Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. UPDATE at end: The Advocate endorses Obama, “IN OBAMA WE TRUST.” As I’ve written before, there’s nothing like a close election to encourage evolving. And while Obama’s expression of personal support for marriage equality opened a lot of wallets, the recent actions of the DOJ [...]
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For July 4, 2012: The ‘Radical’ Verses of ‘This Land is Your Land’
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. After a bit of digging, I found this version of Woody Guthrie’s classic “This Land is Your Land” (written in 1940) as performed by Pete Seeger, with some help from Bruce Springsteen, among others. Lyrics found here for all verses. Those which Seeger includes aren’t [...]
‘Spoiler’ Alert: Non-Duopoly Greens and Libertarians on ‘Obamacare’ and More
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. UPDATE at end. The Green Party presidential candidate is Jill Stein. The Libertarian presidential candidate is Gary Johnson. In the world of the Duopoly, these candidates play, at best / worst, a “spoiler” role. From the The Green Party: “Another U.S. is possible. Another party [...]
Queer Talk: The Erotic, Class and Other Things That Don’t ‘Fit’ the Mainstream LGBT Narrative
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Who gets to decide the goals and the strategies of the “LGBT Movement”? To a very significant extent, people in positions of relative power make these decisions. That doesn’t mean such people are always wrong, or that other voices are never heard. But it’s a [...]
My Party is Less Bad Than Your Party at Presiding Over the Collapse of the Nation!
By Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Americans Elect was a bust. The Green, Libertarian, etc., “third” parties are having their usual struggle to get more than passing attention from most everyone outside those already involved, and deserve much credit for continuing their efforts. Both Obama and Romney are raising astounding [...]
Queer Talk: Please Don’t Feed Oreos to the ‘Homo Sapiens’
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. On the night of June 27 / early morning of June 28, 1969, what came to be known as the Stonewall Riots, or the Stonewall Rebellion, began. For any number of reasons, that night when the latest of the frequent police raids of the Stonewall [...]
Can the U.S. Electorate Walk, Chew Gum, Hold Its Nose and Whistle Past the Graveyard at the Same Time?
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. That’s a rhetorical question. Very clearly the U.S. electorate has decades of practice in walking, chewing gum, holding its nose and whistling past the graveyard at the same time. No doubt you can add other actions. The point is, we’re quite accomplished at doing this [...]
Poverty is Growing in the ‘Exceptional’ USA, But It Isn’t a Campaign Concern
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Seriously addressing the increasing levels of poverty will not be done by Obama or Romney. It is being addressed by hunger, homeless and health care advocates, Occupiers, 99%-ers, and others, but we won’t hear much if anything about that from Campaigns or media. Like poverty, [...]
TM.com, The Hillary Effect and 2012 Context
by Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. I think a lot about context. Analysis of a particular incident can be helpful. But without context, without some idea of what’s gone before; without some idea of what other related things are occurring in the same time frame; without additional information about the [...]
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Queer Talk: Gay Pride and Slander
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. I’ve written a bit about June 2012 and Pride earlier (see here ), but wanted to take another quick look, via a couple of articles I’ve recently read. This isn’t just a Queerdom thing, of course, for at least two reasons. One, equality – and [...]
That Feeling of Security, Brought to Us by the U.S. House Unmanned Systems Caucus
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. UPDATE at end I’ve been writing about drones for a while now. For example, (The “right to be secure” doesn’t mean what it use to; Police State, Part III: It’s Really Happening, and the State Thanks Those Ignoring It; How Many Drones In the Sky [...]
Queer Talk: The Evil of Two Lessers, & Queering the Vote
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Republican or Democratic: the two “evil” choices are less than we deserve. That includes those of Queerdom, where you’ll hear the same general discussions about our choices that you hear everywhere else. Lisa Keen covers one piece of the discussion when she writes about the [...]
Nothing Like a Close Election to Encourage Evolution and Dreaming
by Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Whatever campaign trail stories make headlines this week, it seems one major piece will remain in place: the WH race is close. And as usual, I wonder about how this fits within our electoral politics, our we-don’t-need-more-than-two-parties system. I guess a close race shows [...]
Queer Talk: Adding Up Corporate Support for LGBT Equality
By Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Corporate support for LGBT equality is obviously a plus, and obviously growing. But as I’ve written before, it also raises the question of “what to do when someone with big money is good on your issue, but bad in other ways?” That was back [...]
Leaked Trade Agreement Shows Pres. Obama Supports What Candidate Obama Opposed
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Yesterday Public Citizen posted the leaked text, and analysis, of one chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact. Public Citizen has been a consistent critic of how Obama has handled TPP (the video above is a PC production). From the press release and analysis, [...]
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