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

With (Anonymously Quoted) Friends Like These….

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

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

[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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

'We Are Dad' – Discrimination Against Gay & Lesbian Foster Parents

Thanks to a friend who had been watching TV and come across a new documentary called ‘We Are Dad’, I recently became acquainted with a story of discrimination that is both heart-wrenching and inspiring. Perhaps some of you are already familiar with the case, but like myself, I’m sure some of you aren’t. At any rate, it’s worthy of shining the spotlight on it in hopes that more people will continue being vocal about the prejudices gays and their families face from the rabid right. Continue reading

Posted in Homophobic zaniness/more LGBTQ issues, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues | 10 Comments