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How To Use Gender Neutral Pronouns →
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What is a gender-neutral pronoun? What does English need a new pronoun for, anyway? Many people have expressed the need for a singular gender-neutral third-person pronoun: that is, a pronoun to use when someone’s gender is unknown or when the individual is neither male or female. Such instances occur when addressing transgender and genderqueer people who don’t feel...
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How To Use Gender Neutral Pronouns →
heckyeahequality:
What is a gender-neutral pronoun? What does English need a new pronoun for, anyway? Many people have expressed the need for a singular gender-neutral third-person pronoun: that is, a pronoun to use when someone’s gender is unknown or when the individual is neither male or female. Such instances occur when addressing transgender and genderqueer people who don’t feel...
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Right wing groups hate right wing gays →
Looks like a few conservative groups are whining about GOProud, the gay Republican organization.
The Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America are dropping out of February’s Conservative Political Action Conference. A few of the organizations don’t lay all the blame at GOProud (an FRC spokesperson offered something about CPAC’s alleged money mismanagement ). However, CWA was...
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Right wing groups hate right wing gays →
Looks like a few conservative groups are whining about GOProud, the gay Republican organization.
The Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America are dropping out of February’s Conservative Political Action Conference. A few of the organizations don’t lay all the blame at GOProud (an FRC spokesperson offered something about CPAC’s alleged money mismanagement ). However, CWA was...
simplybex asked: This is the last time I will mention Commissioner James. Thank you for posting my last comment, but the Commissioner actually sent me a second message, which was a link to some hateful arguments. The link is to my blog post, which has a link to what he sent me. http://simplybex.tumblr.com/post/2530959190/the-red-phone. I thought you would be interested. XOXOXOX
simplybex asked: This is the last time I will mention Commissioner James. Thank you for posting my last comment, but the Commissioner actually sent me a second message, which was a link to some hateful arguments. The link is to my blog post, which has a link to what he sent me. http://simplybex.tumblr.com/post/2530959190/the-red-phone. I thought you would be interested. XOXOXOX
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The Rainbow Manifesto: Gay Marriage Recognition... →
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State senator Curt Meier and state representative Owen Petersen want Wyoming to vote on whether or not the state should recognize same-sex marriages.
“We need to define Wyoming’s community standard and give people the opportunity to vote,” Meier told the Telegram. Two thirds of state…
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The Rainbow Manifesto: Gay Marriage Recognition... →
therainbowmanifesto:
State senator Curt Meier and state representative Owen Petersen want Wyoming to vote on whether or not the state should recognize same-sex marriages.
“We need to define Wyoming’s community standard and give people the opportunity to vote,” Meier told the Telegram. Two thirds of state…
December 2010
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NC Commissioner Bill James’ latest claim: Gays... →
In an article titled “Red Phone” (PDF here), James writes that all across America, there are procedures in place to “prevent homosexuals from preying on men at the Y(MCA),” and since “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has been repealed, Congress must develop rules “to protect young heterosexual military members from predatory behavior” by gays.
“Like a whore in church, homosexuals have been on their ...
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NC Commissioner Bill James’ latest claim: Gays... →
In an article titled “Red Phone” (PDF here), James writes that all across America, there are procedures in place to “prevent homosexuals from preying on men at the Y(MCA),” and since “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has been repealed, Congress must develop rules “to protect young heterosexual military members from predatory behavior” by gays.
“Like a whore in church, homosexuals have been on their ...
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Palm Springs police chief apologizes for calling... →
Palm Springs Police Chief David Dominguez has issued an apology for remarks he made during 2009 a sex sting in the Warm Sands neighborhood that targeted gay men.
“What a bunch of filthy mother-fuckers,” Dominguez was heard saying on a recording during the investigation.
“You guys should get paid extra for this,” he said to his officers.
“An inappropriate comment made by me did not display...
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Palm Springs police chief apologizes for calling... →
Palm Springs Police Chief David Dominguez has issued an apology for remarks he made during 2009 a sex sting in the Warm Sands neighborhood that targeted gay men.
“What a bunch of filthy mother-fuckers,” Dominguez was heard saying on a recording during the investigation.
