I will be angry.

I will be angry because I am not allowed rights to my own body.

I will be angry because I am not acknowledged even in issues that concern me intimately.

I will be angry because I am jailed for being a victim and trying to bring my attacker to justice.

I will be angry because I am unworthy of protection.

I will be angry because I am not ( Read more... )

The new anti-marriage equality argument: it would promote “feminist marriage”


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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Monday wrote a letter to the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoane-Mashabe in response to South Africa's recent vote to remove reference to sexual orientation from a United Nations (UN) resolution on extrajudicial killings.

"We believe that this vote runs contrary ( Read more... )

Life must be protected from the moment of conception, Hungary’s ruling party said in a draft of the country’s new constitution that would effectively introduce a complete ban on abortion after several decades of liberal laws ( Read more... )

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To the straight people reading us: remember high school? Remember your favorite songs and movies, TV shows and music videos from that period? Imagine if all of that media bombardment telling you what to like, what to wear, and how to be attractive, popular, and cool, imagine that all of that aimed for and addressed everyone else but you? Imagine ( Read more... )

The New York Times has an insightful piece today about Joseph Jefferson, the 26-year-old gay Brooklyn community activist who committed suicide in October. Before hanging himself, Jefferson left a message on his Facebook wall which read: “I could not bear the burden of living as a gay man of color in a world grown cold and hateful towards those of ( Read more... )

My son is gay
Posted: November 2, 2010 by Cop's Wife

Or he’s not. I don’t care. He is still my son. And he is 5. And I am his mother. And if you have a problem with anything mentioned above, I don’t want to know you.

I have gone back and forth on whether I wanted to post something more in-depth about my sweet boy and his choice of Halloween costume. ( Read more... )