by LZ Granderson I was a senior in college when I learned a gay man helped save the world. True story. Even after years of history lessons about World War II, I was well into my 20s before hearing of Alan Turing, the man most credited with creating the algorithms that enabled the ...
by Christian Carrier Imagine getting ready to leave work when you suddenly get a call that your mother has been in a serious car accident and is in the hospital. At the emergency room, the nurses tell you that she has been rushed into surgery. After several hours, her surgeon comes ...
by Steven Roberts In 1986, The New York Times announced it would begin using the honorific “Ms.” “Until now,” the Times explained in an editor’s note, “’Ms.’ had not been used because of the belief that it had not passed sufficiently into the language to be accepted ...
Last week, public health nurses with the Monongalia County Health Department underwent LGBTQ+ “safe zone” training. The adjacent term “safe space” is too often met with eyerolls and derision, but there should be no safer space than a doctor’s office. But for members of the ...
Newsroom@DominionPost.com Visiting a health care provider can be nerve wracking for anyone, but members of the LGBTQ+ community often face additional challenges, said Brad Grimes, program director at the LGBTQ+ Center at West Virginia University. “Many LGBTQ+ people report having ...
MORGANTOWN — Make room, Huntington. The city of Morgantown has become the second in West Virginia to achieve a Municipal Equality Index top score of 100. The MEI is a joint effort of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and The Equality Federation to rate how inclusive municipal ...