01 September 2013

LGBT And Labor

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I have to admit that I've long had mixed feelings about unions.  Yes, I understand their importance in protecting workers from abuses. ...
31 August 2013

Rights Are Not Mandates; Geography Is Not Destiny

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Here in New York, many people--particularly among those with whom I have worked and otherwise spent a lot of time--attribute progressivenes...
30 August 2013

Taking Over

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One of my favorite cartoon series of all time is Pinky and the Brain. Every episode involves an attempt, by the remarkable rodents, to ta...
29 August 2013

Always The Same: Revelations And Changes

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Parisians and psychotherapists disappear for the month of August.  Sometimes I think of myself as a Parisian in spirit,even though I have...
22 August 2013

Trans Woman Killed Across From Police Precinct

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When's this shit gonna end? A couple of days ago,  I wrote about one hate crime against an LGBT person and a person of color. Now th...
21 August 2013

Hung In The Middle

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One of my comments on my Huffington Post article about Don Ennis came from Alana Sholar. It just happens that she's written a book, ...
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20 August 2013

The Interracial Couple And The Phantom Gay Male Friend

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A few years ago, blocks of abandoned industrial buildings that rimmed the East River were razed to build rows of "luxury condos" ...
19 August 2013

Smaller And Meaner

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When we have the most reason for optimism, we are in the most danger. I came to that conclusion after writing my Huffington Post article ...
13 August 2013

Are You Surprised?

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I promise not to say "I told you so!" But, really, are you surprised that Faux News would plumb new depths of insensitivity and...
12 August 2013

What AB 1266 Really Means

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I can just hear the bloviators at Faux News now... Governor Jerry Brown has just signed AB 1266 into law.  It means that transgender stu...
11 August 2013

More On Huff Po

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Just to show you that I've been spending my time in more-or-less productive ways, I'm providing links to two new pieces on The Huff...
04 August 2013

Still Here

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I know that in the history of this blog, I’ve rarely gone more than a few days without posting.   Today I realized it’s been a week si...
28 July 2013

Without Women On Wheels

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Yesterday marked 60 years since the end of the Korean War . The South commemorates it in a rather somber way.  The North--the so-called P...
27 July 2013

Getting And Keeping What We Need

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Here is an infographic that shows some of the dilemmas faced by transgenders in the work force:
26 July 2013

What Young Love Might Have Been Like

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I began my gender transition in my 40's and had my surgery three days after I turned 51.  While I am glad for the time I've had--an...
25 July 2013

Upon This Rock Was The Movement Founded

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Although people became ill and died from it long before then, the first documented cases of what would come to be known as HIV/AIDS were re...
24 July 2013

A Band Of (Trans) Brothers--And Sisters

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While the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" has been applauded, mostly for the right reasons, transgenders are still not ...
23 July 2013

Taking A Shoe Thrown At Her And Putting It In Her Mouth.

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Back in the good ol' days, the crazy elements of the American political right trotted out women like Phyllis Schlafly to help reinforce...
22 July 2013

Conviction Set Aside In Killing Of Transgender Woman In New York State

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Four years ago, Dwight DeLee became the second person convicted in the US for a hate crime in the killing of a transgender person.  His Au...
21 July 2013

Coming Out With God

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When people ask how I came to be the person I am, I tell them that the process of my gender transition was as much a spiritual as a physica...