The Movement: January 2011
Hello! Can I Get a Movement Please!
Filed by Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz | January 31, 2011 7:00 PM |Workplace discrimination runs rampant in movement organizations at a local, state and national level. As movements become more professionalized over the past thirty years, the internal structures and policies of many organizations increasingly mirror the worst patterns of exclusion and...Read More
Gay-Accepting Christians Can Surprise You
Filed by Nadine Smith | January 31, 2011 5:00 PM |Below is a note from a friend who took a chance on his fellow church members. I found it fascinating and a reminder to engage in the daily activism of being ourselves everywhere we are. Well, it seems that 2011...Read More
Transforming Anger
Filed by Guest Blogger | January 29, 2011 12:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Alan L. Bounville is a full time graduate student studying theatre for social change at New York University and is one of the founding members of Queer Rising New York City, a direct action group fighting...Read More
The Black Civil Rights Movement Is Dying, Finally
Filed by Rev Irene Monroe | January 28, 2011 3:00 PM |Last week, Martin Luther King tributes were taking place across the nation. And the spirit of MLK and the courageous acts of our foremothers and forefathers of the civil rights movement are etched indelibly in many of our hearts. But...Read More
Reader Submission: British Bisexual Youth on Coming Out & Building Community
Filed by Bil Browning | January 28, 2011 11:00 AM |I got an e-mail the other day from William Moreland, a British bisexual youth, who recently gave a really engaging speech about coming out and the LGBT community as part of TEDxYouthDay. When you think about the future of our...Read More
Taormino's Replacement Keynote Also Has Porn Connections
Filed by Tobi Hill-Meyer | January 23, 2011 5:30 PM |This story just gets stranger and stranger. After administrators cited her "significant online business in pornography and related material" as the basis of uninviting Tristan Taormino from the Modern Sex conference, the replacement keynote speaker is Charlie Glickman, an employee...Read More
SameSexSunday: The Rights to Work, Have Housing, and Love
Filed by Joe Mirabella | January 23, 2011 10:00 AM |There is still so far to go before they gay, lesbian, and transgender communities will have full equality under the law. How should we set priorities while Republicans control the House? Will Republicans offer some relief for the LGBT community?...Read More
Sex Conference Un-invites Keynote Speaker For Being Too Racy?
Filed by Tobi Hill-Meyer | January 20, 2011 7:00 PM |Tristan Taormino was scheduled to keynote the upcoming Modern Sex conference hosted by Oregon State University, with a talk entitled "Claiming Your Sexual Power."This past Monday, January 17th, university administrators decided to refuse funding for her talk and the conference...Read More
Gay Marriage Reality Check
Filed by Monica Roberts | January 20, 2011 4:00 PM |Now that the DADT repeal has been signed into law, there has been chatter in GL world and the Gayosphere about shifting the positive momentum gained from the historic win to renewing the push for gay marriage.That would be a...Read More
On The Rebecca Juro Show this Week: Dr. Dana Beyer
Filed by Rebecca Juro | January 20, 2011 1:00 PM |On The Rebecca Juro Show this week: Dr. Dana Beyer, former candidate for Maryland State Delegate, transgender activist, author of The Silent T an op-ed that appeared in Metro Weekly on why DADT and not ENDA was passed into law...Read More
Segregation Is Part & Parcel of the LGBT Experience
Filed by Guest Blogger | January 18, 2011 7:00 PM |Editors' Note: In addition to being named one of AOL's "Top Ten Bloggers in Las Vegas", guest blogger Derek Washington is Chairman of Stonewall Democrats of Southern Nevada, the largest LGBT political organization in Nevada. He is also the New...Read More
Trevor Project Joins HRC In Milk's Camera Shop
Filed by Bil Browning | January 18, 2011 6:00 PM |The Trevor Project has officially announced that they will be joining HRC in establishing an LGBT action center at the site of Harvey Milk's former camera shop. The group will be operating a crisis and suicide prevention Trevor Lifeline call...Read More
Look Back: GetEqual's 2010 Accomplishments
