This delicious after-Thanksgiving gem comes to us via Huffpost's Gay Voices section. National Organization for Marriage is a kooky bunch. Basically, this woman from NOM made a video as a message for college students to see over the Thanksgiving break, telling them that they should tell their families if there were any "gay events" or if there were "gay RAs" at whatever school they dorm at. She went on to theorize that young people are being pressured to "accept" gays because they have gay peers.
You like your friends. You want them to be protected under the same laws you are, so they can find jobs and have health coverage appropriate for them? Well now...PEER PRESSURE! Or not. Could just be realizing that discrimination is totally jacked, regardless of religion, color, creed, or whatever? Who was this really directed at, students from "Straight-Protestant-Men Rule The Roost-White-SmallTown, USA?
Hold on...we are talking about NOM. It never ends.
Bisexual turkey, anyone?
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Something Really Good is Going On.
It has been a really long time since I've kept up on this blog. My apologies. Good news though, I do see coming back here and writing more often again!
I have a very cool thing to talk about today. The main campus of Philadelphia's Community College, which serves thousands of students from all over the city, officially has an activist Gay-Straight Alliance. The GSA was formed both as a "safe space" and as a center for resources and student rights for our LGBT and ally staff and students. We have some very high hopes for this group. We already have almost one hundred standing members, a full executive board, and full support from the staff GSA and allies.
I see some very cool things happening with this group. We've already reached out and made contact with the HRC, the GSA National Network, and You Can Play. It's getting very big, very fast. I am happy to be a part of the executive board of the first ever official LGBT campus group with a focus on real change as well as social interaction.
As can be expected, we've already started facing opposition from others. It's not clear whether or not it was something organized or individually motivated, but not even a week after it was set up, our office was littered with religious groups' material. People have objections that we are even on campus. Personally, I expected this kind of ignorance. Look at everything the LGBT community has faced over time, just like this. The fact that such ignorance is on display does nothing to me other than prove that this group and safe space NEED to be at CCP. I am irked that our office was vandalized, that is a clear violation of our students' rights. But whatever- we aren't here for people who use God as an excuse to be ignorant and hateful. We are here to promote tolerance and unity for our student body, gay or not. We will get through this, and whatever other b/s we get handed. It just proves our point!
I am also very happy to be an out bisexual on such a group's board. Anybody who's read this blog with any regularity knows that it really pisses me off when bi and trans-identified people get marginalized within the community. Everyone always says that the B and the T aren't really part of the fight, and they couldn't be more wrong. You know who was at Stonewall? Drag Queens, T-girls, gay guys, and bi men! We all have a reason to be here, fighting for our safety and civil rights. And I am PROUD to be putting the B in LGBT.
Happy Thanksgiving, Everybody!
I have a very cool thing to talk about today. The main campus of Philadelphia's Community College, which serves thousands of students from all over the city, officially has an activist Gay-Straight Alliance. The GSA was formed both as a "safe space" and as a center for resources and student rights for our LGBT and ally staff and students. We have some very high hopes for this group. We already have almost one hundred standing members, a full executive board, and full support from the staff GSA and allies.
I see some very cool things happening with this group. We've already reached out and made contact with the HRC, the GSA National Network, and You Can Play. It's getting very big, very fast. I am happy to be a part of the executive board of the first ever official LGBT campus group with a focus on real change as well as social interaction.
As can be expected, we've already started facing opposition from others. It's not clear whether or not it was something organized or individually motivated, but not even a week after it was set up, our office was littered with religious groups' material. People have objections that we are even on campus. Personally, I expected this kind of ignorance. Look at everything the LGBT community has faced over time, just like this. The fact that such ignorance is on display does nothing to me other than prove that this group and safe space NEED to be at CCP. I am irked that our office was vandalized, that is a clear violation of our students' rights. But whatever- we aren't here for people who use God as an excuse to be ignorant and hateful. We are here to promote tolerance and unity for our student body, gay or not. We will get through this, and whatever other b/s we get handed. It just proves our point!
I am also very happy to be an out bisexual on such a group's board. Anybody who's read this blog with any regularity knows that it really pisses me off when bi and trans-identified people get marginalized within the community. Everyone always says that the B and the T aren't really part of the fight, and they couldn't be more wrong. You know who was at Stonewall? Drag Queens, T-girls, gay guys, and bi men! We all have a reason to be here, fighting for our safety and civil rights. And I am PROUD to be putting the B in LGBT.
Happy Thanksgiving, Everybody!
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