“You guys should get paid extra for this,” he said to his officers.
“An inappropriate comment made by me did not display...
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TELL QUEERTY: What New Year’s Resolutions Are You... →
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TELL QUEERTY: What New Year’s Resolutions Are You... →
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Teeth From Homo Sapiens Older Than Accepted... →
In keeping with Disinfo’s tradition of challenging accepted boundaries in all things, as well as in the spirit of the disinformation book Underground!, here’s a little jewel of a discovery written by Daniel Estrin for AP via Yahoo News. Homo Sapiens teeth … potentially 400,000 years old. So much for the old timeline of human history!
Israeli archaeologists said Monday they may have found the...
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Teeth From Homo Sapiens Older Than Accepted... →
In keeping with Disinfo’s tradition of challenging accepted boundaries in all things, as well as in the spirit of the disinformation book Underground!, here’s a little jewel of a discovery written by Daniel Estrin for AP via Yahoo News. Homo Sapiens teeth … potentially 400,000 years old. So much for the old timeline of human history!
Israeli archaeologists said Monday they may have found the...
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Utah Grandfather Says Addressing Anti-Gay Bullying... →
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Utah Grandfather Says Addressing Anti-Gay Bullying... →
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Massey Energy: Where Gay Employees Can Be Harassed... →
The lawsuit comes from Sam Hall, an employee in West Virginia who says that he experienced numerous bouts of anti-gay harassment over the past five years, according to the Charleston Gazette. He was teased by management in 2005 for having a “Brokeback Mountain moment” after he went horseback riding with a coworker.
In 2007, Hall says that a chief electrician with the company wrote homophobic...
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Massey Energy: Where Gay Employees Can Be Harassed... →
The lawsuit comes from Sam Hall, an employee in West Virginia who says that he experienced numerous bouts of anti-gay harassment over the past five years, according to the Charleston Gazette. He was teased by management in 2005 for having a “Brokeback Mountain moment” after he went horseback riding with a coworker.
In 2007, Hall says that a chief electrician with the company wrote homophobic...
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Tea Party Targets Scott Brown for DADT →
Conservative Republicans and Tea Party advocates are on the hunt for a primary challenger for Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown after his reaching across the aisle to support several pieces of legislation this year, including the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
Brown, a Republican, was chosen in a special election in January to assume the seat held by late Sen....
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Tea Party Targets Scott Brown for DADT →
Conservative Republicans and Tea Party advocates are on the hunt for a primary challenger for Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown after his reaching across the aisle to support several pieces of legislation this year, including the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
Brown, a Republican, was chosen in a special election in January to assume the seat held by late Sen....
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Hayley Hasselhoff Goes Topless In Support Of Gay... →
Actress Hayley Hasselhoff, the daughter of actor David Hasselhoff and Pamela Bach, has joined the NOH8 Campaign against Proposition 8, California’s gay marriage ban.
The 18-year-old Hasselhoff appeared with her father and sister, Taylor Ann, earlier this year in cabler A&E’s short-lived reality series The Hasselhoffs. She currently plays self-deprecating Amber in the ABC Family...
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Hayley Hasselhoff Goes Topless In Support Of Gay... →
Actress Hayley Hasselhoff, the daughter of actor David Hasselhoff and Pamela Bach, has joined the NOH8 Campaign against Proposition 8, California’s gay marriage ban.
The 18-year-old Hasselhoff appeared with her father and sister, Taylor Ann, earlier this year in cabler A&E’s short-lived reality series The Hasselhoffs. She currently plays self-deprecating Amber in the ABC Family...
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North Carolina Pol: Gay People Are “Sexual... →
An antigay commissioner in North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County called gay people “sexual predators” in an e-mail response to a letter from a fellow commissioner asking her colleagues to sign a thank-you note to the state’s officials who voted to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
Mecklenburg County commissioner Jennifer Roberts circulated the letter earlier this month, prompting an angry...
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North Carolina Pol: Gay People Are “Sexual... →
An antigay commissioner in North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County called gay people “sexual predators” in an e-mail response to a letter from a fellow commissioner asking her colleagues to sign a thank-you note to the state’s officials who voted to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
Mecklenburg County commissioner Jennifer Roberts circulated the letter earlier this month, prompting an angry...
