Showing posts with label LGBT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LGBT. Show all posts
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Cutbacks to public media likely to hurt rural communities the most

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The disporportionate impact that federal funding cuts to public media will have on rural communities has been a theme of several publication...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Anti-trans policies hit hard in rural America

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In his second inaugural address , President Trump declared “As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States gove...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Tyler Childers' "In Your Love" video breaks stereotypes and captures the complexities of LGBTQ relationships in Appalachia

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Tyler Childers is an American country singer-songwriter. On September 8th, he released his sixth studio album,  Rustin' In the Rain . T...
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Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Scared straight: The legislative war on LGBTQ+ people

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This year’s Pride felt different. June, a month that corporate America has for several years doted on as a rainbow festival, returned to its...
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Tuesday, June 13, 2023

On the dangers that lurk in the rural South

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Margaret Renkl writes in her most recent column in the New York Times  of a new monograph, Dark Waters (Aperture 2023) , by photographer Kr...
Monday, April 24, 2023

Rural Policing (Part 2): Community solutions

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In my previous post , I discussed police shortages in rural areas, some adverse effects of these shortages, and the rise in sheriffs making ...
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Monday, February 27, 2023

Queer Exile, and looking back at those left behind

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After wrapping up our discussion on LGBTQ+ people in rural contexts, I wanted to take a step back and identify with Eli Clare's  Exile ...
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Friday, January 27, 2023

Sexual and gender minority health care in rural America (Part I): The state of affairs

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When I told my family practitioner that I was having sex with men, he walked out of the consultation room and never treated me again. The me...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

On the LGBTQ experience in "red" California

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Hailey Branson-Potts r eports for the Los Angeles Times .  Here's an excerpt:  After five people were shot dead in a gay nightclub in C...
Monday, September 26, 2022

On the midterm race in Washington's (rural-ish) Third Congressional District

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This is the feature , "The Midterm Race that Has it All," on the front page of yesterday's Sunday Review in the New York Times...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Increasing polarization between so-called red states and blue states

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Shawn Hubler and.Jill Cowan reported yesterday for the New York Times under the headline, " Flurry of New Laws Move Blue and Red State...
Friday, November 12, 2021

Trans Nevadan, rural advocate seeks Lt. Governor job

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 Molly Sprayregan reports for LGBTQNation under the headline is " Nevada’s Kimi Cole could be the first out trans statewide official el...
Saturday, June 5, 2021

Trans/queer haven in Colorado seeks to be left alone

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 NPR reported a few days ago out of Custer County, population 4255 , under the headline "A Would-Be Trans And Queer Haven In Rural Col...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Improving transgender health care in rural Colorado

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The Colorado Sun reports out of Cripple Creek, Colorado, population 1,189 , under the headline, "New program aims to teach rural Colora...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Accentuating the rural in the Secretary of Transportation's job

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A few weeks ago, Pete Buttigieg appeared before the Senate for hearings on his nomination to be the Biden administration's Secretary of ...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

Biden's Executive Order on Racial Equity recognizes rural disadvantage

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President Biden signed an " Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Gove...
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Monday, April 3, 2017

LGBT in rural America - the need for special programming?

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The dominant cultural narrative of LGBT people living in rural parts of the United States is that a person will come out as gay and then mov...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Defying rural Southern stereotypes in satirizing them

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NPR reported a few days ago on a new genre of stand-up comedians:  progressive rednecks.  These are men (and perhaps some women, though no...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

On the bathroom wars ... Is this a "rural story," or not?

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The New York Times Anemona Hartocolis reported yesterday from Chester, Vermont under the headline, "Transgender Bathroom Debate Tur...
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