Queer Notes, November-December 2012

December 13, 2012

by Elise

On National Coming Out Day this year, youth in particular showed the way. Texas Tech University’s Gay-Straight Alliance members told coming out stories. People wrote their sexual orientation or gender identity on a door provided by the University of Florida’s Pride Student Union. Virginia’s George Mason University held an ice cream social, a [=>]

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Kashmiri youths ‘go for freedom’

November 22, 2010

From the Nov.-Dec. 2010 issue of News & Letters:

World in View: Kashmiri youths ‘go for freedom’
by Gerry Emmett

Something new is happening in Kashmir. In August, thousands of Kashmiris took to the streets shouting “Azadi”–freedom! Previously, Pakistan was behind the unrest in this disputed territory between India and Pakistan, but these demonstrations–continuous for three months–are indigenous, [=>]

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