If a whole bunch of trans people tell you that your words are transphobic, they’re right. My friend Allyson Robinson once said that. One can make similar comments regarding most minority populations: “If a whole bunch of (African-Americans, Women, LGBT-Americans, etc.) tell you that your words are (racist, sexist, homophobic, etc.), they’re right.” Well, a [...]

The New York Times begins its article Woman Dies in a Brooklyn Fire That Is Deemed Suspicious with this paragraph: She was 25 and curvaceous, and she often drew admiring glances in the gritty Brooklyn neighborhood where she was known to invite men for visits to her apartment, her neighbors and the authorities said. In [...]

Nice. In many countries we call advice like that “corrective rape.” Corrective rape is the use of rape against women who violate social norms regarding human sexuality and gender roles, often lesbians but sometimes gay men, with a goal of punishment of abnormal behavior and reinforcement of societal norms. The crime was first identified in [...]

I think I’m in love. Okay, maybe not in love. I was just wonderfully surprised last Saturday night when I attended the GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles last Saturday (April 20, 2012) and became acquainted with actress Jamie Clayton. She is incredibly energetic, funny, and attractive actor — and she’s trans. I had a [...]

Say what you will about GLAAD’s Commentator Accountability Project, it’s definitely keeping some members of the religious right up at nights. Matt Barber of the Liberty Counsel – and a person named on the list of anti-gay pundits highlighted by GLAAD – had this to say in a biased One News Now article: Matt Barber, [...]

Poor Kevin McCullough. GLAAD’s Commentator Accountability Project has really gotten to him. Earlier today, he was caught telling a lie in terms of the statements he had made about same-sex relationships. But now, he has gone full Captain Queeg. For the uninitiated, Captain Queeg was a character from the book and motion picture The Caine [...]

With the number of lies out there being spewed on mainstream media outlets by professional haters like Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, this will keep the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) busy with its Commentator Accountability Project (CAP). The project aims to educate the media about the extreme rhetoric of over three [...]

I’m one who completely agrees with the premise of GLAAD’s tag line: Words and Images Matter. Currently, GLAAD is combating the anti-LGBT language used by 80′s Growing Pains star Kirk Cameron. Cameron referred to LGBT people as “unnatural,” “detrimental,” and “ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization.” Cameron is identified as a [...]

The guy just can’t help himself, huh?  Twitter chatter can easily reveal the inner bigot because it allows people to be spontaneous, in-the-moment about anything knocking around in the noggin. During Sunday’s Super Bowl, CNN commentator Roland Martin, not new to controversy related to anti-gay comments, sent out this Tweet to his nearly 95K followers [...]

I guess that I shouldn’t find it shocking anymore when I speak to people — many progressives, mind you — who have no idea that you can lose your job for being LGBT. As in, if your employer is a homophobe and decides they don’t want to have “that perversion” in their offices, they can [...]