Vid courtesy of KNON
11/16/08
Stand Firm : "Bishop Robinson to meet with Dallas Transgender Advocates
By Kelli Busey
November 18, 2008
planetransgender
"Stand Firm" is a Internet publisher of "Traditional Anglicism in America", host to Episcopalian Church web sites and location of interviews with The Rt. Rev. Jack Leo Iker Bishop of the Episcopalian Diocese of Fort Worth which voted November 15, 2008 to realign with the Argentineans Southern Cone, becoming the fourth such "traditional" diocese to do so in a long-running debate over gay relationships and other Issues.
In a recently published "Stand Firm" article Gene Robinson to Meet With Dallas Transgender Activists the lead paragraph linked this blogs press release announcing the progressive event "Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies Wellcome Bishop Robinson" to language I have the unpleasant duty to edit when it appears on my blog.
These disrespectful and hateful comments by the "Stand Firm" readers have been left unedited and intact in close proximity to the the interview of Bishop Iker.
[snip]
"Don’t give me links like that anymore! Geesh.... Had to look at strangely dressed women(?) and see a headline for queer news before I could get out. WARN ME.
I wasn’t ready to “bravely step forward” like Gene.... "]
"If Robinson is not a real Bishop as many would argue then no “border crossing” occured. To argue that a “border crossing” occured is to argue that Robinson IS a bishop which we all know is silly. He is just some low hanging fruit."
"And what’s absolutely amazing to me is that homosexuals and transgender folks actually consider themselves normal."
[snip]
Kelli's note. "Stand Firm" stands alone.
November 18, 2008
planetransgender
"Stand Firm" is a Internet publisher of "Traditional Anglicism in America", host to Episcopalian Church web sites and location of interviews with The Rt. Rev. Jack Leo Iker Bishop of the Episcopalian Diocese of Fort Worth which voted November 15, 2008 to realign with the Argentineans Southern Cone, becoming the fourth such "traditional" diocese to do so in a long-running debate over gay relationships and other Issues.
In a recently published "Stand Firm" article Gene Robinson to Meet With Dallas Transgender Activists the lead paragraph linked this blogs press release announcing the progressive event "Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies Wellcome Bishop Robinson" to language I have the unpleasant duty to edit when it appears on my blog.
These disrespectful and hateful comments by the "Stand Firm" readers have been left unedited and intact in close proximity to the the interview of Bishop Iker.
[snip]
"Don’t give me links like that anymore! Geesh.... Had to look at strangely dressed women(?) and see a headline for queer news before I could get out. WARN ME.
I wasn’t ready to “bravely step forward” like Gene.... "]
"If Robinson is not a real Bishop as many would argue then no “border crossing” occured. To argue that a “border crossing” occured is to argue that Robinson IS a bishop which we all know is silly. He is just some low hanging fruit."
"And what’s absolutely amazing to me is that homosexuals and transgender folks actually consider themselves normal."
[snip]
Kelli's note. "Stand Firm" stands alone.
11/15/08
MSNBC Keith Olbermann : Gay Marriage Whats it to you?
MSNBC - Countdown with Keith Olbermann Comment on Gay Marriage Defeat
November 10, 2008
Protest Dallas First Baptist November 16 2008
Protest Dallas First Baptist November 16 2008
Rev. has refused to at least consider the timing of his unfortunate anti gay sermon "Politically Incorrect" ~read Intentionally insulting demeaning, denigrating and marginalizing~ so there will be a protest Sunday.
Starting at 10:00 am
1707 San Jacinto St., Dallas, TX 75201
Driving Directions (From first baptist web site. I used them takes ya right to a parking garage next to the church)
From the North
I-35E
Take Houston I-45 exit (Woodall Rogers Frwy.)
Exit on Field/ Griffin Street. Follow Griffin Street.
Turn left on Ross Avenue.
Turn right onto St. Paul to Ross Avenue Parking Garage.
Hwy. 75 (Central Expressway)
Take I-35E Waco exit (Woodall Rogers Frwy).
Take St. Paul exit
Follow St. Paul to Ross Avenue Parking Garage.
Dallas Tollway
Follow Harry Hines Blvd. to St. Paul
Follow St. Paul straight ahead to Ross Avenue Parking Garage.
From the South
I-35E
Take Sherman exit #428B (Woodall Rogers Frwy.)
Exit Field/ Griffin Street. Follow Griffin Street.
Turn left (east) on Ross Avenue.
Turn right on St. Paul to Ross Avenue Parking Garage.
I-45
Follow Hwy. 75N to I-35 exit (Woodall Rogers Frwy.)
Take St. Paul exit
Follow St. Paul straight ahead to Ross Avenue Parking Garage.
From the East
I-30
Follow Hwy. 75N to I-35E exit (Woodall Rogers Frwy.)
Take St. Paul exit.
Follow St. Paul straight ahead to Ross Avenue Parking Garage
From the West
I-30
Take I-35E Denton exit.
Take Hwy. 75 (Sherman exit #428B and Woodall Rogers Frwy.)
Exit Field/ Griffin Street. Follow Griffin Street.
Turn left (east) on Ross Avenue.
Turn right onto St. Paul to Ross Avenue Parking Garage.
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Dr. Jeffress You should just sit in your tower and jet hard cover Bibles at people. Safe and economical. What jury could possible convict a minister for offering the word of god?
By Kelli Busey
Nov. 15, 2008
planetransgender
Rev. has refused to at least consider the timing of his unfortunate anti gay sermon "Politically Incorrect" ~read Intentionally insulting demeaning, denigrating and marginalizing~ so there will be a protest Sunday.
Starting at 10:00 am
1707 San Jacinto St., Dallas, TX 75201
Driving Directions (From first baptist web site. I used them takes ya right to a parking garage next to the church)
From the North
I-35E
Take Houston I-45 exit (Woodall Rogers Frwy.)
Exit on Field/ Griffin Street. Follow Griffin Street.
Turn left on Ross Avenue.
Turn right onto St. Paul to Ross Avenue Parking Garage.
Hwy. 75 (Central Expressway)
Take I-35E Waco exit (Woodall Rogers Frwy).
Take St. Paul exit
Follow St. Paul to Ross Avenue Parking Garage.
Dallas Tollway
Follow Harry Hines Blvd. to St. Paul
Follow St. Paul straight ahead to Ross Avenue Parking Garage.
From the South
I-35E
Take Sherman exit #428B (Woodall Rogers Frwy.)
Exit Field/ Griffin Street. Follow Griffin Street.
Turn left (east) on Ross Avenue.
Turn right on St. Paul to Ross Avenue Parking Garage.
I-45
Follow Hwy. 75N to I-35 exit (Woodall Rogers Frwy.)
Take St. Paul exit
Follow St. Paul straight ahead to Ross Avenue Parking Garage.
From the East
I-30
Follow Hwy. 75N to I-35E exit (Woodall Rogers Frwy.)
Take St. Paul exit.
Follow St. Paul straight ahead to Ross Avenue Parking Garage
From the West
I-30
Take I-35E Denton exit.
Take Hwy. 75 (Sherman exit #428B and Woodall Rogers Frwy.)
