Gaystlouis
By, For & About the St. Louis LGBT Community
Discharged soldier will continue fight against ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ [CNN]
Jul 26th
From CNN.com: A former Army lieutenant who was discharged from service last week for being openly gay said Sunday that he will continue to fight for a quick repeal of the controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
“I know that there are a lot of people who are suffering, and my oath, my commitment to them, doesn’t end,” former Lt. Dan Choi told CNN’s Don Lemon.
Choi was arrested in March for handcuffing himself to a White House fence in protest of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which bars people who are openly gay or lesbian from serving in the military.
FAQ: Why the new website?
Jul 25th
Gaystlouis.com goes through a change every few years.
As the website has evolved, it has gone through transformations.
Keep in mind, it *IS* a thirteen year old website. It is older than Google. It is older than many kinds entering high school.
The early days, the website was a simple TEXT webdesign, handed coded by myself. Eventually I learned to write a few minor CGI scripts to handle things like Server Side Includes, so we could do things like online surveys, or allow people to sign up for our mailing list, hosted over on Queernet.org.
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LGBT Aging Addressed at National Conference Held Here [Vital Voice]
Jul 23rd
From the Vital Voice: ST. LOUIS, MO – The National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) gathered in St. Louis for their annual conference over the July 17 weekend where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) aging took center stage, Saturday afternoon.
A special pre-conference session, “Coming of Age with LGBT Elders” was presented by a panel of LGBT and aging experts representing SAGE USA and SAGE affiliates from Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Louis; The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, as well as Area Agency on Aging staff from California, Missouri, Minnesota, and Utah.
Boys, men now can get HPV vaccine [STLToday]
Jul 23rd
From STLToday.com: A vaccine used to prevent a sexually transmitted disease that can cause cancer in women is now available for men.
Human papillomavirus causes most cases of genital warts in men and women and cervical cancer in women. The HPV vaccine prevents against four strains of the virus that cause a majority of the diseases.
The vaccine, Gardasil, has been available to girls for four years and was approved for use in boys last fall. Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region started offering it last month to boys and men ages 9 to 26 at its eight clinics.
30 years with HIV: 3 men reflect [CNN]
Jul 23rd
From CNN.com: June 5, 1981. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its first warning about a rare pneumonia called pneumocystis circulating among a small group of young gay men.
Unrealized at the time, it was the official beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Outspoken gay soldier discharged from Army [CNN]
Jul 23rd
From CNN.com: One of the most outspoken gay critics of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy said Thursday that he has been discharged from the Army.
Lt. Dan Choi, who was arrested in March for handcuffing himself to a White House fence in protest of the policy, released a statement saying he had been honorably discharged.
St. Louis Art Capsules – Beyond XY [RFT]
Jul 22nd
From the Riverfront Times: Featured Review: Beyond XY Transgender photographer Loren Cameron (San Francisco) documents himself and other female-to-male subjects naked from head to toe, muscularly flexing or in straightforward exposure of their transitional bodies. Joshua McVeity (Calgary) and David Vance (Miami) see a more commercial aspect in the male physique, capturing young men in Calvin Klein briefs or bronzed, Grecian specimens in athletic contortions. Trix Rosen (New York) — whose earlier work discerned a new, lesbian street chic that developed post-Stonewall — follows a single male subject (a French performance artist) in various states of subtle drag in a recent series of portraits.
Governor Nixon issues Executive Order 10-24
Jul 20th
Dear Equality Supporter;
What an exciting week! I’m thrilled to announce that, just days ago during the National Conference of the NAACP in Kansas City, Governor Jay Nixon issued Executive Order 10-24. This Executive order extends employment protections to LGBT persons working in the Executive Branch of Government of the State of Missouri, requires the Executive Branch to file an annual workplace diversity plan and encourages adoption of the same protections for LGBT employees by all branches of Missouri Government. You can view the full text by clicking here.
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Missouri Governor Issues Employment Protections [Vital Voice]
Jul 20th
From the Vital Voice: Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon recently issued Executive Order 10-24 at the National Conference of the NAACP in Kansas Ciity. The Executive order extends employment protections to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons working in the Executive Branch of Government of the State of Missouri, requires the Executive Branch to file an annual workplace diversity plan and encourages adoption of the same protections for LGBT employees by all branches of Missouri Government.
FAQ: How to add avatar?
Jul 21st
Posted by Tony in Website News
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Folks who comment on posts here have the ability to use a Gravatar avatar image.
What is that? This works for this site as well as many others (like STLToday’s website).
Gravatar is a website which allows you to upload an image which gets associated with your various online IDs.
Just go to: Gravatar.com for all the details.
Most WordPress blogs use the system by default. Just a quick tip.