Ebar has anice article on the conclusions of the five-year-old Movement Advancement Project survey on LGBT progress and needs.  Quotes:

• HIV infection is still a "growing" concern among men having sex with men. While 59 percent of new HIV infections among men in 2000 were attributed to male-to-male sexual contact, 75 percent were in 2009
• Only 3.4 ( Read more... )

From EQCA:

U.S. District Court Judge James Ware just ruled that former U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker did not have to recuse himself from the federal case against Proposition 8 because he is gay and in a long-term committed relationship.

Cool post on modern prom, snagged from jaylake. Nice reminder to me to remind you:

Local bay area leather folks, if you want to provide security at the gay prom in Hayward in a few weeks, get in touch with me. :-)

There aren't many leather bars left. Looks like we're likely to lose another classic: The Eagle in San Francisco ( Read more... )

The first San Jose Transgender Day of Visibility was a success! By pretty much any measure, save maybe timeliness (much to my own disappointment!). We had 60 or so people in theDeFrank's Grand Ballroom. Nori Herras was the DeFrank staffer on duty that night, not to mention one of my star guests; she does SO much work for the local transgender ( Read more... )

what: Transgender Day of Visibility; a day to celebrate trans folks!
  - short films by trans film makers-  performances by the Gender Queer Society Troupe and TamLa Fey - 
  - a report from Adam Stickler (assistant to a CA assemblyman) - interactive panel discussion; ask your questions, participate! -

when: Thursday, March 31, 7-9pm
where: Billy ( Read more... )

Ganesha Monologue 2011

via Circle of Dionysos by DKCowan on 2/27/11
"What is forgotten is that “those people” are out there every day questioning the norm and so removing societal barriers for finding and expressing one’s true self for everyone.  If it were not for “those people,” then the “normal gays” of today would still be considered “those ( Read more... )

Some of my personal Feri work led me to another round of self-work on LGBT stuff in my own life a month or so ago (yea Amethyst Pentacle!). With a focus on 'visibility.' Despite being an organizer and all that, I still had some itchy spots. Probably always will, yadda yadda.

And now I've got the Trans Day of Visibility event coming up, and people ( Read more... )

There are a lot of *amazing* as well as horrifying posts in the blogosphere right now, in response to, or in this case re-brought up, the exclusion of trans women at a Lilith ritual at Pantheacon this year (Patheacon is awesome!). The communication problem (not advertised correctly) has been apologized for, etc etc ( Read more... )

The UN dumps inclusion of lgbt people from a resolution against discrimination-based hate killings.

Of course, it's just about as amazing to me that this resolution is something that has to be re-voted on every year.

Some days I think it might be interesting to get into politics. Others days, I can't think of anything much more insane.