Exit Field/ Griffin Street. Follow Griffin Street.
Turn left (east) on Ross Avenue.
Turn right onto St. Paul to Ross Avenue Parking Garage.
View Larger Map
Dr. Jeffress You should just sit in your tower and jet hard cover Bibles at people. Safe and economical. What jury could possible convict a minister for offering the word of god?
By Kelli Busey
Nov. 15, 2008
planetransgender
Dallas Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transgender and Queers SHOUT "YES WE CAN"
The crisp clear air stired emotion excitement and passion.......
Uniting GLBT and Allies young and old. This is America at its finest. Proud and Brave.
Thoughts on Joe Sellout
Thoughts on Joe Sellout
By Tina Seitz
contributor planetransgender
Originally posted on Joe Sellout
Nov. 15, 2008
Over the last year, I have struggled. I have tried to think positively about the HRC and Joe Solmonese in regard to their representation, or lack thereof, as it pertains to transgender people. I have looked for a change in direction or at least some remorse over the lies (my opinion) told to the transgender community but that has never happened. Joe did apologize for “misspeaking” at the Southern Comfort Convention in 2007, but he has never apologized for lying to the transgender community, he has never apologized for a policy where he sold us out. In fact, to this day, he is adamant that he, along with the HRC took the correct course of action by ignoring the needs of the transgender community despite the tremendous backlash from all the other LGBT organizations that continued to stand with the transgender community after the announcement from HRC.
What really brought this to light once again, was the article that Joe Solmonese wrote last week about the passage of prop 8 in California. I know that this has been written about and commented on before, but I feel the need to expand upon what I have already read. In his article; Proposition 8 broke our hearts, but it did not end our fight Joe wrote “We have to say to the man with the Yes on 8 sign -- you disrespected my humanity, and I am not giving you a pass. I am not giving you a pass for explaining that you tolerate me, while at the same time denying that my family has a right to exist. I do not give you permission to say you have me as a "gay friend" when you cast a vote against my family, and my rights.”
I fully support same sex marriage and I feel that this is an issue that transgender people need to pay more attention to. It is difficult to concentrate on marriage however when so many transgender people are more concerned about having a roof over their heads, about having something to eat, about being able to get a job that will keep them out of the sex trades. So many in our community are placed in life and death situations every day in the streets. This is because they can’t find work; they are denied jobs due to discriminatory practices that a fully inclusive ENDA would begin to solve. To Joe I have to say; you disrespected my humanity, along with that of the entire transgender community. I do not give you permission to represent me as a transgender person when you decided that our rights don’t matter now, when you decided that transgender lives are not as important. You cast a vote against me, my family, and my very life. You did this for political expediency at the expense of more transgender lives and you don’t even have any remorse over those lives. You went on to donate money to the Log Cabin Republicans so that money, money that is supposed to be used to obtain equality for the LGBT community, was used to promote the candidacy of someone who has continually shown his highly bigoted point of view. How many of the transgender dead whose names will be read off at this year’s Day of Remembrance wouldn’t be on that list if they had a job. You ask the transgender community to stand with you to demonstrate we are in this together for same sex marriage and you have shown that you don’t think that my very life is worth standing up for.
Joe, I cannot accept your views on ENDA, your views which demonstrate once again to society that transgender people’s lives don’t matter. Your views tell society that transgender peoples very LIVES aren’t important enough for even the gay, lesbian, bisexual community to pay attention to. Your version of ENDA is so bad that it fails even at protecting those same gay, lesbian and bisexual communities. Your version of ENDA still allows for anyone to be fired if they don’t adequately fulfill their birth gender roles. The slightly effeminate male and the butch female will have no protection what-so-ever with your version of ENDA. All this for the sake of saying you got a bill passed, you have sold out the entire LGBT community. Still there is no apology, no remorse. How can I or the rest of the transgender community forgive, forget and move forward with your hypocritical views. Your placement of the needs of same sex marriage well above those of my very life demonstrates what you truly feel about transgender people. Joe speaks of denying the right for his family to exist. What Joe did to the transgender community is to deny them the very right to exist. Joe, I will not forgive you. I will not give you a pass on this issue, I can’t. My life is more important than that.
hrcbackstory
By Tina Seitz
contributor planetransgender
Originally posted on Joe Sellout
Nov. 15, 2008
Over the last year, I have struggled. I have tried to think positively about the HRC and Joe Solmonese in regard to their representation, or lack thereof, as it pertains to transgender people. I have looked for a change in direction or at least some remorse over the lies (my opinion) told to the transgender community but that has never happened. Joe did apologize for “misspeaking” at the Southern Comfort Convention in 2007, but he has never apologized for lying to the transgender community, he has never apologized for a policy where he sold us out. In fact, to this day, he is adamant that he, along with the HRC took the correct course of action by ignoring the needs of the transgender community despite the tremendous backlash from all the other LGBT organizations that continued to stand with the transgender community after the announcement from HRC.
What really brought this to light once again, was the article that Joe Solmonese wrote last week about the passage of prop 8 in California. I know that this has been written about and commented on before, but I feel the need to expand upon what I have already read. In his article; Proposition 8 broke our hearts, but it did not end our fight Joe wrote “We have to say to the man with the Yes on 8 sign -- you disrespected my humanity, and I am not giving you a pass. I am not giving you a pass for explaining that you tolerate me, while at the same time denying that my family has a right to exist. I do not give you permission to say you have me as a "gay friend" when you cast a vote against my family, and my rights.”
I fully support same sex marriage and I feel that this is an issue that transgender people need to pay more attention to. It is difficult to concentrate on marriage however when so many transgender people are more concerned about having a roof over their heads, about having something to eat, about being able to get a job that will keep them out of the sex trades. So many in our community are placed in life and death situations every day in the streets. This is because they can’t find work; they are denied jobs due to discriminatory practices that a fully inclusive ENDA would begin to solve. To Joe I have to say; you disrespected my humanity, along with that of the entire transgender community. I do not give you permission to represent me as a transgender person when you decided that our rights don’t matter now, when you decided that transgender lives are not as important. You cast a vote against me, my family, and my very life. You did this for political expediency at the expense of more transgender lives and you don’t even have any remorse over those lives. You went on to donate money to the Log Cabin Republicans so that money, money that is supposed to be used to obtain equality for the LGBT community, was used to promote the candidacy of someone who has continually shown his highly bigoted point of view. How many of the transgender dead whose names will be read off at this year’s Day of Remembrance wouldn’t be on that list if they had a job. You ask the transgender community to stand with you to demonstrate we are in this together for same sex marriage and you have shown that you don’t think that my very life is worth standing up for.
