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Love Thy Neighbor?

As the Hate Crimes amendment to the Defense Funding Authorization is being debated in the Senate, it’s funny hearing some of the arguments coming from those opposed to allowing the additional protections to sexual…

Culture, identity, and representationLabor, economics, and institutions
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Bush Doesn’t Care About America

When Kayne West said “George Bush doesn’t care about black people!” , he was partly right. George Bush doesn’t care about the majority of Americans or what they care about. From HRC’s “Back Story”…

Culture, identity, and representationLaw and civil rights
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Truth In Numbers, Hate Crimes Statistics

From a recent report out of UCLA entitled: Comparison of Hate Crimes Rates Across Protected and Unprotected Groups ( by Rebecca Stotzer, Public Policy Research Fellow at the Williams Institute) Current proposed legislation would…

Culture, identity, and representationPublic policy and governance
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Grasping At Straws and Straw Men

The vitriol over at Traditional Values Coalition is heating up. As Bil over at Bilerico has reported : “The Traditional Values Coalition has a series of offensive cartoons they’ve been circulating since ENDA became…

Community and organizingLabor, economics, and institutions
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It’s Put Up Or Shut Up Time

According to the Washington Blade: “House Democratic leaders are strongly considering dropping anti-discrimination protections for transgender persons from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, after an internal Democratic head count on Wednesday found that…

Community and organizingLabor, economics, and institutions
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Can You Ever Leave Behind the Evil Twin?

Don’t you just love that phrase, “used to be a man?” GARRICK Jacobson was in custody at Sydney’s Surry Hills police station when he apparently discovered his girlfriend used to be a man. Within…

Healthcare and medicineLaw and civil rights
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HRC3 ≠ Bright Future For Transgenders

“This is a story of the lives and loves, and hopes and dreams, of young Batswana [sic] in the context of the changing cultural norms and values of modern times. Each of the dancers…

Community and organizingLabor, economics, and institutions
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Remembering Tom Lantos

“Love cannot be defeated.” as said to rock vocalist, Bono by Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) The political group I belong to – the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC) – noted the passing of longtime…

Community and organizingFamily and relationships
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Counting the Cost

If my previous post seemed a little scattered and emotional, there’s a reason for it. The first trans community function I ever attended was a TDoR function, as was the first event I ever…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory