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The White Gay Mafia Wants Marriage, Not ENDA

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Source Summary

I read the post by Adam Bink, “Misdirected Anger Over ENDA” and I have to say I’m pretty damn appalled. His first contention: “I reject blame placed upon people who choose to focus on an issue and pound on it. In the first place is prioritization. By my own estimate, probably 80% of my posts and online organizing in the past three months have related to marriage equality. I focused on marriage in the Corzine race, Maine, New York State, DC, California, and New Jersey. I did this in part because of prioritization. At least 4/6 of those fights, in my view, were a more urgent priority than ENDA. Maine and Corzine happened on Nov 3rd and there is no way to change that. A deal was cut to have a vote in NYS before the end of the year. NJ needs to happen lest we get screwed the next

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Community significance

“The White Gay Mafia Wants Marriage, Not ENDA” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to family and relationships, while also engaging community and organizing. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning family and relationships. Published in 2009 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how community and organizing was framed at that moment.

Policy significance

“The White Gay Mafia Wants Marriage, Not ENDA” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with family and relationships. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for community and organizing.

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Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Race and intersectionalityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
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Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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How “Family and relationships” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 4 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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2 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 1 domain. The dated evidence currently falls in 2009. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

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2 2009

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Beyond Absence, Beyond Insanity « ENDAblog

Beyond Absence, Beyond Insanity « ENDAblog · endablog.wordpress.com · December 9, 2009

[...] guess its not just institutional parasites, but individual parasitic mafiosi as well. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Gay Marriage in CaliforniaAnother New [...]

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What the Institutional Political Parasites Want « ENDAblog

What the Institutional Political Parasites Want « ENDAblog · endablog.wordpress.com · December 9, 2009

[...] What the Institutional Political Parasites Want A worthwhile post from Marti at TransAdvocate: The White Gay Mafia Wants Marriage, Not ENDA [...]

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Marti Abernathey

369 publications · 249 inbound sources/citations