Joe, I cannot accept your views on ENDA, your views which demonstrate once again to society that transgender people’s lives don’t matter. Your views tell society that transgender peoples very LIVES aren’t important enough for even the gay, lesbian, bisexual community to pay attention to. Your version of ENDA is so bad that it fails even at protecting those same gay, lesbian and bisexual communities. Your version of ENDA still allows for anyone to be fired if they don’t adequately fulfill their birth gender roles. The slightly effeminate male and the butch female will have no protection what-so-ever with your version of ENDA. All this for the sake of saying you got a bill passed, you have sold out the entire LGBT community. Still there is no apology, no remorse. How can I or the rest of the transgender community forgive, forget and move forward with your hypocritical views. Your placement of the needs of same sex marriage well above those of my very life demonstrates what you truly feel about transgender people. Joe speaks of denying the right for his family to exist. What Joe did to the transgender community is to deny them the very right to exist. Joe, I will not forgive you. I will not give you a pass on this issue, I can’t. My life is more important than that.
hrcbackstory
Dallas TX Proposition 8 Protest Rally
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Dallas TX Proposition 8 Protest Rally
Saturday, November 15th 12:30 to 2:00pm
Dallas City Hall
1500 Marilla St
Dallas, TX 75201
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On Election Day of this year while the world celebrated a historical moment, LGBT inequality was being written into the California, Florida, Arizona and Arkansas constitutions. In California where LGBT people had enjoyed marriage equality since June our rights were ripped away from us over night.
Since the elections, tens of thousands of people have been pouring into the streets throughout California in protest over the passing of Prop 8. Dallas' Protest is part of a nationwide peaceful day of action against Prop 8. This effort coordinated through the website www.JoinTheImpact.com will take place at exactly the same time this coming Saturday in front of City Halls throughout the country.
Please join us this Saturday, November 15 at 12:30 PM, in front of City Hall for a peaceful protest rally with community speakers.
Let us show California, and the nation, that we will stand united until we have Equality.
For more information, please email our Community Organizer at StopTheH8@ymail.com or visit:
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Dallas TX Proposition 8 Protest Rally
Saturday, November 15th 12:30 to 2:00pm
Dallas City Hall
1500 Marilla St
Dallas, TX 75201
On Election Day of this year while the world celebrated a historical moment, LGBT inequality was being written into the California, Florida, Arizona and Arkansas constitutions. In California where LGBT people had enjoyed marriage equality since June our rights were ripped away from us over night.
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11/14/08
Dallas Voice : Transgender Conversation planned with Bishop Robinson
kelli Busey
Nov. 14, 2008
planetransgender
In this article by Ben Briscoe Staff Writer, Dallas Voice "Transgender Conversation planned with Bishop Robinson" Briscoe examines the transitional effect that Bishop Robinson has had on our advocacy and our lives since suggesting dialogue in place of anger. It is continuously challenging to live the exclusivity that we extol our contemporaries to embrace but in its effort lays the rewards. .
11/13/08
Join The Impact Nationwide Prop 8 Protest Nov 15
Find your cities protest 8 on Nov 15, 08
Mission Statement
JoinTheImpact.com Mission Statement
In an effort to make a positive impact in the lives of our community, our allies, and even our opposition, JoinTheImpact.com emerged. Our movement seeks to encourage the LGBTQ community not to look towards the past and place blame, but instead to look forward toward what needs to be done now to achieve one goal: Full equality for ALL. We stand for reaching out across all communities. We do not stand for bigotry, for scapegoating, or using anger as our driving force. Our mission is to encourage our community to engage our opposition in a conversation about full equality and to do this with respect, dignity, and an attitude of outreach and education.
JoinTheImpact, as an entity, will not encourage divisiveness, violence, or disrespect of others and we do not approve of this. We do not stand for pointing the finger at one group and placing blame. The LGBTQ community comes in all different colors, creeds, religious beliefs, and political parties. If we allow ourselves to place blame on one community or another, then we are no better than those who oppose us. We will not pit one community against another.
At JoinTheImpact, we are all inclusive. As such, we will continue to encourage debate from all sides of the conversation provided it is civil and respectful. We will encourage our community to not let anger steer the conversation, but with an understanding that anger is a human reaction and we hope that it can be used as a catalyst toward positive change.
Finally, we stand for national unity in the face of opposing forces that have steered the conversation into a state by state issue. We will celebrate our state by state wins, but work as one large entity to help gain these wins and will unite in the conversation against us to plant the seed of change and community.
Sincerely,
The JoinTheImpact Team
The Religious Right Is Neither
Honestly, where does attempts to be "politically Incorrect" become intentionally inflammatory inciting hate and violence? A pair of jeans or $300.00 suit? The word First or Westboro? Where is the demarcation? Perhaps it is neither west or first.
11/12/08
Llame a su tablero de California de supervisores: VUELQUE el VOTO DOMINANTE 11/12/08 del apoyo 8
¡Llamada a la acción!
Pida que el tablero del condado de supervisores impulse supremo
Corteje para volcar el VOTO DOMINANTE del asunto 8 el miércoles 12 de noviembre.
Necesitamos llamadas al tablero del condado del LA de supervisores impulsarlos a
vote SÍ el la mañana de miércoles a favor de una resolución que impulsa el LA
Consejo del condado a ensamblar con la ciudad del LA, condado de Santa Clara, San
Francisco y muchas otras ciudades/condados para impulsar el Tribunal Supremo a
¿asunto 8 el vuelco?
En la orden de la significación y de la importancia: (Líderes del afroamericano
se impulsan particularmente para llamar al supervisor Burke como es su voto
crítico y su posición no se sabe actualmente).
1. Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke, segundo districto
(213) 974-2222
(213) fax 680-3283
gobierno del seconddistrict@ bos.lacounty
Las áreas de la rejilla incluyen: Carson, Compton, Rancho del este Domínguez, puerto
Entrada y Florencia-Pedernal de Rancho Domínguez, Lynwood, del sur
Los Ángeles central, vatios y Willowbrook Inglewood, Westchester y
Atenas Hawthorne, Lawndale, Del Aire, Wiseburn, aldea del EL Camino y
Colinas de Gardena Lennox Baldwin, área de Crenshaw y parque de Leimert
2. Oficinas de Zev Yaroslavsky s del supervisor
821 Kenneth Hahn Pasillo de la administración
Calle del oeste del templo 500
Los Ángeles, CA 90012
(213) 974-3333
(213) fax 625-7360 para las ediciones constitutivas que implican la ciudad del Los
Sur de las áreas de Ángeles de la impulsión de Mulholland, o las ciudades de Beverly
Las colinas, Hollywood del oeste o Santa Mónica, entran en contacto con por favor el centro de la ciudad
Oficina.
3. Supervisor Don Knabe 4to Distrcit
Teléfono: 213-974-4444 | Fax: 213-626-6941
Estados de Palos Verdes del Bellflower de Artesia Marina del Rey Norwalk
Barra Playa del Rey DowneyRancho Palos Verdes Redondo del diamante de Paramount
Jardines del Hawaiian de la ciudad del puerto de Rolling Hills de las alturas de la hacienda de la playa
Colina de la señal de Habra Heights del La de San Pedro de la playa de Hermosa de las alturas de Rowland
La Mirada Whittier del sur Lakewood Torrance Long Beach Wilmington
Manhattan Beach Whittier
4. Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, 5to districto
(213) 974-1010 FAX 974-5555 (213)
Valles de San Gabriel, de Pomona, de San Fernando, de Santa Clarita y del antílope.
