The Movement: September 2007
Why do Barney Frank & Tammy Baldwin, HRC, Nancy Pelosi & the Dems, and the Civil Rights Powers That Be Hate Gays?
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | September 28, 2007 | 10:30 AM |... smart people don't compromise themselves out of the picture and, even if you could pass for straight enough to get on the HRC Board of Directors, taking gender inclusion out of ENDA is going to leave a bill that could well end up not protecting you.Read More
Why do Barney Frank & Tammy Baldwin, HRC, Nancy Pelosi & the Dems, and the Civil Rights Powers That Be Hate Gays?
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | September 28, 2007 | 10:30 AM |... smart people don't compromise themselves out of the picture and, even if you could pass for straight enough to get on the HRC Board of Directors, taking gender inclusion out of ENDA is going to leave a bill that could well end up not protecting you.Read More
Here We Go Again...
Filed by Rebecca Juro | September 28, 2007 | 3:52 AM |...and it's just oh-so-familiar, isn't it? Of course, by now you've heard that House Democrats are expected to strip protections for Transgender-American citizens from ENDA. You've probably also heard that the Human Rights Campaign and the Leadership Council on Civil...Read More
Edwards on DenialOMA: Four Tiny Words = One HUGE Statement
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | September 27, 2007 | 5:13 PM |Presidential candidate John Edwards at last night's debate at Dartmouth said that he supports DenialOMA repeal. Read More
Hate crimes vote update
Filed by Bil Browning | September 27, 2007 | 11:55 AM |Trying to keep this as up-to-date as possible while I'm working... Help out in the comments section if I miss something... So far the Matthew Shepard Act has had it's cloture vote. It passed 60-39 and now goes to the...Read More
Judge will rule next week in Larry Craig motion
Filed by Alex Blaze | September 27, 2007 | 7:47 AM |I was gone yesterday, so I didn't get to post this. It sounds like he's staying in the Senate until his motion is granted or denied: "Today was a major step in the legal effort to clear my name," Craig...Read More
Hate crime vote could happen tomorrow
Filed by Bil Browning | September 26, 2007 | 7:52 PM |From the HRC Backstory blog: Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) announced today that the cloture vote on the hate crimes legislation is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. tomorrow morning. If we win the required 60 votes, then the Senate will proceed to...Read More
Should I laugh or cry?
Filed by Bil Browning | September 26, 2007 | 3:40 PM |I'm going to throw this clip from a press release out there and back slowly out of the post. Will it be good or bad? That's like waving red meat in front of lions around here... The rules of attraction...Read More
People who scare me
Filed by Jen Jorczak | September 25, 2007 | 7:45 PM |Recently I came across the latest issue of Bitch magazine, which I love, but which scared the bejeezus out of me, at least Kate Dixon's article "Multiply & Conquer: How to have 17 children and still believe in Jesus." Yes,...Read More
Ahmadinejad denies the existence of gays in Iran
Filed by Alex Blaze | September 24, 2007 | 5:43 PM |Iranian president Maumoud Ahmadinejad has said that there's no homosexuality in Iran. P1Q has the video. [Update: And it just got YouTubed. After the jump.] If you can't see the video, Ahmadinejad said in response to a question about the...Read More
Leave the Activism to the Adults…?
Filed by Waymon Hudson | September 24, 2007 | 8:00 AM |People often wonder why we don’t have more young leaders and advocates standing up from within our community. They claim the community, and young people in particular, are disengaged and disinterested in politics and activism. Yet do these people really...Read More
Chris, I'll Say It Again: You're Wrong
Filed by Marti Abernathey | September 22, 2007 | 10:05 AM |With a vote coming soon on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, I'd like to revisit something Chris Crain said a while back in his post "A trans activist tees off on ENDA" that was in reference to my post "You...Read More
What will Congressman Ellsworth do?
