December 2010
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How to complain about the BBC interviewing pro-gay... →
Last night, as first highlighted by PinkNews.co.uk, the BBC’s flagship BBC News at Six programme on BBC One featured an interview with Stephen Green, who has previously called for gays to be executed on the news that Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish were celebrating the birth of their first son. We explain how to complain about this story. […] If you are outraged at the...
Utah Grandfather Says Addressing Anti-Gay Bullying... →
Utah Grandfather Says Addressing Anti-Gay Bullying... →
Massey Energy: Where Gay Employees Can Be Harassed... →
The lawsuit comes from Sam Hall, an employee in West Virginia who says that he experienced numerous bouts of anti-gay harassment over the past five years, according to the Charleston Gazette. He was teased by management in 2005 for having a “Brokeback Mountain moment” after he went horseback riding with a coworker. In 2007, Hall says that a chief electrician with the company wrote...
Massey Energy: Where Gay Employees Can Be Harassed... →
The lawsuit comes from Sam Hall, an employee in West Virginia who says that he experienced numerous bouts of anti-gay harassment over the past five years, according to the Charleston Gazette. He was teased by management in 2005 for having a “Brokeback Mountain moment” after he went horseback riding with a coworker. In 2007, Hall says that a chief electrician with the company wrote...
Off-Duty Cis Cop Allegedly Assaults Trans Woman,... →
Officer Radon’s version of events just so happens to follow a convenient popular narrative regarding trans women as both violent (and therefore “manly”) and sex workers. The latter allegation, particularly, is one which a set of dangerous, (trans-)misogynistic cultural biases regularly allow to work against trans women. As both sex workers and trans women are portrayed as deviant and...
Off-Duty Cis Cop Allegedly Assaults Trans Woman,... →
Officer Radon’s version of events just so happens to follow a convenient popular narrative regarding trans women as both violent (and therefore “manly”) and sex workers. The latter allegation, particularly, is one which a set of dangerous, (trans-)misogynistic cultural biases regularly allow to work against trans women. As both sex workers and trans women are portrayed as deviant and...
Gay parents are more equal than others →
317 same-sex parents - including 27 men - and 958 heterosexual parents, challenges the notion that biology is destiny.
”It is not uncommon for the biological capacity of mothers - childbearing, breastfeeding, nurturing - to be used as the rationale for women’s more limited participation in the workforce and their primary role as homemaker,” says Jennifer Power, of
La Trobe...
Gay parents are more equal than others →
317 same-sex parents - including 27 men - and 958 heterosexual parents, challenges the notion that biology is destiny.
”It is not uncommon for the biological capacity of mothers - childbearing, breastfeeding, nurturing - to be used as the rationale for women’s more limited participation in the workforce and their primary role as homemaker,” says Jennifer Power, of
La Trobe...
North Carolina Commissioner: Gay People Are Sexual... →
An antigay commissioner in North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County called gay people “sexual predators” in an e-mail response to a letter from a fellow commissioner asking her colleagues to sign a thank-you note to the state’s officials who voted to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
Mecklenburg County commissioner Jennifer Roberts circulated the letter earlier this month, prompting an angry...
North Carolina Commissioner: Gay People Are Sexual... →
An antigay commissioner in North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County called gay people “sexual predators” in an e-mail response to a letter from a fellow commissioner asking her colleagues to sign a thank-you note to the state’s officials who voted to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
Mecklenburg County commissioner Jennifer Roberts circulated the letter earlier this month, prompting an angry...
After Imprisonment for Blogging About Women's... →
Bloggers are powerful people. Don’t believe it? Iranian officials feared the power of a blogger so much, they had 18-year-old Navid Mohebbi arrested, beaten, and imprisoned for the desperate crime of keeping a blog supporting women’s rights. If words on a blog didn’t have great powers of change, why would they be so afraid of a teenager’s musings?
Since we first...
Target Apologized for Anti-Gay Donations, But... →
Texas School Outs Lesbian Student to Her Parents →
After a team meeting last March, the sophomore student was told to stay behind. Two coaches locked the door to the locker room, asked the girl if she was gay and accused her of having a sexual relationship with another girl. They accused her of spreading rumors and threatened to tell the teen’s mother that she was involved with a female. Before letting her go, they told the student that...
N.C. Supreme Court voids lesbian adoption; puts... →
Autistic boy ruled OK for sex change →
“The consensus among all the professionals was that he is capable of making, and has made, an informed decision,” the judge said.
Trigger/note: male pronouns used throughout, as well as referring to other cases of trans persons with their birth sex pronouns.
Phyllis Schlafly: The Problem With Gays? "They Are... →
Two Men Beaten Outside TX Gay Bar, Onlookers And... →
ustin, TX – Two gay men were beaten on Christmas after leaving a gay bar, the attack took place on a major street and continued for 5-10 minutes with no one coming to their aid. Once police arrived, they told the victims that “there was nothing they could do.”
Vatican Christmas Shocker! Pope says child rape... →
dream-hope-act:
sott:
“In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,” the Pope said.
What the fuck?!
Utah Senate President: We May Repeal The... →
Senate President Michael Waddoups went on record yesterday saying there’s a chance the Utah Legislature may repeal the non-discrimination laws that have been passed in 10 cities and municipalities in Utah. “I’ve seen no advantage to the laws,” he says.