5. Supervisor Gloria Molina (que patrocina la resolución el miércoles)
molina@bos.lacounty .gov
Teléfono: (213) 974-4111
Fax: (213) 613-1739
Parque Bandini (islas) de Baldwin de las alturas de Boyle de las alturas del aguacate de Azusa
El Bassett Bell céntrica de Bell de la ciudad de China cultiva un huerto fruta cítrica (Covina
parque Los Ángeles del este del eco del comercio de la roca del águila de las islas) (porción)
Industria Highland Park del parque de Glassell del parque de Huntington
La de las alturas de Lincoln de las alturas de la hacienda de Irwindale (porción)
Puente San Gabriel Westlake Vernon Whittier enangosta la nuez
Pida que el tablero del condado de supervisores impulse supremo
Corteje para volcar el VOTO DOMINANTE del asunto 8 el miércoles 12 de noviembre.
Necesitamos llamadas al tablero del condado del LA de supervisores impulsarlos a
vote SÍ el la mañana de miércoles a favor de una resolución que impulsa el LA
Consejo del condado a ensamblar con la ciudad del LA, condado de Santa Clara, San
Francisco y muchas otras ciudades/condados para impulsar el Tribunal Supremo a
¿asunto 8 el vuelco?
En la orden de la significación y de la importancia: (Líderes del afroamericano
se impulsan particularmente para llamar al supervisor Burke como es su voto
crítico y su posición no se sabe actualmente).
1. Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke, segundo districto
(213) 974-2222
(213) fax 680-3283
gobierno del seconddistrict@ bos.lacounty
Las áreas de la rejilla incluyen: Carson, Compton, Rancho del este Domínguez, puerto
Entrada y Florencia-Pedernal de Rancho Domínguez, Lynwood, del sur
Los Ángeles central, vatios y Willowbrook Inglewood, Westchester y
Atenas Hawthorne, Lawndale, Del Aire, Wiseburn, aldea del EL Camino y
Colinas de Gardena Lennox Baldwin, área de Crenshaw y parque de Leimert
2. Oficinas de Zev Yaroslavsky s del supervisor
821 Kenneth Hahn Pasillo de la administración
Calle del oeste del templo 500
Los Ángeles, CA 90012
(213) 974-3333
(213) fax 625-7360 para las ediciones constitutivas que implican la ciudad del Los
Sur de las áreas de Ángeles de la impulsión de Mulholland, o las ciudades de Beverly
Las colinas, Hollywood del oeste o Santa Mónica, entran en contacto con por favor el centro de la ciudad
Oficina.
3. Supervisor Don Knabe 4to Distrcit
Teléfono: 213-974-4444 | Fax: 213-626-6941
Estados de Palos Verdes del Bellflower de Artesia Marina del Rey Norwalk
Barra Playa del Rey DowneyRancho Palos Verdes Redondo del diamante de Paramount
Jardines del Hawaiian de la ciudad del puerto de Rolling Hills de las alturas de la hacienda de la playa
Colina de la señal de Habra Heights del La de San Pedro de la playa de Hermosa de las alturas de Rowland
La Mirada Whittier del sur Lakewood Torrance Long Beach Wilmington
Manhattan Beach Whittier
4. Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, 5to districto
(213) 974-1010 FAX 974-5555 (213)
Valles de San Gabriel, de Pomona, de San Fernando, de Santa Clarita y del antílope.
5. Supervisor Gloria Molina (que patrocina la resolución el miércoles)
molina@bos.lacounty .gov
Teléfono: (213) 974-4111
Fax: (213) 613-1739
Parque Bandini (islas) de Baldwin de las alturas de Boyle de las alturas del aguacate de Azusa
El Bassett Bell céntrica de Bell de la ciudad de China cultiva un huerto fruta cítrica (Covina
parque Los Ángeles del este del eco del comercio de la roca del águila de las islas) (porción)
Industria Highland Park del parque de Glassell del parque de Huntington
La de las alturas de Lincoln de las alturas de la hacienda de Irwindale (porción)
Puente San Gabriel Westlake Vernon Whittier enangosta la nuez
Call Your California Board of Supervisors: OVERTURN Prop 8 KEY VOTE 11/12/08
Call to Action!
Ask County Board of Supervisors to urge Supreme
Court to Overturn Proposition 8 KEY VOTE ON WEDNESDAY, November 12.
We need calls to the LA County Board of Supervisors to urge them to
vote YES on Wednesday morning in favor of a resolution urging the LA
County Counsel to join with the City of LA, Santa Clara County, San
Francisco and many other cities/counties to urge the Supreme Court to
overturn Proposition 8?
In order of significance and importance: (African American leaders
are particularly urged to call Supervisor Burke as her vote is
critical and her position is not currently known).
1. Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke, Second District
(213) 974-2222
(213) 680-3283 Fax
seconddistrict@ bos.lacounty. gov
Grid areas include: Carson, Compton, East Rancho Dominguez, Harbor
Gateway and Rancho Dominguez Florence-Firestone, Lynwood, South
Central Los Angeles, Watts and Willowbrook Inglewood, Westchester and
Athens Hawthorne, Lawndale, Del Aire, Wiseburn, El Camino Village and
Gardena Lennox Baldwin Hills, Crenshaw Area and Leimert Park
2. Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky' s Offices
821 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration
500 West Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 974-3333
(213) 625-7360 fax For constituent issues involving City of Los
Angeles areas south of Mulholland Drive, or the Cities of Beverly
Hills, West Hollywood or Santa Monica, please contact the Downtown
Office.
3. Supervisor Don Knabe 4th Distrcit
Tel: 213-974-4444 | Fax: 213-626-6941
Artesia Marina delRey Norwalk Bellflower Palos Verdes Estates
Paramount Diamond Bar Playa del Rey DowneyRancho Palos Verdes Redondo
Beach Hacienda Heights Rolling Hills Harbor City Hawaiian Gardens
Rowland Heights Hermosa Beach San Pedro La Habra Heights Signal Hill
La Mirada South Whittier Lakewood Torrance Long Beach Wilmington
Manhattan Beach Whittier
4. Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, 5th District
(213) 974-5555 (213) 974-1010 FAX
San Gabriel, Pomona, San Fernando, Santa Clarita and Antelope Valleys.
5. Supervisor Gloria Molina (sponsoring the resolution on Wednesday)
molina@bos.lacounty .gov
Phone: (213) 974-4111
Fax: (213) 613-1739
Azusa Avocado Heights Boyle Heights Baldwin Park Bandini (islands)
China Town Bell Bassett Downtown Bell Gardens Citrus (Covina
islands) (portion) Eagle Rock Commerce Echo Park East Los Angeles
Huntington Park Glassell Park Industry Highland Park
Irwindale Hacienda Heights (portion) Lincoln Heights La
Puente San Gabriel Westlake Vernon Whittier Narrows Walnut
Ask County Board of Supervisors to urge Supreme
Court to Overturn Proposition 8 KEY VOTE ON WEDNESDAY, November 12.
