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05.04.2009 3:47pm EDT
You asked us questions – we found experts to answer them.
Welcome to our new section, 365gay’s Ask the Expert. Each week, a different expert will answer your questions on law, health, relationships, news and personal finance.
Our expert schedule:
The first week of the month: Vincent Smith/ health and Jennifer Vanasco/news and politics
Second week: Yetta Kurland/law and Daniel Leary/gay etiquette
Third week: Joe Kort/Relationships and 365gay News/news and politics
Fourth: Marc Delphine/personal finance
You can ask your question here.
Launched today: Questions and answers on health, relationships and news – read them here.
Who are our experts?
Law expert – Yetta Kurland
Yetta Kurland is a civil rights attorney and tenant rights activist.
As a civil rights attorney, Yetta has worked to provide legal services to underrepresented communities. As a tenant rights activist, Yetta has worked on creating sustainable and affordable housing solutions for New Yorkers, and has defended tenants in eviction proceedings to protect their rent stabilized and rent controlled homes throughout the City.
Yetta lives in Chelsea with her partner Elizabeth and their two Italian Greyhounds, Sal and Luca. She is currently running for New York City Council. Her website is YettaKurland.com.
Yetta will answer questions about law and legal issues the second week of every month.
Personal finance expert – Marc Delphine
Marc Delphine is a financial adviser who has been practicing financial planning for over seven years. He is currently working on developing Pride Funds, a division of Equality Funds, which is a mutual fund that invests in gay-friendly companies to advocate for progressive management practices. Marc lives in Oregon.
Marc will answer questions about personal finance the fourth week of every month.
Relationships expert – Joe Kort
Since 1985, Joe Kort, MA, MSW has been specializing in Gay Affirmative Psychotherapy, Marital Affairs, Mixed Orientation Marriages, Sexual Addiction, Sexual Abuse, and Imago Relationship Therapy. He trains straight clinicians about Gay Affirmative Therapy around the country.
Joe is the author of 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Improve Their Lives and 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Find Real Love on gay male identity and relationships. His latest book is Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician: The Essential Guide.
An adjunct professor teaching Gay and Lesbian Studies at Wayne State University’s School of Social Work, Joe’s website is www.joekort.com.
Joe will be answering questions about relationships the third week of every month.
Health expert – Dr. Vincent Smith
Dr. Vincent Smith earned his MD from Stanford University and his masters in public health from Harvard. He is on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School.
Vincent will be answering questions about health and medicine the first week of every month.
Etiquette expert – Daniel Leary
Daniel Leary is an actor and a comedian. His video blog “Mores for Gays” started on AfterElton.com and is now a show on Logo. His website is DanielLeary.net.
News & politics expert – Jennifer Vanasco
Jennifer Vanasco is editor in chief of 365gay.com and an award-winning, syndicated columnist in the gay press. She writes about politics and social trends; her work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Village Voice, Chicago Reader, Washington Blade, Chicago Free Press, Newsday, and the Independent Gay Forum. The Society of Professional Journalists’ Headline Club has three times awarded her the Peter Lisagor Award for opinion writing. She has worked as a writer for Mayor Mike Bloomberg and the University of Chicago Law School, where, yes, she met Barack Obama. Briefly.
She lives in Manhattan with her partner Jenny and their dog Max.
Jennifer will answer your questions about news and politics every first week of the month.
Hi! my boyfriend is in a latinamerican country, we love each other , I go there every month , and I want to bring him here, to live with me, what can I do, he is single and me too, help please, from Miami
I live in summerville south carolina I am female and my girlfriend and I would like to enter into a civil union..Where do i go to do this..
The sidebars really are a detriment to 365gay’s website. I think you should re-examine your decision to allow this.
Help, I can’t stop making inane complaints about web sites in their Comments sections. I keep visiting the same sites again and again and pointing out every excruciating detail that annoys me so everyone knows how I feel. What should I do?
i,m having problems meeting guys and girls what can i do that i,m a little shy?
Doesn’t seem like all of these choices are qualified. I’m going to ask an unknown comic about his ettiquette?
And why would any lesbian want to ask a male health expert a question? I’ll never tire of this site and most sites catering towards men. It’s so refreshing.
Drop the annoying sidebars; they’re taking up like half my screen.
Has Senator Spector made any statements on his Gay views in the past as to know where he stands.