Anyone who grows up as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender has some response like that I believe. Sometimes more and sometimes less. Some people more and sometimes less. Our culture has taught us that, and some in the culture continue to push that lesson.
This post on The New Civil Rights Movement blog, sets out expressly to thank Sara Palin and Joe Miller for creating the environment that led to Murkowski’s win. I appreaciate the snear towards Miller and Palin, but I think the real credit goes to Murkowski who did what it took to beat the odds and win as a write-in vote. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), the successful and historic write-in candidate who won over the Sarah Palin[Read More…]
This is from AMERICAblog, and there are a few more details there such as a link to a sample phone script. KEY SENATORS WHO NEED TO HEAR FROM REPEAL SUPPORTERS NOW: –Susan Collins (R-ME); –Olympia Snowe (R-ME); –Richard Lugar (R-IN); –Judd Gregg (R-NH); –Scott Brown (R-MA) –George Voinovich (R-OH); –Kit Bond (R-MO); –Joe Manchin (D-WV) –Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) –Mark Kirk (R-IL) via AMERICAblog Gay: SLDN’s target list of Senators who need to hear from DADT[Read More…]
Short commentary: It is a freaking hard time to be a blogger working in the area of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Rights, when the Country and our Government as a whole is so totally screwed up. Wanting to write about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is timely and essential, but placed in the context of a Congress where the GOP cares only about tax breaks for the millionaires and billionaires, and a President who[Read More…]
It the importance and weight of the Souther Poverty Law Project’s pronouncement is to mean anything and have any affect, we have to be willing to draw a clear delineation between hate speech and anti-gay speech. It may be true that most often they are the same thing, but the distinction allows for Free Speech and the requirement for dialogue to be filled with facts and the truth.
As it is, it does appear like there is no one to speak for the people of California who voted to accept Prop 8. Don’t get me wrong- I don’t believe people should ever have the right to vote on the rights of others, but in California they do have that right, and that is why I think the judges will probably grant one of them as having standing.
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This morning I received an email, altering me that I have been nominated for the Iris Marion Young Award for Political Engagement. The award is described this way: This award honors the memory of Iris Marion Young (1949-2006), a faculty member in GSPIA from 1991-2000 who was active in the Women’s Studies Program.  Young was a philosopher and social theorist whose commitments to democracy and justice informed her scholarship and her personal work as an[Read More…]
I think there is clearly some within the LGBT community who express transphobia at anywhere from a very mild to very blatant and offensive level.
NOM is succeeding by using a magician’s approach to getting where they want to be. They create small diversions that cause knee-jerk reactions within the LGBT community, while their real focus and meaningful work is on raising money secretly and using that money to affect elections.