The world is too small and the number of youth who are killing each other and killing themselves too high without anyone in the public’s eye encouraging it. Azealia Banks is part of the problem harming our young people, not a part of the solution from it.
Progressives across the state and the PA Democratic Party ought to be extremely busy, doing more than ever before to set up a large enough change in coming elections to turn Pennsylvania in a new direction. Here is what I think needs to happen:
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 is the Gay and Lesbian Executive Committee, a professional networking group which is about to start its fifth year of meeting.