DEAR STONEWALL, PLEASE STOP EXPLOITING OUR DEAD!
I’m pissed. Every year I write this post. EVERY SINGLE GODDAMN YEAR. You just can’t help but feed off the dead. You did it in 2007, in 2008, and 2009, and you’re doing it again…
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History Theft: How Gay and Lesbian Historians Appropriate Trans History
As far back as we have history of transgender people, we have appropriation (a nice word for theft) of our history by gays and lesbians. I wrote a post about Albert Cashier, who was a…
Hiring Teh Trans
Todays guest blogger is Michelle Diane Rose. Michelle is a communications student and the co-author of The Color of Sunlight. She lives in Portland, Oregon and works for a non-profit. (I dunno why I’ve taken…
When Ticked Off Gay Men Attack: Misogyny As A Knife
Last week when I posted Tribeca Film Festival Promotes Exploitation of Transgender People, I never thought that the call to action would cause controversy within the GLBT community. As gudbuytjane said about the movie on…
Tribeca Film Festival Promotes Exploitation of Transgender People
The Tribeca Film festival has announced it’s 2010 lineup of films and “Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives” is among them. “When a group of transgender women are violently beaten and left for dead, the violated vixens…
Genital Checking, Bad ENDA Language, and NCTE Lobby Days
Recently I did an interview with Ethan St. Pierre of Transfm.org. You can listen to here: We discussed a post at the Bay Area Reporter titled “Leaders: ENDA will get House vote this month“, specifically…
Transphobia? Only On CBS
First they aired a tranphobic episode of The New Adventures Of Old Christine, then CBS News decided to ditch the accepted guidelines of the AP Stylebook to write this ugly little post, and now this:…
Dr. Jillian T. Weiss Soon To Join Other Transgender Activists In The Wilderness
That’s my opinion on where the good doctor is headed. In a recent post at Bilerico.com she said: “The incredibly unflappable Signorile asked about the failure of Congress to move on ENDA and DADT, and…
Gay Mafia Wars: ENDA and the Politics of Personal Destruction
As I write this, I feel as if I’ve been transported back in time to May of 2007. The National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC) had just had a successful lobby days event and I reported…