Bayard Rustin
"Our job is not to get those people who dislike us to love us"
bell hooks
“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance”
Mass Equality Forgets To Come Back For Transgender People?
The Boston Globe is reporting that Mass Equality is debating whether or not to disband the organization, after winning marriage equality in Massachusetts. The debate is creating tensions among onetime…
Methodist Judicial Council To Rule On The Sin of Transgenderism
According to UM Action: Washington, DC—The Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church is deliberating this week over a series of controversial issues, among them the recent re-appointment of a…
Legal WTF Moment
I’ve been keeping tabs on the trial in Milwaukee of a transgender prisoner who is challenging the law that forbids the state to give hormone treatments to prisoners with gender…
Aravosis Crow Pie: House Delays ENDA Vote
Just yesterday John Aravosis said: Time for some crow. I wrote a few weeks back about how odd it was that George Bush’s White House was being so quiet about…
Baldwin Amendment Language:It’s Not All About The T
The non-inclusive ENDA (3685) does exclude transgender people, but it also kicks many gay and lesbian people to the curb as well. Tammy Baldwin will offer an amendment to the…
His Own Private Idaho: Senator Larry and the Pecking Order of Queerness vs. Straightness
“You’re living in your own Private Idaho … Underground like a Wild Potato … It leads you straight, Right through the gate.” — Private Idaho, the B-52’s It was painful…
Fresh New Lies, or How To Kill Off the Last Of Hope
“I’m up on the Tight Rope … one side’s Fate and one is Hope,It’s a Circus Game for You and Me.I’m up on the High Wire … one side’s Life…
Hold HRC Accountable! Push Back!
This guest post comes to us from Lincoln Rose. Lincoln is a seminary student and transgender activist at Seattle University. He has agitated in the SGL/LGBT community since the age…
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{ "Therefore, I am a full-throated supporter of marriage equality in NJ." This is what pisses me off about the civil rights carcinomas such as... } – Feb 03, 1:40 PM
{ PS I as a transgender woman have tried to enter a men's room and been directed to the ladies'room. What's a girl to do. } – Feb 03, 1:04 PM
{ I can totally relate. It was especially difficult in early transition, when I started getting an intense desire to cry, but couldn't. It was frustrating... } – Feb 03, 11:31 AM