Showing posts with label . transgender. Show all posts
Showing posts with label . transgender. Show all posts
12 June 2011

Chaz Bono and Me: Hey, You Never Know!

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I'm thinking now of a man who was a colleague of mine back when I was the "before" photo.  Tall, portly and with an easy manne...
05 June 2011

Thirty Years Later, It's Our Epidemic

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Thirty years ago today, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report , published by the Centers for Disease Control, included a piece of inform...
28 April 2011

The Birthers and A Transgender President: Donald Trump Should Be So Proud!

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Donald Trump is proud of himself.  He said so yesterday, after President Obama showed the world his birth certificate and Trump claimed that...
06 April 2011

When Girl Meets Girl

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When you're a performer of any sort, someone in your audience is going to have a crush on you.  Anyone who's a singer or musician kn...
23 February 2011

DOMA: Defense of What?

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Imagine this: According to the laws of your state, you are married.  But, according to the Federal government, you're not. For anyone c...
17 February 2011

Finding Out About Lola

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Today I heard the Kinks' Lola on the radio.  That, in itself, is not so unusual:  "oldies" and "classic rock" statio...
06 February 2011

Sean Avery Speaks (Up) For Us

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It's been said that politics makes for strange bedfellows. Well, let me tell you, I've had some pretty strange bedfellows.  And I...
05 February 2011

Giving Up What I Never Had

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The other day I was talking--about what, I don't recall-- with another faculty member.  All I know is that it had to do with things we w...
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03 February 2011

Protesting Undercover in Egpt

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According to Scott Long, the LGBT coordinator for Human Rights Watch, "a large number of LGBT Egyptians have joined the protesters who ...
01 February 2011

Getting Over "Saturday Night Live"

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It's been decades since I've watched Saturday Night Live regularly.  So I would never have known about a sketch they did last week i...
31 January 2011

What You Don't Have To Prove

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One of the wonderful things about getting older (Notice that I didn't say "old"!) is that confessions don't seem as self-c...
23 January 2011

Unemployed and Homeless LGBTs: How Many?

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The weather forecast is calling for the coldest night in six years.   I can recall that cold spell.  It was like that winter:  It was bruta...
19 January 2011

Along The Way

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The strange thing about goals is that, so often, when you reach them, they turn out not to be goals after all.  You realize that they were j...
16 January 2011

Third, Or Not Specified

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Lately I've read a couple of interesting gender-related stories.  One comes from Nepal , the other from Australia. In the conservativ...
12 December 2010

He Had No Future; I Have No Past

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Not long ago, in the course of a conversation, I recalled something I hadn't thought about in a long time.  During my senior year in hig...
24 October 2010

Momentoes and Memories

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Last night, my mother told me she'd found a couple of things and was going to send them to me.  But she decided to ask me first.  "...
17 October 2010

I Wanna Get Better Already!

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I can't believe I've been home, not working, for a whole week.  Not that my "time off" has been fun and games, or whatever...
16 October 2010

Growing Old As We're Starting To Live

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I've been asked to co-facilitate a transgender forum on aging at a conference for LGBT older adults next month.  I've agreed to do...