"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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