Funding is a serious challenge for many of the region’s nonprofit organizations. But Rochester’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community got a boost recently from an organization that, in a unique twist, comes from the LGBT community. | For the first time, the LGBT Giving Circle of the Rochester Area Community Foundation provided grants to […]
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ELECTIONS 2012: The case against Brooks for Congress
Congressional candidate Maggie Brooks almost never refers to the “people” of Monroe County; they are “taxpayers,” even when the context seems to demand another noun. The subtle bit of messaging aligns with Brooks’ signature and much-touted accomplishment as county executive: freezing the property tax rate.
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Empty Closet archived
The University of Rochester now has an online archive of 438 issues of the Empty Closet, beginning with the first issue published in January 1971 to the April 2011 issue. | The EC was founded by a group of UR student-activists who formed the Gay Liberation Front’s Rochester chapter. The newspaper is New York State’s […]
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ImageOut 2012
Over the course of 10 days, October 5-14, ImageOut: The Rochester LGBT Film & Video Festival will celebrate two decades of bringing to this city the world’s finest films about the ever-evolving lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender experience.
