Sorry for the US-centric cryptic in the last post. Here's more details:

HRC (the "Human Rights Campaign"), whose logo is the yellow equal sign on a blue background, is a national US LGB(T) lobbying and public education organization. Although most national US LGBT organizations supported a version of the US Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) ( Read more... )

Here's my shiny new icon, made by neitherday. Thanks for the big f-you to the trans community, HRC. Oh, and way to support all the lesbians and gay men who experience job/workplace discrimination not because of who they sleep with (because nobody knows that for sure) but because of how they express their gender identity.

Thanks to constintina for passing on this article (which I will definitely be citing in my dissertation!):

"Queer" As A Tool Of Colonial Oppression: The Case Of Israel/Palestine

When I saw this meme on mofic's lj, the first poem that popped into my mind was "Funeral Blues" by W.H. Auden.

Meme: When you see this, post a poem you like in your livejournal."Funeral Blues" is recited in my favorite scene from "Four Weddings and a Funeral" - appropriately enough, the funeral scene. I always watch that movie if I come across it on TV ( Read more... )