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Email Bulletins from Louisville's Rainbow Reader
Join the Rainbow Reader's email list and receive weekly emails about Gay Louisville's events, happenings, upcoming bar events and featured profiles on gay and gay-friendly business professionals. Sign-Up Now!
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LGBT Parent Group
The Office for LGBT Services at UofL has recently started a support group for families that are headed by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender individuals. This group includes parents who have children from previous marriages and those who have become parents through adoption, surrogacy, etc. Our group is made up
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Business Briefs for October 14, 2009
Business Briefs Social Networking Group for GLBTA Professionals Host: Kentuckiana Rainbow Chamber of Commerce Type: Meetings - Business Meeting Network: Global Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm Location: Starbase Q Street: 921 West Main St City/Town: Louisville, KY View MapGoogle MapQuest Microsoft Yahoo Phone: 8779635722 Email: info@KentuckianaRainbowCoC.org
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Two Years
Well.....Two Years have blown by and i'm still here. I didnt think i would make it this long here in Louisville but i have. I moved here in 2007, i found my job in November of 2007 DJing for a place called Phoenix Hill Tavern, and i celebrated my 29th
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Would Louisville Welcome These Memphis Billboards?
With National Coming Out Day coming up on October 11th, the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center wanted to make a big statement-- or rather five big statements in the form of billboards. Now up in five busy Memphis, Tennessee intersections, these billboards recognize the local gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and
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I am a Woman with Male Chromosomes [video]
As controversial world champion runner Caster Semenya is reported to have both male and female sexual characteristics, Sarah Graham, 40, writes about her own life as an intersex woman in I Feel for Caster Semenya - I am a Woman with Male Chromosomes :
Separated at the Moment of Death [video]
Just as Janice Langbehn and her partner Lisa Pond were about to depart from Miami on a family cruise with their three children, Lisa suddenly collapsed. From the moment Janice and the children arrived at Jackson Memorial Hospital, they encountered prejudice and apathy. The hospital also refused Janice and their
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October is GLBT History Month [video]
In the 1990's, teachers and community organizations determined that a month should be designated for GLBT history. They chose October because public schools are in session and traditions, such as National Coming Out Day, occur then. GLBT History Month is endorsed by GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay
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Louisville AIDS Walk This Sunday!
Join The Local Fight Against AIDS! The 17th Anniversary Louisville AIDS Walk will be held this Sunday, September 13, 2009. The Walk is Kentucky's largest annual HIV/AIDS fundraising and awareness event. Since 1993, Louisville AIDS Walk has funded 13 local non-profit organizations to deliver direct client services for people living
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Helping Young People Come out, or Figure out.
Figuring out you're homosexual could – understandably – be a tough road for a young person. Or any person. (Or bisexual. Or transgendered.) So the Office for LGBT Services at the University of Louisville is trying to help. The campus organization hopes to begin holding Inside Out support group meetings
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Courtyard Cafe to Benefit KFA
First Unitarian Church, 809 S. Fourth St., will host the Courtyard Cafe this Friday (Aug. 21) with proceeds going to the Kentucky Fairness Alliance (KFA) and the University of Louisville Office of LGBT Services. The cafe event, which runs from 6-10 p.m., will feature local coffee and snacks and an
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"freedom"
No matter who you are or what you feel about homosexuality - if you are gay, lesbian, trans gendered, bisexual, bi-curious, metro sexual, heterosexual, celibate, hermaphrodite, a satyr, a succubus, a fucking human being - and especially if you are a fucking human being, and really want to live in
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good start
usually i have had horrible starts to recent semesters. yet, for once this one is doing great. had to do some quick rescheduling, but everything is working out. tuition and books, paid. relaxed, collected. im tully thinking that i am really happy with myself. you know, comfortable? its great to
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Be Still...Sit...Meditate...Find Your Quiet Inner Space...Part 2
The reason for the rather lengthy Part 1 of this, was to ultimately get me to Part 2. (Or as my granddaughter says when I ask what she & I are going to do for fun, "What comes before Part B? ~ Part Tay!") There's nothing better than young people
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Be Still...Sit...Meditate...Find Your Quiet Inner Space...Part 1
This entry is not going to discuss the "experts" at meditation. Instead, in it I will attempt to make even the person who most recently decided to meditate (you know, they decided this morning) feel comfortable about the process; and also to KNOW that they ARE meditating. As a seasoned
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Reiki, Casting Stones, Pagan Community, I Love Greta
First I must admit that Greta (not her real name, she is on this site) is my daughter, then I will confess that I was in a lesbian relationship for 28. I just terminated it and my sweet daughter brought me from West Virgina to Indiana to live with her.
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Moving Testimonies from Gay & Straight Citizens
The California State Capitol Building in Sacramento. Hundreds of CA citizens come to hear and testify regarding the argument for and against the constitutionality of Proposition 8 as challenged by House Resolution 5. The California Supreme Court decision to uphold or overturn Prop 8 will be ruled on most likely
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Rev. Mel White vs Anti-Gay Fundamentalist
Must See! On CNN's Anderson Cooper: Family Research Council's Right Wing Homophobe Tony Perkins Slammed By Gay Reverend Mel White of Soulforce.org and Amazing Race fame. For more Gay Civil Rights Movement media, visit my blog Queer Visions . Also see my blog's popular Facebook page Gay Rights Media .
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Adult Parties
So, I wanted to start up a side business to make a few extra dollars. I started researching adult themed parties and the different companies that put them on. I went to a few different ones and told the ladies doing them that I wanted to market to the lgbt
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