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Follow The Money

In my last blog post, Where Your HRC Donations Are Going, I reported that HRC had donated money to sponsor the Log Cabin Republicans but that they had donated zero dollars to sponsor the…

Culture, identity, and representation
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The Sound of Silence: The HRC National Dinner Protest

Last week I received an email from the Human Rights Campaign informing me that Joe Biden will be speaking at the the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner on October 4th, 2008. Since that time…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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What NCTE Doesn’t Say

I recently recieved an email alert from NCTE about a fully inclusive ENDA. Mara Keisling said: Dear Friends, I have no doubt we can pass a transgender-inclusive ENDA next year if we all do…

Community and organizingTransgender identity and history
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Can I Have a Refund Please?

On June 25, 2008 I was asked to sign on to the National Stonewall Democrat’s Transgender ActBlue page. While I disagreed with the effort (there was no concerted effort behind the scenes to make…

Transgender identity and history
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The Irresistible Temptation:Exploiting Our Dead

Last year I wrote Photo Ops, Donations, And The Selling of Our Dead, when the Human Rights Campaign tried to hijack the Washington D.C. Transgender Day of Remembrance. To refresh your memory, the founder…

Education and youthHistory, archives, and memory
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The Gingrich That Stole Christmas

There’s a recurrent story that is going through the gossip circles during the Christmas season in trannyland. It goes like this: Barney Frank and the Human Rights Campaign really got their clocks cleaned by…

Community and organizingFamily and relationships
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The Trans Scare

Thanks to Box Turtle Bulletin and Gay News Blog I was introduced to this lovely piece of transphobia: video under the cut.

Culture, identity, and representationPublic policy and governance
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You Don’t Know Jack or Barack

Last month the Advocate ran an article titled “Gay Is The New Black?: The Last Great Civil Rights Struggle“. Today Joe Solmonese and other gay […]

Community and organizingLaw and civil rights
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The Great Transsexual Radical Feminist Menace

“I don’t give a shit whether or not they [MTF transsexuals) want to chop themselves up. I don’t give a shit if they want to wear dresses. That doesn’t make them female. It doesn’t…

Culture, identity, and representationFeminism and gender politics