The best morning to wake up gay.
Obama gave us, gay and lesbian people, a place within the whole of the American Dream in a way that had never been articulated so clearly before.
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Our Journey is Not Complete!
All of us, must care about these things, and none of us can pitt one of these things against the others as more or less important. They are all apart of our journey, and all must come to be.
Did Jodi Foster Really Come Out: The Rules of Disclosure.
Not from a single act, but rather from the collective act of millions and millions of people performing a individual act. And even that may not be a true statement, because, coming out is never a single act. It is something that many of us do all of the time, over and over. It is nice to suggest that one raindrop helps the plant grow to it’s fullest, but really it is the accumulation of all the raindrops together. Is one more or less the thing that makes the real difference? I don’t think so.
GLSEN Pittsburgh Announces Trainings
GLSEN Pittsburgh is working to increase support of local K–12 schools through these new skill-building workshops, which will consist of experiential and interactive components designed to build on participants’ existing knowledge and facilitation skills. GLSEN Pittsburgh encourages those with previous training, facilitation, teaching and/or public speaking experience — and those with an understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues — to apply to become a volunteer facilitator.
Out Sims Holds Out Public Swearing In.
While this act is ceremonial, it truly is far more than that. It is a visible, tangible effort to make LGBTQ issues matter in PA government like few other efforts have.
Understanding transgender: what you can and can not want to know.
The very notion of “her” is what most individuals don’t understand, and until more efforts are made to educate about gender, sex, and identity, the general public will remain clueless and ignorant.
Remembering Ka’Sandra Wade: A Cyber vigil
I ask all of my readers here at thomascwaters.com to participate in a cyber vigil for Ka’Sandra Wade. Here are the details from Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents: We – the members of The Pittsburgh Women’s Blogging Socity – are saddened and outraged and fed up that yet another one of our sisters in Pitttsburgh has lost her life to domestic violence. 33 year old Ka’Sandra Wade – mother, employee, daughter, student and so much more –[Read More…]
GLEC to move to Tuesday meetings for 2013!
GLEC is the Gay and Lesbian Executive Committee, a professional networking group which is about to start its fifth year of meeting.
Miss Alabama Sets Women Back Five Decades!
Does this sound a little High School to you? It does to me. There are cliques, or roles that men and women play, and if you want a hot-piece-of-meat girl, then make sure you are good enough to be a quarterback, boys!
Gay Comes Out in Professional Sports
I love the pure humanness of this, as it stands in stark contrast to the very evil and frightening admonishments spread by the anti-gay folks. How scary is it for two husbands to support each other and celebrate a major win with a kiss? Not very.