04 January 2015

The Truth She Owes Leelah

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On doit des egards aux vivants; on ne doit aux morts que la verite. Voltaire wrote that to the living we owe respect, but to the dead we...
03 January 2015

Give Leelah What She Deserves

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The funeral for Leelah Alcorn was moved because of threats to disrupt it. When I heard about that, I thought that perhaps the Westboro B...
02 January 2015

R.I.P. Mario Cuomo

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"Vote for Cuomo, not the homo!" Posters bearing that message lined Queens Boulevard in the days leading up to the 1977 primary ...
01 January 2015

Petition For Leelah's Law

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So...What are your wishes for the New Year? One of mine is that a "Leelah's Law" is passed to ban "conversion therapy...
31 December 2014

An Interesting End To An Interesting Year

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Whoever said, "May you live in interesting times" would have loved 2014. Of course, all sorts of wonderful and awful (sometimes...
30 December 2014

The Murder Of Leelah Alcorn

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I find it interesting that my most-read post has become " A Lifespan of 30 to 32 Years, And A Lost Generation "--and that, in fac...
29 December 2014

She Just Wants To Walk Home Night Without Watching Her Back

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Even though I am happy to hear that an anti-sodomy law has been overturned, or some government or another has added language to its civil-r...
28 December 2014

Israel To Help Transgender Recruits

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Israeli has what may well be the tightest conscription laws in the world.  Essentially, every Israeli aged 18 and up is subject to be draft...
27 December 2014

Stranded For Coming Out

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People sometimes tell me I'm lucky to be a writer and in the academic world.  They believe--with more than some justification--that ...
26 December 2014

Happy Goodwill Day

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Today, the day after Christmas, is celebrated as Boxing Day everywhere in the English-speaking world--except here in the United States.  W...
25 December 2014

Merry Christmas!

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Merry Christmas--and thank you for reading this blog! https://www.etsy.com/listing/106320796/merry-christmas-christmas-tree-greeting A ...
24 December 2014

A Spin Of The Wheel Brightens A Child's Christmas

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Yesterday, in my other blog ,  I made light of that lie people tell kids about Santa Claus and his reindeer.  That story may not be true...
23 December 2014

Can The FDA Do What The Roman Catholic Church Can't?

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Ever since the Second Lateran Council of 1139 , the Roman Catholic Church has required priests to be celibate.  We can all see how well tha...
22 December 2014

An Anatomical Fact

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It's something I've noticed ever since I first moved back to New York.  It irked me then, and seems even more maddening now that I...
18 December 2014

Title VII Includes Us Now--For Now

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The US Department of Justice will now interpret Federal law to explicitly prohibit workplace discrimination against transgender people. Y...
17 December 2014

The Day Begins; It Is Dawn--For Whom?

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This semester, I've been teaching early morning classes.  When the term began, I was pedaling in bright, often shadowless, pre-dawn l...
16 December 2014

Paint The Town...Purple

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I have influence in my community.  I am going to prove it: Like nearly all fireboxes, this one was red.  But I used my special powers...
15 December 2014

The Kiss

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I was just in a store where the TV showed some silly show...like Sex and the City without the sex. To counter that, I've decided to p...
14 December 2014

She Can See What He Can't

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Until now, I had never heard of Rod Liddle.  Having heard of him, I'm glad an ocean separates him from me. He's an associate edit...
13 December 2014

Poverty In The LGBT Community

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From Movement Advancement Project