10/11/08

Presidential McDivorcee Court/zowee who's getting the state?


The Huffington Post Trooper Gate A story of the use of political power being wielded against law enforcement in a vindictive attempt to settle a score over a contentious divorce. It could be on cops or divorce court but nooo it's on the big world wide television in the sky. Guess what. We are the chimps running around for the global viewers delight. I'm suddenly craving some crackers.
Its a good thing we didn't have to spend the last 8 years watching the same channel. Oh ya, we did. Mcbush reality island. Watch as judges run for cover as pot shots from a drunk vice president wings their little behinds. Hilarious. Rated (s) stupid.

10/10/08

Justin Flippen for Wilton Manors City Commission


Justin Flippen who is running for Wilton Manors City Commission, Florida, has won the endorsement of U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz according to a Sun-Sentinel.com article.

Rep. Wasserman Schultz is a member of the House Sub Committee on the Judiciary: Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

You may wonder, why does kelli in Dallas care so much about Broward County, Florida? Waymon Hudson's Fight OUT Loud slapped us with the question "Wheres The RAGE?" and helped us out of our post traumatic shock after the Lawrence King tragedy.

Waymon and friends have remained vigilant, a true T friend, sounding an alarm when the White House was being spirited away by someone who figured out how to us paper chafe to insure a Republican stayed in the white house 4 four more economy busting, war waging, liberty crushing years.

Our LGBT family in south Florida have remained vigilant. They have let us know about Justin. Flippen is a good man. Justin Flippen has invited us to a fund raiser so he get this thing kicked off!

10/8/08

Soulforce Equality Riders coming to North Texas

In the Dallas Voice a article by By John Wright News Editor

"Dallas Baptist official says LGBT advocates will be allowed on campus, but Fort Worth seminary, Waxahachie school not so welcoming.

Harley, dean of spiritual life at Dallas Baptist University, said school officials have been well aware of Soulforce’s annual Equality Ride, a bus tour that takes young activists to conservative college campuses across the country in an effort to foster dialogue on LGBT issues.

Both Harley and Soulforce representatives confirmed that DBU officials have agreed to allow the Equality Riders on campus Oct. 24 for a full day of dialogue with students and faculty.

DBU is one of three North Texas schools Equality Riders will visit this fall as the three-year-old event makes its debut locally. Equality Ride 2008 also will stop at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth on Oct. 27 and Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie on Oct. 29, according to a schedule released by Soulforce on Sept. 9."

10/7/08

No Equali_y Without the T

No Equali_y Without the T
by Kelli Busey
Oct. 10, 2008
planetransgender

Found in a article by by Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine
HRC Head Does Damage
Control on Transgender Rights


"Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign — America's largest Queer-rights organization — came to San Diego July 24 to organize support for his group's campaign against Proposition 8, which would reverse the California Supreme Court's decision allowing same-sex couples to marry. But most of his 10-minute speech was damage control to repair HRC's relations with the Transgender community, strained by the group's decision last October to support a federal Queer-rights bill that doesn't protect Transgender people."
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Illustrated in that article are the tensions that have been created and maintained unchanged since HRC's withdrawal from it's previous pledge to support a gender inclusive only ENDA.

Since HRC's betrayal of trust transgender advocates and the queer nation have protested singularly and recently as a NATIONAL ENITY at HRC fund raisers where HRC insists on maintaining a public stance that it is a advocate of transgender rights when in fact it lobbied congress with threats of lower "human rights score cards" unless legislators feel in line to support a sexual inclusive ENDA only.

It is also noted with the same pragmatic view that brought about this situation, the transgender tragedy is indeed a huge selling point in inducing the wealthy to part with money.

HRC has made some small but noticed local steps in supporting of Maryland's Montgomery county effort, among others. These progressive moves are noted and as Joeso told me once regarding the current HRC position "We're Darned if we do and Darned of we don't". The Montgomery effort is a start, but the support of a National Level Gender Inclusive ENDA would signal to the transgender community that protests of HRC would not be as critical. It would signal to the Legislature that the GLB community was in fact standing in solidarity as LGBT. It would signal to potential criminals considering violence against Transgender people that the repercussions would parallel that of a straight person.

We sincerely hope that HRC is paying attention to the current political climate. The American people are growing impatient with a government that ignores it and wealthy social "rights" groups that abuses it.

No Equali_y Without the T