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”
OBAMA GAY, Trangender Wars, and R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Today on the show we discussed: Allyson Robinson+IFGE=HRC <3 ??? Here We Go Again: IFGE Elects HRC’s Allyson Robinson To The Board HRC and Their access to power. After expending…
The Radical Guy Podcast:The Election, TDOR, and Our Power
Ethan and Marti discuss the Presidential election, building a transgender power base and the issues surrounding the Transgender Day of Remembrance.…
TransResistance No More?
Running for office in 2003, Althea Garrison said that a:
"most compelling reason why someone should vote for me is that I am different and unique from the other candidates, when…
Follow The Money
In my last blog post, Where Your HRC Donations Are Going, I reported that HRC had donated money to sponsor the Log Cabin Republicans but that they had…
Indiana’s Historic Moment
A recent post over at the Indiana Equality blog was enough of a kick in the pants to remind me to post about some recent events. If you know me, you…
…HRC = Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Human Rights Campaign
by Vanessa Edwards Foster “We’re gonna win this one, take the country by storm, We’re gonna be elected, You and me together, young and strong, We’re gonna be elected.” —…
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…
Hero Worship
“What makes us heroic? Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Over the past few years, the transgender community has had its share of reports…
Socialize
Recent Comments
{ "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