Podcasts
| Date | Show | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Am I Man Enough? [36] | n/a |
| 2018 | Queery [37] | "Kim Fountain" |
| 2016 | Vermont Conversation [38] | "Kim Fountain: The LGBTQ Struggle Continues" |
Dr. Kim Fountain (born 1968) is the Deputy CEO of The San Diego LGBT Community Center. She was previously the Chief Operating Officer of the Center on Halsted, the Midwest's largest LGBTQ+ community center, located in Chicago, Illinois,. [1] the executive director of the Pride Center of Vermont [2] [3] [4] and the co-director for the New York City Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project. [5] Fountain has served on the New York State Crime Victims Board and is a trainer for the Office of Victims of Crime [6] [7] and the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs' Reports Committee. [8] She serves on the board of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum. [9]
Fountain grew up in Massachusetts. She is the product of an interracial marriage; [10] her parents, a white father and a Japanese mother, [11] married before anti-miscegenation laws passed. Fountain's father, who was in the army at the time, was told he must leave his wife up north while stationed in the American South, which he refused to accept. He was forced to leave the military because of this. Fountain credits her parents' interracial marriage and steadfast love for each other as providing the foundation for their acceptance of and love for her as a queer woman, since they "understood loving somebody that society tells you is not ok."[ This quote needs a citation ]
Fountain came out as gay in the 1980s, during college. [12] The first person she told was her residence hall director, also a queer woman. Fountain then came out to her roommates and her parents. [13] After college, she took a motorcycle trip to Santa Cruz, California, settling there in a "tight-knit lesbian community." [11] She moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York in 1995 to pursue graduate studies at The New School. [11]
Fountain holds a bachelor's degree in Anthropology and Women's Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst [11] and a PhD [7] in Cultural Anthropology from New York's The New School. In school, her emphasis was on studying issues of identity-based violence. [14] She did field work studying the Presbyterian Church (USA) in order to better understand the intersection of the politics of queerness and religion. [15]
Fountain has been working in LGBTQ+ movement since the 1980s, when she began as a participant in street demonstrations alongside other queer activists. She formally entered the field in 1995, when she went to work for the New York City LGBT Community Center, [16] where she spent a year. She then spent ten years working for the New York City Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, holding the office of Deputy Director [17] as well as associate director of Education & Public Advocacy. [5] Following that, she worked as executive director of the Pride Center of Vermont for five years. [18] She is credited with revitalizing the center, which was struggling to stay afloat financially when she started her tenure. [18] [11] Her current post as of 2019, which she's occupied for several years, is Chief Operating Officer of the Center on Halsted, the Midwest's largest LGBTQ+ community center, located in Chicago, Illinois.[ citation needed ]
Fountain has authored reports such as Rethinking Victim Assistance for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Victims of Hate Violence & Intimate Partner Violence (2010). [19] Her speaking engagements have included the Chicago Equality Rally at the Andersonville Midsommarfest, [20] [21] the Illinois Women's Health Conference (at which she led the workshop Accessing Women’s Health: Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Women’s Lives at the Intersection of Healthcare and Knowledge), [22] the #WeAreOrlando rally in Burlington, Vermont, [23] the PricewaterhouseCoopers and Center on Halsted panel on LGBT politics in the workplace, [24] Chicago Hacknight (at which she presented on Center on Halsted data), and Lesbians Who Tech[ citation needed ]
Fountain has been a university lecturer for 11 years, instructing in anthropology and gender studies. Her courses have included The Anthropology of Violence; Sexuality and Nation Building; Gender and Social Change; and Gender, Race, and Class. [6]
In addition to her jobs and lectures, Fountain has participated in activism activities such as the AIDS Run & Walk Chicago, [25] A Love Letter to Myself: A Chicago Variety Show promoting self-acceptance and empowerment, [26] and storytelling events in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. [27]
| Date | Show | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Am I Man Enough? [36] | n/a |
| 2018 | Queery [37] | "Kim Fountain" |
| 2016 | Vermont Conversation [38] | "Kim Fountain: The LGBTQ Struggle Continues" |
The LGBTQ community is a loosely defined grouping of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning individuals united by a common culture and social movements. These communities generally celebrate pride, diversity, individuality, and sexuality. LGBTQ activists and sociologists see LGBTQ community-building as a counterweight to heterosexism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, sexualism, and conformist pressures that exist in the larger society. The term pride or sometimes gay pride expresses the LGBTQ community's identity and collective strength; pride parades provide both a prime example of the use and a demonstration of the general meaning of the term. The LGBTQ community is diverse in political affiliation. Not all people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender consider themselves part of the LGBTQ community.