We need calls to the LA County Board of Supervisors to urge them to
vote YES on Wednesday morning in favor of a resolution urging the LA
County Counsel to join with the City of LA, Santa Clara County, San
Francisco and many other cities/counties to urge the Supreme Court to
overturn Proposition 8?
In order of significance and importance: (African American leaders
are particularly urged to call Supervisor Burke as her vote is
critical and her position is not currently known).
1. Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke, Second District
(213) 974-2222
(213) 680-3283 Fax
seconddistrict@ bos.lacounty. gov
Grid areas include: Carson, Compton, East Rancho Dominguez, Harbor
Gateway and Rancho Dominguez Florence-Firestone, Lynwood, South
Central Los Angeles, Watts and Willowbrook Inglewood, Westchester and
Athens Hawthorne, Lawndale, Del Aire, Wiseburn, El Camino Village and
Gardena Lennox Baldwin Hills, Crenshaw Area and Leimert Park
2. Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky' s Offices
821 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration
500 West Temple Street
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(213) 974-3333
(213) 625-7360 fax For constituent issues involving City of Los
Angeles areas south of Mulholland Drive, or the Cities of Beverly
Hills, West Hollywood or Santa Monica, please contact the Downtown
Office.
3. Supervisor Don Knabe 4th Distrcit
Tel: 213-974-4444 | Fax: 213-626-6941
Artesia Marina delRey Norwalk Bellflower Palos Verdes Estates
Paramount Diamond Bar Playa del Rey DowneyRancho Palos Verdes Redondo
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4. Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, 5th District
(213) 974-5555 (213) 974-1010 FAX
San Gabriel, Pomona, San Fernando, Santa Clarita and Antelope Valleys.
5. Supervisor Gloria Molina (sponsoring the resolution on Wednesday)
molina@bos.lacounty .gov
Phone: (213) 974-4111
Fax: (213) 613-1739
Azusa Avocado Heights Boyle Heights Baldwin Park Bandini (islands)
China Town Bell Bassett Downtown Bell Gardens Citrus (Covina
islands) (portion) Eagle Rock Commerce Echo Park East Los Angeles
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11/11/08
Soulforce: A national call for nonviolent direct action
A national call for nonviolent direct action
in the struggle for marriage equality
Jeff Lutes, M.S., L.P.C.
Last week thousands of lesbian and gay people and their friends filled the streets of California in peaceful protest. Outraged, these upright Californians chose to take action and publicly march against Proposition 8 and the LDS Church for financing the deceptive ads that helped it pass.
First, bravo to our California friends -- their moral indignation is healthy and just. Second, hooray for those in other parts of the country who have begun to follow suit -- let us not stop until every community has mounted sustained campaigns of resistance.
Despite our substantial legislative efforts, thirty states have now passed bans on same-gender marriage. That should serve as a wake-up call to our movement -- one that forces us to consider what we might be doing wrong.
Discrimination does not begin in our courts or in our government -- it ends up there. The fear and misinformation that drives unjust legislation gets its start within society, and the primary source of the problem is the sanctuaries, wealthy mega-churches, and powerful religious institutions of this country. With gigantic and captive national audiences, both Protestant and Catholic churches teach falsehoods that cause voters to cast their ballot against the constitutional promise of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" for their gay and lesbian neighbors.
In this election, like so many others before it, the call from the pulpit was clear: We must stop the gays. As millions of gays and lesbians had their hearts broken, some religious leaders rejoiced in that suffering. The Rev. James Garlow, senior pastor of Skyline Church in San Diego County, told the New York Times "It was a great victory. We just saw the people rise up."
It's time for all of us to rise up like thousands are doing now in the Golden State and elsewhere.
We are tired of defeat, token change, defending ourselves against charges of moral inferiority, and being told to "wait" in the land we love while liberation occurs in other countries. Martin Luther King, Jr. acknowledged that real change takes time; yet he also warned against the "tranquilizing drug of gradualism" and instructed the oppressed to demand equality now -- not on the convenient time schedule of those doing the oppressing.
Nonviolent direct action strategies such as marches, vigils, demonstrations, boycotts, public protests, and civil disobedience, seek to create what Dr. King called "healthy tension." This constructive nonviolent tension forces those who perpetuate injustice, and society as a whole, to pause, reflect, and consider the ugliness of their prejudices and the indecency embodied in their discrimination. In his Letter from Birmingham Jail, Dr. King wrote: "Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored." Public protests empower us and educate those who are still the victims of fear and division.
It's imperative that we remain nonviolent in our approach. Although it may provide short term emotional release, it's ultimately counterproductive to scream expletives at those who have harmed us. We must refrain from damaging property or trying to destroy the character of others and instead approach those who promote discrimination in a spirit of nonviolence. As both Gandhi and King taught, we must avoid violence of the fist, tongue, and heart and remember that in truth we are challenging unjust systems, not people. In due course, we seek to be in community with those from whom we currently find ourselves divided.
So, start organizing now. Don't wait on a LGBT rights group to take the lead. Most of the protests in California were organized by just a handful of people. You can do it too. Imagine the productive conversations around America's dinner tables if the evening news was flooded with coverage of peaceful marches in the other 29 states that ban marriage equality.
In the wake of our recent losses, let's rededicate our lives to speaking out with integrity and let's reclaim nonviolent direct action as part of that process. Let's understand that the vision of equality belongs to all of us and we are each responsible for taking direct action in pursuit of that dream. We all have the faculty to be powerful, influential, and prevailing. Let's reinvest in our movement for social change, believe in our own capacity to affect that change, and allow the boldness and hunger for justice to grow and contagiously spread to others.
Let's take it to the streets.
Soulforce
Task Force : Turn Anger Into Action
Rea Carey, Executive Director
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund
I know that right now, many of you are still shocked, saddened, and extremely angry about the passage of Proposition 8 in California — and let me tell you, so are we.
Losses on similar constitutional amendments in Arizona and Florida, and an adoption ban in Arkansas, are equally devastating. But we're picking ourselves back up here at the Task Force, and we're continuing the fight. And today I want to ask you to turn the anger you may feel at this moment into positive action.
Start by signing your name to our Anger into Action Declaration right now. This declaration is about showing wide public support for the fundamental rights of LGBT people. The latest marriage amendments and adoption ban passed by our fellow citizens are built on lies and deception, and we can't stand for it.
After you sign the declaration, think about what you can be doing in your own life to keep the visibility high and voice your support for full equality. Here are a few examples of what people all around the country are doing to keep up the fight.
Cathy and Ellen, married in California after the May 2008 Supreme Court ruling, are attending a rally and march tonight, protesting discrimination being written into our state constitutions.
Madeline in New York is keeping her "No on 8" button up on her Facebook profile, in solidarity with her Californian friends and family.
A straight ally wrote us a moving e-mail, letting us know he and his wife just donated $100 in honor of their six-month-old son — in hopes that, regardless of his sexual orientation, their child would grow up with the opportunity to share his life with the partner of his choice.
Brian is writing a letter to the editor of his local newspaper in Florida, sharing his views on how discrimination persists, even in light of the progress his state saw in the presidential election.
There is no action too small, and every action — symbolic or more tangible — makes a difference.