With yesterday’s fantastic news that Equality Utah had succeeded in passing the protections for housing and workplace discrimination in Grand...
Australia: Church free to ban gay foster parents →
Australian St. Patrick's Church: Where Christmas... →
What a shame…this church used their Christmas services to preach that gay couples weren’t part of a Catholic definition of family. That’s the bad news. The good? Folks in the pews walked out, and argued with church leaders for turning Christmas into a vehicle for homophobia.
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Gay Man Assaulted On Bus, Attacker Says: In My... →
Gay Man Assaulted On Bus, Attacker Says: In My... →
“It is to be protected against violent crimes driven by bigotry, it’s to be able...”
– Rep. Barney Frank celebrated the repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell earlier this week by admitting he is pursuing a “radical homosexual agenda.” (via corruptpolitics)
“It is to be protected against violent crimes driven by bigotry, it’s to be able...”
– Rep. Barney Frank celebrated the repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell earlier this week by admitting he is pursuing a “radical homosexual agenda.” (via corruptpolitics)
What a gay Marine taught me →
I am a retired U.S. Marine, having been drafted at the end of the Vietnam War. At one time, I commanded a squadron of 1,200 Marines and sailors. And, like many of my fellow veterans, I believed that the Clinton-era “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy worked well, enabling some fine Americans to serve this great nation.
But although I embraced the policy then, I now know...
WatchTwo New York City men feel a tremendous responsibility to respond properly when they mysteriously receive hundreds of letters addressed to Santa Claus at their Chelsea apartment.
"oh no gender variance has become a fad!"
ichmuss:
1. More people challenging the binary/challenging cissexism is not a bad thing.
2. No one has any right to tell anyone that they are or aren’t gender variant. You know you better than I or anyone else can.
3. While I could say “no one does this for fun” (this: not “passing” in any bathroom, having your pronouns disregarded and disrespected, having people tell you that your identity...
dorianwinter asked: Hello,
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas, and I wish you all the best for 2011!
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas, and I wish you all the best for 2011!
dorianwinter asked: Hello,
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas, and I wish you all the best for 2011!
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas, and I wish you all the best for 2011!
“Can he hit?”
– Willie Mays’ response to the question, “Is Major League Baseball ready for an openly gay player?” (via James S. Hirsch/the WSJ)
Announcing International “Draw Jesus Day” on Dec... →
e’re classy, so in response to the GOP’s attack on David Wojnarowicz’s “A Fire In My Belly” video, we want to celebrate freedom of expression in the face of the right-wing American political establishment that gets whipped up into an irrational frenzy any time LGBT people are treated as equals. To celebrate our freedoms and the beauty of America, we are announcing our first-ever (and...
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Gay Advocates Win Victory at UN →
Gay rights advocates scored a hard-fought victory at the U.N. on Tuesday when member states restored a reference to sexual orientation, dropped last month from a resolution opposing the unjustified killing of minority groups. […]
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South African Government Refuses to Reply to... →
What did Jeff Radebe, charged with leading the cause of justice in South Africa, do after receiving the message that tens of thousands of people all over the world had demanded he do something about ‘corrective rape’?
Absolutely nothing.
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Missouri: Dedicating Highways to Gay Cops While... →
On Christmas Day 2009, Missouri Highway Patrol trooper Dennis Engelhard was involved in a traffic accident in the city of Eureka. He was struck by an out of control vehicle, and tragically killed in the line of duty. It was a heartbreaking turn of events for a dedicated and honored police officer, who was a real pathbreaker. Officer Engelhard was gay, and had been in a relationship with his...
Electronic Arts: It Gets Better; Gamers: No, It... →
Lucky for us, the more time a homophobe spends in his basement playing a video game, the less time he has to go out into the world and torment gay people. Unlucky for us, they can now direct that homophobia and anger at others online. […]
Let's Talk about "Tranny" - Meanings [1/3] →
One of the most illuminating ways of understanding the use of “tranny” is to watch how it is used as a put down for cis women. Several people have pointed out this pattern. Plenty of examples focus around fashion and the message that a tranny is someone who is incapable of doing femininity correctly, whether you’re talking about the shoes that make you look like a tranny,...
Virginia Lawmaker Wants No Gay People in the... →
The Washington Post reported that Del. Marshall plans to introduce a bill next year that would ban “active, open homosexuals” from enlisting in the Virginia National Guard.
Maybe someone should introduce legislation to keep active and open jerk stores from holding elected office. Just a thought. […]
Proud2Serve's Glossary of Trans Terms →
I’ll admit, when I was double checking the law on regards to trans persons and the British military, when I found Proud2Serve I was surprised just how much information was offered on trans issues, especially this page on terms/language:
Language
• The words transgender and transsexual should be used as adjectives, not as nouns, i.e. it is appropriate to say ‘Bill is a transgender ...
“Transgender individuals are prohibited from entering military service by medical...”
– “Transgendered people and the military” (via autumn-motionless)
that’s for the US though. in Canada they’re all ‘yo we’ll help you’
(via blackenedbutterfly) In the UK too, being transgender is not a disqualification factor.
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