Quoting Jos at Feministing from her post entitled Netroots ’12: watch Blogging for Transgender Equality: I’m on a panel at Netroots Nation this morning about blogging on transgender issues, and you can watch the panel right here – it’s streaming live at 10:30am. The panelists are a badass group I’m proud to be a part [...]

The Tampa Bay Times has published its investigation of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which has received wide attention because of the alleged murder of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, who cited this as his defense for shooting the unarmed teenager. In its review of the numerous cases in which it was invoked, the newspaper [...]

There are many lessons that the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community’s civil rights movement can take from the American Civil Rights Movement. One is that we’re not always here to make people comfortable. In an interview by Dr. Kenneth Clark of Martin Luther King Jr., King said (emphasis added): If anyone has ever [...]

During the 11:00 AM hour of Sunday’s Melissa Harris-Perry show (on MSNBC), Kate Bornstein and the National Center for Transgender Equality’s (NCTE’s) Mara Keisling will be discussing trans people and issues. My friend Mara is asking that trans people who’ve experienced workplace discrimination share their stories with NCTE so that she can share some of [...]

My reaction? Hell-to-the-NO. There are a couple of discussion questions here, but first read about this horror. When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password. Bassett, a New York City [...]

The struggle for equal rights is sadly, not color-blind. It goes without saying that racial tension in American society didn’t suddenly cease with the election of Barack Obama (though a lot of people wanted that to be so), and it’s no different in the LGBT community. As we fight homophobes who envision “gay” as some [...]

My wonderful friend Jillian Page is an editor at the Montreal Gazette. She has a blog at her publication’s website entitled Trans Talk where she writes about trans issues. It’s a must read blog for me, and I automatically tweet her blog entries on my twitterfeed. She currently has a piece up on her blog [...]

Yesterday (Monday, February 13, 2012), while taking my daily three-and-three-quarter mile walk, I was at a corner waiting for the walk light to turn green. Three young men in their early twenties were at the same corner, and one of them asked me a question in that way that was clearly meant to make me [...]

Civil rights movements — ones formed to address the oppression of minority populations — have often had significant pushback by societal oppressors that have included bathroom and/or significant shower components. Jim Crow states passed statutes severely regulating social interactions between the races. Jim Crow signs were placed above water fountains, door entrances and exits, and [...]

Before I go into why I see some elements of The Gay Rights Movement as problematic, I want to say that overall it is a powerful compilation of historical events worthy of your click. It has a heavy focus on more recent events — bullying, DADT, with a nod to significant moments in the past [...]