Simply saying it gets better doesn’t make it so. This isn’t Bewitched where Samantha wriggles her nose and things change. The value of It Gets Better is to place a sense of hope and focus that down the road, if you get yourself that far, it will be better. And in my personal opinions, Huang’s ideas are simplistic and do little to grasp the reality of the needed hope that will help save these kids.
Really great piece on Americablog about Obama and Gay Marriage. Read it all, but here is a good clip: This is not about Obama. It’s about us. The nation is increasingly open to marriage equality because we have been listening and learning – from our friends, from pop culture and from the strides made by the gay rights community. I don’t think history will remember the President’s announcement for his personal narrative. The breakthrough here[Read More…]
You! Imagine your son or your daughter, or your brother or sister or someone you know. Close you eyes and thimnk about a group of kids stalking that person, and overpowering them and holding that person down kicking andf screaming, and cutting off their hair. Imagine the moments after that kid is realeased from being held down and their hair is severed, and violated and there is no way to step back. What Romney did was a truly violent act of invasion of another’s body. No invasion is worse except for rape.
At the heart of this, isn’t only the place of the religious community component within ther African American community- although that is one element of it. The other is the distinction between Marriage as a Civil Imnstitution where a marriage license is issued by the State, and a judge, or other officiant facilitates, and Marriage as a Religious Ritual or Rite of passage.
Received this via email: Pittsburgh, PA- May 16, 2012- The City of Pittsburgh’s Mayor’s LGBT Advisory council will be hosting it’s first annual diversity job fair on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at PNC Bank’s Firstside Center located at 500 Firstside Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. The job fair is intended to offer potential candidates a forum to meet with representatives from various corporations throughout the city of Pittsburgh to discuss employment opportunities. The participating corporations all[Read More…]
Blogger’s note: This is a press release received today from Keystone Progress, and the only part of this post, which is mine, is this comment itself. ALEC may not be the type of subject matter that most of my regular readers really care about. It may not seem LGBTQ related and it isn’t a story about some good progress towards rights or some story of victimhood. But ALEC is a subject, everyone needs to care[Read More…]
The single greatest fallacy that the Far Right uses against LGBTQ Civil Rights is the accusation that we are destroying the family, which could not be further from the truth. If anything Marriage Equality does more to protect the family than any other piece of legislation out there. Because we are already mothers and fathers and our families deserve equality. They deserve safety and legal protection and cultural support and acceptance. Their hate-filed fallacy has another dimension too. With it, they seek to silence all of us who are also sisters, and brothers, and daughters and sons. The Far Rights fallacy robs so many families; harms so many families today, as gay, lesbian, bi, trans, and queer children hide a part of themselves from their loved ones for fear.
We have, hanging in our back yard, this beautiful bell/chime/gong. A previous house owner placed it here. I am guessing it is teracotta or a similar material, and it has a great ring when struck. Here is the thing- I’m reluctant to strike it without knowing what the correct type of stiking instrament is. So, I’m placing this photo here, and then, using Pinterest to try and get it pinned in the hopes that someone[Read More…]
I’m of the belief that now that Obama has cleared the way for a Democratic Party plank for Same-sex marriage, is the LGBTQ communities responsibility to do everything in our power to get him re-elected. Part of that is willing to see real change n the way we work for that election and the partnerships we form toward that end.
The biggest issues facing Obama are not moderate voters in swing states who may be socially conservative. One repercussion of the devastating loses in 2010 helped the GOP redistrict to favor conservatives, and enact across the country, various legislation which oppresses the vote by traditionally democrat voters. Indeed, numbers are way down, especially within the African American community. LGBTQ activists need to lend all their time, talent and funds to GOTV efforts within all traditional Dem voter blocks, even where some of those voters will need to be educated about the need to support LGBTQ issues. We asked for him to evolve,he did, and now it is our turn to do our part. Are we ready? Are you ready?