The LaRuelist Rainbow Room was created in response to several subscribers who wanted to see articles and resources on GLBTI issues. The goal here is not to speak simply to the GLBTI community but to also educate the straight community on public policy issues, events, and human interest stories that "connect all communities one person at a time."

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By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES

April 14, 2009

Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover was 11-- hardly old enough to know his sexuality and yet distraught enough to hang himself last week after school bullies repeatedly called him "gay."

The Springfield, Mass., football player and Boy Scout was ruthlessly teased, despite his mother's pleas to the New Leadership Charter School to addres...   Read More >>

What a difference a year makes: Power and Money have always been close companions, and the global economic crisis has only made them more so.

But the Out Power 50 list has never been only about person wealth: congressman Barney Frank rose to the top this year because of his power over national financial policy. On the other hand, since just about everyone from Warren Buffet (not on our list -- h...   Read More >>

The Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute is leading a community-wide effort to identify strong candidates to serve the next president of the United States.

GLLI’s Presidential Appointments Project serves as the talent bank for openly LGBT professionals seeking appointed positions in the next presidential administration. If you’ve ever considered working for the federal government, now is the time to start thinking about whether you have what it takes to work for the president and help to bring about positive change our country. Read More >>

Groups on both sides of an initiative that would amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage are trying to raise millions of dollars in coming months.

"We will continue working to raise as much as we can and intend to mount a very strong campaign," Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, the statewide LGBT group leading the effort to defeat the amendment, w...   Read More >>

By JOSHUA LYNSEN, Washington Blade | May 1, 3:57 PM

Few gay Americans understand their basic rights, according to an analysis released this week.

Based on the responses of 768 gays, lesbians and bisexuals to a national poll given in November, the analysis found that most respondents could not correctly answer four questions regarding their state and federal rights.

“I thin...   Read More >>

Washington, DC (BlackNews.com) - Nearly 1,000 African-American men, women and youth, both gay and straight-identified are expected to gather in Baltimore, MD April 24-26 for an historic three-day event geared towards healing and bridging the gap between the black gay and black straight communities.

The Power of Us National Convention (www.nbjcoalition.org/news/power-of-us- national.html) i...   Read More >>

Concord, NH (AHN) - Gay unions are now recognized in New Hampshire. At the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31, the law allowing civil unions between gay and lesbian couples became effective. Hours after the law took effect, 37 gay couples entered into civil unions at an outdoor ceremony amid below freezing temperatures.

The civil union ceremonies took place at the New Hampshire Statehouse where the law was adopted and signed in 2007.

But the law will certainly stoke some fire from opposition, principally from conservative gro...   Read More >>

CHICAGO (CBS) ― Activists fear gay African- Americans are being targeted for murder. Two openly gay men were killed recently on the South Side, as CBS 2's Mike Parker reports.

African-American gay and lesbian groups are talking about the murders of two openly gay Black men in the past month.

On November 17, 24-year-old Larry Bland was shot to death in his Englewood hom...   Read More >>

Community Marketing, Inc. (CMI), the San Francisco- based gay and lesbian research, marketing and communications firm, released the most comprehensive LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) market research report ever conducted, the Gay Consumer Index™ and the Lesbian Consumer Index™, in August 2007. The study was co- produced by Rivendell Media, and sponsored by Absolut.

Community Mark...   Read More >>

A Chicago-based group working for immigration reform finds that it has to combat more than commonplace anti-immigrant sentiment, because they champion the rights of GLBT immigrants.

The Chicago Tribune published a story on the challenges faced by organizers of the new Global Gays Initiative which seeks to overturn outdated and unnecessary travel restrictions on HIV positive people entering...   Read More >>