News Feed for 2011-09-30
- European Parliament introduces measure to remove classification of transgender people as mentally ill http://t.co/ZOxKyyJi #
- Scottish religious groups complain that blocking marriage equality violates their religious freedom http://t.co/S9tgVuVi #
- Belgrade Pride March is threatened by right wing extremists http://t.co/UOoaq0sB #
- New Voter ID laws may disenfranchise the most vulnerable of groups….. trans people http://t.co/PvbeZgY5 #
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News Feed for 2011-09-29
- New small study shows hope of reducing HIV to a minor chronic infection http://t.co/j1DBS9CJ #
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News Feed for 2011-09-28
- French android app tries to function as gaydar for clueless mothers by using offensive stereotypes http://t.co/Jfsnye3v #
- Leon Fyle will spend 21 years in prison for his brutal transphobic murder of Destiny Lauren re-trial rules http://t.co/QLSb22rD #
- Transgender woman complains about the spotty coverage of treatment by NHS for therapies, surgeries and treatments http://t.co/U62ioqzs #
- Street preacher Michael Overd is in court after harassing and bullying a gay couple http://t.co/k7ASemfx #
- Closeted Homophobe Website outs 10 italian MPs who are launching homophobic attacks, while secretly gay in private http://t.co/4mD15VWX #
- Obama administration attempts to weasel its way out of paying all the severance pay to soldiers victimised by DADT http://t.co/ZM7VLFYE #
- Northern Ireland's health minister refuses to reconsider lifetime blood donation ban for gay men http://t.co/MxpLotyZ #creationist #
- Republican party has no problem with attacking the troops, what hope did gay soldiers have of respect for their service http://t.co/oa1VbUTH #
- East London Pride finally goes ahead, but there are still many bridges to rebuild and wounds to heal http://t.co/hIiV63QN #
- Gay Couples are twice as likely as straight couples to remain married according to Office of National Statistics http://t.co/a9bUHEBt #
- Chinese Government forces chinese TV show to drop one of the key performers, because she is transgender http://t.co/AmrPns96 #transphobia #
- The US Marines start recruiting at a gay community centre, showing leadership in a post DADT world http://t.co/1vJwsjSe #
- Potential next leader of the Scottish Conservative party advocates 4 faith schools, ignoring track record on homophobia http://t.co/4725RIg7 #
- 3 who played a large part in bullying Jamey Rodemeyer into taking his own life may face criminal charges http://t.co/vE1eNiOB #
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News Feed for 2011-09-26
- A message to libertarians on queer rights: http://t.co/oak6BVk5 #
- Anti-Gay Preacher, meets God (sorta): http://t.co/xhPH4wMi #
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Anti-Gay Preacher, meets God (sorta)
I know I talk about compassion and enlightening homophobes, but closeted gay people who fuck their boyfriends in a hotel room and then preach about persecuting gay people on sunday, really do commit an almost unforgivable act.
So this little bone from Supernatural made me smile,
“And he who lies in my name, shall choke on his own false tongue, and his poisonous words shall betray him”
A message to libertarians on queer rights
You would leave the vulnerable unprotected from the unchained ravages of bigots. Its nice to think that you can talk the bigots down, but sometimes you have stand up, and fight back. The bigots sometimes need to be chained, in deed but not in word.
Gary Johnson is no friend of the Queer Community, he’d strip us of all the protections we are working for and have worked for over the past 2 generations. His solution is to throw us to the wolves, and hope some of us survive.
Fundamentalist Christians don’t want a Theocracy?
I came across this article by Jordan Sekulow attorney at the ACLJ, claiming that associating the Christian Dominist Movement with fundamentalist Christianity was unfair, because fundamentalist Christians really want freedom for all.
This was the response I posted:
Except that the ACLJ and much of the Christian Right is constantly taking religious values and laws, and trying (and sadly sometimes succeeding) to bring them into civil law. Now there’s a multitude of examples in different areas where the Christian Right shows its Dominist values. However there is one example where Jordan and his pack of lies about freedom can be hoisted on their own potard, and thats the religious right and their treatment of Queer americans. The claim is of small government, freedom of choice, and personal responsibility, provided its small government in areas that do not affect you if you are a straight white fundamentalist christian man. The tea party, and the evangelical movement are already lining up their attacks on Queer americans, on every issue from marriage equality, through to attacking the repeal of DADT. When I want to marry the woman I love, where is my freedom? The claims of wanting freedom are nothing but pure hypocrisy… its saying you are free, provided you do what we tell you to do. Jordan can claim until he’s blue in the face that Fundamentalist Christians don’t want a theocracy, but those of us who already suffer under the theocratic laws that his kind have inflicted on this country, know better.Why no matter how hard they try, DADT cannot be brought back
Its been said by many of the Republican candidates for president that one of their first acts will be to re-enact DADT, possibly by executive order. For some its playing to the homophobic republican base, for others its their heartfelt bigotry.
