A comment by laughriotgirl on one of the threads at PHB wherein refusing to bend over and take gay transphobia is branded as homophobia: What bothers me Is that we are expected to just forget things happened That…
History that some who claim to be our allies expect us to forget: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, March 27, 2001 HRC CONGRATULATES MARYLAND SENATE FOR VOTING TO END LEGAL DISCRIMINATION BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION Maryland is on the…
First, a word from Kelli Busey (one which, (1) I’ve made one slight grammatical correction to, and (2) even without correction in all likelihood, will be disappeared from Pam’s House Blend because it is likely to bruise the…
And so, apparently HB 235, the Maryland trans bill that no trans people who actually need the practical protections of civil rights law actually want, has been ramrodded through the House Health Government and Operations Committee with amendments.…
From the Rhode Island Avenue Cesspool: Yesterday, at a press conference on the steps of Legislative Hall in Dover, primary sponsors Senator David Sokola and Representative Melanie George introduced a comprehensive civil unions bill to great fanfare. Speaking…
Considering that, yesterday, a subcommittee vote was taken – at which amendments to the already-anti-trans HB 235 were adopted – and allegedly a vote of the full committee is on tap for today and then a floor ramrod…
The reason that the Maryland legal status quo of today is trans-free is not the fault of anyone who opposed HB235. The Maryland legal status quo of today was created by the people who engineered a gay-only rights…
When Mara Keisling of NCTE publically came out in support of Maryland’s gender identity anti-discrimination bill, I wondered what her angle on it was. Bilerico recently posted “3 Ways to Improve ENDA Advocacy: Take the Fight to the…
Press release from TransMaryland: TransMaryland Issues Statement of HB235’s Demise Maryland House Bill Ultimately Failed on Several Levels Annapolis — April 12, 2011 — Today is not a day to celebrate, for it is still one more year…
I received this from Mark McLaurin this morning: “As an advocate and activist with a fifteen year history of working for equality in the LGBT community, I know that words not only matter, but they are powerful. Last…