02 May 2011

To Tell Or Not To Tell?

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Last night, while in a coffee shop, I saw the 60 Minutes segment in which correspondent Lara Logan recounted being sexually attacked and nea...
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...
25 April 2011

Not Our Kind Of Place

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Here's one of the most disturbing videos you'll ever see: http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhiHb913Lf4TpU4q5m ...
24 April 2011

If You Watch Something With Your Mother, Does It Turn Into A "Chick Flick"

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All right.  I'll admit it.  I actually watched Titanic tonight--well, the last 2-1/2 hours of the movie, anyway. I first saw it not lo...
23 April 2011

Arriving To The Passage Of Time

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I'm at my parents' house in Florida, having gotten here last night and almost immediately dozing off.  The latter is not so much a c...
21 April 2011

Diana Discovers The Real Tea Party Agenda

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The other day, McDonald's took applications for 50,000 positions they plan to fill.   Some are saying that's a sign the economy is ...
18 April 2011

Nevada Assembly Passes Transgender Protections Bill

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The Nevada State Assembly has just voted for a bill that would outlaw job discrimination against transgender people. Now the bill has to...
17 April 2011

We Get The Storm

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I know this hasn't much to do with being transgendered, or about changes in one's self.  But I want to show you something that happe...
16 April 2011

Amanda Gonzalez-Andujar, One Year Later

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The other day, someone sent me a link to a site that displayed one of my posts on this blog.   I was a bit surprised, as the post is a ye...
13 April 2011

Tranny Baiting

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Yesterday I had one of those classes that made me wish I'd gone into business or something rather than education.  I was showing a fi...
11 April 2011

They All Want To Write About LGBT Issues

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One of the classes I'm teaching this semester is in research writing.  All students at the college in which I teach it have to take it w...
08 April 2011

It's A Girl Again!

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Another "girl" was "born" today. Or, more precisely, a girl who was born on 7 July 2009 became who she is, again. ...
07 April 2011

Another Campaign of H8

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Even if you haven't heard of the Westboro Baptist Church, you may know about its founder, Reverend Fred Phelps.  And even if you don...
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...
05 April 2011

They Need A Few Good Bikes. The Women, Too.

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A counselor at my second job is a volunteer with Neighbors Link, an organization that helps recent immigrants. He is asking people to donat...
04 April 2011

What Would MLK Do?

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Forty-three years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death.  It's the first assassination of a public figure that I can reca...
03 April 2011

Why We Should Be Worried About Anti-Islamic Hate

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Although I still have something that resembles a belief system, I have just about no use for religion.  Still, I am very, very afraid when I...
01 April 2011

Maryland HB-235: Trans People Thrown Under The Bus, Again

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What is it with LGBT legislation?  It seems that it's only for the L's and the G's. Mind you, I don't believe that legisla...
30 March 2011

Damien Furtch Speaks Up and Out

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What happened to Damian Furtch is terrible.  He was leaving the McDonald's at Sixth Avenue and West Third Street in Manhattan on Saturd...
29 March 2011

Hearing It All Again

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Sometimes it all seems too familiar.  There is a particularly gruesome attack on a transgender person, and the media splashes it all over th...