Gay bashing is an attack, abuse, or assault committed against a person who is perceived by the aggressor to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ+). It includes both violence against LGBT people and LGBT bullying. The term covers violence against and bullying of people who are LGBT, as well as non-LGBT people whom the attacker perceives to be LGBT.
GLSEN is an American education organization working to end discrimination, harassment, and bullying based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression and to prompt LGBT cultural inclusion and awareness in K-12 schools. Founded in 1990 in Boston, Massachusetts, the organization is now headquartered in New York City and has an office of public policy based in Washington, D.C.
Center on Halsted is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) community center in Chicago, Illinois.
LGBTQ culture is a culture shared by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals. It is sometimes referred to as queer culture, while the term gay culture may be used to mean either "LGBT culture" or homosexual culture specifically.
Bisexual erasure, also called bisexual invisibility, is the tendency to ignore, remove, falsify, or re-explain evidence of bisexuality in history, academia, the news media, and other primary sources.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Ethiopia face significant challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Both male and female types of same-sex sexual activity are illegal in the country, with reports of high levels of discrimination and abuses against LGBT people. Ethiopia has a long history of social conservatism and same-sex sexual activity is considered a cultural taboo.
The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, or NCAVP, is a national organization dedicated to reducing violence and its impacts on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTQ) individuals in the United States. It was founded in 1995 by Gloria McCauley of BRAVO and Jeffrey Montgomery of the Triangle Foundation and comprises over 40 community-based projects.
Various issues in medicine relate to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. According to the US Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), besides HIV/AIDS, issues related to LGBT health include breast and cervical cancer, hepatitis, mental health, substance use disorders, alcohol use, tobacco use, depression, access to care for transgender persons, issues surrounding marriage and family recognition, conversion therapy, refusal clause legislation, and laws that are intended to "immunize health care professionals from liability for discriminating against persons of whom they disapprove."
Youth pride, an extension of the Gay pride and LGBT social movements, promotes equality amongst young members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer (LGBTIQ+) community. The movement exists in many countries and focuses mainly on festivals and parades, enabling many LGBTIQ+ youth to network, communicate, and celebrate their gender and sexual identities.
The modern South Korean LGBT rights movement arose in the 1990s, with several small organizations seeking to combat sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination.
The Civil Rights Agenda (TCRA) is a civil rights advocacy organization founded in June 2010 by Jacob Meister, with a stated mission "to maintain and increase individual rights for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) citizens in Illinois through inter-generational volunteerism and community-driven project-based education, statewide coalition and network building, and leadership in supporting underserved communities with the necessary tools that will equip members of those communities with the resources and confidence to establish equality for all persons, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity."
The LGBTQ community in Chicago is one of the United States' most prominent, especially within the Midwest, alongside those of San Francisco and New York City, and holds a significant role in the progression of gay rights in the country. With a population of around 3 million, Chicago is the third biggest city in the US, and around 150,000 of those people identify as lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender, questioning, or other.
This is a timeline of notable events in the history of non-heterosexual conforming people of Asian and Pacific Islander ancestry, who may identify as LGBTIQGNC, men who have sex with men, or related culturally-specific identities. This timeline includes events both in Asia and the Pacific Islands and in the global Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora, as the histories are very deeply linked. Please note: this is a very incomplete timeline, notably lacking LGBTQ-specific items from the 1800s to 1970s, and should not be used as a research resource until additional material is added.
Ronni Lebman Sanlo is the Director Emeritus of the UCLA Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center and an authority on matters relating to LGBT students, faculty and staff in higher education. She recognized at an early age that she was a lesbian, but was too afraid to tell anybody. Sanlo went to college then married and had two children. At the age of 31, Ronni came out and lost custody of her young children. The treatment toward the LBGT community and her rights as a mother are what gave Sanlo the drive to get involved in activism and LGBT politics.
The following outline offers an overview and guide to LGBTQ topics:
Rev. Trinity Ordoña is a lesbian Filipino-American college teacher, activist, community organizer, and ordained minister currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is notable for her grassroots work on intersectional social justice. Her activism includes issues of voice and visibility for Asian/Pacific gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals and their families, Lesbians of color, and survivors of sexual abuse. Her works include her dissertation Coming Out Together: an ethnohistory of the Asian and Pacific Islander queer women's and transgendered people's movement of San Francisco, as well as various interviews and articles published in anthologies like Filipino Americans: Transformation and Identity and Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology. She co-founded Asian and Pacific Islander Family Pride (APIFP), which "[sustains] support networks for API families with members who are LGBTQ," founded Healing for Change, "a CCSF student organization that sponsors campus-community healing events directed to survivors of violence and abuse," and is currently an instructor in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Department at City College of San Francisco.
