The Movement: July 2006
Look beyond marriage
Filed by Bil Browning | July 28, 2006 4:21 PM |Here in Indiana it wasn't any of the leading LGBT organizations that pushed for gay marriage, but the Indiana Civil Liberties Union that instigated the lawsuit to legalize same-sex civil marriage. However, most national organizations now include gay marriage as...Read More
Lesbian By the Grace of the Goddess, Queer By Choice
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | July 27, 2006 8:31 PM |I've never been comfortable basing our rights on a 'we can't help it' rationale. It suggests that we're somehow pitiful things -- that non-exclusively heterosexual sexual orientation is a defect, not the every other point on the infinite-points line segment that is normal human sexual orientation that they are.Read More
The G-Bomb
Filed by Bil Browning | July 27, 2006 10:23 AM |Check out NMVK's recent post on Bob Garfield's Advertising Age article "Wal-Mart's New Online Children's 'Hub' a Real Bomb." In the article Garfield refers to the site as "soooo gay." Should an article in a major publication use the word...Read More
RIP John Money
Filed by Bil Browning | July 21, 2006 8:01 AM |I noticed this in this week's issue of Time magazine... May he rest in peace. DIED: John Money, 84, pioneering Johns Hopkins University sex researcher and psychologist who, during the 1960's when any form of sexual ambiguity was deemed freakish,...Read More
If I had one...
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | July 18, 2006 8:30 PM |...this is what I'd say to my Pentacostal sister-in-law, Child Abuse Advocate James Dobson *, Sen. Sam "Turtle Sex" Brownback, Shrub, Sen. Rick "Dog Sex" Santorum, and every beady-eyed or slack-jawed-slobbering hate-panderer who voted for Rep. Marilyn "Looking More and...Read More
Of Monogamy
Filed by Scott Barnes | July 17, 2006 4:00 PM |One of the articles I read at Borders yesterday in The Advocate was written by the first openly gay psychiatrist in the American Psychiatric Association. I didn't commit his name or exact quotes to memory so I'm going to paraphrase...Read More
Making Lemonade
Filed by Bil Browning | July 13, 2006 2:56 PM |Much has been happening recently to give occasion for sober reflection. I want to talk about the disgrace of the New York State Court of Appeals, but first a word about South Bend. Do not misunderstand, I wish the HRO...Read More
What's Up With the Water?
Filed by Ed Team | July 13, 2006 12:02 AM |Ever wonder why the Indiana Transgender Rights Advocacy Alliance logo have a pool of water in it? Well you're not alone. Bil asked me just that question tonight. Here's why...Read More
Bayh the Abuser
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | July 12, 2006 7:08 AM |In an earlier post, our fearless leader posited that we had nothing to worry about from Bayh, given his current ranking in Iowa. Iowans, however, would not be so hasty, knowing how quickly fortunes can change there -- especially for...Read More
Get married or else!
Filed by Bil Browning | July 10, 2006 10:40 PM |Gay and lesbian employees at the Boston Globe were recently told the company's domestic partner benefits were being eliminated. After all, the company only offered the benefits to homosexual couples - not heterosexual unmarried couples. But now that the playing...Read More
New York State's High Court Upholds Exclusion of Same-Sex Couples from Marriage
Filed by Annette Gross | July 06, 2006 7:50 PM |More news on marriage.......Annette New York State's High Court Upholds Exclusion of Same-Sex Couples from Marriage 'Today's decision refuses to recognize that gay and lesbian New Yorkers and their families are full citizens of this state. But this struggle is...Read More
Attack on Transgendered Person Points To Need For Hoosier Queer Anti-Violence Organization
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | July 06, 2006 8:46 AM |Gary Welsh on Advance Indiana has posted an alert to a horrifying story in the Indianapolis Star about an attack on a transgendered person at a local gas station. I encourage you to read it. Indiana now has a legal situation where criminals get a free pass on the bias aspect of their crimes and the state merely has to get the count right -- and, from what I've seen, nobody's really making them do that, failing instead to use the best tool to establish need for passage of penalties legislation we could give you at the time. It is long past time for the establishment of a stand-alone LGBTQQIA anti-violence/police-community relations organization in Indiana so this vital work does not continue to fall through the cracks. Read More
The radical right vs gay teens
Filed by Bil Browning | July 05, 2006 1:17 PM |An alert reader caught this posting on "Dispatches from the Culture Wars" and thought it was something bilerico readers would enjoy reading. It's a great description of a high school GSA's fight for equal access. I think you'll enjoy it...Read More
Of Mice and Men
Filed by Chris Douglas | July 04, 2006 1:41 PM |According to the science section of the New York Times today, the discomfort of two mice, who have been administered a 30-minute stomach ache, is enhanced if the two mice are acquainted. If you can follow along, when mouse #1...Read More
Do me a favor....
Filed by Bruce Parker | July 02, 2006 10:00 PM |The Indiana Transgender Rights Advocacy Alliance (INTRAA) is in the process of updating our website in an effort to provide an interactive and engaging online gathering space for the entire Trans Community and its allies. Please take a minute to...Read More
Paccione on Musgrave's Federal Marriage Amendment
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | July 01, 2006 5:24 PM |Colorado State Rep. Angie Paccione who is running against the U.S. House author of the Federal Marriage Amendment, Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, just put out a new comment on Marilyn breaking her promise not to reintroduce it and instead to concentrate...Read More
