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GOPs and Gays and Good Ol’ Politics

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Source Summary

“The gays and lesbians are after me! The gays and lesbians are after me!!!” — Texas State Rep. Robert Talton (R) while running down the halls of the Texas Capitol Building being chased by a transsexual activist. All apologies, but I had to start this article with a bit about Robert Talton of Pasadena, Texas (or as we like to refer to our suburb here in Houston, Pasa-g*ddamned-dena). It was instructed to we trans activists not to bother with Talton, he was bad news – not the worst, but bad news. Well, myself and another close friend with me that day, Dani MacCleney, were always up for the challenges – giant killers we considered ourselves. During that first visit any of us had made to Talton’s office we discovered something. He was very much into the evangelical play book, fashioned his entire agenda after a tight circle of cherry-picked biblical

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“GOPs and Gays and Good Ol’ Politics” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging religion and morality. 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 transgender identity and history. Published in 2007 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how religion and morality was framed at that moment.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is elections and democratic governance and criminal justice and public safety. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and religion and morality, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

Content analysis

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Themes

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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
100%
2
Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
83%
3
Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
50%
4
Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
25%
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History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
25%

Academic framing

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Historical analysis
100%

Policy framing

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Elections and democratic governance
100%
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Criminal justice and public safety
83%
3
Public accommodations and facilities
50%

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Granular comparative context

How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 6 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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11 2005

4 2006

90 2007

64 2008

47 2009

14 2010

130 2011

112 2012

240 2013

126 2014

33 2015

28 2016

50 2017

41 2018

15 2019

2 2020

4 2021

2 2024

1 2025

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Marti Abernathey

369 publications · 249 inbound sources/citations