Repeal for good?
However one thing we have to ask, is whether it is practical once repeal has been enacted for DADT to be re-enacted. By re-enacting the law, the bill’s signer, would be kicking out of the military, every single soldier, pilot, and sailor who’s been honest about who they are, so lets look at some numbers to think about what that would mean.
There are currently 1,445,000 active duty service members and 833,616 reserve troops which gives a grand total of 2,278,616 persons who would be affected by this policy. So assuming the conservative figure of 3.5% of the population identifies as LGB, that would say that there approximately at least 80,000 LGB service members. Lets assume that half that group comes out in the next few days (another conservative figure), so potentially by the stroke of a pen, the Commander in Chief will dismiss 40,000 highly qualified and trained troops at a time when the US military cannot afford to loose anyone.
Promising repeal of the repeal?
In the time of DADT, there has been horrific outcry by everyone from Queer Rights Activists, to Devout Defence Hawks have protested the senseless loss of 13,650 service members. Now repealing the repeal, would cause the loss of 3 times that number in 1 day.
While many of these candidates lack any common sense, when faced with those numbers, alone they would have to realise the catastrophic damage to the US military by the instantaneous loss of 40,000 troops.
They can promise all they want to bring back DADT, but the last day to prevent the repeal of DADT, was yesterday, before the “Great Revelation”.
News Feed for 2011-09-20
- Brian Souter is spouting hate speech, SNP still hasn't returned his donation http://t.co/gVNsw93W #
- Time to bring the vatican to task for crimes against humanity http://t.co/KWXMe99v #
- FIFA refuses point blank to investigate homophobia http://t.co/DgMsIWGf #
- Another transwoman is shot in DC http://t.co/wD3N9djY #
- The NCAA releases new rules to allow transgender athletes to play on the the right gendered team http://t.co/gMWLZRcT #
- Is the openly gay mayor of Berlin on track to become the Chancellor of Germany http://t.co/d2BJWBPq ? #
- Iowa's special election may put marriage equality in Iowa in jeopardy http://t.co/FYihJtl1 #
- The Labour Party promises to keep the coalition on task on gay marriage http://t.co/RR6xPqet #
- Unitarian leaders criticise the government for dragging its heels on marriage equality http://t.co/7USh1N7R #uk #
- Lib Dems call for an end to the discriminatory new blood donation policies http://t.co/9qV0lRx0 #
- Thompson Holidays accused of discriminating against a lesbian couple on honeymoon http://t.co/O24NCelN #
- Young people have less of a problem with homophobic and racist slurs, claiming not to think they are serious http://t.co/kbW07bTF #
- Mumbai police descend on a party and arrest the occupants, the crime being gay and enjoying yourself http://t.co/laDHJ4s6 #
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News Feed for 2011-09-17
- NOM's NY9 strategy shows again their hatred for queer americans, and their distain 4 the values of the jewish community http://t.co/F4OgugOA #
- David Cameron claims he's "Emphatically" supportive of marriage equality http://t.co/P9yDQxng (why wait, why not pass a bill tomorrow?) #
- MA woman has such extreme homophobia thats she refuses to leave the house in case she sees "A Gay" http://t.co/y3acnkIj #
- LGB Troops await the day they can serve openly and proud http://t.co/e8rgE3hQ (forgetting the transgender troops abandoned by the masses) #
- Publishers trying to censor even the mention of queer characters in Young Adult fiction http://t.co/pb5cP524 #
- For a new generation of trans youth, its the adults with the hate, not their schoolmates http://t.co/QCZsftjh #
- Scottish Catholic Church continues to direct bile at the simple idea of marriage equality http://t.co/4RI9gE2i #
- Woman who beat a transwoman nearly to death in a mcdonalds, gets 5 years for assault + hate crime http://t.co/gLwHhC48 #
- NY Clerk refuses to sign marriage licenses, compares being gay to bestiality and still doesn't get fired http://t.co/Plv9RwEK #
- Social Security will no longer send "No-Match" letters to employers that was outing transgender employees http://t.co/FH8IqXQO #
- Australia allowing more flexible and up to date rules on passports for transgender and intersex australians http://t.co/shHfY2Ly #
- Gay Iranians are coming out of the closet on Facebook beginning to stand tall http://t.co/V477ETi3 #
- Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism talks about how It Gets Better http://t.co/r0KnA3s8 #
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News Feed for 2011-09-12
