Once again and as expected, ExxonMobil shareholders have rejected nondiscrimination protections for LGBT employees, according to the Dallas Voice. For anyone who is paying attention, chalk this up as yet another indication that we need the Employment Nondiscrimination Act passed. We’ve only been waiting since 1994, when ENDA was first introduced. Well, we knew of [...]
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Queer Talk: Virginia a “Gay Rights Battleground”
While locating a “gay rights battleground” is something most of us can do by just looking around wherever we are, this year Virginia is providing a particularly stark example, as an article at Politico noted. A gubernatorial race already defined partly along culture-war lines has grown even more contentious since … Virginia Republicans nominated as [...]
Queer Talk: Michele Bachmann, “Outlandish” Comments on The Gays
Think Progress has a list of “The 8 Most Outlandish Moments Of Michele Bachmann’s Time In Congress,” which includes comments on the gays and lesbians, and no doubt encompassed the bisexual and transgender folks, too. Annie-Rose Strasser’s collection of outlandish moments runs the gamut, from Bachmann’s promotion of a “dangerous anti-vaccine conspiracy,” to her insistence [...]
Queer Talk – Idaho Sheriff: Boy Scouts Breaking Sodomy Law
Idaho Sheriff Ben Wolfinger, of Kootenai County, says (via Think Progress) that the Boy Scouts are breaking the law because sodomy is illegal. And so it just wouldn’t be right for his department to continue sponsoring a Boy Scout troop. He doesn’t say that there have been problems of sodomy to this point, and such [...]
HBO’s “Candelabra” and Rob Lowe’s “Transgendered Bee Gee”
IF YOU didn’t see HBO’s movie “Behind the Candelabra,” the story of Liberace and his live-in lover Scott Thompson, as told by Steven Soderbergh, you likely heard about it. The waiting was long to see Michael Douglas take on the piano virtuoso, with none other than Matt Damon strutting his fabulous self as the lover [...]
Queer Talk: Anti-LGBT Violence in Ukraine, Russia, France [Video]
Over the weekend, anti-LGBT violence occurred in demonstrations in the Ukraine, Russian and France. At Think Progress, Zack Ford has a summary. In Ukraine, “about 100 gay activists” defied a court order – issued for security reasons – and held the nation’s “first ever pride rally in Kiev.” Police nonetheless protected the small rally, arresting [...]
Queer Talk: Don Rumsfeld, Marriage Equality Not a Civil Right [Video]
In an interview with Larry King, former Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld said he did not “equate” marriage equality as a civil right. From Zack Ford at Think Progress: As Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld supported the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ recognizing that the time for open service in the military ‘had arrived.’ [...]
Queer Talk: Leahy Pulls Gay Couples Amend. From Immigration Bill
At the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last night, Sen. Leahy withdrew his amendment that would have recognized gay couples and lesbian couples from the immigration bill which seeks comprehensive reform. At the link above, Buzzfeed reports that Patrick Leahy withdrew his amendment … after several Democratic members of the committee stated that they would not [...]
Queer Talk: FL Teen Kaitlyn Hunt Arrested for Lesbian Relationship
Kaitlyn Hunt, a Florida high school senior, has been expelled, and arrested, as Think Progress reports, charged with a felony for a lesbian relationship. It’s one of several recent reports that make clear that, in spite of all the progress, full equality under the law remains a goal, not a reality, for lesbian, gay, bisexual [...]
Queer Talk: Sara Bareilles, “I Want to See You Be Brave” [Video]
“I Want to See You Be Brave” is the first single from the third studio album by Sara Bareilles. The Blessed Unrest. GayNet calls it the “uplifting gay anthem you’ve been waiting for.” From the lyrics: You can be amazing. You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug. You can be the [...]
Queer Talk: Riot Against LGBTs at Anti-Homophobia Rally [Video]
Via John Aravosis at America Blog Gay, a video of a riot against LGBTs (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) at a small anti-homophobia, anti-transphobia, anti-biphobia rally. It’s a horrific video. Thousands … of former-Soviet Georgians rioting in the streets of Tbilisi, attacking a small handful of gay rights protesters holding a rally for the International Day [...]
Queer Talk: FOX News on Marriage Equality, and on Hiring Allen West
In a Media Matters report about an analysis by Equality Matters, we learn that “Fox News Spent One Minute Covering Marriage Equality In Three States.” It’s also been announced that FOX has hired Allen West as a contributor. I don’t know if the latter means there will be more reporting on marriage equality, but given [...]
Queer Talk: Homophobia, Transphobia and the “Hall of Shame” *Updated*
(UPDATE: I’ve removed the link in the first paragraph for the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. The event is for real, but they are obviously having problems with the web site.) Today is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, and also the day Human Rights Watch released their annual LGBT Rights: The 2013 [...]
Queer Talk: Marriage Equality Support in AZ, MI, VA
A recent Gallup Poll shows that support for marriage equality continues to increase across the nation, while state polls also show growing support, including in AZ, MI, VA, (Arizona, Michigan and Virginia). While not alone, those three states show significant swings. In general, as the Gallup Poll report headlines, “Same-Sex Marriage Support Solidifies Above 50% [...]
Queer Talk: “Selling Homosexuality to Kids”
Linda Harvey of Mission America recently claimed that various entities are selling homosexuality to kids, or as Right Wing Watch put it, identifying one of the “sellers” of homosexuality, “Gay news sites trick kids into becoming gay.” I thought I should warn you about that in particular, since Harvey includes other websites “sympathetic to the [...]
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