Stonewall Plus 22
What better way to spend Pride week than looking at drag queens on the site where it all began? The Stonewall Inn (formerly New Jimmy’s) presents Extraordinary Women,…
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A Year in the Life of the Human Right Scampaign
Then-HRC head Elizabeth Birch, August 1998 (in an interview with OutSmart magazine (Houston)): Then-HRC head Elizabeth Birch, September 1, 1999 (in Outlines(Chicago)): Outlines: The concept of trans issues … are…
Sounds Like a Threat to Me
The problem is that the very imagery of what she’s referring to is so weird that I honestly can’t tell precisely what its a threat of. Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore has…
Do Not Blame Trans People For The Fact That, At Midnight, Maryland Will Have No Statewide Trans Protections
The reason that the Maryland legal status quo of today is trans-free is not the fault of anyone who opposed HB235. The Maryland legal status quo of today was created…
Washington Post Gets in the Act of Being Scrivener for ‘Equality’ Maryland’s Trans-Othering Narrative of Deception
According to an unsigned WaPo editorial, Maryland: passed a law banning discrimination against gay people a decade ago, but transgender individuals were dropped from the legislation. Since then, attempts…
Sadly Not an April Fool’s Joke
Over at PHB, Monica Roberts commented: When multiple civil rights attorneys tell me it won’t do what EQ MD claims it will, the bill needs to die. Naturally,…
Translation: Gay Marriage Greed Killed Trans Rights (Even a Diseased Version Thereof)
From the Baltimore Sun: After the House of Delegates this weekend voted overwhelmingly to prohibit employer and housing discrimination for the transgendered, the bill crossed over to the…
Demanding That We Forget is Transphobia
A comment by laughriotgirl on one of the threads at PHB wherein refusing to bend over and take gay transphobia is branded as homophobia: What bothers me Is…
Exactly Ten Years Ago
History that some who claim to be our allies expect us to forget: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, March 27, 2001 HRC CONGRATULATES MARYLAND SENATE FOR VOTING TO END…