Author name: Jim Reeves

For those landing here from my blog Alternating Currents, sorry for the error in the link! Here is the correct link.  This will take you to the Times Delta article. (Gannett’s program won’t let me go back in and correct an error once a blog is posted. They really need to fix that!) Opening in

At Nancy Reagan’s funeral service on Friday, March 11, Hillary Clinton made comments to the media that created a firestorm in the LGBT community. While speaking to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Clinton said “The other point that I wanted to make too is, it may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was

Kathryn Hall, M.D., President of PFLAG Tulare & Kings Counties, has announced that the LGBT support, educational, and advocacy group is offering $500 scholarships to Tulare or Kings County students who will be in an accredited college, university, or vocational trade school in the fall of 2016.Information requested of applicants include questions regarding membership in school

  The Victory Institute’s Victory Congressional Internship and Victory Congressional Fellowship are developing the next generation of out public leaders. The Summer 2016 Victory Congressional application process is now open! Each summer, the Victory Congressional Internship brings outstanding LGBT college students to Washington, D.C., for an intensive leadership program, including: An eight week Congressional internship with

  Best Christmas Ever – 1971I wrote this back in 2007, for my personal blog on MySpace.******We were telling Christmas stories at work the other day, and I told my “best Christmas ever” story.  After I told it, I thought it might make a good blog, so here it is. The location: Visalia California, the

Since the beginning of the AIDS pandemic in 1981, 78 million people have contracted HIV, and 39 million have died. In 2014 alone, 1.2 million people succumbed to AIDS.  70% of all people living with HIV, 25.8 million, live in sub-Sahara Africa.  Only 41% of individuals world-wide have access to anti-retroviral therapy. In 1988, The World

PFLAG Tulare-Kings Counties will host Skyler Cooper at it’s November meeting, Sunday, 11/15.  The meeting will be held at the Educational and Cultural Center, Congregation B’nai David, 1039 S. Chinowth, Visalia, from 3pm to 5pm.  Hear Skyler Cooper speak and watch a screening of  the short film “Hero Mars” as part of November’s Transgender Day of Remembrance. Join

October 11 is/was National Coming Out Day.  2015 marks the 27th annual observance, commemorating the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, held in 1987.  On this day, those still in the closet, whether they are LGBTQ or allies, are urged to step out and tell their stories.  In recognition of NCOD, PFLAG Tulare-Kings Counties will host