We are not talking about legislative developments here. We are talking about a specific court case: Hollingsworth v. Perry. This case came out of the District Appeal, with a very narrow scope. Correct me if I am wrong, but there really isn’t anyway that the Supreme Court could decide Hollingsworth v. Perry such that it affected the entire nation.
Blogger’s note: David posted this comment on Facebook as part of a thread to my blog post re: GetEqual’s press release concerning The Obama Administration’s brief in the Prop 8 case before the Supreme Court. Some others have commented directly on the original blog post. I thought David added lots of great stuff to the dialogue and I wanted to bring it out front, and also comment on it. So posting David’s comment here as[Read More…]
It is easy to say that everyone should be treated Equally! But how does that play out? What does it look like and getting from where we are to that point- those are the important things to be talking about.
GetEqual just doesn’t get it, if you ask me. They need to get a clue on their way to Getting Equal. It isn’t that they are wrong in theory. Yes, everyone deserves to be protected from discrimination. But few with any experience in reality, would expect creating public policy by one Supreme Court decision to the plausible step to that end.
Luke would be holding a press conference and make a major announcement, but no announcement materialized. So, here my guesses as to the three top reasons Mayor Luke Ravenstahl has been missing.
The news outlets are announcing that a statement from the Mayor may be coming shortly? From CBS Affiliate KDKA: At that time he could announce that he will finish out his term, but not run for re-election and retire from politics. Currently he’s locked in a primary election battle with controller Michael Lamb, and Councilman Bill Peduto. Sources say the mayor could also announce that he is stepping down under the strain of the current[Read More…]
RuPaul’s Drag Race has brought new attention to Drag, which has grown and evolved in exciting ways. At one time, it may have been the form of gay entertainment, where today there are lesbian, gay, bi, trans and gender nonconforming entertainers in all sorts of mediums and venues. Still Drag is poignant and meaningful in the ways it uses Gender, to express power, roles, and and ideas.
The “fundamental principle” that Civil Rights leaders fought for is quite simple. No one group of individuals has a right to decide to discriminate against another identifiable group simply because they don’t approve or like that other group.
For me, that is the dividing line between Christians and Christianists. The former walk their own walk while the latter attempt to control others.
Othering, requires identifying “same or different,” and this poses real issues for gays and lesbians. We are very much the same and yet we are also very different. I think this has stopped us at times from effectively fighting back against the Homo-haters, because we have fought internally about what being same or different means for our own identity.