September 2011
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“We must make it clear that a platform of ‘I hate gay men and women’ is not a way...”
– Jimmy Carter, relevant now more than ever. (via gaywrites)
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Four Michigan schools listed among top...
fuckyeahumich:
“According to the 2011 Campus Pride Climate Index, four Michigan universities are among the top gay-friendly schools in the nation.
Eastern Michigan Univeristy, the University of Michigan, Western Michigan and Grand Valley State University each earned a 4.5 star rating or higher on the index’s list. Nationally, only 33 universities across the country received a perfect rating...
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August 2011
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Superintendent Hunter: Allow my transgender son to... →
artoftransliness:
SIGN THE PETITION THAT ACCOMPANIES THE ARTICLE ABOUT THE 7 YEAR OLD TRANSGENDER BOY BEING FORCED TO USE THE FEMALE RESTROOMS WHEN THERE ARE BOYS RESTROOMS AND UNISEX RESTROOMS AVAILABLE!
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT (Taken from the petition itself)
All students— regardless of age, race, ethnicity, ability, size, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, and gender identity— have...
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HRC president will step down →
gaywrites:
Joe Solmonese, the president of the major gay rights nonprofit Human Rights Campaign, has announced he will step down from his job when his contract ends in March 2012.
Co-chairs of the organization’s board of directors and foundation board said Solmonese will still be involved in the organization, at the very least until a suitable replacement is found. A search committee is in the...
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Today's Prop 8 hearing, featuring you →
damegreywulf:
From the Courage Campaign:
“You were in court today. Yes, you.
The legal team fighting to release the video transcript from the historic Prop 8 trial actually showed evidence you helped create. They showed excerpts from Courage’s re-enactment project — “Testimony: Equality on Trial” – which…
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Regional Field Organizer; Human Rights Campaign;... →
lgbtjobs:
work with a Regional Field Director to execute HRC’s field organizing activities in a region, including maintaining and expanding HRC’s ability to mobilize grassroots advocacy on behalf of federal and state lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender legislative priorities, and designing and implementing grassroots electoral and campaign strategies in support of federal candidates, state...
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The Sociology of Gay Politics: Fed money helped... →
gaypolitics:
(Iowa City) Federal grant money awarded to a social conservative group to provide marriage counseling also helped pay some of its operational expenses while it was leading an anti-gay marriage campaign, according to grant documents obtained by the Associated Press under the Freedom of…
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D.C. activists fight back against violence... →
cassket:
Another hate crime against trans women in the D.C. area, this one by an off-duty police officer no less, sheds a glaring flood light on the work ahead in challenging gender-based violence.
Last week, the off-duty District police officer allegedly fired a pistol at three transgender women and two male friends while the group was sitting in a car on a city street, after propositioning...
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Tony Perkins vs. ABC Family
gayrightszealot:
By Jeffrey HartingerPosted August 24, 06:40 PM
A few weeks after being honored by GLAAD for its positive LGBT portrayals, ABC Family gets lambasted by the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins for the same reason.
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Open letter to my cisgender anarchist,... →
iragray:
Not all of you do this, so this is mainly to those who do. While not all trans* folks need to medically transition, putting those down who do is cissexist. We’re not less radical for meeting our needs. We need jobs to pay for incredibly expensive surgeries and/or gain access to consistent hormones regardless of our values. In many ways, we have to assimilate into a system we oppose...
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Rick Perry's Porn Investment Pits Him Against... →
By Lucas Grindley
Rick Perry.
A small investment that Texas governor Rick Perry once made in a business that rented porn videos puts him at odds with the same antigay organization that he just partnered with for a prayer rally. The American Family Association rejoiced when Movie Gallery, a once-massive video rental chain, filed for bankruptcy in 2010. It was the culmination of a long...
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Gay Brother of Aussie MP Speaks Out | advocate.com →
By Winston Gieseke
Carl Katter
The half-brother of an unabashedly antigay member of Australia’s parliament has publicly come out as gay and gone on the record to challenge his older sibling’s “hurtful and dangerous” views on homosexuality. Speaking to television interviewer George Negus on Austalia’s Ten News, Carl Katter expressed disgust at statements...
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“Indeed, for the linguist, inequality is conceived as resulting not from...”
– Deborah Cameron (via happyfeminist)
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N.C. Marriage Ban Supporter Wants the People to... →
By Winston Gieseke
Tami Fitzgerald
In response to a recent editorial in The Charlotte Observer that questions the need for a constitutional amendment restricting marriage rights in North Carolina, Tami Fitzgerald, executive director of N.C. Values Coalition, says the reason for the proposed measure is simply that the definition of marriage should be up to voters and not an “activist...
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What city has the most same-sex couples? →
gaywrites:
If you guessed Provincetown, Mass., you’re right. At least for now.
A Williams Institute analysis found that Provincetown has 163 same-sex couples per 1,000 households, more than any other city of those studied. The analysis just released information on Massachusetts, Florida, Michigan, South Carolina and DC, with more to be published soon.
Check the Advocate.com article for more...
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New NOM-Related Site Now Trying To Appeal To Hip... →
The internet yawned today as professional spin-doctress Maggie Srivastav unveiled a new site which is a complete rip-off of the gay-run Drudge Report called (wait for it…) The Maggie Report. Apart from “wacky news” about New York’s doughnut burger and a girl fined for saving a woodpecker Maggie’s also sprinkled in some anti-gay pellets like “A Semi-Defense of the Infamous Slavery Passage in...
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Video: Udall Supports Marriage Equality |... →
By Andrew Harmon
Colorado senator Mark Udall, one of 28 cosponsors of a Senate bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, is on board for full marriage rights. “I support marriage equality,” Udall said when asked about the issue by Examiner.com reporter and Advocate contributor Sunnivie Brydum at One Colorado’s Ally Awards event in Denver over the weekend. “I think the way in which ...
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"After DADT, Two Schools Welcome Military on... →
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“Gay Gross Ups” Offered by Law Firms Not Nearly As... →
The IRS and the Defense of Marriage Act continue to bilk gay couples by taxing gay spouses as separate individuals rather than as married couples. But a few law firms have thought of a fix so that their gay married employees keep as much income as their straight married employees after taxes. It’s called the “gay gross up” and it consists of “a bump in income such that, post-tax, the...
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Unions Oppose Minn. Anti–Marriage Equality... →
By Trudy Ring
There’s a union label on the opposition to Minnesota’s proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Members of the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, a public employee union, voted Friday to oppose the amendment, which will go before state voters in November 2012, The Minnesota Independent reports. The group’s executive director, Jim Monroe,...
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LGBT Homeless Ad
gay-men:
Christian magazine Sojourners publishes a full page ad aimed at highlighting the plight of homeless LGBT youth. It’s a step in the right direction.
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Fatal Attack Began With Antigay Slurs →
youjolgbtq:
An Iowa teenager who died Saturday after he was brutally beaten by unknown assailants had been subjected to antigay slurs prior to the assault, according to witnesses. TheCourier reports that Marcellus Andrews, 19, was taken off life support Saturday night at an Iowa City hospital, one day after paramedics and police officers found him unconscious with severe head injuries in...
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“Of course, it’s horrendous when people say that homosexuality is wrong, but I...”
– Sandi Toksvig (Submitted by youareleavingtheamericansector)
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New York Lawmaker Denies Endorsement Over Marriage... →
youjolgbtq:
New York Assembly member Dov Hikind, among the most outspoken opponents of marriage equality in the state legislature, said he would not endorse David Weprin, a fellow Democratic lawmaker and Orthodox Jew, in the special election for the seat in Congress vacated by Anthony Weiner because of Weprin’s vote for marriage equality.
According to the New York Post, Hikind, who represents...
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New health guide released for transgender men and... →
fuckyeahfeminists:
The Brown Boi Project has just released Freeing Ourselves, a new health guide for transgender men and masculine-identified women of color.
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Man Kills His Wife Over Lesbian Relationship →
youjolgbtq:
James Kraig Kahler, the Meriden, Kan., man accused of murdering his wife, their two teenage daughters, and her grandmother in 2009, told a Kansas Bureau of Investigation special agent that he was upset because his wife began a lesbian relationship that broke up their marriage, the agent testified in court last week.
Kahler, 48, is charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths...
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Bisexual Men Do Exist, Study Shows | advocate.com →
By Andi Alexander
While stereotypes (and previous science) claimed bisexual men are just closeted gays, a new study conducted by Northwestern University offers evidence that male bisexuality actually does exist. After Northwestern’s 2005 study that concluded “with respect to sexual arousal and attraction, it remains to be shown that male bisexuality exists,” researchers...
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For Gay Soldiers: It’s Your Military Too →
bodandbeyond:
As the U.S. military prepares for the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” policymakers are looking to other military bodies around the world that have successfully integrated gay, lesbian, and bisexual soldiers into military service.
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‘Kill the gays’ bill still alive in Uganda |... →
Despite recommendations from the Ugandan president’s cabinet, parliament member David Bahati isn’t giving up on his notorious “kill the gays” bill.
Last week, the cabinet recommended the(…)
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“We must make it clear that a platform of ‘I hate gay men and women’ is not a way...”
– Jimmy Carter, relevant now more than ever. (via gaywrites)
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ACTION ALERT!! Australian Marriage Equality... →
feelalright:
“It won’t stop at homosexual marriage - look for polygamy and marriage between adults and children to be legalised. There is no greater dream for a paedophile than to be able to legally acclaim a child as his lover.” That’s what keynote speaker Rebecca Hagelin declared yesterday at the “don’t meddle with marriage” event at Parliament House, as she was joined on stage by...
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Judge to Gay Father: Kids Can’t Stay With Your... →
youjolgbtq:
Some family law experts are astounded by a Houston judge’s order in a custody case — it forbids a gay man to leave his children alone with his husband. Harris County associate judge Charley E. Prine Jr. issued the order in June, but it’s been spotlighted more recently in a column by Geoff Berg for a Houston Chronicle blog. In the column, published Monday, Berg notes that Prine’s...
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Trans wedding in Cuba highlights growing tolerance →
pinkpanthers:
In a development considered unthinkable just a few years ago, a transgender woman and a man identifying himself as gay were married in a public wedding in Havana on Aug. 13, with family members, friends and newly emerging gay activists attending the ceremony.
“This is the first wedding between a transsexual woman and a gay man,” the 31-year-old groom, Ignacio Estrada, told the...
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Colleges with gender-neutral housing →
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
So, college and university application season is about to begin in earnest soon, and I understand that many of my readers will be doing just that—researching and applying to colleges and universities for undergraduate or graduate study.
A big concern for many young students is housing on campus—what dorms will be like, &c. A bigger concern for some students is whether...
