Seon Clarke, Seyon Persaud, Anthony Bess, Joshua Peters and Leon Conway Source: Alternet By Antoine Craigwell In recent times, it seems that those occasions when a 40th anniversary is celebrated, that as a milestone event, it has taken on a greater significance beyond, as the saying goes, “life begins at 40.” The Indian High Court ruled in its landmark decision in June 2009 that being homosexual is not a crime and that the law, Section 337, imposed by the British in 1861 during colonial rule, was itself antithetical to the Indian Constitution. Around the world, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ...

Caught a preview performance of the latest incarnation of The Temperamentals at New World Stages yesterday... The Temperamentals is about the formation of The Mattachine Society, the first gay civil rights organization in America.Script tells the story of two men - the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich - as they fall in love while working on their own version of an early gay rights movement. It takes place during the period 1950-1953. This is a an obscure period of American gay/political history.That was years before the notorious Stonewall Riots... And with ...

Four activists from the group Queer Rising were arrested this morning after chaining themselves to the New York Marriage Bureau following the application and subsequent rejection of marriage licenses to more than 20 same-sex couples. Alan Bounville, Jake Goodman, Justin Elzie and Gabriel Yuri Bollag chained and pad-locked themselves to the entrance railing, subsequently blocking entry to the marriage bureau, according to the group. Watch video, AFTER THE JUMP... Following the rejection of the same-sex couples, a lesbian and gay man applied to be married and were approved as a couple for a marriage license. Between 50 and 100 marriage ...

This afternoon's court session has focused on the history of discrimination against gays. It provides a good overview from the 18th century to the present. The witness is Dr. George Chauncey.Yale history professor George Chauncey is expected to testify about anti-gay bias. Chauncey is best known for his book, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, which was published to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. Chauncey has testified as an expert witness in several major gay rights cases, and he was the organizer and lead ...

While Friday the 13th’s shadow has fallen over Fruitcake (off until further notice due to the loss of host Rumpspankers’ liquor license), there are other gay times to be had on this dark and stormy night. Queer-focused Lambda Theatre Company (formerly Against the Wall Productions) makes its debut tonight at The Church (602 NE Prescott St.) with two performances of Break. Brian Peterson directs the story of a street-sleeping addict who finds solace in the company of a frigid Englishman. Scott is down low in the midst of the streets of ...

October is National GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender) History Month, a chance to take a look at the lives of GLBTs throughout history, to discuss important historic events in the gay civil rights movement such as the Stonewall riots, and a... ...