Is It Giving Us What We Need?By Billy Glover© 2014 Diversity Rules Magazine and Billy Glover.  All Rights Reserved.www.diveristyrulesmagazine.com William Edward “Billy” Glover was born September 16, 1932, in Shreveport, Louisiana.  He became active in the movement to gain equal/civil rights for homosexual/LGBT Americans in late 1959, with Mattachine and ONE.  He  co-founded the Homosexual […]

A Book By Tobias International© 2014 Diversity Rules Magazine.  All Rights Reserved.www.diversityrulesmagazine.com Tobias International is a gay fiction author who has self-published his first book entitled,“Queen of Clubs.”  He lives in Bournemouth in Dorset with his long term gay partner. They have been together for 10 years. The Queen of Clubs is a fictitious insight […]

Gay, Gay Metal© 2014 Diversity Rules Magazine.  All Rights Reserved.www.diversityrulesmagazine.com Progressive, hard rock innovators CYNIC (guitarist/vocalist Paul Masvidal, drummer Sean Reinert, bassist Sean Malone) announced a string of North American tour dates in early May. The trek, which started on July 6 in Vancouver, BC, has seen the band perform select dates in the US […]

Features BeBe Zahara Benet© 2014 Diversity Rules Magazine. All Rights Reserved.www.diversityrulesmagazine.com The August issue of Diversity Rules Magazine has been released featuring BeBe Zahara Benet. In addition to BeBe’s interview, the following is a partial listing of what’s coming up as well in August: Keep Up Now: Terry Ludwig talks about the beginnings of life […]

An Interview With BeBe Zahara Benet© 2014 Diversity Rules Magazine. All Rights Reserved. www.diversityrulesmagazine.com BeBe Zahara Benet—the very first winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race —  bares all in her new show that premiered at Manhattan’s The Triad Theatre on July 21st with a subsequent performance on July 24th.  Following her recent critically acclaimed off-Broadway show […]

Launches “Volunteer Vacations” Program© 2014 Diversity Rules Magazine and Global Volunteers.  All Rights Reserved.www.diversityrulesmagazine.com Global Volunteers, a private, non-profit organization partnering with local leaders in communities around the world to provide crucial services with the aid of short-term “volunteer vacationers,” has launched International LGBT Volunteer Vacations and People-to-People Programs. These ground breaking programs will engage […]

A Resource for the Transgender CommunityEdited by Laura Erikson-SchrothIntroduction by Jennifer Finney Boylan© 2014 Diversity Rules Magazine.  All Rights Reserved.www.diversityrulesmagazine.com Oxford University Press has released Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, a groundbreaking new resource guide for transgender populations. While primarily targeted towards transgender populations, the books serves as a resource, much like Our Bodies, Our Selves […]

A Book By William Bruce© 2014 Diversity Rules Magazine and William Bruce.  All Rights Reserved.www.diversityrulesmagazine.com ‘Gay Before God’ bravely explores an issue that many in the church would prefer to sweep under the rug. Bruce’s narrative also leaves readers with plenty to think about – especially concerning those who claim to preach love yet hold […]

“Arrival and Departure” Now Available on Amazon.comwww.amazon.com/dp/1500243124 James Schwartz, author of “The Literary Party:  Growing Up Gay and Amish,” has released a new compilation of poems, his first full length poetry collection since The Literary Party (inGroup Press, 2011). James Schwartz is a poet and slam performer striving for the simplicity of Cavafy mixed with […]

By Jim Koury, Editor/Publisher, Diversity Rules Magazine© 2014 Diversity Rules Magazine.  All Rights Reserved.www.diversityrulesmagazine.com We are born innocent children untouched by the many biases of life and the influences of others’ thoughts, actions and persuasion.  There is a blank slate upon which to transcribe what life we will have and how we shall face the […]