The Movement: January 2012
The State of the Movement (But Not All the States)
Filed by Bil Browning | January 30, 2012 9:00 AM |Normally the "State of the Movement" address at Creating Change is one of the highlights for me. This year's speech, however, left me feeling flat.Read More
Comment of the Week: A Call for Civility
Filed by Adam Polaski | January 29, 2012 6:00 PM |The post on Dan Savage's third glitterbombing in six months sparked lots of comments about in-fighting, whether it's necessary, and whether it helps progress the community at all. Read More
Christie Sees Future, Santorum Does George Wallace in Drag
Filed by Mark Segal | January 28, 2012 12:00 PM |Christie is not considered a moderate. He's a national rising star of right-wing Republicans, but he's smart and ahead of his fellow party members in understanding that LGBT issues no longer matter to the general population - including Republicans.Read More
Cynthia Nixon & Shifting from Essentialism
Filed by Kyle Bella | January 26, 2012 12:00 PM |The debate over Cythnia Nixon's argument that being lesbian is a choice reveals the ineffectiveness of situating LGBTQ politics along defensive lines. I try to change the focus of that conversation.Read More
Airman Randy Phillips to Ride in AIDS LifeCycle
Filed by Karen Ocamb | January 25, 2012 4:00 PM |Remember Airman Randy Phillips? He's the servicemember who posted a video of his call to his father to come out as gay. He's decided to participate in this year's AIDS fundraising bike ride after an exchange with WeHo-based filmmaker Ryan James Yezak.Read More
Bi Leadership Up North: Health Pioneer Cheryl Dobinson
Filed by Amy Andre | January 25, 2012 3:00 PM |"Most research grouped bi people with gay men or lesbians, which meant that we didn't have a picture of whether or how our health as a community might differ from that of gay, lesbian and heterosexual people's health." -- Cheryl DobinsonRead More
Cynthia Nixon Is Not My Choice for a Hero
Filed by Yasmin Nair | January 25, 2012 9:41 AM |Cynthia Nixon was far more interesting as a straight woman than she is as a lesbian. Read More
Dan Savage & the Circular Firing Squad
Filed by John M. Becker | January 24, 2012 4:00 PM |Instead of directing our frustration and anger inwards at obviously supportive and well-meaning community members, we need to direct it outwards and upwards. Instead of vilifying people for what they don't fully understand, we need to meet them where they are and bring them further.Read More
GLAAD Cuts Staff After AT&T Scandal Fundraising Fallout
Filed by Bil Browning | January 23, 2012 10:45 AM |It appears that former GLAAD Executive Director Jarrett Barrios' AT&T scandal has caught up with the organization's fundraising abilities. The not-for-profit announced late last week that they were cutting 11 out of 45 positions.Read More
If NGLTF Joined the 'Sh*t People Say' Meme
Filed by Bil Browning | January 21, 2012 6:00 PM |I originally thought this was The Task Force's entry into the video meme. Here's "Shit (Young, White, Class-privileged, City-based) "Radical Queers" Say to Each Other."Read More
The Prop 8 Decision & a Valentine's Day Protest
Filed by Davina Kotulski | January 20, 2012 4:00 PM |Any day now a ruling is expected from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on the constitutionality of Prop 8. We can only hope that justice, long delayed in Perry V. Schwarzenegger, will not be denied.Read More
An Open Letter to Ryan James Yezak
Filed by Kyle Bella | January 20, 2012 1:00 PM |In response to a recent video trailer released by Ryan James Yezak, I offer an open letter to him expressing my concerns that his video fails to include people of color and transgender individuals in its representation of LGBTQ history.Read More
SLDN Executive Director Sarvis to Leave Job
Filed by Bil Browning | January 19, 2012 2:00 PM |Servicemember Legal Defense Network Executive Director Aubrey Sarvis announced yesterday that he will leave the organization he's led for the past four years. Aubrey's exit will happen in late spring or early summer.Read More
Discussion: The Gay Rights Movement on Video
Filed by D Gregory Smith | January 17, 2012 6:00 PM |The piece has come under some criticism for its heavy portrayal of white gay men (Dan Choi and Ellen DeGeneres excepted) and non-portrayal of bi or transgender persons. Watch it and tell us what you think.Read More
Arcus Foundation Gives $23 Million for Social Justice Leadership
Filed by Bil Browning | January 17, 2012 4:00 PM |Notable LGBT funder the Arcus Foundation has given Kalamazoo College $23 million to endow the "Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership." Former Director of the Task Force's Policy Institute, Jamie Grant, has been tapped to lead the center's programming and day to day operations.Read More
Another Way to Fight Anti-Gay Discrimination
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 17, 2012 1:00 PM |Cracker Barrel's policy wasn't just homophobic, it was patronizing, elitist, and authoritarian. Read More
Call for ENDA Executive Order After EEOC Sex-Discrimination Settlement
Filed by Karen Ocamb | January 15, 2012 4:30 PM |With all the election-year talk about "jobs, jobs, jobs" one would think someone would call for passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.Read More
Two Major Benchmarks in LGBT History
Filed by Mark Segal | January 14, 2012 4:00 PM |If you sneezed last week, you might have missed them. Two major changes in the fight for LGBT equality took place last week -- and they literally will change the playing field forever.Read More
Equality California Posts Job for Interim Executive Director
Filed by Karen Ocamb | January 13, 2012 12:00 PM |Equality California finally posted its job opening and criteria for an Interim Executive Director.Read More
What's Wrong with Gay Republicans?
Filed by Michael Hamar | January 12, 2012 1:00 PM |I'd love to hear how gay Republicans honestly justify supporting a political party that hates them and seeks to keep them less than full citizens.Read More
Squalls & Sunsets: Have the Strength of a Penguin
Filed by Norm Kent | January 11, 2012 7:00 PM |The LGBT community has not only fought against legal and social discrimination for decades, we have endured alienation and disease; been bullied and belittled. Today, however, is our turn; time to rise against the tide and ride the wave to self-worth and social equality.Read More
Stuff Cis People Say to Trans People
Filed by Tobi Hill-Meyer | January 11, 2012 11:00 AM |In response to the "Shit ____ People Say" internet meme, "Stuff ____ People Say to ____" has been a great way to explore the different common types on prejudice and assumptions being made about marginalized groups.Read More
Activism in Gestures of Affirmation
Filed by Kyle Bella | January 10, 2012 6:00 PM |Kristen Wolfe published a story about two brothers she helped at a store recently. Her experience forced me to examine what activism is, and to suggest how it can occur in day-to-day moments of affirmation that form unexpected connections.Read More
Planning for the Third Transgender Law Institute
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | January 10, 2012 11:30 AM |It seems like just yesterday that I volunteered to chair a planning committee in 2010 to create a Transgender Law Institute to be held at the National LGBT Bar Association Conference. And now, we've just started planning the third annual...Read More
Striking a New Chord at Stonewall?
Filed by Phil Reese | January 09, 2012 12:00 PM |For those of us who have to read organizations' press statements all day every day, its a lot more enjoyable when one gets the feeling that the author of the statement gives a damn about what they're saying.Read More
Brunch Is So Bi: Activism Over Easy
Filed by Amy Andre | January 09, 2012 10:00 AM |Brunch is a very bi meal. It's not breakfast or lunch, but it combines some of the best elements of both - without making you choose a side! Pancakes? Omelet? At brunch, you can have both.Read More
Where Does 'Queer' Fit In?
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | January 08, 2012 4:00 PM |Within the LGBT community there are many labels and ways of identifying. Some are broadly accepted and have widely, if perhaps not universally agreed upon meanings, but beyond those is a swirling soup of labels whose meaning and acceptability are in dispute.Read More
Update: EQCA Hiring, Doing Better
Filed by Karen Ocamb | January 07, 2012 4:00 PM |Equality California Communications Director Rebekah Orr says the statewide lobbying group is doing better going into the new year.Read More
Interview: Openly Gay Presidential Candidate Fred Karger
Filed by Adam Polaski | January 06, 2012 9:30 AM |Fred Karger is still running for president, and he's the first openly gay person to do so. Here, he speaks with The Bilerico Project about his lack of support, his disappointment with The Victory Fund, and what his campaign is trying to achieve.Read More
Stonewall Dems Announce New Leadership Team
Filed by Bil Browning | January 04, 2012 6:00 PM |Bilerico co-founder and my partner, Jerame Davis, has been named as the new Executive Director of National Stonewall Democrats. I'm very proud of him and I know he'll lead the org in a new agressive direction that'll kick ass and take names.Read More
Eric Cantor's Wife Is Pro-Choice & Pro-Marriage Equality
Filed by Michael Hamar | January 03, 2012 6:00 PM |In what has to be causing angst amongst the knuckle dragging Neanderthals that make up the Republican party of Virginia, Diana Fine Cantor, wife of GOP House Majority Whip Eric Cantor, has come out as pro-choice and pro-gay.Read More
Hawaii & Delaware Join Marriage Equality Train
Filed by Bil Browning | January 03, 2012 5:00 PM |Hawaii and Delaware joined the marriage equality train at the start of the new year. They may be at the caboose, but at least they're on the right track.Read More
