Bowers v. Hardwick was decided 25 years ago today
This story really starts several decades before the decision and ended in part in 2003. There were rarely-enforced sodomy laws on the books until the past two hundred years or so. The laws were...
View ArticleThe face of gay rights in New Jersey
The New Jersey legislature cannot enact a marriage equality bill in the state right now because their governor has said he would veto it. Seven couples have taken the step of filing a lawsuit demanding...
View ArticleYou really can't make this sh*t up
If you're the FBI and you're in such dire need of training, for some reason, that you look to outside groups to work with cops and agents to teach you how to deal with the activist community, who are...
View Article"Make the school feel like sh*t"
On September 19, 2010, a thirteen year old boy named Seth Walsh hung himself. His mother found him and brought him to the hospital, where he stayed on life support for over a week. The story made...
View ArticleUS Government recognizes LGBT rights movement's legitimacy
The federal government has played a significant and regrettable role in the history of discrimination against gay and lesbian individuals.The Department of Justice has written a brief in the Golinski...
View ArticleSilence = death
On July 3, 1981, newspapers reported an aggressive cancer outbreak among a group of men:Doctors in New York and California have diagnosed among homosexual men 41 cases of a rare and often rapidly fatal...
View ArticleOne of our own is struggling, please help
When things have seemed to reach the lowest point in my life, this community is always there for me. Whether through listening to what I have to say when seemingly no one else will, or helping me out...
View ArticleBreaking: Ninth Circuit asks for DOJ's position on DADT's constitutionality
Pam has the story:Interesting - the walls are closing in as the Log Cabin case continues to place pressure on the administration. Up on Scribd is an order from the Ninth Circuit, placing the government...
View ArticleNOM and Westboro Baptist Church: a marriage made in heaven
The marriage equality law in New York came into effect at midnight. Eight hundred and twenty-three gay couples won a lottery to get married at the first available opportunity, and judges, lawyers and...
View ArticleIn compromise with Higgs boson, President Obama cuts gravity
In a surprising development, due to a compromise with President Obama, the Higgs boson has made itself known to scientists. The president had worked behind the scenes day after day with the Higgs,...
View ArticleTea Party audience boos active duty soldier w/ SEVERAL UPDATES
In tonight's Youtube debate, candidates took video questions from the viewing audience. Stephen Hill, a soldier currently stationed overseas in Iraq, said that he's gay and had to lie about who he was...
View ArticleNOM attacks newborn baby
It wasn't enough for the National Organization for Marriage to launch lying, race-baiting campaigns. It wasn't enough for them to bring out some oppressed martyrs - both of whom ended up having...
View ArticleI don't know what to say
Awhile ago I wrote about Lawrence King's murder. In short, Brandon McInerney, a white supremacist, bullied teenager Lawrence King for years because King was gay. Then King started coming to school...
View ArticleKosAbility: We are the 99%, too
KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and Wednesday by volunteer diarists. This is a gathering place for people who are living with disabilities, who love someone with a...
View ArticleDisturbing antigay robocall in Iowa asks about gay sex
For weeks now, antigay groups like the National Organization for Marriage have been pouring money into the election in Iowa and stirring up homophobic sentiments among the right wing voters in the...
View ArticleI have bad news
One night a few weeks ago, I suddenly got a very high fever, uncontrollable shakes nausea, among other things. I decided to just wait, take some ibuprofen (which usually, for some reason, stops the...
View ArticleThe 'rich gays' myth, one more time
And here we go again. The New York Times is getting in on the stereotyping action this time. The article, in the Business Media/Advertising section is titled "A Community With Money? Of Course...
View ArticleAn update on my health + a note
I have just written an update on my health situation (see this post for background info) twice now, and both times I lost the post. It is now 11:23 AM and I started about an hour ago. I'm sitting here...
View ArticleA quick update on my surgery yesterday
I wanted to post an update for my friends here who have been concerned with everything that has been going on with my health.First, thanks so much for caring about everything that is going on with my...
View ArticleThings really do change sometimes
My mom just called and it was probably one of the weirdest conversations of my life. Her co-worker somehow managed to find "my blog" (I'm not sure if it's this one or the blogspot account I set up a...
View Article"Your dreams are kind of shattered"
It's interesting how if you ask anyone about what happened when they came out to their parents, the parents' version and the kid's version always differ. The first time I 'came out' was when my parents...
View ArticleSome more news from my doctor appointment
Yesterday was my appointment with the neurosurgeon to find out if the pain I've been experiencing is spine or nerve related and if it's something that would require surgery - possibly another spine...
View ArticleMitt Romney is apparently okay with DADT repeal
I'm not sure this is going to be very helpful if he's trying to earn respect from the GOP base. Most of these people have spent debate after debate telling us why the policy is so bad and why they...
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Has anyone looked at you like this before?
Joseph Goebbels, Carlton Hotel, Switzerland (Alfred Eisenstaedt/LIFE (1933))The photo was taken in 1933 by LIFE magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. One of his most memorable pictures, the...
View ArticleBecoming those we have feared
Having grown up as a minority in a pretty repressive environment in the deep South, aggressive taunts from heterosexuals in my community - my family, even - were a mainstay. You get used to it pretty...
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Productive discussions of race and privilege? What is this sorcery?!
This comment was noticed on Facebook by my friend Michael. Sadly, it is just one example of the type of racism appearing on the internet tonight (Facebook and Twitter) - and it started within minutes...
