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OBAMA GAY, Trangender Wars, and R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Marti Abernathey — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:30:08 +0000

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 political capital over Rick Warren, I wondered how much has ole’ Joe got. HRC Relishes Sudden Access To White House Obama Fundie Watch Revelations of [...]

The Radical Guy Podcast:The Election, TDOR, and Our Power

Marti Abernathey — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:40:52 +0000

Ethan and Marti discuss the Presidential election, building a transgender power base and the issues surrounding the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

TransResistance No More?

Marti Abernathey — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:50:06 +0000

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 candidates run and loose [sic] elections most of them goes back to their obscurity not me I continue to fight and bring issues to the limelight,"

Follow The Money

Marti Abernathey — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:06:00 +0000

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 donated zero dollars to sponsor the Stonewall Democrats. Let's take a closer look at who HRC is NOT supporting and what that effect has and will be.

Indiana’s Historic Moment

Marti Abernathey — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:14:02 +0000

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 know how jazzed I am about Barack Obama. The first time I ever heard about Barack the “Indianapolis” Colts still hadn't ever won a Super Bowl. It was October 17th 2006, which just so happened to be my 39th birthday. Barack had been to Indiana the previous day to attend a fundraiser for Baron Hill, Joe Donnelly, and Brad Ellsworth (who at the time were three Congressional candidate hopefuls). At the time Jim Shella said: "He then pointed out that the Colts have been "eeking out victories" while the Bears have been winning blowouts. Ever the politician, he said he's looking forward to a Bears/Colts Super Bowl matchup.” (At the time of that fundraiser the Colts were 5-0, and in fact did go on that year to face the Chicago Bears in the Super Bowl) When Barack announced in January of 2007 he was running for president of the United States of America, I started to research him relentlessly. The more I learned about him, the more I liked him. My fire for Obama grew steadily over the months, but the turning point for me was the HRC/Logo Presidential Forum.

Pounding the Pavement in Primary Season: It’s Obama Time!

Marti Abernathey — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:45:33 +0000

Hillary Talk, Not Gender Talk, Not Frank Talk

Marti Abernathey — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:26:48 +0000

In the past week or so I’ve noticed increasing heat (see also: infighting) from the supporters in the GLBT Clinton camp. Tuesday they pointed towards Hillary Clinton’s “fully inclusive” ENDA statement as a sign that Hillary is a more GLBT inclusive candidate than Barack Obama. I unexpectedly found an example of this kind of rhetoric [...]

HRC = Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Human Rights Campaign

Marti Abernathey — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:13:24 +0000

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.” — I Wanna Be Elected, Alice Cooper With the Iowa Caucuses coming up in a few days and New Hampshire following a few days hence, I [...]

His Own Private Idaho: Senator Larry and the Pecking Order of Queerness vs. Straightness

Marti Abernathey — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:07:12 +0000

“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 to watch the Matt Lauer interview with Sen. Larry Craig on ABC’s Tuesday Night interview. Why they would allow a show to watch a man [...]

Hero Worship

Marti Abernathey — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:08:22 +0000

“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 of heroism from Mara Keisling and Lisa Mottet of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) about the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Rep. [...]