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.
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!
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.
Received the message below in an email today. I just completed this training, and I believe it is an excellent investment in time for anyone within the LGBTQ community. I strongly urge everyone to consider taking this training course which is free. Often, I meet people within the LGBTQ community who believe the police force is 100% homophobic, or who don’t understand how the police work and the interaction between the 911 call center an[Read More…]
The US has taken a bold position, opposing LGBT discrimination across the globe, spearheaded mostly by Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. How are those efforts impacted is a Secretary of Defense is seen as anti-gay?
The Advocate’s top 10 news stories for 2012 has been published, and I thought it would be interesting to see which if any, I have written about and, and in hindsight, would I have written anything differently.
A controversy surrounding trans accommodations made my top 12 list of posts at #5 and #2. Not only is it the most important local story, but the basic issues of trans accommodations will grow into one of the mot significant queer issues nationally, and could mean the end of the LGBT moniker. As gays and lesbians get closer to full equality, they seem poised to leave the Trans community behind as issues of sex, gender,and public privacy collide.
Every year I look back over the content I have written and look to see which posts grab the most attention. I’d like to mention the 12 posts that received the most number of hits.