Just in case anybody forgot transphobia is alive and well in the gay community. Matter of fact many gay men feel nothing about putting transgender inclusion with the LGB up for debate among one another as we’re witnessing on a forum. As one of them astutely points out, “Trans gender isn’t an orientation, so I’m [...]
We’re so confused. We were informed just this morning by transgender activist Ashley Love that Robin McGehee and co. (Get Equal) are actually the BFF of the Transgender community. Who knew?! And all this time we mistakenly believed that the transgender community might be a bit put out by the fact that ENDA was pushed [...]
Identity politics. The new right wing? From World Socialist Web site: The Nation joins the campaign against Julian Assange The Nation magazine in the US, with its publication of “The Case of Julian Assange” by columnist Katha Pollitt (posted December 22, 2010), has joined the right-wing campaign against WikiLeaks co-founder Assange, a campaign directed by [...]
Transgender veteran Autumn Sandeen is featured today on That’s So Gay Live. The Get Equal activist talks about her experiences being arrested for chaining herself to the White House fence and all the merry adventures had this year in protesting DADT. She also extols on the virtues of social media in creating consensus and support [...]
From Washington Post: When black college students began the sit-in protests that led to the integration of the Jim Crow South, news spread quickly by word of mouth. Soon, students in several states were engaged in similar nonviolent sit-ins, spurring on the civil rights movement. Fast forward 50 years: Civil rights activists advocating everything from [...]
In a petition titled Open Letter To The Left Establishment, Dr. Cornel West, Noam Chomsky, Glen Ford of the popular African American blog Black Agenda Report, and several other African American and progressive notables stated “the Obama administration has demonstrated itself to be an impeccable enemy of reform.” The letter also accuses the Obama administration [...]
So we guess everyone got the news about poor Dan Choi. Pam Spaulding certainly wasted no time gettin’ the word out that’s for sure. Just to reiterate for folks who don’t hug the Net every second of their lives, Choi had a breakdown. Like, a nervous breakdown of sorts. Here’s the contents of an email [...]
