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SLDN’s target list of Senators to call about DADT repeal

This is from AMERICAblog, and there are a few more details there such as a link to a sample phone script. KEY SENATORS WHO NEED TO HEAR FROM REPEAL SUPPORTERS NOW: –Susan Collins (R-ME); –Olympia Snowe (R-ME); –Richard Lugar (R-IN); –Judd Gregg (R-NH); –Scott Brown (R-MA) –George Voinovich (R-OH); –Kit Bond (R-MO); –Joe Manchin (D-WV) –Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) –Mark Kirk (R-IL) via AMERICAblog Gay: SLDN’s target list of Senators who need to hear from DADT[Read More…]

December 8, 2010 — Comments are Disabled — Activism, general

Hard Time to be an LGBTQ Activist/Advocate

Short commentary: It is a freaking hard time to be a blogger working in the area of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Rights, when the Country and our Government as a whole is so totally screwed up. Wanting to write about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is timely and essential, but placed in the context of a Congress where the GOP cares only about tax breaks for the millionaires and billionaires, and a President who[Read More…]

December 8, 2010 — Comments are Disabled — Activism, general

Free Speech and Reporting Anti-gay Rhetoric

It the importance and weight of the Souther Poverty Law Project’s pronouncement is to mean anything and have any affect, we have to be willing to draw a clear delineation between hate speech and anti-gay speech. It may be true that most often they are the same thing, but the distinction allows for Free Speech and the requirement for dialogue to be filled with facts and the truth.

December 7, 2010 — 1 comment — Activism, general

Prop 8 Appeals Court Recap

As it is, it does appear like there is no one to speak for the people of California who voted to accept Prop 8. Don’t get me wrong- I don’t believe people should ever have the right to vote on the rights of others, but in California they do have that right, and that is why I think the judges will probably grant one of them as having standing.

December 6, 2010 — 2 comments — general, Same-Sex Marriage

Prop 8 Appeal Hearing is Live on C-SPAN

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN.aspx

December 6, 2010 — Comments are Disabled — general, Same-Sex Marriage

Thomas C Waters Nominated for Iris Marion Young Award

This morning I received an email, altering me that I have been nominated for the Iris Marion Young Award for Political Engagement. The award is described this way: This award honors the memory of Iris Marion Young (1949-2006), a faculty member in GSPIA from 1991-2000 who was active in the Womenâ€™s Studies Program. Â Young was a philosopher and social theorist whose commitments to democracy and justice informed her scholarship and her personal work as an[Read More…]

December 6, 2010 — Comments are Disabled — general

Transphobia in the LGB community

I think there is clearly some within the LGBT community who express transphobia at anywhere from a very mild to very blatant and offensive level.

December 5, 2010 — 1 comment — Activism, general

Why We Need To Care About the National Organization for Marriage (NOM)

NOM is succeeding by using a magician’s approach to getting where they want to be. They create small diversions that cause knee-jerk reactions within the LGBT community, while their real focus and meaningful work is on raising money secretly and using that money to affect elections.

December 4, 2010 — Comments are Disabled — general

Republicans Vote to Raise Taxes

It isn’t even so much that these 2% are being treated so horribly. In the Democrat’s tax plan, even that top 2% would receive a tax break on their first $250,000. It is just everything above that will be taxed at a higher rate.

December 3, 2010 — Comments are Disabled — general

The Family Research Council as Hate Group

This is what makes the Family Research Council a hate group. Their desire to harm gay people by the deliberate use of falsehoods and misinformation, paraded around as if they were facts.

December 3, 2010 — 1 comment — general

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