This is the first of a two part series. Here is part two. Last evening my husband, Brad and I challenged the frigid temperatures to go out and see the new film Selma which recently opened in theaters across the US. We often head up to a theater up route 28 that is part of a shopping Mall, and as usual the mall was full of teenage kids from the various semi-rural neighborhoods the mall serves.[Read More…]
Courts do not decide to implement same-sex marriage and force it upon states. Courts do rule on the question of if the states laws or constitutional bans are a violation of the Federal constitution.
Workshops, Panels, Discussion, Information Tables, Education and Strategies for Racial Justice!
We must quit talking about Gay Rights as if it is an all inclusive term. We have to stop talking about Gay Marriage as if it is a good descriptor, and we must do everything we can to prompt all of culture to talk more broadly about sexual orientation and identity, as well as gender identity and expression.
Blog post articulates some of the changes you will see on thomascwaters.com, including a negative commentary on “Facebook Activism.”
This week in HIV/AIDS, is an ongoing weekly blog series where I highlight news or commentary about HIV/AIDS in an attempt to increase the dialogue about HIV/AIDS within the LGBTQ community.
What will the LGBTQ movement need to focus upon in 2015 and how. Commentary regarding a state-level strategy for LGBTQ issues as identified by David Mariner and published on The Billerico Project.
See James Franco realizes what a bunch of assholes we are that we will believe anything put before us, when it is done by some guy who collectively, we want to get in their pants. And by that, I mean Franco’s as wells Eminem’s.
I received an email today regarding HIV and stigma partly in reply to a series of posts I wrote about HIV back at the end of November: 2014, HIV and the Gay Community Who deserves HIV/AIDS? HIV and accountability HIV and PrEP The email came from Sean Howell, CEO at Hornet, an online gay men’s dating app. The app has what Sean called the KYS (Know Your Status) feature and grew out of much work with[Read More…]
Controversy is swirling regarding Kate Pierson’s new song, “Mister Sister,” and there is perhaps much that can be said about that. But to do so feels as if one might be wading into a whole lot of ugly. So, I was pleased to see a post in my news feed the other day about being a good trans ally. In the controversy, it becomes clear there is much that the trans community doesn’t need or doesn’t[Read More…]