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Showing posts with label LGBT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LGBT. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Review: butch sexology
butch sexology by Jesse MacGregor-Jones
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
First let me say: Erotica is really not my thing!
That said...this book wasn't bad! I know the author (who is an amazing person)...so I took a chance and read it...
If you like lesbian erotica...give it a read!
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
Why?
There are 2 social groups that it is still ok to discriminate against/insult/
Why is that?
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Chick-fil-A
This letter is from the Mayor of Boston to the President of Chick-fil-A who were looking for locations to open in Boston...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
R.I.P. Sally Ride!
Sally Ride the first American woman sent into space, the youngest American sent into space and the first woman to make two trips. She also was the sole astronaut appointed to the Rogers Commission to investigate the 1986 explosion of the shuttle Challenger.
Sally Ride: physicist; author of seven science books for children; member of the space shuttle Challenger crew; member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology; director of the California Science Institute; inductee into the National Women's Hall of Fame, the California Hall of Fame, the Aviation Hall of Fame, and the Astronaut Hall of Fame; recipient of the Jefferson Award for Public Service, the von Braun Award, the Lindbergh Eagle, the NCAA's Theodore Roosevelt Award, and the NASA Space Flight Medal (twice).
Sally Ride -- astronaut, pioneer, teacher, writer and devoted lesbian partner for 27 years -- now there's a great American success story.
Friday, July 20, 2012
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Friday, June 15, 2012
Christian Conservatives Slam Carrie Underwood’s Pro Gay Marriage Stance
Underwood, who is a strongly believing Christian herself, spoke to the British newspaper the Independent about why she endorses marriage equality.
"As a married person myself, I don’t know what it’s like to be told I can’t marry somebody I love, and want to marry," Underwood said. "I can’t imagine how that must feel. I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love."
The 29-year-old "American Idol" winner also told the publication that she was brought up as a Baptist but now goes to a non-denominational church with her husband, Mike Fisher, a hockey player.
"Our church is gay friendly," the "Jesus, Take the Wheel" singer said. "Above all, God wanted us to love others. It’s not about setting rules, or [saying] ’everyone has to be like me’. No. We’re all different. That’s what makes us special. We have to love each other and get on with each other. It’s not up to me to judge anybody."
Many fans that don’t share the same views as Underwood have turned their backs on the country star, however. Some have taken to social media to attack the star, Gay Star News notes.
"I warned @carrieunderwood fans that their idol was going to get backlash for her support of marriage perversion and I was right! #asusual," one person tweeted.
"@carrieunderwood Is a disgrace. Being vegan and supporting gay marriage doesn’t seem very country at all," another said.
"Another day, and a another ’gospel’ artist signed to ’EMI’ comes out supporting gay marriage.@carrieunderwood Unequally signed to the devil," someone wrote.
GLAAD also launched a Twitter campaign in order to support Underwood. The organization wants supporters to tweet words of encouragement to the singer with the hash tag #supportcarrie.
Not only did fans slam the country singer for her pro-gay stance but also a pastor from Franklin, Tenn. did, as Crushable.com points out. Scotty Smith, the pastor of Franklin’s Christ Community Church, talked about Underwood’s statements on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
"What she said in that interview, unfortunately, has increasingly become a pretty broken understanding of what the Bible is saying. You want to listen to the Scripture in terms of what it says about everything, including marriage, including sexuality."
When the ultra conservative websites Life Site News and Free Republic reported the story swarms of readers voiced their disapproval of Underwood’s support for same-sex marriage.
"Using Christianity to defend and promote homosexuality is insulting. Ugh," someone said. "Being Saved doesn’t stop you from being dumb," another wrote. "Jesus just let go of the wheel," a commenter said.
The LA Times reports, however, that the singer is getting praise from one conservative group - GOProud, an organization for gay Republicans.
"Good for her," said Jimmy LaSalvia, co-founder and executive director of GOProud. "You know, Carrie Underwood isn’t any different from anyone else in America," LaSalvia said in an email to the Times. "The more Americans think about how issues affect their gay friends and family the more they come to realize that supporting same-sex civil marriage is the right thing to do. More and more people are coming to that conclusion - and that includes conservative Christians."
