In addition to a more thorough federal investigation, the groups are calling for a formalized diversity training program to be put into place for all Allegheny County employees.
This is from the Post-Gazette. More to be posted on this later today: The beating became the subject of an investigation after Mr. Kipp, of Polish Hill, who had been arrested for stabbing his live-in boyfriend, showed up with severely swollen eyes and face in the jail’s medical section. There, he told Bureau of Corrections Capt. Ron Pofi and Allegheny County police Inspector Christopher Kearns he was assaulted by at least one guard. via Allegheny[Read More…]
A Michigan assistant attorney general who started a blog against the University of Michigan’s openly gay student body president has been fired, the state attorney general’s office said Monday.
People feel they have so little voice in government, and while I’m not entirely sure I agree with that, I do know that their vote is one way they see they can exercise their voice. So, people who were unhappy with the way government has worked- not necessarily the direction it was going- but the process and speed and ability to function- did what they could to make that change. They voted for the other guy, or they didn’t vote.
I have yet to speak to anyone even remotely connected to the LGBT movement who was happy with Tuesday’s elections, yet I was shocked to find there was one group ready to cash in on the election devastation just hours after the votes were all counted. Were they ready with their donation request even before the dust had cleared and the voting machines turned off for another year? Let me be clear from the start:[Read More…]
Dan Onorato who supports a fair tax that is aligned with what other states are charging. Dan Onorato is the right leader to work for the people of Pennsylvania,instead of Tom Corbett who is working for the big gas and oil companies.
Would You Nominate My Blog? I saw this on sexgenderbody, a blog I try and read at least once a week, and Olga is reposting from another blog called Essin’ Em: Sexuality Happens. I’m creating a list. A list of sex, relationship, LGBTQ, kink, social justice, feminist, humanist bloggers who have put up at least one post that has made you stop for a moment and think. Perhaps it was about sex and gender, or[Read More…]
Progress may then look a bit like a three ring circus or a juggler who is handling three balls in one hand, three knifes in the other, while attempting to balance some spinning plates, all at the same time. A balancing act of all of these elements is needed to get things from point A to point B, of the road to full equality.
I would say that queers aren’t a noticeable target at the moment, exactly because we are a major target for after the far right conservatives take power.