- Police figures show rise in recorded anti-gay and transphobic crimes http://t.co/5SixHMl #
- Facebook Co-Founder Takes On NC Legislature http://t.co/26tjxsU #
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News Feed for 2011-09-09
- Gay men can now donate to the UK blood supply provided they have been "good" (not actively gay) for 12 months http://t.co/RSKPL8d #
- Head of the Catholic Church in Scotland condems efforts to bring marriage equality to the birthplace of James VI http://t.co/XzxOvB2 #
- US Medical schools need to update their curriculum to make sure that their queer patients are given the best care http://t.co/tMKVsNT #
- Ugandan "Family" groups threaten Parliament if they do not bring in the "kill the gays" bill http://t.co/qSGKPQ4 #
- Does the queer community suffer from too much orthodoxy, or too much appeasement or do we have it just right? http://t.co/TkeLurA #
- Do we need a queer underground railroad in certain african countries? http://t.co/ntV5X3p #congo #ghana #uganda #
- Judge rules insufficient evidence on 2 of group w brutally murdered a south african lesbian activist & lets them go http://t.co/KEoAnQc #
- Third hate crime attack on a gay man in utah in the last 2 weeks http://t.co/g4XGw0W #
- Is Michelle Bachmann on the way out? http://t.co/UKyF2ty #
- Amazing Campaign Ad for Marriage Equality (in Ireland): http://t.co/UQbkYj6 #
- MSNBC moderators utterly failed to challenge the GOP field on their homophobia http://t.co/AXvxfOQ #
- Without ENDA proving discrimination against Queer Americans can be a tricky legal proposition http://t.co/eSzlbkI #
- Sequoyah High School is blocking formation of GSA due to homophobia & blocks petitioning efforts http://t.co/99g1zUR #
- Men who gaybashed in the stonewall inn face a measly 2 years inside http://t.co/taDrGZQ #
- 20 minor insignificant trivial innovations that are thanks to queer people http://t.co/Yaw2NzW #gratitude {21st century co queer people} #
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Amazing Campaign Ad for Marriage Equality (in Ireland)
This just blew me away because it made it so simple as to why stopping marriage rights at the state border can be catastrophic, why dual parent adoptions are vital, and why civil unions will never be marriage because they are substandard.
News Feed for 2011-09-07
- Human Rights group claims Iran executed 3 men for being gay yesterday http://t.co/tj2jpLU #
- A soldier has been convicted of transphobic bias in an intimidation attack (but only fined an extra £150) http://t.co/Z5kdFix #
- Court rules that Arizona must continue paying benefits to spouses of gay and lesbian government employees http://t.co/wpRlQOZ #
- Drunken DC cop who fired on group of transwomen is being charged with Assault'w'deadly weapon http://t.co/QsZjwlM #
- 8 Queer Youth Leaders today, Leaders of tomorrow http://t.co/Kai3qbi #
- Fighting homophobia in the Sephardic Jewish community http://t.co/cnnMJKG #
- Tammy Baldwin, openly lesbian Democratic congresswoman from Wisconsin has announced her intent to run for senate http://t.co/G5WmYGY #
- ABC Primetime undermines transgender education and acceptance http://t.co/4AHYVop #
- Equity, the Actor's Union is asking its queer members about queerphobia in their working lives http://t.co/2geVApb #
- Straight Married Christian Man and Former Prop 8 supporter explains his evolution to now supporting marriage equality http://t.co/ekWzFmJ #
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News Feed for 2011-09-05
- 20,400 primary school children have been reported for homophobic behaviour in the UK http://t.co/nEbZKJA #
- Michelle Bachmann hits home on her Anti-gay, Anti-woman and Anti-Islamic agenda http://t.co/ri9WPHu #
- Duncan Hunter advocates legalising homophobia and bullying in the US military http://t.co/sbKViQu #
- Love in Action's psychological torture residential program is being suspended temporarily http://t.co/IlD37vo #
- Ugandan Health Minister claims that prayer can cure AIDS http://t.co/3wb70rh #
- Ugandan Health Minister claims that prayer can cure AIDS http://t.co/3wb70rh more pearls from the US religious right? #
- Chaz Bono refuses to back down, and his actions will help save the lives of young trans youth http://t.co/R9jdZ1F #
- Focus on the Family is selling an obvious bill of goods with the kind of limited marriage they advocate http://t.co/lii52C6 #
- Did calling a hate crime, a hate crime, derail the murder conviction of Brandon Mcinerney http://t.co/IYQhB86 #
- The SB48 fight is going to be tricky to win,because hate is easier to spread than tolerance http://t.co/YajiUtW SB48 could save SB48 #irony #
