The Movement: August 2011
Counting on Being Counted
Filed by Dan O'Neill | August 29, 2011 | 7:00 PM |This final challenge of collecting data on our lives may be one the most important battles we face to improving the health of LGBT people and bring us out of obscurity. Read More
Comment of the Week: Capitalist Piggy On Socarides' Marriage Equality
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 28, 2011 | 4:00 PM |Projector Capitalistpiggy says Richard Socarides, president of Equality Matters, is wrong when he says marriage equality will help trans rights.Read More
HRC's Solmonese Resigns: Staffers Angry at News Timing
Filed by Bil Browning | August 28, 2011 | 1:00 PM |Pam Spaulding of Pam's House Blend reported that the Human Rights Campaign's Executive Director, Joe Solmonese, would be leaving the organization late on Friday night and Washington insiders and HRC staffers are understandably upset at the timing of the report.Read More
Who Am I?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 28, 2011 | 11:30 AM |Being trans means complicated, abstruse debates, and I'm sometimes left wondering who I am. Read More
Beth Elliott's Rebuttal of the Brennan-Hungerford Letter
Filed by Guest Blogger | August 26, 2011 | 3:30 PM |Guest blogger Beth Elliott has written a rebuttal to the Brennan-Hungerford submission to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.Read More
Same-Sex Couples Increase Outside Of Heavily Populated Areas
Filed by D Gregory Smith | August 26, 2011 | 12:30 PM |New numbers from the 2010 U.S. Census reveal that there are an increasing number of same-sex couples across the country - even outside of the typical LGBT strongholds like New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and San Francisco.Read More
33 Schools Receive Top Rankings in 'LGBT-Friendliness'
Filed by Adam Polaski | August 26, 2011 | 11:30 AM |33 American colleges and universities - almost double the number from last year - received top rankings in Campus Pride's "LGBT-friendly" Campus Climate Index this year. Read More
They Don't Know Jack about Bi Men
Filed by Amy Andre | August 26, 2011 | 8:00 AM |I don't need a research grant, a penis-measuring-tape, and a stack of porn to prove what bi men themselves have been telling me for years (that they exist). Read More
Mazzoni Center Announces New Legal Services Director
Filed by Kyle Bella | August 25, 2011 | 7:00 PM |The Mazzoni Center, Philadelphia's only LGBT service provider, announced a new Legal Services Director, David M. Rosenblum, citing his long history of legal advocacy, particularly in terms of employment non-discrimination.Read More
'Out and Around' Highlights Global LGBT Advocacy
Filed by Adam Polaski | August 25, 2011 | 12:30 PM |A lesbian couple is taking a year-long trip around the world to meet "Supergays" - the international movers and shakers in the LGBT community - and demonstrate how they're making an impact. Read More
Queer & Trans Activists Proclaim: 'No Future in Capitalism' at Montreal Pride
Filed by R Conrad | August 25, 2011 | 8:00 AM |The Pink Bloc speaks up against business as usual during Montreal's Pride ParadeRead More
What Can Coverage of the Earthquake Teach Us about the LGBT Movement?
Filed by Rev. Emily C. Heath | August 23, 2011 | 6:00 PM |What does the recent earthquake have to do with LGBT rights? On the surface not much. But as I sat watching coverage, I was struck by a familiar feeling that we were missing the heart of the story.Read More
Watch: Don Lemon and Ashley Love Spar Over Words
Filed by Karen Ocamb | August 23, 2011 | 3:00 PM |Last month, the CNN anchor was interrupted at the NAACP's LGBT town hall meeting. Love said she considered Lemon's exclusion of transsexuals and transgenders an insult when he said he intended the discussion to be all-inclusive.Read More
At Microsoft, Bi Is 'What's Next'
Filed by Amy Andre | August 23, 2011 | 8:00 AM |Microsoft is the only company in the world with a bi-specific Board position in its LGBT Employee Resource Group. Read More
Socarides On Trans Rights: Eat Your Cake And Have It Too
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 22, 2011 | 9:00 AM |Gay leaders' assurances that marriage equality will lead to transgender rights falls on deaf ears. Read More
Hoping for Change Through Restatement
Filed by Antoine Craigwell | August 21, 2011 | 12:00 PM |Since the U.S. government's acknowledgement of the HIV epidemic, the Department of Health has become a lactating cow and the CDC the perpetually filled udder, with a multitude of agencies, organizations and individuals sucking voraciously at its teats.Read More
Argentine Legislature Debates Trans Rights
Filed by Adam Polaski | August 18, 2011 | 10:00 AM |Today, Argentina's legislature will begin to formalize debate around a proposed gender identity act, which would allow trans people to easily correct their name, gender, and image in public records. Here's an example of L, G, B & T working together. Read More
Equality Walker Richard Noble Hits Colorado
Filed by Karen Ocamb | August 17, 2011 | 12:00 PM |After five months on the road, Richard Noble hit Colorado on his Walk for Equality to draw attention to and get signatures for a national American Equality bill. Read More
EQCA ED Roland Palencia's First EQCA Awards Speech
Filed by Karen Ocamb | August 16, 2011 | 12:00 PM |On Saturday night, Roland Palencia took the stage as the new ED for Equality California. Palencia's dealing with changing EQCA's direction during a tough economy and while facing a potential referendum to overturn the California FAIR Education Act.Read More
Yvonne Cook Riley: The Invention of Transgender
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 16, 2011 | 11:00 AM |Yvonne Cook-Riley is a founder of the transgender movement. She gave an interesting history of the invention of transgender as a word and as a movement. Read More
Palencia & Simon: Visions for the Future of EQCA, Stonewall Dems
