Pride 2012 @ TheBody.com
 Join us throughout June as we celebrate everything the LGBT community has achieved -- and acknowledge the walls we have yet to break down.
Editor's Picks:
- LGBT Pride: Events & Resources
Looking for information, event listings, personal stories, community, news and research that matters to the LGBT community? We've got you covered.
- LGBT Pride Month E-Cards
The amazing folks at Visual AIDS have crafted this collection of 23 scintillating, titillating, electrifying, thought-provoking e-cards to mark LGBT Pride Month.
Pride News & Other Coverage
Perspectives on Pride
 Through the Lens of Community: Trans Inclusion in Women's and LGBT Organizations (June 19, 2012)
Part two of a two-part series exploring perspectives on transgender health access and advocacy.
From TheBody.com
- Breaking Down Barriers to Transgender Health and HIV Care (June 6, 2012)
Part one of a two-part series exploring perspectives on transgender health access and advocacy.
From TheBody.com
 Always Late to the Party: A Blog Entry by Khafre Abif (June 29, 2011)
"Pride for me is about FREEDOM. This Freedom allows me to be who I am and express myself how I choose. A freedom I found late in my life."
From TheBody.com
 Be the Change: A Solidarity Speech (June 29, 2011)
"It's easy for us to condemn society for the social norms that stigmatize and discriminate against people whose sexual orientation and gender identity do not fit the heterosexual status quo," says Laurindo Garcia. "But ... by continually diverting attention to external factors out of our control, we deny ourselves a role in making change happen."
From TheBody.com
 Reflecting Upon My Twenty-One Years of Pride (June 27, 2011)
"My being out as a LESBIAN is not solely political. It is literally and metaphorically about my own survival in the entity known as Aishah Shahidah Simmons in this lifetime."
From TheBody.com
 Calling HIV Negative Gay Men: This Is Your Time: A Blog Entry by Mark S. King (June 21, 2011)
"I've lived with HIV more than half my life, and people often praise me far more than I deserve, simply for surviving. ... You know what takes courage? Getting an HIV test every few months."
From MyFabulousDisease.com
 A Question of Priorities: A Blog Entry by fogcityjohn (June 15, 2011)
"HIV/AIDS used to be an existential threat to our community, and we treated it as such. ... So what are our advocates in the national LGBT organizations doing about HIV these days? Not enough, if you ask me."
From TheBody.com
 Our Pride. Our Community. Our Movement. A Blog Entry by Tree Alexander (June 15, 2011)
"As we take the month of June to celebrate our diversity and sexual pride, let's take the time to explore how we have experienced oppression, and ways to free the future of our community and society from this depressive cycle of narrow-minded conditioning."
From TheBody.com
 I Am What I Am: A Blog Entry by Aless Piper (June 14, 2011)
"I am proud to be a straight ally, and HIV/AIDS activist. ... Like Miep Gies, the next time I am asked why I do what I do, I fully intend to say that I do it because it is the right thing to do."
From TheBody.com
 Gay Pride Is an Inside Job: A Blog Entry by David Fawcett, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. (June 14, 2011)
Therapist and longtime HIV survivor David Fawcett wasn't always as out and proud as he is nowadays. In college in the mid-'70s he sat, red-faced and closeted, through classes that taught homosexuality as a form of social deviance. A lot has changed since then.
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