Category Archives: Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues

Dean Falsely Claims Democratic Party Platform Opposes Same-Sex Marriage

Posted on May 11, 2006 by Ampersand

Here’s what Howard Dean said, while speaking to a religious-right audience on the 700 Club: The Democratic Party platform from 2004 says that marriage is between a man and a woman. That’s what it says. I think where we may … Continue reading →

Posted in Elections and politics, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues, Same-Sex Marriage | 16 Comments

With (Anonymously Quoted) Friends Like These….

Posted on May 10, 2006 by Ampersand

From the Washington Blade: Democratic Party Chair Howard Dean fired the party’s gay outreach adviser Donald Hitchcock on May 2 less than a week after Hitchcock’s domestic partner, Paul Yandura, a longtime party activist, accused Dean of failing to take … Continue reading →

Posted in Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues, Media criticism | 9 Comments

A Case Where Christians Should Be Allowed To Practice Anti-Gay Discrimination

Posted on May 8, 2006 by Ampersand

From Overlawyered.com : In suburban Washington, D.C., Bono Film and Video has an announced policy of refusing to duplicate material that owner Tim Bono regards as contrary to his Christian values. Now the Arlington County (Va.) Human Rights Commission has … Continue reading →

Posted in Free speech, censorship, copyright law, etc., Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues | 39 Comments

She Does Not Speak For Me

Posted on April 11, 2006 by Guest Writer

[This post is written by Blac(k)ademic] I saw this posting from pandagon today regarding Jasmyne Cannick’s article against immigration reform. I had to write something in response to it because I am deeply offended by her words as a black … Continue reading →

Posted in Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., Feminism, sexism, etc, Immigration, Migrant Rights, etc, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues, Race, racism and related issues | 185 Comments

Women's Rights In The Middle East

Posted on April 6, 2006 by Ampersand

Interesting-sounding panel discussion of women’s rights in the Mid East. I thought this point – about the attraction of patriarchy in dictatorships – was well-made: Darwish placed the blame on the patriarchy of the Middle East. “In the Middle East, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, International issues, Iraq, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues, Palestine & Israel | 15 Comments

I'm guessing Jacob Weisberg isn't Queer or Female

Posted on April 5, 2006 by Ampersand

From Slate editor Jacob Weisberg’s slam of the latest Kevin Phillips book: …While Karl Rove’s pander-to-the base strategy got Bush narrowly re-elected, the entente hasn’t truly served Bush or the religious right. The appearance of extremism on issues of church-state … Continue reading →

Posted in Abortion & reproductive rights, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues | 8 Comments

Iraq: Maybe Sistani didn't call for homosexuals to be killed, after all

Posted on March 20, 2006 by Ampersand

In my most recent link farm post, I posted a link to a story about Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani calling a fatwah against homosexuals. The blogger Zeyad apparently translated this from an page in Arabic on Sistani’s website: Q: What … Continue reading →

Posted in Iraq, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues | 15 Comments

New York To Shut Down Jail For Gays And Trangenders

Posted on January 2, 2006 by Ampersand

New York’s Rikers Island has long had a separate unit for gay and transgender prisoners, intended to protect those prisoners from abuses from the rest of the prison population. According to The New York Times, the unit is now scheduled … Continue reading →

Posted in Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues, Transsexual and Transgender related issues | 51 Comments

Links? We Got Links!

Posted on December 10, 2005 by Ampersand

Time for another link farm… Hilzoy on Iraq, Bush, and Failures of Will Partisan republicans will dismiss it as bullshit. But in fifty years, I suspect Hilzoy’s account of George Bush’s Iraq war is going to be pretty much how … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-feminists and their pals, Choice for Men, Iraq, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues, Link farms | 4 Comments

When men are insecure about masculinity, they support war and oppose same-sex marriage

Posted on August 5, 2005 by Ampersand

An interesting new study from a researcher at Cornell. The researcher had men and women take a gender identity survey. The test subjects were then told that the survey showed that they were “masculine” or “feminine.”In fact, what they were … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues, Same-Sex Marriage | 102 Comments