Trapped Outside the Closet: Some Second Thoughts on Coming Out

Interesting article…me thinks he thinks he might not be as “gay” as previously believed or he feels that by claiming gay he can’t be anything but that. *kanye shrug* The only limits placed upon your sexuality are the ones placed by you and those you allow around you.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dj-louie-xiv/being-gay-is-awesome-but-by-coming-out-of-the-closet-are-we-putting-ourselves-in-boxes_b_1974959.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices

Angela McCaskill On Leave From Gallaudet University: Should Minorities Be Empathetic?

Interesting…So the Chief Diversity Officer of Gallaudet University Angela McCaskill was placed on paid administrative leave after she signed her name to a petition opposing gay marriage in Maryland. Normally this wouldn’t be an issue, as we all have choices but….she’s the Diversity Officer. It’s like…she joined the KKK. 

Ignoring the title to the article..empathetic to what? That she got a good paying job by lying?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/19/angela-mccaskill-gallaudet-university-minorities-empathetic-video_n_1987100.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices

12 Openly LGBT Candidates Running For Office

The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund today announced its annual “Races to Watch” listfeaturing openly LGBT candidates, naming 12 candidates involved in groundbreaking runs for political office this year. Victory Fund has endorsed a total of 175 out candidates for 2012, an all-time high, with a record 8 candidates running for the U.S. House and Senate.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/victory-funds-races-to-watch-lgbt-candidates_n_1966856.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Quack Quack…

New Zealand Teen Proclaims ‘Ducks Could Take Over The World’ If Gay Marriage Is Approved

FTA: “If homosexuality spreads, it can cause human evolution to come to a standstill. It could threaten the human position on the evolutionary ladder, and say, ducks, could take over the world. Ducks always nest in pairs and we if allow same-sex marriage, then the ducks will have evolved further than we have. We will be in danger of all being equal, with ducks more equal than us.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/new-zealand-teen-ducks-gay-marriage-rant_n_1968032.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices

Transgender Trope #10- Defining Men and Women by Sex reduces us to Nothing More than Genitals

FTA: This trope is a reversal, a thought-terminating cliché, and a colonizing attempt to re-frame women’s liberation concepts into erasure of the physical reality of the female sex and erasure of the primary role our reproductive biology plays in the targeting and enforcement of female oppression by males.

http://transgendertropes.wordpress.com/

Weighing in on MichFest

Great article on MichFest:

FTA: “But there’s a difference between how you have become a woman and how I have become a woman. A big difference. My journey to become my own woman is different from yours. Neither easier nor harder, just different, yes? This is the essence of pride and of diversity.”

http://bugbrennan.com/2012/07/17/guest-post-weighing-in-on-michfest/