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Scholarship funds to honor ‘Hero’ author and ‘Narnia’ Executive Producer Perry Moore
Back in February I wrote about the untimely death of Perry Moore … Now, Hunter Hill — Perry Moore’s partner of seventeen years — and family and friends are in the process of establishing four scholarship funds that will benefit young writers and local Hampton Roads students.
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LGBT History Month profile: Accomplished 20th century English novelist Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was an accomplished 20th century English novelist and one of the founders of the modernist movement. She published nearly 500 essays and nine novels.
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LGBT History Month profile: Langston Hughes, celebrated poet and novelist
A celebrated poet and novelist, Langston Hughes is one of the most significant voices to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance. A major contributor to American literature, his legacy includes 25 published works.
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LGBT History Month profile: Author, screenwriter Rita Mae Brown
An author and screenwriter, Rita Mae Brown is best known for her semi-autobiographical lesbian-themed novel, “Rubyfruit Jungle.” She is a groundbreaking activist for lesbian and civil rights.
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LGBT History Month profile: Author, political commentator Keith Boykin
Keith Boykin, Commentator b. August 28, 1965 “I’m not on a show with a pink triangle or rainbow flag — which means that being gay is just a part of who I am.” Keith Boykin is a political commentator, a New York Times best-selling author and a veteran of two presidential campaigns. He is the […]
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London’s famed ‘Gay’s the Word’ book store vandalized
The staff of London’s famed “Gay’s The Word” bookstore on Monday arrived for work to find the front window smashed and that the storefront vandalized with eggs.
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Yielding to censorship: Missouri school bans books that are ‘contrary to the Bible’
The school board in Republic, Missouri, voted 4-0 recently to ban Kurt Vonnegut’s novel “Slaughterhouse-Five” and another book, Sarah Ockler’s “Twenty Boy Summer,” after a local resident complained that the books teach ideas contrary to the Bible.
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Archie comics’ openly gay student to get his own monthly comic book series
Kevin Keller, the first openly gay resident of Archie comics’ fictional Riverdale, will have his own monthly comic book starting in February.
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Terrence Meck on LGBT grants, Eric Ross’ book for kids, teen activist Caleb Laieski
In this special interview-only episode, Phil Reese, Joe Mirabella, and D. Gregory Smith interviewed some outstanding leaders in the gay community.
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CNN anchor Don Lemon to begin living ‘my own truth’ — ‘I was born gay’
Don Lemon, the weekend prime-time news anchor for CNN, has come out.