There are two extremely different impressions of the mayor within Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ community: some feel he is a homophobe and has only made gestures for the community- just enough to get the support of wealthy Pittsburgh gays. Others believe he is genuinely interested in the LGBTQ community and has acted in ways that are good for the community. Which view is correct? I don’t know.
Some might try and claim that the GOP strategy is confusing. On the one hand they fight Health Care Reform and claim it is about taking away a person’s choices. And then on the other hand, they are fighting in many states to force tests and procedures onto people against their will. This increases health care costs by promoting unnecessary procedures. ProgressMoShuffle has a good piece over on the Pennsylvania Progressive about this. But I[Read More…]
Most folks are talking about this Obama comment as if it were directed at Obama, and I think that is missing quite a bit. Yes, Santorum wants to take a swipe at the President, but I think he is also taking a swipe at Mitt Romney who is a Mormon.
So if Baltimore County does strip public restrooms and locker rooms as they are considering, they are essentially saying that discrimination is acceptable because Fear trumps facts. They may do this to try and compromise, but this is no compromise. It is a loss for equality; a loss for LGBTQ rights; and a win, only for the antigay haters.
The truth of the matter, is that the judges did nothing to the vote of seven million voters. The judges looked at the case to determine if the actions were aligned with the constitution or unconstitutional, and they found it to be unconstitutional. It would not have mattered how Prop 8 came into being. If it had been an act of legislation or a referendum vote, it still has to be constitutional. Every law must be constitutional.
Do you seek to provide services or are you a force of social change? Both are needed,and yet if we do not accept and commit to the social change we will be forever simply trying to keep up with the need.
The situation is changeable, yet you can not push the river. Photo: Some rights reserved by neonarcade
This is a really great post by Alyssa Rosenberg, worth reading by anyone interested in issues surrounding gender, sex, sexual orientation race- just about any way that divides people into groups. I haven’t written much concerning this topic, except to say repeatedly, that the folks pushing for these types of controls on women are the same folks who push an anti-gay agenda. Of the 146 guests who have come on cable news shows to discuss[Read More…]
Personally, I think this says less about “gay headline policy priorities” and more about the fact that black LGBTQ’s have not been a visible part of the LGBTQ movement all along, from a political perspective.Therefore, what is seen as “major progress” by some is still seen as very little progress by others. I also disagree with the sentence:
Why not instead, look at getting out Lesbian, Gay, Bi or Trans persons elected all across the state and start by looking for those districts where a candidate is unopposed? and today I have two of those types of districts to discuss: