S.E. Cupp Defends the Family Research Council Over Hate Group Designation (video)

holygoddamnshitballs:

In what was an otherwise very informative segment discussing the rise in the number of hate groups in America in the wake of the recent shootings in Texas and questions as to whether there are links with a white supremacist prison gang, the audience of MSNBC’s The Cycle were treated to conservative co-host S.E. Cupp playing concern troll for right-wing gay-hating fundamentalists, who are none too happy about being designated as hate groups by the SPLC.

Spain's Only Out Lesbian Politician Asks Closeted Politicos to Come Out

Spain’s only openly lesbian politician asked her fellow closeted officials to come out at Madrid’s annual Day of Lesbian Visibility on April 26. Ãngeles Álvarez, a member of Spain’s ruling Socialist Party, gathered with other out Spanish women in Madrid’s central Puerta Del Sol on Saturday, speaking to the crowd and carrying a sign that read (in Spanish):

Lesbian Couple Tries to Marry in Thailand's Town of Love

They didn’t get their marriage certificate, but this couple raised awareness about marriage equality.

BY DIANE ANDERSON-MINSHALL

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Pallawee Jongtangsajjatham and Rungtiwa Tangkanopak plan to talk to the prime minister of Thailand about marriage equality now. An adorable lesbian couple in Thailand joined thousands of couples across the globe who tried to get married on Valentine’s Day. According to Coconuts Bangkok, Pallawee Jongtangsajjatham and Rungtiwa Tangkanopak were one of many couples that went to the Bang Rak District to get a marriage certificate on V-day but officials turned them away, saying same-sex marriage wasn’t legal in the country. 

The two women told the Daily News that they will file a complaint with the House of Representatives and will meet with Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to discuss marriage equality.

“The Prime Minister should understand the issue as she shares the same sex with us,” Jongtangsajjatham told the Daily News.

Coconuts Bangkok reports that the Bang Rak District office is the most popular place for couples to register their marriage in the country because “Bang Rak” translates to “Town of Love” in Thai.

'Finding Bluefield' Tells a Lesbian Love Story Set Against the Back Drop of the '60s

By: SheWired Editors

Novelist Elan Barnehama’s latest book Finding Bluefield tells the story of lesbian love set amidst the politics of the 1960s and we have an excerpt. 

Here’s a synopsis: 

In the summer of 1960, when Barbara Phillips arrives in Bluefield, Virginia, to begin her medical residency, she thinks she is headed for an uneventful few years filled with work in an obscure little town where no one knows her—which is exactly what she wants.

Everything changes when she enters Nicky’s diner and begins a journey that will last a lifetime as she falls in love against her better judgment and best-laid plans. The free-spirited Nicky later attends the 1963 March on Washington and impulsively and anonymously sleeps with a man in hopes of getting pregnant and starting a family with Barbara. When Nicky gives birth to Paul, her sister steps in to adopt Paul for his own “protection.”

Nicky, Barbara, and Paul escape Bluefield and make a life in upstate New York, only returning to Bluefield years later upon hearing of the death of Nicky’s sister. As their journey comes full circle, Barbara, Paul, and Nicky find their return to Bluefield is the catalyst for facing family secrets and forging family ties.

Click the header link above to read the full story.

glaad: Congrats to How to Survive a Plague, nominated for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards! How to Survive a Plague is an unflinching and powerfully moving look at how the activists behind groups like ACT UP forced the medical establishment into action following its tragically stunted response to the HIV/AIDS crisis.
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glaad:

Congrats to How to Survive a Plague, nominated for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards! How to Survive a Plague is an unflinching and powerfully moving look at how the activists behind groups like ACT UP forced the medical establishment into action following its tragically stunted response to the HIV/AIDS crisis.

(Quotidian) Queer Qoncepts: Homonormativity

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browntranslaments:

Here’s the word of the day, kids:

HOMONORMATIVITY - ‘A politics that does not contest dominant heteronormative assumptions and institutions, but upholds and sustains them, while promising the possibility of a demobilized gay constituency and a privatized, depoliticized gay culture anchored in domesticity and consumption’ ( L. Duggan 2003 )

(via brownroundboi)

Basically, homonormativity sees (primarily) gay and lesbian people working towards the assimilation of non-heterosexual people into heteronormative structures of kyriarchy. For example, instead of challenging the constraints of the heteronormative gender system and working to destabilize historically hegemonic institutions, the homonormative project aims to make space for gay people within the already existing (and problematic) gender system [so we find a gender hierarchy with femininity at the bottom; “No fats, no fems” sound familiar?] and all the institutions attached to them, including marriage and standards of civility.

Source: brownroundboi

queerumich: The Coalition for Queer People of Color has a brand new website! Check it out here: http://theqpoccoalition.org/  You can find a list of meeting times, upcoming events, and important announcements under What’s the Tea?. The website’s also got a listing of local, national, and online Resources, info on the rXs intragroup dialogue program, or just information About the Coalition in general. Want to know more about The Coalition? The Coalition is a diverse group of University of Michigan students, faculty, staff, and Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti community members who are committed to building community around, and highlighting the lived experiences of, queer, trans*, and similarly self-identified people of color. The Coalition is open to anyone with an interest in promoting social and racial justice (allies included!).
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queerumich:

The Coalition for Queer People of Color has a brand new website!

Check it out here: http://theqpoccoalition.org/ 

You can find a list of meeting times, upcoming events, and important announcements under What’s the Tea?. The website’s also got a listing of local, national, and online Resources, info on the rXs intragroup dialogue program, or just information About the Coalition in general.

Want to know more about The Coalition?

The Coalition is a diverse group of University of Michigan students, faculty, staff, and Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti community members who are committed to building community around, and highlighting the lived experiences of, queer, trans*, and similarly self-identified people of color. The Coalition is open to anyone with an interest in promoting social and racial justice (allies included!).

(via loversintransition)

Source: queerumich