Dan Savage, the Amerin gay-rights activist and one of the forc behd the Rsian vodka boytt, speaks to RFE/RL about what Rsia's LGBT activists n do to fight back agast vlence and reprsn.
Contents:
- U.S. GAY ACTIVIST SAVAGE: 'KEEP CONTROVERSY ROARG' IN RSIA
- LILY SAVAGE’S LEADG ROLE THE FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
U.S. GAY ACTIVIST SAVAGE: 'KEEP CONTROVERSY ROARG' IN RSIA
* lgbt activist savage *
Amerin thor, journalist, and sex-advice lumnist Dan Savage is one of the bt-known gay-rights activists the Uned Stat, and the creator of the global It Gets Better vio mpaign support of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) youth. RFE/RL: You and your partner, Terry Miller, lnched the It Gets Better mpaign 2010 rponse to the suici of a 15-year-old boy who had been bullied by schoolmat for beg gay.
LILY SAVAGE’S LEADG ROLE THE FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
Read the latt news about Dan Savage, the gay edor, thor, and activist who -found the It Gets Better project along wh his partner Terry Miller. Dan Savage rose to natnal promence wh the synditn of his sex advice lumn, Savage Love, which rponds to var qutns by rears regardg health, sex, sexualy, relatnships, and love. It would later bee a rad show of the same name. Fd out recent events related to Savage, who also hosts the MTV advice show Savage U and has ma headl by clashg wh antigay nservativ like Rick Santom. * lgbt activist savage *
They're scribg gay-rights anizatns as foreign agents, so began to feel like any move we ma out here the Wt would play to the hands of the bigots and potentially make thgs worse. But reached a pot wh the passage of those laws -- laws banng gay-pri paras for 100 years, and what's been gog on St. Wh everythg the Rsian ernment is sayg about banng monstratns, about arrtg people, gay or straight, if they vlate the heo laws?
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Sat Vcent and the Grenad face bias-motivated vlence and discrimatn their daily life, Human Rights Watch said a report released today. The legislature should repeal the untry’s lonial-era laws that crimalize nsensual same-sex nduct and pass prehensive civil legislatn prohibg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. The 58-page report, “‘They Can Harass Us Bee of the Laws’: Vlence and Discrimatn agast LGBT People Sat Vcent and the Grenad,” expos the physil and verbal asslts, fay vlence, homelsns, workplace harassment, bullyg, and sexual vlence that sexual and genr mori face unr the shadow of discrimatory laws. Those rponsible for mistreatment clu people close to LGBT people – fay members, neighbors, workers, classmat, and teachers – as well as strangers and police officers. * lgbt activist savage *
What really changed thgs for gay people the Uned Stat and the Wt was gay people g out, and the hearts and mds of their iends and fai and -workers and neighbors beg changed. It's hard for someone to believe that gay people are monsters when they personally know a gay person and they see that we are not monsters. RFE/RL: Rsia has passed a law banng the adoptn of Rsian-born children by gay parents and parents livg untri that allow same-sex marriage.
Read the latt news about Dan Savage, the gay edor, thor, and activist who -found the It Gets Better project along wh his partner Terry Miller. Fd out recent events related to Savage, who also hosts the MTV advice show Savage U and has ma headl by clashg wh antigay nservativ like Rick Santom.
Billed as the biggt ever gay variety show, raised money for Stonewall’s first natnal mpaign for an equal age of nsent – the begng of 10 years of major law reform for lbians and gay men.