The Reality That Dares Not Speak Its Name in Gay Blog Land
Facts matter. Here is a timeline that apparently cannot be spoken of in Gay Blog Land. “jpmassar” posted the item New Hampshire to LGBTs: Happy New Year! Now Die. In the view of myself, Kathleen and some others, the post mischaracterized the legal position of trans people in New Hampshire. I took issue with it on that PHB thread – more vocally than any of the others. Kathleen occasionally chimed in as well. “Lurleen,” and others, took issue with my interpretation of the legal issues in question; all in all, nothing unusual given that ostriches people really don’t like to see the operational aparthied of gay-only rights laws spelled out – and they really, really don’t like to be reminded of just how unseemly it is for a state that has such a gay-only rights law apartheid to bypass trans equality and move on to the non-trans issue of gay
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“The Reality That Dares Not Speak Its Name in Gay Blog Land” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, while also engaging history, archives, and memory. 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 law and civil rights. Published in 2011 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how history, archives, and memory was framed at that moment.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination and elections and democratic governance. It links that institutional frame to law and civil rights and history, archives, and memory, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life100%
- 2History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication63%
- 3Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community58%
- 4Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community27%
- 5Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community20%
- 6Technology, data, and platformsTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication20%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 226%
Policy framing
- 1100%
- 238%
Editorial function
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How “Law and civil rights” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history469
- Community and organizing299
- Public policy and governance165
- Education and youth153
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization146
- Culture, identity, and representation144
- Labor, economics, and institutions136
- Family and relationships131
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse119
- History, archives, and memory117
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Cristan Williams
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
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Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Gwen Smith
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
TransAdvocate Staff
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
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