Filed by Karen Ocamb | August 13, 2011 | 4:00 PM |New California leaders Roland Palencia and Stephen David Simon share their vision for building the power needed to deliver full LGBT equality across California.Read More
Fighting to Fight: Questioning the 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Battle
Filed by Guest Blogger | August 13, 2011 | 10:00 AM |Guest blogger Gabrielle Korn argues that Don't Ask Don't Tell has kept gay people in America distracted from protesting the wars by protesting to join something we've been told by the government is an honorable cause.Read More
Jennifer Boylan on Trans Rights in the NY Times
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 12, 2011 | 11:00 AM |Jennifer Boylan's NYT op ed this morning on trans rights uses the metaphor of a ventriloquist's dummy. How apt.Read More
The Top 20 Most Important LGBT Figures in History
Filed by Adam Polaski | August 11, 2011 | 2:00 PM |Who, of hundreds of important LGBT people, will be included through the FAIR Education Act? We polled the readers and contributors of The Bilerico Project to get a better feel for which figures are important to today's LGBT community.Read More
Top LGBT Voices Name History's Essential LGBT Figures
Filed by Adam Polaski | August 10, 2011 | 10:15 AM |This last batch of personal "Top 5" lists from a selection of important LGBT voices - from Andrés Duque, Bil Browning, Emily Heath, Scott Wooledge, Roberta Sklar & more - really reflects the diversity within our community. Read More
Ghana Church Plans Counseling Centers for Gays
Filed by Viktor Kerney | August 10, 2011 | 9:00 AM |The Presbyterian Church of Ghana is planning to create therapy centers to counsel and pray the gay away from their citizens. Read More
Threats of Violence By Trans Advocates Must Be Condemned
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 09, 2011 | 3:00 PM |We cannot remain silent when threats of violence are made in our name. Read More
AFER Prop. 8 Opponents Accept Top ABA Award
Filed by Karen Ocamb | August 09, 2011 | 12:30 PM |The American Foundation for Equal Rights' lead attorneys, David Boies and Theodore B. Olson, were honored with the most prestigious award their legal peers can bestow - the American Bar Association Medal. Read More
Top LGBT Voices Name History's Essential LGBT Figures
Filed by Adam Polaski | August 09, 2011 | 9:00 AM |Dan Choi, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Patricia Nell Warren, Wayne Besen, and more sound off on their "Top 5" lists of essential LGBT figures and moments. This series culminates on Thursday with the Top 20 list, chosen by Bilerico readers.Read More
Prague's First Pride, Despite Homophobic President
Filed by Jos Truitt | August 08, 2011 | 7:30 PM |Prague will host its first Pride festival this week. Pride organizers are trying to focus on the event as a celebration instead of a political rally. But someone forgot to tell Czech President Vaclav Klaus this Pride isn't political. Read More
Outside the Gender Boxes: A Political Theory of Gender
Filed by Jos Truitt | August 08, 2011 | 12:30 PM |We need to work against the construction of two essential gender boxes, the forcing of everyone into one or the other, and against the linking of power and resources to these boxes. We need to work for the liberation of people who have failed to conform. Read More
Top LGBT Voices Name History's Essential LGBT Figures
Filed by Adam Polaski | August 08, 2011 | 9:30 AM |All this week, we'll be asking some of today's the most significant LGBT voices to reflect on the most important LGBT people in history. It will all culminate in the Top 25 list on Thursday! Read More
Less Than Woman, Less Than Human
Filed by Mercedes Allen | August 04, 2011 | 5:00 PM |In a paper to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, Cathy Brennan and Elizabeth Hungerford explicitly oppose the extension of basic human rights to transsexuals, under the premise that providing protections under the classes of gender identity and gender expression "erodes" womens' rights.Read More
LGBT Movement "Hitting A Wall"
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 04, 2011 | 8:00 AM |Williams Institute Executive Director Brad Sears said at a March conference that the movement may be hitting a wall. Read More
Track the LGBT Movement with these Equality Maps!
Filed by Adam Polaski | August 02, 2011 | 5:00 PM |The Movement Advancement Project has released a series of maps to visually represent the state of the LGBT equality movement. Tomorrow, the organization will release a full "Momentum Report."Read More
West Appearance Canceled After LGBT Group's Campaign
Filed by Adam Polaski | August 01, 2011 | 5:30 PM |The anti-gay Republican representative was scheduled to speak at a meeting for the Wilton Manors Business Association in an LGBT-friendly community. After threats of a boycott from LGBT advocates, West's appearance was canceled. Read More
Anti-Gay Hate Group Loses 501(c)3 Status
Filed by Bil Browning | August 01, 2011 | 11:30 AM |Poor Peter LaBarbera... He'll no longer be allowed to give donors tax deductions for fueling his anti-gay hatred. Porno Pete's Americans for Truth about Homosexuality (AFTAH) had it's 501(c)3 status revoked in May of 2010.Read More
The Vanishing Value of Human Life
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | August 01, 2011 | 10:30 AM |The biggest single over-shadowing issue that emerges from the headlines, and from changing health policy around the world, is the vanishing value of human life. I grew up during World War II - a time that showed how little a human life can be valued.Read More
Who Are the Most Important LGBT People in History?
Filed by Adam Polaski | August 01, 2011 | 9:45 AM |California's newly approved FAIR Act will require CA schools to teach about the societal contributions of LGBT people. But who should they teach about? Help The Bilerico Project compile a list of the Top LGBT people in history!Read More
