This is the second part of three parts on referring to what California calls my legal change of gender. This is an exercise in cathartic writing for me explaining not only why my change of gender, but also explaining why I haven’t been as prolific in my writing since last summer, nor as active in [...]

As expected, Team Obama is taking credit for LGBT advances that many people outside of the Beltway had to fight all along the way for against political homophobia in the administration and a chronically passive professional LGBT community. With his “evolution” on marriage equality, now the campaign expects the gAyTM to open as it never [...]

On the day my legal change of gender, my home city of San Diego became the first city in my home state of California to name a street after lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community civil rights icon Harvey Milk. The street renaming occurred on what would have been Harvey Milk’s 82nd birthday. The [...]

Today is a day for celebration — to stop and reflect on the sacrifice and activism of Harvey Milk on his birthday rather than on the day he was taken from this earth by bullets fired from the gun of fellow San Francisco Supervisor Dan White in 1978. Milk was an ordinary man with a [...]

The race-baiting, divisive people behind the National Organization for Marriage and the Family Research Council take note. The NAACP is not having your wedge strategy. Today the national NAACP held a press conference; here are the remarks. Remarks by Roslyn M. Brock, Chairman of the NAACP Board of Directors May 21, 2012 As you now [...]

Republican party insiders, movers and shakers received some difficult medicine from Jan van Lohuizen, former pollster for George W. Bush for the 2004 re-election campaign, according to Maggie Haberman of The Politico. One of the few party operatives who sees the handwriting on the wall for the party when it comes to LGBT rights, including marriage equality, van [...]

Just an FYI, in the wake of Amendment One, actually Wednesday and Thursday, I was deluged with requests by news outlets and radio programs  for comments about North Carolina, the President’s coming out for marriage equality, or both. That I kind of expected. What I was also asked about by some reporters was the inevitable [...]

As word spread — and shocked outage grew — that North Carolina Pastor Sean Harris has been instructing parents to beat their children if the children seem homosexual and/or non-gender conforming, Harris and his Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina are too stupid to get their damage control straight. Harris the baby beater told [...]

As many know, I read the essays and speeches of civil rights leaders. One I’ve been recently been reading recently is Riki Anne Wilchins, and one essay I recently read of hers is A Shopping List of Transexual Shame. So with Riki Wilchins shopping list in mind, I’d like to similar create a shopping list [...]

There are many, many people of faith, progressive houses of worship fighting out and proud against Amendment One in solidarity with their LGBT neighbors who will be hurt by it, should it pass. On the other side? A man reveling in shooting up an anti-amendment sign, and now this news of a pastor in Fayetteville, [...]