I am so proud, despite our losses, of our efforts this election season and continue to be moved by the outpouring of support from our community and our allies. We've called on you, our most loyal supporters, time and time again — to give, to knock on doors, to make phone calls, and to do everything you could to make sure that LGBT people are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.
(Authors note; The Task Force has been a Bastion of Solidarity for Queer and Transgender folks. A call for rational thought when emotions are high may be the last thing we want, but in the long run the results of will be admired by the very ones we currently are at odds with~:)k
Marriage INequality after the dust settles
kelli Busey
planetransgender
November 11, 2008
Now that we have had a week to let the magnatude of the havoc that was wrecked on the GLBT agenda there have been a wide varance of responses. Some protest loudly. Some pray. Some are arrested( do not dance on patrol cars). Many of us wish to localize the pain and blame.
The responses are varied in focus and the expected amount of time for results. I do not advocate the exclusive use of one but will post all.
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has http://www.kintera.org/c.qkIWKaMZIxF/b.4746361/k.29E1/Anger_Into_Action_Declaration/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?sid=192351509&msource=anger2acte1&auid=4217042 Anger into Action Declaration for you to consider signing. Rea Carey, Executive Director asks that you sign this as an action, a first progressive step. Not a bad idea since we have morality and joesphine public with us.
The L.A Gay and Lesbian Center understandably has taken a direct route to a major orhginizer in the passage of Prop 8, the Church of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons). The Center is asking for you to make a donation in the name of the President of said institution for the defeat of marriage inequality. Not a bad idea.
I have done neiter of te above. I will not limit my advocacy, nor promise not to take action out of angrer or stupidity.
I am a woman of faith and find it objectionable to single out a religious leader for expressing his views. This individual is facing the indignation of the nation as the most cinical of Republicians are now asking "WHY".
Bishop Robinson visits Dallas for a "Transgender Conversation"
For immediate release
Contact;
Kelli Busey, Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies (DTAA)
214-226-7080
kellibusey@yahoo.com
posted November 11, 2008
Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies are thrilled to welcome to Dallas the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire for a public conversation with transgender people.
Sheraton Dallas Hotel
Seminar Theater
400 North Olive Street · Dallas, Texas 75201 · United States
Map and Directions
November 22, 2008 from 1:00 until 2:00pm
Bishop Robinson will attend a "Transgender Conversation" with the Dallas Transgender Advocates, and Allies(DTAA) to share with us his wisdom and faith and to learn of the transgender struggle for equality.
Bishop Robinson has bravely stepped forward to answer questions regarding religion and it's influence on progressive social action, and to share with us what he has learned from the recent Lambeth and how his diocese situation parallels the Queer and Transgenders class struggle against social, religious and political exclusionary and revisionist agendas.
Who are the Dallas Transgender and Advocates Queers and Allies?
We are Transgender Questioning Intersexed Asexual Queers and allies. We comprise a nationwide network of diversity in ethnic, social, educational, economic, religious, gender identities, sexual orientations and political views. Our goal is to unite the Transgender Questioning Intersexed Asexual Queer community through realization of potential in soul and mind and moving forward as a whole in the cause of social, legal and religious equality.
Hosting entity
Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies
Donations are encouraged and appreciated to defray expenses. All remaining funds will forwarded to Carmens Place, an Episcopal home and outreach for LBGT youth, Astoria, New York
Carmens Place
Allied and concerned organizations
Reconciling Ministries Network(RMN)
RMN.org
Dallas Peace Center
Dallas Peace Center.org
Queer Today
Queer Today
Left In SF
Left In SF
Organisation Intersex International, OII-USA
planetransgender.blogspot.com
planetransgender.wordpress
11/10/08
Tell President Elect Obama Your Story
Courtesy of the LGBT Democrats and the Atomic Gay Wonk we have learned of the President elect Obama's web page where he is asking Americans to tell him your story.
Start right now. Tell us your story in your own words about what this campaign and this election means to you. Share your hopes for an Obama Administration and a government for the people.
Tell President-elect Barack Obama your thoughts about gay marriage, an inclusive ENDA, DOMA, Don't Ask Don't Tell, gay adoption, gay immigration equality, the need for national leadership in fighting anti-gay ballot initiatives, and more at Change.gov
kelli Busey
Nov. 10, 2008
planetransgender
ANTI-PROP 8 PROTEST at DALLAS TOWN HALL 11-15-08
ANTI-PROP 8 PROTEST SET FOR DALLAS 11-15-08
posted by Kelli Busey
planetransgender
On election day of this year while the LGBT community was celebrating the end of Bush politics our inequality was being written into the California, Florida, Arizona and Arkansas constitutions. In California where LGBT people had enjoyed marriage equality since June our rights were ripped away from us over night.
Since the elections tens of thousands of people have been pouring into the streets throughout California in disgust over the passing of Prop 8. This Saturday, November 15 at 12:30 PM, we in Dallas will stand in front of City Hall with those in California in expressing our abhorrence of the passing of this hateful measure.
Dallas’ Protest is part of a nationwide day of action against Prop 8. This effort coordinated through the website www.jointheimpact.com will take place at exactly the same time this coming Saturday in front of City Halls throughout the country.
Although last Tuesday’s vote in California prompted officials in that state to cease issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, it’s an open question whether the Supreme Court in that state will confirm the ballot referendum or throw it out. Officially, their decision will probably hinge on a legal technicality, whether or not the referendum language broke a vaguely worded provision of the state constitution that says that referenda cannot be overly-broad in the matters they cover.
However, the real reason for the court’s decision will probably have much more to do with the amount of protest heat that LGBT people and our allies can generate outside of the courtrooms. While courts are always loath to admit that public protest influences their decisions, some of the most important progressive decisions have in fact been the direct results of such public protest. A large women’s movement in the streets of America made the Nixon-packed, anti-abortion US Supreme Court give us the Roe v. Wade pro-choice decision in the 1970s to name one example.
Saturday’s nationwide protests are aimed at pressuring the California Supreme Court to reaffirm its earlier pro-gay decision and restore the state’s reputation as a beacon for progressives elsewhere. Also on the agenda is repealing the Texas state constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage and advancing LGBT equality here in our home state, this is not an impossible task that our elected leaders often present it as being.
For more information about Saturday’s demonstration please contact the following individuals:
Blake Wilkinson
214-679-6321
fromabilitiestoneeds@hotmail.com
Etta Zamboni
469-323-3060
stoptheh8@ymail.com
Dallas Voice Instant Tea
posted by Kelli Busey
planetransgender
On election day of this year while the LGBT community was celebrating the end of Bush politics our inequality was being written into the California, Florida, Arizona and Arkansas constitutions. In California where LGBT people had enjoyed marriage equality since June our rights were ripped away from us over night.
Since the elections tens of thousands of people have been pouring into the streets throughout California in disgust over the passing of Prop 8. This Saturday, November 15 at 12:30 PM, we in Dallas will stand in front of City Hall with those in California in expressing our abhorrence of the passing of this hateful measure.
