“I don’t get why a community of people who have historically been fucked over by their families and the state now consists of people who want those exact same institutions to validate their existence” ~ Yasmin Nair, contributor to Against Equality This is so cool cause we’ve been meaning to write a post about this [...]
To show his heart is in the right place maybe, two days after announcing cuts to programs helping homeless LGBT youth, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg put out a PSA calling on bullied gay teens to move to New York City where they can find acceptance.
So typical of Gay Inc. Let’s pretend all is well and we’re one big happy family with one big objective. That pretending of course applies to those gay folks who stand to gain the most in any efforts towards equality and any supportive legislation. We don’t even see how the likes of David Mixner can [...]
From The American Spectator: Revoking “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has gotten all the attention of late. But the Obama Administration is involved in another related initiative that is potentially no less significant. Religious liberals in the United States have accused U.S. evangelicals of “exporting the culture wars” to Africa by preaching conservative cultural norms. But [...]
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 [...]
Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) filled in for Ed Schultz on MSNBC on Thursday. He had Christopher Barron, chairman of gay conservative Republican group GOProud on the show about Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America boycotting CPAC because of GOProud is gonna be there—they hate teh gays. We posted earlier this [...]
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 [...]
