By fatima - Mirrored from Feministing
(I am thrilled to see someone speaking out about this, so brilliantly... right on, fatima)

http://community.feministing.com/2009/04/the-truth-about-femmesor-we-fu.html

the truth about femmes...or we ( Read more... )

Disparaging or even hostile attitudes toward femmes and femininity I've often heard from both cis women and trans women invite a look at a hatred that I've found to be very prevalent and yet hardly ever acknowledged, let alone analyzed. We need to call it out for what it is, another form of misogynyI suppose in response to comments I've encountered ( Read more... )

I'm writing this largely with copperstewart in mind. His explorations in the subject have opened up much for me to ponder about it. This is just to set out some basic concepts that may not be clear to everyone, especially the older generation of hetero people. In my experience it's been mostly older people who question our use of "queer." It may even come ( Read more... )

A Jihad for Love, the film by Parvez Sharma that looks at the lives and struggles of gay and lesbian Muslims, and humanizes them both as gay people and as people of faith, will premiere in Washington, DC at the Landmark E Street Cinema on September 5, 2008 ( Read more... )

(This is so very right on. Thank you, Chumbawamba.)

Up behind the bus stop in the toilets of the street
There are traces of a killing on the floor beneath your feet
Mixed in with the piss and beer are bloodstains on the floor
From the boy who got his head kicked in a night or two before

No! Homophobia--the worst disease ( Read more... )

"History, Vision, Legacy" is the theme for this year's Annual Capital Pride Week Interfaith Service. It will be held on Tuesday, June 10th at 7:30 PM in the sanctuary of the Foundry United Methodist Church at 1500 16th Street NW, Washington D.C. 20036 (at P St. NW) That's just across the street from the DC Jewish Community Center ( Read more... )

NEW YORK DECLARES "A JIHAD FOR LOVE"! FIRST SEVEN DAYS: $22,287 ( Read more... )

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The other day I got with Equality Virginia for their annual Lobby Day. Picture several hundred of us talking with Virginia state delegates and senators about the issues that matter to us. This year in the Virginia legislature, we have an extraordinary first: There is no pending legislation that EV opposes. In other words, no anti-LGBT bills. There ( Read more... )

Iraq Prisoner Amnesty To Exclude Gays ( Read more... )