that can walk into a girly bar, on girly night, with a bunch of girls, and get asked if I’m the straight best friend. Jeez louise – No, I’m the homo, they’re here with me! And before you go, “Naww, could never happen,” let me tell you—it totally did. It’s ...

Once again I am forcibly reminded, I am my body. Crossing Queen St on Wednesday on my way to a meeting at the AIDS Foundation, I felt this sudden Bang! like someone had slammed the back of my left calf with a hammer. I’d pulled a muscle, just by running across the road. Pain! And not the fun kind! I rang my Dr, got an appointment. Rang my boss and told her I wouldn’t be back in. Staggered onto the Link and got to the meeting. The Dr couldn’t see me till after 2, and they’re only 5 mins away ...

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A second major report focusing on aging LGBT people was released today. Yesterday, the LGBT advocacy group SAGE released a report that addresses the needs of older populations in general, including members of the WWII generation who now face issues with care facilities. The second report released today focuses on a subset of the population—boomers born between 1946 and 1964. The study found that the LGBT boomers have a broader definition of “family” than do members of the general population and depend on their “chosen family” of friends and associates for a broad range of support. The study ...

   ::: The Episcopal Church gave final approval Wednesday to the election of Mary Glasspool to become a bishop for the Diocese of Los Angeles. When she is consecrated in May, Glasspool will become the first out lesbian bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion, Los Angeles Times reports. She is the first out gay or lesbian bishop approved by the church since 2003, when the election of a gay man as bishop of New Hampshire caused such an uproar that the US church, under pressure from other members of the global Anglican Communion, imposed a moratorium on such elevations. ...

Lt. Dan Choi and Capt. Jim Pietrangelo lead a crowd of protesters away from an HRC-sponsored rally and toward an act of civil disobedience at the White House photo via CNN by AmericaBlog Lt. Dan Choi and two other LGBT activists were arrested today after chaining themselves to the White House fence in what some other activists have criticized as a a political stunt. Choi released a statement explaining the action: Joined by former U.S. Captain Jim Pietrangelo, honorably discharged in 2004 under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Lt. Choi made a public call to action in ...

     ::: A Dallas Baptist church recently made a slight change to its website which now declares that the church is “a vibrant mosaic of varied racial identities, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and denominational backgrounds.” The pastor of the church, Royal Lane Baptist, said earlier that the congregation hadn’t changed its bylaws or taken an official vote about LGBT people but said the new website language merely reflects the church’s long practice of welcoming gays and lesbians, including ordaining some as deacons. But putting the words “sexual orientation” into that public description, which appears on the ‘About Us’ page ...

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Because it looks a little silly and cliché to me, and the chemistry between Jesus Luz and Cintia Dicker is clearly nonexistent, especially when compared to the Calvin Klein Jeans campaign with Eva Mendez and Jamie Dornan. ...

Help the government expand services to the LGBT and HIV affected communities by filling out the census. This simple document enables the federal government and nonprofit organizations to better serve our communities. Gay couples can be recognized as married to their spouse by specifying that their spouse is of the same-sex. Transgender people are encouraged to select their gender identification on the form. For more information check out http://www.queerthecensus.org/ and http://ourfamiliescount.org/ ...

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Check out these recently released shots of hot Major Model Ryan Daharsh, photographed by Tarrice Love. ...

Brazilian model-actor-singer-dancer Jonatas Faro is the new face for the fall 2010 ad campaign for Brazilian label Sergio K. ...

VGL loves Boss model James Roffey by Laurence Ellis for The Contributing Editor! ...

Check out these photos of absolutely perfect Brazilian model, Miro Moreira, in the UW runway show last week in Brasilia, Brazil. ...

Some shots of Chris Leabu photographed by Greg Vaughan for your hump-day entertainment. ...

Jonathan L Cooper by Rick Day ...