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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

There’s no need for editorial embellishment; just watch and see the bigoted, ignoranct idiocy that comes out of the pieholes of people purported to be, according to the mainstream media, “experts” in presenting “the other side” when there are discussions about anything related to LGBT rights. Lambda Legal provides this compilation: These people are ridiculous [...]

The Lowell Sun printed two letters to the editor today critical of the Sun‘s December 16 anti-trans “Christmas” column, written by Dan Phelps. The first letter printed was written by Allyson Robinson of the Human Rights Campaign. The second letter printed was co-authored by Gunner Scott, Executive Director of Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, and Ethan [...]

Update: LGBT organizations respond. See below the fold. As we approach the Christmas holidays, what editor thought this was fit to print? Here’s an excerpt from “Christmas carols — with a twist” written by columnist and copy editor Dan Phelps at the Lowell Sun. Lowell is the fourth largest city in Massachusetts and is located [...]

The Penn State situation has allowed anti-gay bigots to take another whack at the “gays-are-child molesters” piñata (see Alvin’s post about the deranged, homo-obsessed fringe bigot Peter LaBarbera, “Scapegoating gay men for the Penn State tragedy“), however, when you hear hate-filled, fact-free garbage that has nothing to do with this scandal being heaped on LGBT [...]

This makes no sense — choosing to bypass inviting an actual candidate running for the President to your debate, but roll out the red carpet for two non-candidates. That is absurdly discriminatory. In a statement, CNN announces its line-up for the September 12 Tea Party Express co-sponsored debate in Tampa: Gov. Rick Perry, Rep. Michele [...]

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 [...]