I know we were all taught as children not to call each other names and we know how much racism hurts us as a culture (or at least I hope those reading this blog do) but there as so many more ways we use labels in our lives that shut us off from groups, from information, and from individuals and if you are anything like me, it takes someone pointing it out every now and then for a real wake up call to happen in your life so change can begin to rebuild your way of interacting in the world.
I know it’s been a long running joke in the lesbian community but we all know it is just wishful thinking, but let’s take that wish on into fruition and live in this world for a little while. I think we would find 2009’s political landscape much different for gay men and women.
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I swear recently, I’ve talked about politics more than anything else, at home at least. It’s probably because of the upcoming general election. Well, one of the hottest topics right now is Gay Rights. I was surprised to hear David Cameron saying how “We do need good sex and relationship education. That education should teach [...]
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Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)
I talked at length about the hate in the heart of one man with a massive audience, Pat Robertson, but it has seeped down into my daily life today just as it did a few years ago in Austin, Texas as you will here in an upcoming blog.
Today was [...]
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I was reading an article on the election in Maine today, and although it was a fairly positive article in regards to the “No on 1″ campaign, there were a couple sentences that when I read them… they stung. Like a slap in the face. Not gonna lie, I started crying. While the comment itself [...]
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I might not be the most politically intellectual sixteen year-old, but I can tell you I was devastated when I found out Prop-8 was upheld today.
“In addition to rejecting the gay-rights lawyers’ contention that Proposition 8 was an illegal constitutional revision, the court also flatly discarded Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown’s argument that the measure was [...]
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Is there a female is here?
I froze. I shouldn’t have answered. I should have ignored it. I should have ripped the guy a new one.
Hindsight is 20-20.
Last Friday, my best friend and I went shopping. We’ve sworn to return to out old gym-junkie habits, and seeing as how that means 5 days a week sweating [...]
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On my way to work this morning, while pondering topics for my first TLL post, this radio essay came on. If you click the link, you have the option of either hearing it or reading it. (Yeah, I listen to NPR. The BBC, too. It’s a character flaw.)
This I Believe is a national media project [...]
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From time to time the wife and I receive emails from the all powerful *eyeroll* Joe Solmonese and the HRC. Tonight the wife got an email about a nationwide special that the American Family Association produced called Speechless: Silencing Christians. I will go on and say that I have not read the book they reference [...]
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Our freedom of speech is an all important thing, especially in this day and age, but it seems that some groups want it to apply only to them and not to others. You see this everywhere, between church and state, liberal and conservative, gay and straight, name two groups and I guarantee that they believe [...]
