Transgender & Intersex: October 2009
When the Government does Right
Filed by Rebecca Juro | October 30, 2009 3:00 PM |Finally, we're in. The body of federal law of the United States of America now formally recognizes and protects its citizens from violence driven by hate based on sexual orientation and gender identity for the first time in American history....Read More
Halloween is a busy time of year for gender
Filed by Guest Blogger | October 26, 2009 4:30 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Cassandra Keenan is a professional journalist living in Las Vegas who works as a copy editor for print media. She also writes about gender, trans issues, queer sexuality and other LGBTQ topics on her blog. I...Read More
Halloween is a busy time of year for gender
Filed by Guest Blogger | October 26, 2009 4:30 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Cassandra Keenan is a professional journalist living in Las Vegas who works as a copy editor for print media. She also writes about gender, trans issues, queer sexuality and other LGBTQ topics on her blog. I...Read More
Documenting unreportable discrimination
Filed by Amy Hunter | October 25, 2009 2:30 PM |In recent weeks, the opposition has been stepping up efforts in the effort to repeal the LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance in Kalamazoo to spread falsehoods about gay and transgender people, our motives, what type of lives we lead and if ballot...Read More
Transgender Comics: "Between the Lines"
Filed by Austen Crowder | October 25, 2009 11:30 AM |A crisp artistic style, engaging storylines, and good ol' trans melodrama. It's a combination that can't really go wrong, and "Between the Lines" proves it. The comic details the lives of young transsexuals at different moments of time as they...Read More
FL LGBT News Round-Up: Hate Crimes Report, Anti-Trans Pervs, Pro-LGBT Companies, & More
Filed by Waymon Hudson | October 23, 2009 3:00 PM |Here's a little round-up of this and that from around the state that I thought you should know! As always, leave more stories and links that we might have missed in the comments! * South Florida hate-crimes total rises, while...Read More
Kalamazoo transphobes' bathroom scare tactics
Filed by Alex Blaze | October 21, 2009 5:30 PM |These folks just don't change. Not one bit. Here's an ad from the Religious Right's campaign against an LGBT anti-discrimination law in Kalamazoo:...Read More
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol quote on tattoos & being transgender
Filed by Bil Browning | October 19, 2009 12:30 PM |I'm reading Dan Brown's new novel, The Lost Symbol, and came across this snippet at the beginning of the book. He's describing the book's villain, Mal'akh, who is heavily tattooed. (emphasis his) The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The...Read More
Babs Siperstein interview at the National Equality March
Filed by Bil Browning | October 15, 2009 5:30 PM |Babs Siperstein is the first trans woman to be a member of the Democrat National Committee - a powerful and symbolic post inside the Democratic Party. She spoke on stage at the National Equality March and when it was time...Read More
Ardi, Apes, Creationists and the Evolution of LGBT
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | October 14, 2009 5:30 PM |The other night, as I watched the Discovery special on "Discovering Ardi," I could picture the religious right going into meltdown over this latest claim to a "missing link" in human evolution. The discovery of Ardi had just been published...Read More
What's in a name? (In honor of National Coming Out Day)
Filed by Amy Hunter | October 11, 2009 6:30 PM |Those of you who speak to groups or do workshops know that there are certain questions you can almost count on. This is one of the more inevitable: "How did you pick your name?" I don't really want to answer....Read More
A coming out story: "Cis"
Filed by Austen Crowder | October 11, 2009 3:30 PM |Editors' note: We don't post works of fiction much, but we hope you'll enjoy this short story from Austen. Funny how the therapist drains the words right out of you. All the way here the words echoed in your head,...Read More
What Barack Obama really said about transgender rights
Filed by Rebecca Juro | October 11, 2009 1:30 PM |It seems like each time I write something about Barack Obama some variant of the following sentence is included in the first paragraph: The man knows how to deliver a speech. Was there any real news to gleaned here? Well,...Read More
Socialized, heavily regulated, or single-payer: A health care system is as good as the people running it
Filed by Alex Blaze | October 09, 2009 12:30 PM |It seems like it's the universe's goal to simultaneously lower my expectations for my fellow humans and to surprise me with their generosity. Today I schlepped myself across town to do visa paperwork and found out, when I got to...Read More
Why Maddow Matters
Filed by Rebecca Juro | October 05, 2009 12:00 PM |The first time I ever listened to Rachel Maddow on the radio for any length of time was when she guest-hosted for Michelangelo Signorile on his Sirius OutQ afternoon drivetime show a few years ago. It wasn't that I didn't...Read More
Behind the Scenes with Vicki St. James
Filed by Peter Monn and Alex Paredes | October 04, 2009 12:00 PM |Recently, after talking about all of the interesting people we have met in Indy who contribute to the fluid, social vibe that we encounter, we decided we would dedicate a weekly interview to "local celebs" who contribute to this vibe,...Read More
Alberta Teacher Fired For Gender Change
Filed by Mercedes Allen | October 02, 2009 9:30 AM |In early October of 2008, substitute teacher Jan Buterman was informed that he was being dropped from the teacher list and should not report to a scheduled class that day. Jan had spoken with the Deputy Superintendent at the Greater...Read More
