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 [...]

[I]f you’re offended by someone calling you a “tranny,” it was only because you believe you are a “tranny!” So then, the solution is: Change your mind about yourself being a “tranny.” ~RuPaul The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. ~Cesar Chavez I’m not happy at all with RuPaul [...]

In the late seventies and early eighties, my Dad (Jack Sandeen) worked at Disney Studios — first as a costumer, and then as the head of the Wardrobe Department. He worked on films such as Splash, The Black Hole, and the original Tron. He passed away on June 17, 2002, and I began my transition [...]

Janet Mock, a People.com associate editor, has critiqued media coverage of trans people in her Fish Food For Thought essay Trans In The Media: A Call To Elevate The Conversation. This is her essay, and it’s crossposted here with permission. By Janet Mock When I told my transition story in Marie Claire, I led with [...]

This past weekend I went searching the blogosphere for Bert & Ernie related stories, and discovered Adam Carolla had done a podcast that mentioned not only trans people. There’s a particular segment that many be of interest to many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) people where Adam Carolla, and his news partner Alison Rosen, [...]