02 July 2013

Capital Crimes Against Trans Women Of Color

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In recent posts, I mentioned the spate of anti-LGBT crimes in New York during the days leading up to Pride.  It seems that any city with a v...
01 July 2013

By The Time We Got To Stonewall

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You've all heard " Woodstock " by Crosby Stills Nash & Young.  If you haven't, you have 43 years of catching-up to do...
29 June 2013

What Does The Supreme Court Ruling On Proposition 8 Really Mean?

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Last night, I volunteered with the Anti-Violence Project.  Two fellow volunteers and I were doing an outreach in the Village. At the end of...
27 June 2013

They're Pediatricians, Not Pedophiles!

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Sexual-minority youth should not be considered abnormal. At first glance, it just seems like a fancy way of saying "Queer kids ain...
24 June 2013

Pride Week

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“Pride Week” has begun here in New York.   It will culminate in the march that begins in Midtown Manhattan and follows Fifth Avenue, Was...
23 June 2013

Why Crimes Against LGBT (Especially T) People Are Under-Reported

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Whenever the number of assualts and other crimes against LGBT people increases--as it did for several years in the first decade of this cen...
22 June 2013

Transgender Employee of Desperate Housewife's Restaurant Attacked

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Eva Longoria may one day have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  For now, she has a restaurant--Beso--along the Boulevard. Vivian Die...
20 June 2013

Protections In The Blue Hen State

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Delaware's license plate s refer to it as "The First State ". It was indeed the first to ratify the Constitutio n , on 7 D e...
19 June 2013

Faux Humor About Trans People

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Almost everyone I know whose p olitic s are anywhere to the left of David Duke's complains a bout, o r scoffs at, Faux News. If you...
18 June 2013

Trans Man Runs For New York City Council

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Could Mel Wymore become the next City Council representative from the Upper West Side? He seems to have the credentials to be elected, or ...
17 June 2013

Half Are Without A Home

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Chances are, you've heard of Covenant House . It operates shelters in 22 cities (including New York, where I live) that aim not only to...
15 June 2013

Documenting Us

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Nearly all of us who are gender-variant have faced, at one time or another, this dilemma. We apply for a job, to school or for benefits. ...
14 June 2013

Google Searches That Dare Not Speak Their Names

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Long, long ago, and far away, I took Psychology .   I know I've forgotten much of it, but I can tell you at least one of its basic prin...