L, G, B, and/or T people in Chicago (Thursday 2/25), NYC (Friday 2/26), and or San Francisco (Monday 3/1) can share experiences regarding housing discrimination with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Sixty years ago today, out of the belated recognition that black service members had put their lives on the line just like their white counterparts, the U.S. armed forces were desegregated*. ( I think that the connection to the rest of this post should be obvious, but if not, a picture speaks a thousand words. )

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The Chinese state news agency reported Monday that at least 140 people were killed and 816 injured when rioters clashed with the police in a regional capital in western China after days of rising tensions between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese.
Philadelphia's public transit passes are (binary) gender-specific and that's being enforced in such ( Read more... )

ACTION ALERT: Lambda Legal is surveying the health care experiences of U.S. GLBT and HIV-positive adults. If you've used health care in the U.S., are 18+, and are GLBT or HIV-positive, please take the five minutes to fill it out. This is an important issue, and to advocate effectively Lambda Legal needs to know how widespread problems are. As an ( Read more... )

I'd intended for my next couple of posts to be about recent f***ed up events in Israel/Palestine and about how my feelings towards Israel/Palestine differ from a couple years ago. With what I've been seeing people posting in response to the murder of Dr. George Tiller, though, those posts are getting temporarily preempted. What has me upset enough ( Read more... )

In my first post about Amazon!Fail I included an action alert about U.S. federal hate crimes legislation. I'm concerned that it was easy to overlook in that post so want to put it front-and-center here. That feels especially pressing given the defense being argued for an alleged murder of a teenage transwoman. Basically, the lawyers are using ( Read more... )

I was all set to write a fairly happy post about positive changes towards equal GLB and to some extent even T rights when the human race decided that no, it still likes to hate on me and others like me because of who we love.  Specifically, in the last few days Amazon has stripped several dozen books of their sales rankings, which affects whether ( Read more... )

A week and a bit ago I mentioned that my mental queue included a post about the new Israeli government. For those who aren't aware, to be prime minister a politician needs support from the majority of the members of the Knesset (parliament). Since Israel isn't a two-party system, this means that ze needs to form a coalition between various ( Read more... )

I'm overdue for a post about some recent Major News Stories (TM), but I didn't want to let International Women's Day go by without at least mentioning it, so:

Today, March 8, is International Women's Day 2009. I'd like to keep the focus of this post on proactive action, but please don't let that stop you from taking time to raise your awareness of ( Read more... )

While obviously y'all already know that Obama is president, I feel like I ought to write my thoughts from the inauguration, though the character of those thoughts is more live blogging disjointedness than anything particularly deep.  With that bit of self-deprecation out of the way....

I wanted to watch the inauguration on  a U.S. news channel and, ( Read more... )