If you are looking for comfort and happiness through government consent, you are bound to be disappointed.

United Liberty

In keeping with the stance he held during the presidential campaign, President-elect Obama laid out his eight-point plan for LGBT equality on his transition website. The plan is bold, but as I've said before, I believe it is do-able. The changes he proposes, including ending DADT, are not so radical that they can not get beyond Congress at some ( Read more... )

( I see ties between bigotry, fear, and ignorance -- but how do you get beyond that to love? )

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I’m doing some research for two of my classes, and while right now I’m actually highlighting pieces of info in an overview of the First Intifada in Palestine, my thoughts are at the moment more preoccupied with my other project, which will eventually manifest itself into a persuasive speech against censorship or censorship inconsistencies or … ( Read more... )

Men who have had sex with other men, or women who have sex with a man who has had sex with a man, cannot donate blood in the US and Canada. Yet a man who has had anal sex with a prostitute for years can wait 6 months and if he has no STDS can still donate ( Read more... )

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We're starting up a new community, ibeemma_talk. It's about ibeemma, a fictional character created by Abellona Alexis (a.k.a. abellonalexis). Emma lives in a world where the gay/straight assumptions and prejudices are switched.

Abellona wanted to do this through livejournal so that the readers could interact with Emma. If anyone is interested, please friend ibeemma and join ibeemma_talk :)

So, this summer, one of the classes I'm taking is on the sociology of family. Anyway, this was a discussion prompt for this week, and I thought I'd post it here:

"Given the pervasiveness of early gender lessons, do you think parents can rasie their children without emphasizing gender?

"Is a more non-gendered childhood desirable?"

Discuss.

IMHO "bisexual organizing" has become the "new" feminism.

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