Ted Kennedy, the Liberal Lion of the Senate, one of the world’s greatest voices for Human Rights, a man who demonstrated for all the capacity for any person to reach beyond their baser nature and better themselves, is gone.
Posts Tagged ‘Allies’
Support the ACLU
I think I let my membership lapse. I’ll have to correct that oversight. I’ll be proud to be a card-carrying member of the ACLU.
Hell, Frozen Over: Ted Olson Suing to Overturn Prop 8.
George Bush’s Solicitor General, Theodore Olson, is suing the State of California in Federal Court to overturn Proposition 8. …I have no words…
Savage (and I) on Obama – He gets an F.
Dan Savage said what I’m feeling better than I could have: Obama gets an F. Give it a listen.
Internal Activism
A few weeks ago, I got a draft copy of my employer’s new Employee Handbook. In the equal employment opportunity section, there was a standard list of protected groups: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age and disability. I decided I’d like to see LGBT employees listed, as well. To that end, I wrote up a proposed change to the policy, and submitted it to HR for review.
Olbermann v. Foxx
I was going to go off on Virginia Foxx today, but Keith Olbermann did it better than I could possibly have hope to.
Justice for Angie Zapata
For the first time in U.S. history, a murderer has been convicted of a bias-motivated crime against a transgender person. Allen Andrade was convicted yesterday of First Degree Murder and a “Bias-Motivated Crime” in the murder of Angie Zapata, a transgender teen from Greeley, Colorado. For once, a jury saw past the defense’s portrayal of a transgender person as a lesser being, a liar and a freak, and saw her simply for what she was: a human being.
The Matthew Shepard Act
This video from Judy Shepard and the HRC speaks for itself. http://tinyurl.com/cqyyd8
Anderson Cooper under fire for making fun of morons.
So, a 10 days after planning “Teabagging Parties” all over the US with the assistance of FOX, some right-wing conservative idiots are trying to get Anderson Cooper fired for making jokes about the “[a] homosexual … practice involving a particular form of oral sex.”
NOM’s 2M4M branding not exactly 2 bright
So, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM… nom nom nom…) completely failed to cover their bases when they decided to brand their “Two Million For Marriage” 2M4M – and not just when they co-opted an acronym widely used on gay hookup sites to designate 2 men looking for a third guy for sexy fun. … Now, a group of LGBT activists has banded together to turn their unfortunate branding against them.