Going against the down-home grain usually doesn’t play well with country music fans. In 2003, the Dixie Chicks faced boycotts after a member criticized President George W. Bush and the invasion of Iraq in a concert.
Popular country star Chely Wright made headlines as well as some enemies when she came out as a lesbian in 2010. Wright is the first major country singer to publically come out as gay, which many conservative fans of the genre saw as an issue. Last year a documentary called "Wish Me Away" chronicled Wright’s coming out story and her role as a gay rights activist.
Same-Sex Parents Sue North Carolina
Lead plaintiffs Marcie and Chantelle Fisher-Borne and their child claim the state's prohibition perpetuates historical discrimination against gay and lesbian people.
"Plaintiffs are six North Carolina families," the complaint states. "Each plaintiff is a member of a family that consists of a child or children being raised by two gay or lesbian parents who are in a committed, long-term relationship with each other. In each of these loving families, the child plaintiff has a legally recognized parent-child relationship with only one parent (either through birth or adoption), although, in reality, the child is being raised by both parents. Because of the numerous financial, psychological, and social benefits that flow from a legally recognized parent-child relationship, each of the plaintiff families wishes to apply to establish via adoption a full, legal parental relationship between the child and the second parent. Specifically, in each of the plaintiff families, the non-legal parent wishes to apply to adopt the child or children he or she is currently raising as the partner of the legal parent (a process that is often referred to as 'second parent adoption')." (Parentheses in complaint).
The couples claim other states allow second-parent adoptions to protect children's best interests, but North Carolina prohibits them, depriving children of health and life insurance benefits, veteran benefits, disability and Social Security benefits and other rights and privileges.
Though North Carolina allows unmarried people to adopt children, regardless of their sexual orientation, the law prohibits joint adoption by unmarried couples.
The state does not recognize same-sex marriage, making it impossible for gay and lesbian couples to adopt jointly.
North Carolina voters in May approved an amendment to add the ban on same-sex marriage to the state constitution.
The plaintiffs claim the state allows stepparents to adopt their spouses' children, but denies same-sex partners the privilege.
"Because the second-parent plaintiffs are not considered to be 'spouses' of the legal parent plaintiffs under North Carolina law and cannot become 'spouses' under North Carolina law even if they were to marry in another state, they are unable to use the stepparent adoption statute to adopt the children they are raising with their partners, without terminating the parental rights of their co-parents, the legal parent plaintiffs," according to the complaint.
The North Carolina Supreme Court in December 2010 reversed adoptions by unmarried second parents, saying family court lacked jurisdiction to approve them.
According to the complaint, 20 states and the District of Columbia allow second-parent adoptions, including adoptions by the legal parent's gay or lesbian partner.
"In summarizing the benefits of second parent adoption, the Indiana Court of Appeals found that '[a]llowing a second parent to share legal responsibility for the financial, spiritual, educational, and emotional well-being of the child in a stable, supportive, and nurturing environment can only be in the best interest of that child,'" the complaint states.
The plaintiffs, many of whom are certified as foster parents, claim the ban does not make sense, since North Carolina recognizes them as legitimate parents. The state also grants second parents limited rights, such as custody and visitation.
The couples say the ban deprives their children of many rights and benefits they would otherwise receive, threatens their families' stability, and limits the second parents' ability to make important decisions about their children, such as authorizing emergency medical treatment.
They say they have spent thousands of dollars on legal fees to create documents meant to bring their families some legal security.
They want the state enjoined from enforcing the ban.
They are represented by Jonathan Sasser with Ellis & Winters, of Raleigh, and by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
I Am...
• I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.• I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.
• I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.
• We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.
• I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.
• I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.
• I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.
• I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.
• We are the couple who had the Realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.
• I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.
• I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.
• I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.
• I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.
• I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.
• I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.
• I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.
• I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I did not have to always deal with society hating me.
• I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don’t believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.
• I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.
• I am the person who is afraid of telling his loving Christian parents he loves another male.
• I am the boy kicked out of his home because I am gay.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
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