Earlier this year, I was in Provincetown for my close friends, Brenda and Harriet’s wedding. Ptown is very close to the site of the Pilgrim’s landing, and home to a museum  about those crazy Pilgrims, and their adventures to get here. While my library has many books in it that I’ve had since childhood, one of my favorite books is missing. A small paperback that told the Pilgrim’s story. I remember using it in school[Read More…]
I saw this on Daniel’s blog, and the link below is to the original story on HuffPo. With World AIDS Day just around the corner, it is nice to see some good news for a change. AIDS Prevention: Pill Helps Gay Men Avoid HIV Infection, Study Finds Tuesday: U.N. officials said new HIV cases are dropping dramatically worldwide. A study showed that a daily pill already on pharmacy shelves could help prevent new infections in[Read More…]
Spark is one of the best holiday parties this December is also a fundraiser for one of the best Pittsburgh LGBT event, and I hope we will see you there!
Here is a list of websites that offer LGBTQ Rights information, resources and assistance. Â The list came from a posting on Facebook, and may not be a complete list. Â If there are other sites you would add to the list, please feel free to add a comment to this post. http://www.advocate.com/ http://www.getequal.org/ http://www.hrc.org/ http://www.afer.org/ http://www.gay.com/ http://www.out.com/ http://www.hrw.org/ http://www.gfn.com/ http://www.glaa.org/ http://www.glnh.org/ http://www.ilga.org/ http://www.aclu.org/ http://www.eqca.org/ http://www.bgay.com/ http://www.glaad.org/ http://www.laglc.org/ http://www.iglta.com/ http://www.365gay.com/ http://www.iglhrc.org/ http://www.moveon.org/ http://www.sfpride.org/ http://www.imminst.org/ http://www.change.org/ http://www.amnesty.org/ http://www.lapride.org/[Read More…]
A regular reader sent me a link to this story about a new book, The Right to Be Out, by Stuart Biegel: Americans have a constitutional right to be openly gay, lesbian, or transgender, and in fact the Constitution guarantees and protects that right, asserts Stuart Biegel. His new book, The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools, is a timely release from the University of Minnesota Press. Biegel argues[Read More…]
My Google Reader Feed (which I read using the iPad and iPhone app, Feedler) Â was full today with snippets about Willow Palin’s gay slur, and how Gay tea baggers are defending her. Yes, I used “gay tea bagger” intentionally, and I’ll write about that later. But in this post, I want to stick with my base question: Do we love homophobes? Or perhaps a better question, is this: Have we learned nothing from the recent[Read More…]
In as much as a Human Relations Commission assures that residents are protected by providing a a mechanism for discrimination abuses to be explored and determined, Lancaster County has essentially given a green light for anyone to be discriminated against based on sex, race, religion, and other criteria. Â This was done in the name of saving a few bucks in a budget? Here is the press release issued by Equality PA: Equality Pennsylvania Stunned by[Read More…]
Last week, I posted some comments about Glee, Kurt, and the anti-bullying episode. I used a post from the Huffington Post as my departure point, and I appreciated the dialogue that grew from that. While Leah, who wrote in HuffPo and I may see some things a bit differently, all of the ideas are important, and I value the willingness of anyone to offer their ideas. Today, I see that Max Adler, the guy who[Read More…]
I noticed this last week, and then failed to actually post. So a Dallas couple had a wedding where the presiding minister was actually in DC and was attending the Dallas ceremony via Skype. I’m very happy for the couple, and don’t mean to be critical of this at all. I just not sure what it really accomplishes. Sure, it demonstrates that even the homophobic system can’t keep us down, but then what? The actual[Read More…]
The issues of bullying, violence, gay teen isolation, depression and suicide are not simple cookie cutter problems, that a single trip to the principal’s office is going to solve, and in this episode we saw parts of a far more important mix of the complexities and elements that make up the whole. Additionally, the story didn’t end, just because the episode only lasts 50-something minutes