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Workers.org – By Leslie Feinberg
When the Democrats are the minority in Congress, they promise “a chicken in every pot” if voters elevate them to the majority. Once the Democrats hold numerical sway on Capitol Hill, however, many hopeful activists l…
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Between 50 and 75 transgender activists and their supporters protested outside of the Washington, D.C., convention center on Sat., Oct. 6,—the site of the Human Rights Campaign’s ( HRC’s ) annual dinner—in response to the HRC…
SFBayTimes.com – By Dennis McMillan
“This is a divide that we cannot afford,” says Masen Davis, executive director of San Francisco’s Transgender Law Center. “LGBT organizations and allies have been working for years to pass a bill that protects gay…
BayWindows.com – Ethan Jacobs
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has taken major hits on LGBT op-ed pages, activist blogs and listservs for its decision not to oppose a split version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), and the organizatio…
Media.www.TheTriangle.org – Nancy Lan
Judging someone based on their gender identity or sexual orientation is the same as racially profiling someone, a gay rights educator said Oct. 11 during a National Coming Out Day event.
The speaker, Leif Mit…
Media.www.DailyVanguard.com – Stover E. Harger III
Students at Portland State unite in the Park Blocks for National Coming Out Day
A small tent adorned with rainbow sheets, pictures of muscled men and pin-up girls sits in the South Park Blocks. A…
SFGate.com – Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Washington – The leading champion of gay rights in Congress ripped into what he called self-defeating ideological purists on the left who are unhappy with the Democrat-led Congress over issu…
WashBlade.com – Lou Chibbaro Jr
House Speaker says early lobbying campaign fell short
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she strongly disagrees with calls by some gay and transgender activists that Congress should refuse to vote on…
GayCityNews.com – By Andy Humm
Gay and lesbian activists, me included, have a long, shameful history of throwing people of transgender experience under the bus, and out gay Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, whom I otherwise admire, is prepa…
Salon.com – By Susan Stryker
Transgender people are not beggars at the civil rights table set by gay and lesbian activists. They are integral to the struggle for gender freedom for all.
Pity poor John Aravosis, the gay rights crusader from Americ…