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Orie Givens is a global communications senior professional with more than 10 years of corporate communications experience. He is also the Chief Editorial Officer and Creator of Radio Queer Minded, an LGBTQ-people-of-color focused news and content website, and host of Queer State of Mind in New York City. He is a freelance journalist and columnist for outlets in the US and Canada, including permanent assignment as the Race and Ethnicity Correspondent for The Advocate.
Orie studied Linguistics at The Ohio State University and Broadcast News & Urban Reporting at City University New York Graduate School of Journalism. He has created work in all types of media, focusing on multimedia projects involving audio and/or video, social justice and urban affairs, minority issues, business and culture. He's a social media native and likes to be engaged, whether digitally or IRL. You can follow his profiles above, or his work below.
Dictionary.com Just Redefined the LGBT Community Some terms added to Dictionary.com this month relate to LGBT people. One word points to a concept many are still trying to understand: intersectionality. It's worth looking up.
Does University of Chicago Know the Meaning of "Safe Spaces"? The University of Chicago caused an internet firestorm this week after a letter issued by the dean of students to the incoming freshman class went public, saying in part that the university does not support "so called 'trigger warnings', [does] not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual 'safe spaces' where individuals can retreat from ideas and...
As Ohio LGBT voters watched the returns, a mixture of disbelief and sadness could be heard in hushed conversations. For many LGBT people, especially LGBT people of color, the worst possible outcome happened: America elected Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States.
Advocate.com
The Time Two White Gay Men Heckled a Latina at a Pulse Vigil Tiffany Melecio wanted to go to the vigil at the University of Missouri at Columbia because she thought it would be a safe space for her to honor the victims of the Pulse shooting.
LGBT Rights Activist Wants to Ensure Puerto Ricans' Stories Are Told Many in Puerto Rico are searching for information about those who died. So Pedro Julio Serrano went to Orlando and is making it his goal to connect with families and help in any way he can to ensure they're heard, and that their loved ones are remembered.
Obama Disrupter Jennicet Gutiérrez: Still Resisting A year after having interrupted President Obama during the White House LGBT Pride Month reception, Jennicet Gutiérrez is still existing to resist, and she's thankful for that. She's learned much more about herself as an activist and the communities she serves.
Celebrity
By Orie Givens Ted Allen, host of the popular Food Network shows Chopped and All Star Academy, loves AIDS walks as a way to raise money for prevention and education. And since both he and his husband, Barry Rice, are from Columbus, this month's AIDS Walk Ohio is a homecoming.
She's the type of queen you want to throw shade with during Sunday brunch, or talk shit about your ex with over a stiff cocktail. But advanced reading skills, a sharp comedic tongue and a bag of f-bombs isn't all you get with RuPaul's Drag Race Season 6 winner Bianca Del Rio.
The "Royale" Interview: RuPaul's Drag Race Contestant Latrice Dishes on Drag Competition by Orie Givens She's large and in charge, she's chunky yet funky. RuPaul's Drag Race Season 4 contestant Latrice Royale is everything you see on TV and more. In a recent stop on her tour, Miss Latrice visited Columbus and performed for packed-to-the-wall crowds at Union and Axis.
She's the comedian who tells it like it is, keeping you laughing whether she's on stage or screen. Wanda Sykes, one of our biggest, fiercest LGBTQ stars and advocates, is bringing her sharp, funny wit and real-life humor to audiences in Cincinnati and Columbus this month.
No crown for this queen, but many opportunities ahead for RPDR favorite Ginger Minj
TV exec-turned-celebrity Andy Cohen hasn't slowed down since leaving his high-powered post a few years ago. And now, celebrity Andy is joining his famous BFF, Anderson Cooper, on a speaking tour that will stop in Columbus on Saturday, Nov. 14.
Video
By Orie Givens The LGBTQ experience represents a long part of Harlem's history and an inextricable part of its present and future. But as the communities of Harlem change, some of the most critical needs of its many LGBTQ residents remain the same. The Pulse Shooting in Orlando, Fl.
Orie Givens IV is a urban affairs and general assignment broadcast reporter in New York City. Orie specializes in spot news, government and politics, social issues and crime and consumer affairs. These reports were published during fall 2013
Xtra gets reaction to Jason Collins' coming out. We asked basketball fans attending the Brooklyn Nets/Chicago Bulls playoff game what they thought. See story here: http://bit.ly/1bgCzcM
As you surely know by now it's Pride month, and the statewide celebrations of LGBTQ life and culture started two weekends ago in a city recently named America's Queerest , Dayton. Being in CBUS, we're used to the extravaganza of a festival in the Short North.
Editorials
We see the language all over internet dating apps, but is it just what we like, or the reflection of a bigger problem?
A movie sets out to depict a historical movement in a not so historical way. That's a problem
Jennicet Gutierrez, Bamby Salcedo and countless others are working to dismantle the systemic forces of oppression keeping them from living their lives. Issues like immigration, violence against trans* women, lack of legal protections in housing and employment are all factors in the movements that are becoming more and more visible.
Features
On that June Night in New York City in 1969 on Christopher Street at the iconic Stonewall Inn, police pushed a group of queer rebels to their limits. "We were in the Stonewall [bar] and the lights came on, said the late activist Sylvia Rivera, in a 2001 interview with Leslie Feinberg at the New York Gay & Lesbian Center.
The death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore has united coalition partners to advocate for social justice. One of those partners, Equality Maryland, works not only to secure rights from the LGBTQ perspective, but also uses it's voice to bring visibility to other issues as well.
As Stonewall leaders dry out after the wettest Pride on record, community members call for a change ahead of next year.
The cost of intersectional identity can be high, and new data from a coalition of organizations shows a major disparity in economic stability between white LGBTQ people and non-white LGBTQ people. "They're more likely to live in poverty, they're more likely to lack health insurance," said Naomi Goldberg, the principal writer on the report Paying an Unfair Price.
The right to marry is now the law of the land, but for Ohioans, there are some big things to consider before rushing to the altar.
Kids are coming to terms with sexuality and gender identity earlier, but the resources they need may not be as available as you think.