Filed by Bil Browning | January 14, 2011 4:00 PM |While I've often been critical of GetEqual's tactics and strategy, even I recognize a damn good marketing video when I see it. Their new release looks back at all of 2010's actions and the pressure they put on elected leaders....Read More
The Rebecca Juro Show Returns Thursday, January 13th at 7pm Eastern with Guest Autumn Sandeen
Filed by Rebecca Juro | January 13, 2011 8:00 AM |UPDATE: Becky's producer, Michael Ferguson, tells us in the comment section that the show has been canceled tonight due to a serious case of the stomach flu. See the thread for details. -Bil Yes, at long last it's the return...Read More
Trevor Thomas to leave SLDN for Equality Matters
Filed by Bil Browning | January 11, 2011 9:30 AM |Trevor Thomas, Communication Director for SLDN, announced yesterday that he would be leaving his position with the group in late January. Thomas also worked for HRC's communications staff but left the group over a difference in opinion over the direction...Read More
#SSS: A Look at 2011, the Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell Signing, and GOProud
Filed by Joe Mirabella | January 09, 2011 10:00 AM |Same Sex Sunday returns from our holiday break with an episode that you simply can not miss. First Phil talked with LGBT Public Policy Director of the ACLU Alaska, Shelby Carpenter and the Executive Director of the ACLU of Alaska...Read More
The Democratic Party's New LGBT "Equality" Agenda: Big Words, Short Arms
Filed by Rebecca Juro | January 08, 2011 12:00 PM |It's really interesting to see how mainstream cable newsmedia is lauding the Democratically-controlled 111th Congress for getting so much done. It's not entirely undeserved of course, but when one takes a close look at what actually did get done this...Read More
FCKH8: A good idea for a good cause?
Filed by Davina Kotulski | January 07, 2011 12:30 PM |Is having children yell "fuck you" to people who are against gay marriage on recorded video exploitative of children? Is it helpful to our cause? Should LGBT youth organizations accept money from organizations or individuals who publicly promote under age...Read More
Future of LGBT leadership in Illinois Part I: Anthony Martinez
Filed by Phil Reese | January 06, 2011 8:30 AM |This is the first in a series of interviews with both established and up-and-coming Illinois LGBT leaders in this period of transition for our state. Look for another one with Andy Thayer in a few weeks, and more to follow...Read More
Claiming Butch Identity
Filed by Rev. Emily C. Heath | January 05, 2011 7:00 PM |"So, are you going to transition?" It's the question I get a lot these days. Although I've been a butch since I came out at 18 (and, arguably, for years before that... see my toddler pictures), it has only been...Read More
Michael Bloomberg: It Gets Better, if you're rich
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 05, 2011 1:00 PM |Want to see an It Gets Better video from a complete tool? This could be the first one I've seen that plays the issues of homophobic bullying against queer youth homelessness against one another: "Always be ongoing"? "I know life...Read More
Were LGBT people really fine with Obama back in October?
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 04, 2011 1:30 PM |I've stayed out of the "Obama totally sucks for not giving me my rights" camp, but this is ridiculous: In an October survey conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, 64 percent of self-described LGBT community members said they approved or...Read More
Gay Elf Says End "Discriminatory" Policy
Filed by Leslie Robinson | January 04, 2011 8:30 AM |Note: In case you don't read The North Pole Gazette, here's a reprint of an important story that just ran in that fine newspaper. By Sven Laplander It's always quiet at Santa's Workshop in the first half of January. Santa...Read More
Female inmate housed in male prison sues
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 03, 2011 11:00 AM |A woman in prison in Virginia is finally suing so that she'll be placed in a women's facility. She's been housed with men even though her birth certificate says she's a woman, she lives as a woman, a medical exam...Read More
Test your LGBTQ news knowledge: A 2010 quiz
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 02, 2011 4:00 PM |After Bil and I put together our list of the top LGBTQ news stories of 2010, I thought it'd be a good idea to go back and remember of the less-noticed stories as well as some of the details of...Read More
