Fresh New Lies, or How To Kill Off the Last Of Hope

by Vanessa Edwards Foster

“I’m up on the Tight Rope … one side’s Fate and one is Hope,It’s a Circus Game for You and Me.I’m up on the High Wire … one side’s Life and one is Fire,But the Top Hat on my Head is all you see.” — Tight Rope, Leon Russell
Indeed there is a very fine [...]

“I’m up on the Tight Rope … one side’s Fate and one is Hope,It’s a Circus Game for You and Me.I’m up on the High Wire … one side’s Life and one is Fire,But the Top Hat on my Head is all you see.” — Tight Rope, Leon Russell Indeed there is a very fine line between Hope and Hell. It’s also proven pretty easy to become manic by letting our emotions fly to the sky based upon this concept of ... Read More

Categories: ENDA, GLBT history, HRC, Trans, activism, blog news, civil rights, gender, gender identity, lobby days, politics, transphobia

Hero Worship

by Vanessa Edwards Foster

“What makes us heroic? Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
Over the past few years, the transgender community has had its share of reports of heroism from Mara Keisling and Lisa Mottet of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) about the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and [...]

“What makes us heroic? Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Over the past few years, the transgender community has had its share of reports of heroism from Mara Keisling and Lisa Mottet of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) about the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA). It flew in the face of what this writer and many others active in the trans rights game knew as conventional wisdom. ... Read More

Categories: ENDA, GLBT history, HRC, Trans, Transfamilies, Transgender in History, active legislation, activism, civil rights, gender identity, lobby days, politics, sexual orientation, trans history, transphobia, women's rights

A Week of Direct Advocacy

by Marti Abernathey

If nothing else, last week was historic in that the three major transgender advocacy organizations (National Transgender Advocacy Coalition, National Center for Transgender Equality, and the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition) brought in citizen lobbyists to Washington D.C. from across the United States for a week of direct congressional advocacy.
Rolling in to [...]

If nothing else, last week was historic in that the three major transgender advocacy organizations (National Transgender Advocacy Coalition, National Center for Transgender Equality, and the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition) brought in citizen lobbyists to Washington D.C. from across the United States for a week of direct congressional advocacy. Rolling in to DC on Tuesday, I had the chance to see the lobbyists for the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC) in action. Tuesday night NTAC sponsored a ... Read More

Categories: ENDA, GLBT history, activism, civil rights, hate crimes, lobby days