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“Pride” is a term used to reference joy, power, and expression of sexual and gender identity. The term “pride” can be used to denote queer celebrations.

I am sure the post caught your attention, didn’t it? Well, anyways Queers United is truly recruiting volunteers to help spread our word.

Sorry, it’s not a paid position, but its very time consuming to be able to get the word out to as many people as possible about various important postings.

Next time you are done reading a gay/lesbian newspaper/magazine, or some sort of activist flier or publication instead of tossing it in the trash, leave it on a table at the doctors office waiting room, or at your local library. It is great to recycle and someone else gets use out of it, but more importantly someone else will be reached with queer issues and may be personally affected by it.

The American Family Association has a new DVD out, “They’re Coming to Your Town,” so you can learn the “strategies used by gay activists” and avoid gay infiltration in YOUR town! Yes, really. I love how they show video shots…

Princeton University students in light of the passage of proposition 8 banning equal marriage rights in California have come up with “Princeton Proposition 8”. This would ensure that sidewalks would be protected for sophomores, juniors, seniors, grad students and faculty members and make sure that freshmen activists and freshmen enablers are not permitted to betray the will of the majority of the campus. Proponents of “Princeton Proposition 8” say they love freshmen, but want to protect traditional sidewalks, while opponents say that “separate is not equal.”

New blog Awesome and Fablous! asked the question today, “Which Huxtable are you?” This came up in conversation between the bloggers Soraya and Veronica when discussing how folks are more or less saying Michelle Obama is a 2008 version of…

In 2006 The Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, opened the first-ever museum exhibition dedicated to gay animals. Parts of the exhibition and information are preserved online. The exhibition title “Against Nature?” is intended to get people to think about their arguments against homosexuality, when it is evident that it is completely natural and seen throughout the animal kingdom.

Last night, the fabulous Deanna Zandt took me the 10th anniversary benefit of The Girls and Boys Project, a New York-based organization who have providing workshops, leadership training and social action initiatives for thousands of school-age kids in the…

Oh eHarmony, you shouldn’t have! Actually, you wouldn’t have if your asses weren’t brought to court for discrimination. While this should be considered a victory, it still pisses me off to no end. After the New Jersey Attorney General’s…

Anti-gay reggae artist Bounty Killer is seen below saying violence inciting homophobic commentary. He says such things as “faggot, I kill every one of them”, and “queers must die.”

The U.K. has granted him a temporary visa and he is set to perform a show this Sunday at The Stratford. The police say the show will go on unless there is a riot which puts the public in danger, gay activists are afraid to protest the show due to unforeseen violence.

President-elect Barack Obama has made a lot of promises to the LGBTQ community. We have to make sure he follows through. What better way to do it than to send him a friendly little reminder? Here’s what you do…

Last week I had the good fortune of going to see the play, “Angry Black White Boy,” based on the Adam Mansbach novel of the same title at the Intersection of the Arts. If you are in the Bay Area,…

Why am I awake this early?
Didn’t sleep much last night, more to do with being excited than insomnia!
Gotta find some hairspray.
Damn it’s cold here!
Must remember to ask for a late check out.
Hummm, getting hairspray will require getting out of this warm bed and going outside!
Hard to believe the time is neigh.

Writer Jessica Wakeman recently had an interesting study published by media watchdog group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting on the present number of bylines belonging to women on Huffington Post. After two months of tracking the number of bylines on…

And wow, what a place…people are so amazing in the midwest…like enough to make me re-think my hating humans thing…

The airport BS however is legendary, and will be mentioned at a later date…

I plan to vid blog this whole thing, raw and uncensored, so do stop by on Monday.

I feel like a gladiator!

as such, don’t expect me to be around much until Monday

the international journal of transgenderism is available online - if you want an issue from 1997 to 2002. now, apparently it’s still going, but my university doesn’t have a subscription. i wonder if any of you have access to it … ? is it any good? i feel really odd about this, because i thought they’d just stopped publishing. eep.

A “stone butch” is a woman who is strongly masculine in her personality and style. A “stone butch” is generally the more aggressive partner in the relationship, and the one who wears the pants.

A disproportionate amount of people in the queer community face cancer risk due to high level of smoking within the community. Smoking exacerbates complications in queer men and women who are already at a higher risk for breast, anal, and ovarian cancers.

The American Cancer Society estimates that over 30,000 LGBT people die each year of tobacco related diseases.

i find it strange to see so many trans, gender variant and cis people posting about the transgender day of remembrance. it’s all over my blog feed, it’s all over my livejournal. it’s strange to see it acknowledged in the australian senate and on big name, not-trans-specific, not-even-feminist-specific blogs. something about all of it is making me uncomfortable, and i think mostly it is to do

Newsweek recently posted a Q&A with Jean-Claude Van Damme conducted by Sarah Ball, a female reporter in her early 20s. I know that women are sexually harassed at work every day. But not all of those women have got a…