Don’t forget to come out to the True Colors exhibition this Friday. The celebration of the founding of True Colors and a visual time-line created by Jamie Bassell and Kyle O’Toole will be a highlight of the festivities. True Colors a lgbt organization was established 15 years ago to provide support and services to sexual minority youth and families in Connecticut. Visit them on-line at: www.OurTrueColors.org.

The event is free and open to the public, the time 6:30-8:30. The location is the Elihu Burritt Library at Central Connecticut State University. Located within the Library is the Gender and Equity Collection a collection of the history of the LGBT movement in Connecticut which houses the archives of many individuals and organizations.

The Burritt Library has over the years hosted many GLBT exhibitions not only from their collections but from LGBT collectors as well.

A visual time-line celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual and queer rights and history in our state during the last 15 years, highlighting the evolution of True Colors, Inc., an  LGBTQ organization established 15 years ago to provide support and services to sexual minority youth and family in Connecticut. [Read more →]

Note: As the anniversary of the 5th year of the invasion by the United States and the start of the war against the people of Iraq is marked on Wednesday March 19, I would like to offer this piece to read. Written by Leslie Feinberg and published in the series “Lavender and Red” the article is titled, “Life better for gay and lesbians Iraqis under Hussein.” Its number is 119. This article was published on Jan. 27, 2008. Another article of intrest  is article number 120, “British Colonialism Outlawed ’sodomy’ in Iraq.” Fienberg’s Lavender and Red series is just a click away on our sidebar. There is some amazing articles in the series.

‘Life better for gay & lesbian Iraqis under Hussein’

The New York Times—an imperialist mouthpiece—admitted in a mid-December article that social life was better for those who it described as “gay and lesbian Iraqis” under the secular government of Saddam Hussein. The Times also confirmed that sanctions, war and occupation crushed that social progress and ushered in death-squad terror.

The Dec. 18 article was a political feature, not based on breaking news. The original headline summed up: “Gays Living in Shadows of New Iraq: Violence Replaces Tacit Acceptance.” [Read more →]

From our comrade Cornell Lews

I traveled to the University of Connecticut in Storrs to attend a conference. When your place of employment makes conferences mandatory, it is a surprise as to the content of such conferences. The shindig on the campus of U-Conn was hosted by an organization called True Colors. Workshops were designed to discuss issues dealing with LGBT people (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) and how society is reacting to open displays of sexuality among so called queers. I read a headline on a document “True Colors XV: A Global Perspective” and a listing of interesting workshops on LGBT concerns. [Read more →]

Come to Hartford on Monday to show support for
Marriage Equality!
RSVP if you think you can attend and if you are submitting written testimony

On Monday, March 17 beginning at 12noon in Room 2c in the Legislative Office Building, the Judiciary Committee will hear testimony about the problems that couples are facing with civil unions and the need to give same-sex couples FULL equality by passing marriage legislation.

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The following is a work in progress that we should enhance and evolve (i.e. just scratching the surface of names and creativity for giving thanks):

Thank you for a life long struggle for the rights of

the oppressed…
the poor…
the outcast…
the homeless…
the queer…

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We are thankful for our people who have gone on before, thankful for them dwelling now and forevermore.

Iranian Gays do exist and need the World’s support.

by Arsham Parsi

I was born September 1980 in Iran. As a teenager growing up in Shiraz, I was lonely and filled with self-loathing. I had never met another queer, and I thought I was a freak.

I prayed to become a good person, a normal person. Other people fasted for one month but I fasted for three.

Then I found the Internet. And I discovered that I was not alone.

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EROS which stands for Encouraging Respect of all Sexualities presents it’s ninth film festival beginning on Saturday November 11 at 2:30 with films being shown on November 12, 14,15,16,and 17th.  Tickets are available at Cinestudio, 300 Summit Street, Hartford Ct. For information, please visit, www.OutFilmCT.org.  This definition of EROS comes from their film festival leaflet and as stated: “is a gay/straight alliance at Trinity College. Members of EROS are committed to fostering awareness about issues of differing sexualities on campus with the ultimate goal of creating a more tolerant environment for gays, lesbians, and bisexual students.” All films and the dates with playing times are listed on EROS’s Webb site.

From QWB: 

On Saturday November 17th at 2:30 the movie “Truth and Transformations” is screened. Look for our fellow Queer Revolutionary Mattilda and prick up your ears to what she has to say. Many feel this way about marriage but we have been rolled over by the snowball of the “I do” crowd. Of course if you want to read more of Mattilda’s works just scroll down our side bar and click on Mattilda.  Once on Mattilda’s site look at her side bar and click on the movie or any of her blog works.