Welcome to INTERLINQ-ED, where we highlight news and media about and relevant to LGBTQ people of color, diaspora, and racial or ethnic minorities around the world.<\/p>\n
This week’s weeks hot topic: President Obama’s support for gay marriage<\/p>\n
Beenie Man apologizes for 10 Years of Homophobic Lyrics<\/a> (QWOC Media Wire)<\/p>\n Wanda Sykes calls Mitt Romney the “Forrest Gump of candidates” and reacts to President Obama’s support of same-sex marriage<\/a>\u00a0(HuffPost Gay Voices)<\/p>\n Rumors fly over Raven Symone’s sexuality<\/a>\u00a0(Out.com)<\/p>\n Spotlight on Nigerian-born artist\u00a0Rotimi Fani-Kayode<\/a>\u00a0(The Advocate)<\/p>\n Progress for LGBT rights\u00a0in Chile, Cuba, and Argentina<\/a>\u00a0(Autostraddle)<\/p>\n Racialicious remembers \u00a0twenty trans women, all victims of hate crimes<\/a>\u00a0(Racialicious)<\/p>\n One of the many reactions to President Obama’s support for gay marriage: a hopeful sign for gay rights in the United States<\/a>\u00a0(Bilerico)<\/p>\n Japanese lesbian looks forward to a marriage at Disneyland<\/a>\u00a0(Reuters)<\/p>\n Cuba may pass gay marriage legislation this year<\/a>\u00a0(GBM News)<\/p>\n WNBA’s\u00a0Seimone Augustus is currently engaged to a woman<\/a>\u00a0(The Advocate)<\/p>\n Writer LZ Granderson reacts to Manny Pacquiao’s recent anti-gay marriage announcement and comments on professional athletes’ attitudes toward gay people<\/a>\u00a0(89.3 KPCC)<\/p>\n Worries that LGBT presence will not be visible at London Olympics<\/a> (Gay Star News)<\/p>\n Hip-hop artist Y-Love comes out as gay<\/a>\u00a0(Dallas Voice)<\/p>\n The Voice’s Vicci Martinez does an interview with AfterEllen about relationships, albums, and life after The Voice<\/a>\u00a0(AfterEllen)<\/p>\n Watch the 16 minute short on\u00a0Caribbean gay singer-songwriter Nhojj<\/a> (GBM News)<\/p>\n Have news or a story you’d like to submit to interlinq-ed, feel free to comment below so we can include it next week, or submit to our Tumblr<\/a>.<\/p>\n Remember to follow us on Twitter at\u00a0@qwocmediawire<\/a>\u00a0and Like our page on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to stay connected. \u00a0Happy Friday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to INTERLINQ-ED, where we highlight news and media about and relevant to LGBTQ people of color, diaspora, and racial or ethnic minorities around the world.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial","category-interlinqued"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}News and Politics<\/h5>\n
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