Femme Identity. White gay men need to shut the fuck up and sit the hell down with this "Sassy Black Woman" bullshit - sexgenderbody. » On Azealia Banks and White Gay Cis Male Privilege The Crunk Feminist Collective. Le coq et le tas de fumier. Why The Transgender Community Hates HRC. Why does the transgender community hate HRC?
It’s a question I get frequently asked in GLBT settings. Considering the recent GLBT family feud erupting over ENDA, it's an appropriate one to ask as well. Before I get started trying to shed light on it, I need to point out in the name of journalistic integrity that I was the Lobby Chair for the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC) from 1999-2002. The roots of the animosity start after Stonewall. En finir avec l'imposture LGBT. Les débats des derniers mois sur les questions LGBT m'ont appris.
Pas vraiment par rapport aux opposants, pour eux je savais à quoi m'attendre. Bien sûr même si je m'attendais à leurs violences, dans leurs propos comme dans leurs actes, ça m'a secouée.
Marriage Is Great, But Many LGBT People of Color Need Job Safety. As the Supreme Court weighed arguments on same-sex marriage, Chief Justice John Roberts wondered aloud from the bench whether action on the issue by the court was necessary, because “politicians are falling all over themselves” to bring the legal rights of gay and lesbian Americans in line with those of everyone else.
If only this were true. In up to 34 states it’s still legal for employers to deny jobs to citizens simply because they are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. The lack of legal protections in two-thirds of the states for members of the LGBT community means that more people live in poverty and have a harder time making it simply because their rights aren’t on an equal footing with other Americans.
This is even more the case for LGBT women and people of color, where employment discrimination fuels an even broader economic crisis. Joy and Rage: Why the Fight for Queer Equality Doesn’t End with Marriage. This Wednesday the Supreme Court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), so now we have to talk about it.
DOMA was instated in 1996 under President Bill Clinton, and now 13 years later, it’s gone. This, of course, has been a momentous week in American politics. Mariage pour tous, pour une autre stratégie politique. « Si les homosexuels se bornent à revendiquer leur liberté, cette demande seule ne sera pas révolutionnaire et on peut imaginer qu'elle entrera un jour dans le champ de la récupération par la bourgeoisie et du réformisme.
Ce serait aussi absurde que de vouloir aller vivre dans une île homosexuelle libre, en abandonnant le combat contre l'exploitation économique et l'illégitimité des structures bourgeoises » (FHAR, Tout, 23 avril 1971). Une proposition de loi encadrant l’ouverture du mariage civil aux couples de même genre a été présentée en Conseil des ministres et l’Assemblée Nationale est appelée à en débattre, en janvier 2013.
Une promesse de campagne du nouvellement élu François Hollande commence donc à prendre forme. Certes les contours de la loi restent pour le moment flous, mais il semble bien qu’une partie des promesses du candidat socialiste à l’élection présidentielle ne sera pas tenue. Les identités « culturelles » autonomes de la rhétorique néolibérale Droits et égalité. Op-Ed: Why is Gay Inc. Ignoring Chelsea Manning & CeCe McDonald? Keegan O’Brien Photo: Paul Weiskel By: Keegan O’Brien— CeCe McDonald and Pvt.
Chelsea Manning (formerly known as Pvt. An L.G.B.T. Movement Should Be More Radical - Room for Debate. The gay establishment has always taken “L.G.B.T.” to mean “gay, with lesbian in parentheses, throw out the bisexuals, and put trans on for a little bit of window dressing.”
But I’m not interested in trans inclusion in a gay movement narrowly focused on marriage and military inclusion, hate crime legislation, gentrification, consumerism and patriotism. Fighting to Fight: Questioning the 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Battle. Editors' Note: Guest blogger Gabrielle Korn is a writer, activist, and artist.
She is the Editorial Assistant of On The Issues Magazine, as well as a coordinator of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and an organizer of the New York City Dyke March. She lives in Queens. On September 20, 2011, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" -- the law barring gays and lesbians from serving openly in the U.S. military -- will officially be repealed. Is 'The Bay' An Island? How Fetishizing the Bay Area Hurts Our Movements and Communities. This Happens: Sexual Assault Between Queer Women. It happened five years ago.
She was my first girlfriend. I had never had sex before; I had been out since I was in my late teens. I thought it couldn’t happen to me, because I thought it wouldn’t. How could a woman, let alone a queer woman, sexually assault another woman? White queers. How White LGBTQ People Can Be More Inclusive of People of Color. As a minority group that regularly battles prejudice, violence, and ignorance from governments, hate groups, and the like, LGBTQ people know what it’s like to be discriminated against.
Ice Cream Astronaut. Gay Rights Are Not Queer Liberation. While the head honchos at the HRC are making 6...
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