Filed by Bil Browning | September 20, 2007 | 6:30 PM |I had an interesting conversation with Stu Rosenburg from the Human Rights Campaign yesterday. He's in town continuing the valuable work he and his team have been doing in Indiana around ENDA and hate crimes legislation. I love sitting and...Read More
"I hit puberty because of Jimmy Carter"
Filed by Alex Blaze | September 20, 2007 | 4:28 PM |The always-fabulous Samantha Bee tries to answer the question on everyone's mind: Is America ready for a woman president?...Read More
The Criteria of Prosecuting Hate Crimes
Filed by H. Alexander Robinson | September 20, 2007 | 3:24 PM |Recent hate crimes have grabbed the headlines but more for their legal twists and turns than for their actual prosecution. We were first riveted by the West Virginia case where a black woman was tortured for over week by six...Read More
The Blue and Yellow Stepchild
Filed by Marti Abernathey | September 20, 2007 | 10:58 AM |Every year around this time I start seeing the GLBT media get in a feeding frenzy about the HRC's Corporate Equality Index (CEI). Story after story is told of how American corporations are getting better and better for GLBT Americans....Read More
Welcome to the heteropatriarchy, MoveOn.org
Filed by Alex Blaze | September 20, 2007 | 7:38 AM |After MoveOn.org ran its notorious ad taunting General Patraeus as "General Betray Us", John McCain said that the organization "ought to be thrown out of this country." What a brilliant symbol! It brings to mind a time when there were...Read More
I'm "only" 2/5th of a man
Filed by Bil Browning | September 19, 2007 | 2:15 PM |Popular Mechanics has an extremely sexist article up called "25 Skills Every Man Should Know." I don't want to hear any of you women complaining about this either - this is for "real" men... Get your asses back in the...Read More
When baby steps turn to strides
Filed by Bil Browning | September 19, 2007 | 1:27 PM |I wanted to blog about something that's been rumbling around in my head lately to just get it out there... I keep watching in amazement at how far the LGBT movement has progressed in recent years. A few examples have...Read More
Thinking BIG
Filed by Sean Kosofsky | September 13, 2007 | 10:58 PM |Some days I really get tired of fighting for incremental change. It just seems to me (and this is no cutting edge or creative strategy I am pitching here) that GLBT activists and our progressive allies need to scrap a...Read More
Marriage Equality: A Cause and Conversation That Won't (and Shouldn't) Stop
Filed by Guest Blogger | September 13, 2007 | 10:40 PM |[EDITOR'S NOTE:] The following guest post comes to us from Evan Wolfson. Evan is Executive Director of Freedom to Marry, the gay and non-gay partnership working to win marriage equality nationwide. Before founding Freedom to Marry, Evan served as marriage...Read More
Marriage Equality: A Cause and Conversation That Won't (and Shouldn't) Stop
Filed by Guest Blogger | September 13, 2007 | 10:40 PM |[EDITOR'S NOTE:] The following guest post comes to us from Evan Wolfson. Evan is Executive Director of Freedom to Marry, the gay and non-gay partnership working to win marriage equality nationwide. Before founding Freedom to Marry, Evan served as marriage...Read More
Saying the Shibboleths
Filed by Guest Blogger | September 07, 2007 | 10:46 AM |[EDITOR'S NOTE:] The following is a guest post by Arthur Farnsley, Art is Executive Officer of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and a fellow of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at Indiana...Read More
Being for Civil Unions: how big of a deal is that? The POTUS and a Primer Part V
Filed by Don Sherfick | September 07, 2007 | 10:00 AM |In early August six Democratic hopefuls for their party's presidential ("POTUS") nomination on an HRC/Logo forum prompted me to think about how much candidates really DON'T say when they talk about gay marriage and civil unions. Mike Gravel and Dennis...Read More
Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin's testimony in favor of ENDA
Filed by Bil Browning | September 06, 2007 | 12:44 PM |[EDITOR'S NOTE:] Fresh in from the tip line comes the transcript of Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin's (D-WI) testimony before the House subcommittee in support of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2007. Our thanks to the Congresswoman's office for sending this along....Read More
An Indy peek at Larry Craig
Filed by Don Sherfick | September 05, 2007 | 4:45 PM |Across from the editorial page of this morning's Indianapolis Star is a great piece by its regular columnist (and chief resident liberal, which makes him the Right's primary target) Dan Carpenter, who delves into the Larry Craig episode in a...Read More
A watershed moment
Filed by Matt Foreman | September 05, 2007 | 3:24 PM |This week, a House subcommittee held a hearing on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). Given that the bill has been languishing for 17 years -- in spite of overwhelming public support -- a collective "whatever" would be understandable. But folks,...Read More
On the subject of hypocrisy....
Filed by Alex Blaze | September 05, 2007 | 6:46 AM |Here's an interesting phenomenon, similar to men who have sex with men and moralize against homosexuality, or second ladies to anti-gay presidents who write lesbian themed literature: anti-choice women who get abortions. This article's a bit old, but it adds...Read More
Gaydar reduced to body language?
Filed by Bil Browning | September 04, 2007 | 11:01 AM |A recently released study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology claims to have partially unlocked the secrets of "gaydar." While the study isn't very in depth and leaves quite a bit of unanswered questions, it does pose...Read More
Hypocrisy isn't such a good thing
Filed by Alex Blaze | September 03, 2007 | 6:41 AM |(Here's an old post I wrote about Ted Haggard back in January on my old blog. It seems relevant to the whole Larry Craig debacle. Gawsh, my blogging's changed a lot since back then when I had just gotten started,...Read More