View ArticleHelp me out - and help our marginalized voices, too
Daily Kos writer and activist TheFatLadySings has taken the initiative to apply for a Pepsi Challenge grant to help close the gap between those who can easily access internet, get noticed on blogs and...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble pulls anti-gay calendar
This is just a quick update and it may have already been discussed. In case you missed it, there has been a huge controversy over an anti-LGBT calendar sold by both Amazon and Barnes & Noble....
View ArticleUh oh. NOM's pledge-y goodness is wearing off for Rick Santorum!
Way, way back in the early days of a few months ago in August, Rick Santorum signed the National Organization for Marriage pledge, which was a strictly anti-gay pledge to promise that as president,...
View ArticleOdious new anti-transgender bill introduced in Tennessee General Assembly...
Crossposted at The Huffington Post[UPDATE: Senate version of bill WITHDRAWN!]A new anti-transgender "bathroom bill" was filed in Tennessee's General Assembly today by a Republican state Senator. The...
View ArticleHUGE UPDATE: Senate version WITHDRAWN! TN State Rep. wants to "stomp" people...
Some legislators in the Tennessee General Assembly are having a bad day. A bill to restrict access to public restrooms and public dressing rooms designated by sex to members of that particular sex was...
View ArticleTN Rep. Floyd "could care less" what I think
So for those who weren't around yesterday, I got information to write a story, and along with eventually Think Progress and several state blogs in Tennessee - LGBT and others who were on it at the...
View ArticleKosAbility: Some thoughts from an invisible monster
KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and Wednesday by volunteer diarists. This is a gathering place for people who are living with disabilities, who love someone with a...
View ArticleIndiana to offer LGBT specialty license plates
A Fox news affiliate in Indiana reports that the state will soon offer license plates expressing pride and support for people who are LGBT:The first license plate in the country to feature the logo of...
View ArticleGLSEN Study: Playgrounds and Prejudice: Elementary School Climate in the...
Thanks to GLSEN for this storyCrossposted at my blog burn after writingIn 2005, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network released a study conducted by Harris Interactive - "From Teasing to...
View ArticleKosAbility: I should probably be sleeping right now
KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and Wednesday by volunteer diarists. This is a gathering place for people who are living with disabilities, who love someone with a...
View ArticleKosAbility: All the boxes in this world won't save us from ourselves
KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and Wednesday by volunteer diarists. This is a gathering place for people who are living with disabilities, who love someone with a...
View ArticleMoveOn.org Petition: Demand Tennessee State Rep. Richard Floyd's resignation...
MoveOn.org is circulating a petition demanding that Tennessee state representative Richard Floyd should resign. Floyd, along with state senator Bo Watson, introduced a transphobic “bathroom bill” in...
View Articlew/ Updates Over 4,000 signatures calling for resignation of transphobic...
This is just a quick update: yesterday I wrote a post about a petition urging Tennessee state representative Richard Floyd to resign. He had sponsored a bill to harass people who are transgender when...
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OutServe Magazine on "The New DADT: Transgender Service''
OutServe is an organization for LGBT military servicemembers that was created in response to anti-gay harassment that servicemembers were receiving under the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. They became a...
View ArticleH.R. 1981: "Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011"
Crossposted at burn after writingRep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) is back with a new anti-privacy bill that's been on the radar of civil liberties organizations for several months now, though it hasn't yet...
View ArticleAnti-gay TN State Senator compares being told to eat at a different...
So, Stacey Campfield, a state senator in Tennessee, was refused restaurant service after sponsoring anti-gay legislation and spouting hateful rhetoric:Martha Boggs, owner of The Bistro at the Bijou,...
View ArticleKosAbility: Suppressing the votes of disabled people
KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and Wednesday by volunteer diarists. This is a gathering place for people who are living with disabilities, who love someone with a...
View Article'Sit-ins for Stacey' Campfield, anti-gay TN state senator who was denied...
Note: this is going up a lot later than I had hoped, since my article just now got postedOver at The Huffington Post, I've written a follow-up [and you should definitely read it] to the story I called...
View ArticleSit-ins for Stacey: Our movement is growing!
Yesterday I alerted you to my new efforts to raise awareness for civil rights violations in this country. Stacey Campfield, a white, male, heterosexual Christian state senator in Tennessee, was denied...
View ArticleRE: Komen scandal, Stacey Campfield says abortion causes breast cancer. w/...
UPDATE: Oh, and donate to Planned Parenthood, obviously.Lolwut:Commenting on the Komen reversal RE breast cancer screening at Planned Parenthood, Senator Campfield makes the claim that abortion causes...
View Articlew/Updatex3 Right-wing preacher attacks Pam Spaulding
Patrick Wooden, a preacher in North Carolina who was recently called out for some bizarre homophobic remarks he made on a radio show has decided to attack LGBT activist Pam Spaulding of Pam's House...
View ArticleKosAbility: Open Thread, Austerity and budget cuts
Programs for the disabled are among the first to go, when states trim their budgets. This puts a lot of people in danger across the country.-Now, families and advocates say Pennsylvania is withdrawing...
View ArticleThis is the last diary I will ever write at Daily Kos
...under this name, because I'm switching to my real name: Scottie Thomaston. If you follow me, you should start following that username, since as soon as I post this I'll be logging off this name....
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