Dallas’ Protest is part of a nationwide day of action against Prop 8. This effort coordinated through the website www.jointheimpact.com will take place at exactly the same time this coming Saturday in front of City Halls throughout the country.
Although last Tuesday’s vote in California prompted officials in that state to cease issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, it’s an open question whether the Supreme Court in that state will confirm the ballot referendum or throw it out. Officially, their decision will probably hinge on a legal technicality, whether or not the referendum language broke a vaguely worded provision of the state constitution that says that referenda cannot be overly-broad in the matters they cover.
However, the real reason for the court’s decision will probably have much more to do with the amount of protest heat that LGBT people and our allies can generate outside of the courtrooms. While courts are always loath to admit that public protest influences their decisions, some of the most important progressive decisions have in fact been the direct results of such public protest. A large women’s movement in the streets of America made the Nixon-packed, anti-abortion US Supreme Court give us the Roe v. Wade pro-choice decision in the 1970s to name one example.
Saturday’s nationwide protests are aimed at pressuring the California Supreme Court to reaffirm its earlier pro-gay decision and restore the state’s reputation as a beacon for progressives elsewhere. Also on the agenda is repealing the Texas state constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage and advancing LGBT equality here in our home state, this is not an impossible task that our elected leaders often present it as being.
For more information about Saturday’s demonstration please contact the following individuals:
Blake Wilkinson
214-679-6321
fromabilitiestoneeds@hotmail.com
Etta Zamboni
469-323-3060
stoptheh8@ymail.com
Dallas Voice Instant Tea
11/9/08
Stu Rasmussen Oregon Transgender Mayor
The Silverton Appeal maybe the small town atomsphere of trust and understanding that accompanies fresh air living.
Silverton Oregon just elected lifetime resident Stu Rasmussen Oregon Mayor. Stu is a self described man who is comfortable looking and dressing as a woman.
Gender diversity rocks and Stu you are the king of Rock and Roll!
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Dallas Baptist Hate Mongers promote death
Sunday November 9th 2008
The smug, smiling members of Dallas First Baptist Church greeted the 100 angry protesters with robotic programed message "we love you". But soon this smugness was replaced with a look of horror as they learned of the reality of advertising homophobic bigotry as their own church has done.
Look what you have done
You put up a message as this and it will push a killer to believe that they you are morally justified in their killing such as gunman at the Unitarian Universalist church, the 10 year old killer of Lawrence King who walked up behind Lawrence and blew his head off, the murderer 18 year old Angie Zapata who smashed "it again" with a fire extinguisher because he saw....
"IT MOVE AGAIN".
2008 = 20 transgender smashed bloody mutilated corpses.
There has been much gloating from "religious" figures who were instrumental in the recent Marriage Equality initiatives. The Transgender Day of Remembrance is November 20. And you love me?
DO YOU LOVE THEM?
The lady nearly in tears as I shown her my own scars. This is the reality. A gang beat me nearly to death and you good Baptists stepped over my lifeless body on the cold city street.
Do you really love me?
Or her?
or her?
How about this baby?
We want you to leave us live. We have our faith, our gods, or none at all.
GOD.
North Texans say "GAY IS OK"
Some North Texans said they plan to picket a Dallas church because of a sign reading, "Why gay is not OK."
The topic of Sunday's sermon at the First Baptist Dallas Church is, "Why gay is not OK." It is written on the church's sign at the corner of Ervay and Patterson streets in the heart of downtown Dallas.
"I am surprised that in 2008, any church would have a sign like this out," Grace McFerrin said.
Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies supports marriage equality
11/8/08
Chicago Protest TONIGHT Against Prop. 8 Leader James Dobson
Focus on the Family's James Dobson spent $800,000 on Proposition 8 to stop gay people form marrying in California. Tonight, this dangerous ideologue will be inducted into the Museum of Broadcast Communication's Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago.
He will be met with a protest this evening from LGBT organizations at 5:30 PM, outside of the Renaissance Chicago Hotel, 1 W. Wacker Drive (corner of Wacker & State).
Focus on the Family's James Dobson
It truly is mind-blowing that the Radio Hall of Fame would honor a leader of Proposition 8 on the same week he played a key role in helping the amendment pass. Dobson put his Media Empire and vast amounts of money into the service of denying equal marriage rights for same-sex couples. And, the Radio Hall of Fame reacts disgracefully by giving this demagogue a trophy.
If you live in the Chicago area, join us tonight and participate in our demonstration. If you cannot actually be with us, please be there in spirit by giving a generous contribution. We are only able to make our voices heard with your help.
Wayne Besen"
wbesen@truthwinsout.org
kelli Busey
Planetransgender
kellibusey@yahoo.com
11/7/08
Protest set Sunday over anti-gay sermon at First Baptist Dallas
"Not ok to be Gay" says First Baptist senior pastor, the Rev. Robert Jeffress.
Rev. Jeffress is known for his failed effort to ban books books from the Wichita Falls TX library which resulted in the public donating hundreds of copies to replace those that Rev. Jeffress refused to return.
Many who people have been upset by the Mormons November 4th interference in California's civil rights efforts are equally disturbed to learn that right here in our beloved Texas religious demagogues are seeding homophobia and bigotry.
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A street demonstration is scheduled across the street from the church entrance on San Jacinto Street at 10 a.m. Sunday. Those attending are encouraged to bring signs.
For more information about the protest, e-mail Fulcher at samblade8@yahoo.com.
By kelli Busey
Nov.08, 2008
planetransgender
Queer UK protests Stonewall's Julie Bindel at Victoria and Albert Museum
By kelli Busey
Nov. o7, 2008
planetransgender
The Awards ceremony in which unapoligetic transphobic Julie Bindel was awarded the writer of the year award from the UK's inappropriately named "Stonewall" group was protested by a large group of mainly young and disenfranchised Transgender, Queer and Allies.
London as reported by Loz Flowers
"Stonewall, despite naming itself after an event in which trannies took part, has never made any bones about being an organisation that does not represent transsexual people. However, for it's 2008 awards it decided to accept a nomination for best journalist for Julie Bindel, a writer with a history of transphobic opinions and writing.
So a group of about 150 pissed-off transsexual people and their allies held a fun and trouble-free protest outside of the Stonewall Awards at the Victoria and Albert Museum on the evening of the 6th of November 2008 to remind them of what they seemed keen to forget or ignore."
11/6/08
Californian Gay's Protest Mormon Church Intervention in Constitution
By kelli Busey
Nov. 07, 2008
planetransgender
What do we want? Equal Rights Now.
The battle cry of the GLBT community began resounding throughout California after the passage of Prop 8. Many in the GLBT community found the Mormons contribution particularly offensive and gathered at Tabernacles to make it known.
Mormons have since have defended there participation and made calls for calm claiming that while the leadership of the Mormon Church did ask for members to donate for the passage of prop.8 technically the Church did not directly contribute monetarily.
Nov. 07, 2008
planetransgender
What do we want? Equal Rights Now.
The battle cry of the GLBT community began resounding throughout California after the passage of Prop 8. Many in the GLBT community found the Mormons contribution particularly offensive and gathered at Tabernacles to make it known.
