Yasmin Nair

Conversations with God Hates Fags/Westboro Baptist Church

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 21, 2008

“Two men? It was perfectly fine for them to go have sex in the bathrooms or in the bushes or whatever. So they brought God into it, saying that God loves everybody. Of course, God doesn’t love everybody.”

“Day Without a Gay” supporters

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 17, 2008

In the wake of Proposition 8 in California, gay groups across the country urged people to take a day off from work by calling in “gay for a day” and refusing to spend any of their dollars contributing to the economy. They chose December 10, which is also International Human Rights Day.

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Blagojevich and gay politics

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 17, 2008

Illinois voters were stunned this past week by the news of Governor Rod Blagojevich being arrested on corruption charges. Along with his chief of staff John Harris, who has since resigned, Blagojevich was charged with, among other allegations, holding out President-elect Barack Obama’s soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat for a “pay-for-play” deal. The two men were both out on bail December 9, the day of their arrest.

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Gay dollars, labor and boycotts

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 3, 2008

For Eric Stanley, economic boycotts “uphold the free market myth of capitalism in ‘non-boycott’ times.”

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Chicagoan escapes Mumbai turmoil

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 3, 2008

Doug O’Keeffe, a Chicago resident and volunteer at the Northside Grocery Center (a food-pantry branch of HIV/AIDS agency Vital Bridges), was caught in the recent attack on the Taj Oberoi hotel in Mumbai, India, but was able to escape.

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Plans for LGBTA school postponed

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 26, 2008

A proposal for a Chicago gay high school was abruptly taken off the agenda of the Chicago Public Schools November 19 board meeting. Supporters and opponents of the proposal came to the downtown office of CPS, only to be handed a memo from The Office of New Schools informing them that “[t]he Social Justice Solidarity High School proposal has been withdrawn from consideration during today’s Board meeting.”

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Books about AIDS

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 26, 2008

“There’s no community around Black women with HIV and AIDS.”

The Day I Stopped Being Pretty by [Lofton, Rodney]

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Prop 8 protest in Evanston

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 26, 2008

The Century Landmark Theater in Evanston was the scene of a Proposition 8-related protest on Saturday, November 22.

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Is Homosexuality Genetic or Chosen? Does That Matter?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 15, 2008

Your gay union card, the grey metallic one, with an embossed pink triangle? Shredded.

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Panel speaks on Chicago’s gay ordinance

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 12, 2008

The Chicago Ordinance on Human Rights, which banned discrimination against gays and lesbians and other minorities, was passed on December 21, 1988. Gerber/Hart Library, 1127 W. Granville, recently organized a panel discussion to mark the occasion.