- The Governor who wore a dress http://t.co/eq672cu #transgender #history #
- Virginia's government has a freedom threatening infestation of religious dominonists http://t.co/VG0Povw #
- NJ anti-bullying law goes into effect http://t.co/Mo8uYPW #goodnews #
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News Feed for 2011-09-02
- Brutally murdered Teen is denied justice because Police refuse to consider hate crime motivation of murderer http://t.co/vmKTtYO #
- A whole 500 people have complained about Torchwood showing gay relationships http://t.co/ZnvxZpi #
- NOM claims to be about protecting marriage, but only pays lip service to divorce reform http://t.co/soSbyNT #
- Did NYC abandon homeless and vulnerable queer people in the preparing for the storm? http://t.co/WpZL6hC #
- Is it time we stop playing softball on advertising for issues of equality? http://t.co/20Cgf70 #
- Homophobic priest turns paying for full page ad in the paper to spread his hat http://t.co/WAxx9wt #
- Queer boycotts "Economic Terrorism", AFA boycotts "Standing up on principle" http://t.co/NNgN89c #
- NOM tries to whip homophobic churches into being loyal zombies for their mission against marriage equality in Minnesota http://t.co/VmjUB2z #
- South African Queer Rights activists march for justice in a hate crime slaying http://t.co/xjDyh4m #
- Homophobic priest turns paying for full page ad in the paper to spread his hate http://t.co/hmkvwpj #
- Warren Throckmorton talks about what christian dominionists think about gay people http://t.co/8Y3mY6Y #
- Peter Tachell calls for a commonwealth wide meeting on gay rights, 40 members still criminalise queer citizens http://t.co/NdqJErs #
- Commit a premeditated murder of a gay classmate, and collect a mistrial because "Gay Panic" was allowed as a defence http://t.co/NdqJErs #
- Tory MP for Hove has called 4 religions 2 be req to perform gay marriage,rather than letting them grow up in own time http://t.co/G9XZJWc #
- NOM raises the princely sum of $1229 dollars out of an expected $100,000 dollars, one more nail in the coffin? http://t.co/YUZuwKH #
- Smashing Pumpkin's Billy Corgan has a severe problem of threatening violence against trans people http://t.co/I07cLBJ #
- Gay man beaten half to death in a hate crime, is expected to come up with 30,000 to cover his hospital expenses http://t.co/pffAJ5J #
- The Justice Department continues vindictive attack on @ltdanchoi 4 daring to protest outside the WH http://t.co/XMxYG0r @BarackObama #shame #
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News Feed for 2011-09-01
- Indonesian provincial police go after a married lesbian couple and forcibly separate them http://t.co/dhPjjle #
- KY does a lesbian targeted product and advertising campaign http://t.co/Us4bggc *waits for the religious right boycott threat* #
- Stonewall starts to extend its advocacy abroad while it still refuses to stand for trans people at home http://t.co/bbmsmRU #
- NJ brings in a new tough anti-bullying mandate for schools to live up to http://t.co/zvs1MTZ #
- The Obama administration still has not stepped in to stop the despicable trial of an american hero http://t.co/BRLyWmw #
- The house of lords calls for a radical shakeup of UK AIDS policy http://t.co/3Cx2kCw #
- 4 out of 10 sufferers of HIV in the USA are not getting appropriate care due to factors inc discrimination and poverty http://t.co/CHsSn3I #
- Ally & Pride speech on t-shirts is being considered for censorship in schools http://t.co/889BE0e #
- Fanatics in San Antonio are trying to block a vote that would give health benefits to domestic partners http://t.co/lCJ9oCM #
- #Humor How many homophobes does it take to change a lightbulb? http://t.co/yZA78Rj #
- If MTV is giving awards to violently homophobic people, who is their target audience? 70 year old christian bigots? http://t.co/xRX6Qts #
- Presbyterian Minister stands up for her right to marry her partner http://t.co/FMLeOFf #
- Despite bringing disrepute and showing exceptionally poor judgement Captain of the Enterprise will continue in role http://t.co/fMQy6AX #
- Does the DC police force have a problem with violent hatred of transpeople? http://t.co/H3WIRXF #
- The New York Times trivialises the brutalisation of a woman by her boyfriend because she's trans http://t.co/FRzY3U8 #homophobia #murdoch #
- SB48 opponents revealed as virulently hateful extremists http://t.co/SK8xhUc #
- The Boy Scouts sack an exemplary scoutmaster for being a lesbian {stop subsidising boy scout hate} http://t.co/4hqloz5 #
- Cyndi Lauper cuts the ribbon on a centre for homeless queer youth http://t.co/3Zy583X that she helped set up and fund #
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