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Robert George’s Manhattan Declaration App Banned... →
Despite NOM’s best efforts to shame Apple, the tech giant has once again moved to block the Manhattan Declaration iPhone app, which was approved and then yanked last month. So the app’s makers — led by the “country’s most influential conservative Christian thinker” Robert George, who launched the 4,700-word Christianity pledge last year to the squeals of James Dobson and...
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Robert George’s Manhattan Declaration App Banned... →
Despite NOM’s best efforts to shame Apple, the tech giant has once again moved to block the Manhattan Declaration iPhone app, which was approved and then yanked last month. So the app’s makers — led by the “country’s most influential conservative Christian thinker” Robert George, who launched the 4,700-word Christianity pledge last year to the squeals of James Dobson and...
South Africa: Declare 'Corrective Rape' a... →
rightsandhumanity:
Please take two minutes to sign this.
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Anti-gay boycott of conservative powwow gains... →
Even as the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” this month marked a major victory in the gay rights struggle in the United States, a very different story is unfolding within the conservative movement, where anti-gay forces are growing more aggressive.
The latest flashpoint is a fight over the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which regularly draws...
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Anti-gay boycott of conservative powwow gains... →
Even as the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” this month marked a major victory in the gay rights struggle in the United States, a very different story is unfolding within the conservative movement, where anti-gay forces are growing more aggressive.
The latest flashpoint is a fight over the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which regularly draws...
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Jonah Goldberg on gay marriage and rise of 'HoBos'... →
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Jonah Goldberg on gay marriage and rise of 'HoBos'... →
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The Ten Lies about the GLBT Community Told by... →
In December 2010, the Family Research Council (FRC) was placed on Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) list of Hate Groups. In amongst 932 designated active hate groups in the United States which include: neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan, White Supremacists, White Nationalists, Black Separatists, Racist Skinheads, Holocaust Deniers, Neo-Confederates, Anti-Immigrationists and Anti-Gay groups, there...
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The Ten Lies about the GLBT Community Told by... →
In December 2010, the Family Research Council (FRC) was placed on Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) list of Hate Groups. In amongst 932 designated active hate groups in the United States which include: neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan, White Supremacists, White Nationalists, Black Separatists, Racist Skinheads, Holocaust Deniers, Neo-Confederates, Anti-Immigrationists and Anti-Gay groups, there...
simplybex asked: This is not a question: but I actually took you up on emailing Commissioner James about his offensive language and so forth, and actually spent a good hour writing this. I get an email back, with nothing but bible quotes. The Commissioner didn't even have the respect to write me make a decent argument. If anything I'm saying he's pathetic and doesn't even have the balls to...
simplybex asked: This is not a question: but I actually took you up on emailing Commissioner James about his offensive language and so forth, and actually spent a good hour writing this. I get an email back, with nothing but bible quotes. The Commissioner didn't even have the respect to write me make a decent argument. If anything I'm saying he's pathetic and doesn't even have the balls to...
County takes back transgender man’s marriage... →
fuckyeahasiandykes:
Ten minutes of joy turned into days of agony and frustration this week for a transgender Ferndale man and his fiancee. Jorden Swan, 25, said he and his fiancee obtained a marriage license Monday at Oakland County Circuit Court. While driving home, the couple received an unwanted phone call — they’d have to return the certificate and obtain a refund. The court said it...
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California Legislation Would Stop De-Gaying... →
fuckyeahlesbianliterature:
Equality California and the GSA Network are sponsoring the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act, which was introduced in the California Legislature earlier this week by openly gay state senator Mark Leno. This important bill would go a long way to make sure the important contributions of LGBT people are taught in schools. Gay historical...
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California Legislation Would Stop De-Gaying... →
fuckyeahlesbianliterature:
Equality California and the GSA Network are sponsoring the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act, which was introduced in the California Legislature earlier this week by openly gay state senator Mark Leno. This important bill would go a long way to make sure the important contributions of LGBT people are taught in schools. Gay historical...
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