Apr 18, 2008
by
Marti Abernathey
Last October Representative Barney Frank said:
"It's partly because some of the people who are now lately to this fight weren't there helping us through the lobbying. "
and then said:
I have been pleading with people in the gay and lesbian and bisexual and transgender communities to lobby for us. Instead, they want to strategize, many of them. Some, no. Some have done a very good job. But many of them weren't there.
Hearing those words, I assumed that the lobby day events would get ... Read More
Mar 7, 2008
by
Marti Abernathey
Is one of the key players in the United ENDA movement, Mara Keisling, signaling its death? Recently Keisling said:
'We have to show Barney Frank 220 votes,' she said. 'If we show him 220 votes, nobody is going to work harder on this. The same with HRC... It's going to happen again next year. '- After ENDA, the Fighter's Resilient
According to Donna Rose's blog :
3/1/2008 - They're currently planning to hold hearings in Congress specifically about transgender workplace issues in ... Read More
Jan 24, 2008
by
Vanessa Edwards Foster
“We’re setting sail to the place on the map from which no one has ever returned ….” — Ship of Fools, World Party
It was just Tuesday that I read in the press that Gay/Lesbian/Straight Educators Network (GLSEN) founding executive director Kevin Jennings was stepping down. He announced he will be back from [...]
“We're setting sail to the place on the map from which no one has ever returned ….” — Ship of Fools, World Party
It was just Tuesday that I read in the press that Gay/Lesbian/Straight Educators Network (GLSEN) founding executive director Kevin Jennings was stepping down. He announced he will be back from his current sabbatical as planned on Feb. 1, but will step down on August 1, 2008 after thirteen years. According to another organization source, he isn’t ... Read More
Jan 10, 2008
by
Marti Abernathey
The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTCP) announced today:
MTPC is buttressed by milestone grants, including a $25,000 Civic Engagement Grant from Boston Foundation and $25,000 total in four phases from Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC), including $10,000 immediately as a challenge grant to urge other organizations to follow suit. Other contributions are being made by [...]
The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTCP) announced today:
MTPC is buttressed by milestone grants, including a $25,000 Civic Engagement Grant from Boston Foundation and $25,000 total in four phases from Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC), including $10,000 immediately as a challenge grant to urge other organizations to follow suit. Other contributions are being made by MTPC's legislative partners MassEquality, Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association (MLGBA), Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Inc. (AAC).
Considering the ... Read More
Jan 9, 2008
by
Vanessa Edwards Foster
by Vanessa Edwards Foster
Words in papers, words in books,
Words on TV, words for crooks …
Eat your words but don’t go hungry.
Words have always nearly hung me. — Wordy Rappinghood, Tom Tom Club “I’d rather be hated for what I am than loved for what I’m not.” — rapper Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys
For the [...]
by Vanessa Edwards Foster
Words in papers, words in books,
Words on TV, words for crooks …
Eat your words but don’t go hungry.
Words have always nearly hung me. — Wordy Rappinghood, Tom Tom Club "I'd rather be hated for what I am than loved for what I'm not." — rapper Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys
For the record, I was one of the folks Meredith Bacon wrote to regarding National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) ever working with the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) again. ... Read More
Jan 8, 2008
by
Vanessa Edwards Foster
by Vanessa Edwards Foster
I traveled round the world looking for a home.I found myself in crowded rooms feeling so alone. — Substitute For Love, Madonna
Baby, although I chose this lonely life it seems it’s stranglin’ me now.All the wild men, big cigars, gigantic cars; they’re all laughin’ at the lie. Oh, I’ve been used Ooo-ooh. [...]
by Vanessa Edwards Foster
I traveled round the world looking for a home.I found myself in crowded rooms feeling so alone. — Substitute For Love, Madonna
Baby, although I chose this lonely life it seems it's stranglin' me now.All the wild men, big cigars, gigantic cars; they're all laughin' at the lie. Oh, I've been used Ooo-ooh. I've been a fool – oh, what a fool!I broke all the rules – oh, yeah! But I must let the show go on — The Show ... Read More
Jan 3, 2008
by
Marti Abernathey
As I recounted on my latest podcast, Mara Keisling was recently on the Becky Juro Show. I replayed a clip of Juro asking Mara if she would comment on NCTE Board Chair Meredith Bacon’s statement that:
As the chair of the NCTE Board of Directors, I can assure all who read this blog [...]
As I recounted on my latest podcast, Mara Keisling was recently on the Becky Juro Show. I replayed a clip of Juro asking Mara if she would comment on NCTE Board Chair Meredith Bacon's statement that:
As the chair of the NCTE Board of Directors, I can assure all who read this blog that NCTE will not work with HRC in the foreseeable future, until the current leadership is completely purged, and until we are convinced that, unlike its predecessors, ... Read More