Mormons have since have defended there participation and made calls for calm claiming that while the leadership of the Mormon Church did ask for members to donate for the passage of prop.8 technically the Church did not directly contribute monetarily.
Ten Questions for California United Methodists who voted on Proposition 8
Ten Questions for California United Methodists who voted on Proposition 8
By Rev. Gilbert H. Caldwell
cross posted directly from the Reconciling Ministries Network Blog (RMN)
Full Disclosure: I am a 75 year old, African American United Methodist clergyman who was first ordained in 1956. I am straight and have been in a heterosexual marriage for almost 51 years. If I had been a resident of California, I would have voted No on Proposition 8 that defined marriage as being limited to one man and one woman.
1)Was your vote determined by your understanding of Scripture and/or legislation in the United Methodist Book of Discipline?
2)If Proposition 8 had read: "Marriage should be limited to one man and one woman of the same race/ethnicity", would your vote have been the same?
3)Do you believe that in our democracy, numerical majorities have the right to vote to limit the civil rights of numerical minorities?
4)Do you realize that while the U.S. Supreme Court declared in 1954 that the practice of racial "separate but equal" public schools was invalid, the United Methodist Church did not eliminate its "separate but equal" racial Central Jurisdiction until 1968? Does this not suggest that there is a history of the state proclaiming equality before the church? Why did a majority of the voters of California support the "same old, same old"?
5)How are heterosexual marriages in California enriched and enhanced because of the majority vote to deny same gender marriage?
6)Do United Methodists of Color and others who voted to support Proposition 8 realize that the Biblical and Church rationale that some of its initiators professed, was the same rationale that once restricted the rights of people of color? If they now develop a Proposition to limit the civil rights of persons of color, would you support it?
7)Some persons who are against same gender marriage did not vote for Barack Obama because his father was black and his mother was white and "The Bible forbids interracial marriage". Was a vote to support Proposition 8 on Biblical grounds a vote to support those who "use" the Bible to justify their resistance to interracial marriage?
8)I am disappointed as are others because many people of color who were strong supporters of Barack Obama were also supporters of Proposition 8. But, my disappointment is made more moderate because of the history of white majority decisions that limited the rights of people of color. Is it helpful for us as United Methodists to acknowledge the linkages between all of the actions to restrict the civil rights of persons whether because of race/ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation?
9)Do you agree that it would be un-democratic, un-civil, unreasonable and unfaithful to allow the majority vote to support Proposition 8 to make invalid the thousands of same gender marriages that were performed when they were legal? If ever a "grandfather clause" was in order, it is now in order in California
10)The tears of joy that many of us shed in response to the election of Barack Obama were a response to our acknowledgment of the utter foolishness of the attitudes and actions that once made impossible the election of an African American President. When same gender marriage becomes legal in California and the rest of the nation, we will again shed tears as we remember the foolishness of the vote to support Proposition 8. Regardless of how you voted, do you now dare admit how tragic it was to even consider a Proposition 8 in the 21st century?
7 Arrested In L.A.-Area Prop. 8 Protest
by Kelli Busey
Nov. 6, 2008
planetransgender
WKSBW Channel 8 : 7 Arrested In L.A.-Area Prop. 8 Protest One protester after dancing on a police car was brutally taken down WKSBW reports high state of tension between opponents and proponents of Prop. 8. Police have riot gear at the ready and even worn in some instances.
Find a Mormon Church
It's one of my habits. I do this all the time. Let's go to Church. This week lets go find a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and pray. I love Church.
From:Queers United Prop 8 Rally at Mormon Temple
Queers United next door has a very active No on 8 conversation going.
Father Geoff Farrow ; Equal Rights the Chants filled the night!
Father Farrow writes from the corner of San Vincente and Santa Monica Blvd. "Thousands of people gathered and marched up to Sunset Blvd. Equal Rights the chants filled the night!"
Father Geoff Farrow a Catholic Priest, who when asked in October to speak in favor of Prop. 8 followed his conscious and spoke against Prop 8. This is a true American patriot, a man of incredible faith who as a straight man stands with us even when his existence is questioned. I am no theologian but I think Jesus would be pretty proud of a soul who is willing to sacrifice all for you and I.
CA: NO ON Prop. 8 Rally Calls to March on Mormon Temple in Los Angeles Nov. 6th
by Kelli Busey
Thursday Nov. 6, 2008
planetransgender
During the Prop 8 debate the Mormon Church contributed monetarily to embed it's views of human rights into California's state constitution. Frustration over a church buying its way into the personal lives of Americaian citizens will be demonstrated at a protest Thursday Nov 2, 2008 at the Mormon Temple 10777 Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles
Reposted directly as reported by p.Johanna from Santa Monica, CA November 5, 2008;
Lez Get Real's own contributors were at the Prop. 8 Protest Rally held in Santa Monica, CA earlier tonight.
Streets were closed in the area to accommodate the gathering. Here is what happened at that rally, as reported to me via text message from p.Johanna:
"There was a reverend speaking and also another woman, who said this is a human rights issue. The crowd was really hyped. They said we need to stay angry! We need to keep going against Prop. 8 and towards civil rights and equality in the U.S. The crowd cheered in unison 'Yes we can! Yes we can!' They said we shouldn't be violent, but that we should work together to not be at the back of the bus anymore. The crowd yelled 'Equal rights! Equal rights! News channels began to arrive and it seemed like they didn't know this event was happening. A call was issued to march on the Mormon Temple at 10777 Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles at 2pm tomorrow November 6th. Bring your signs and video cameras.
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Jerry Brown the State Attorney spoke saying that the marriages performed between June and yesterday are still valid. They are fighting for us and it's a legal mess. They are working around the clock on this. Jerry Brown says that we need to walk together, to walk in solidarity. The crowd yelled together 'Yes we can! Yes we can!'.
Javier Angulo called for a Chicano clap. The crowd yelled 'Si se puede! Si se puede!'. A helicopter flew overhead, and the crowd cheered at it. Javier Angulo quotes Martin Luther King Jr. saying that he had a dream and Obama made part of that dream come true. He says that now our fundamental rights have been infringed upon, but hold onto hope - all the votes have not been counted. Regardless, he said to take pride in achieving social justice. He said that the Latino community is often overlooked, and that Latinos value social justice. He says we have an ally. At that point everyone, even other nationalities chanted 'Si se puede! Si se puede!'. The helicopter shined its light on the crowd. He said they were shining the light on discrimination.
At that point, the woman began to speak again and said that bigotry is not only here, but in Arkansas, Arizona and Florida, but said that years to come the people who voted Yes on Prop 8 and in the other States will be ashamed of themselves. The crowd cheered 'Shame! Shame!'. She said that we are on the right side of history. Now, we're mad. And when we get mad, we work harder and we work smarter. The opposition will wish they didn't mess with us. At that, the crowd went crazy. I would often hear, 'TAX THEM! TAX THEM!'
She continued by saying that if we look at Prop. 22 we lost by a higher margin. This time we were within 5 points. That is enormous progress. The crowd yelled 'Not enough! Not enough!'. They were very angry! She went on to say that we make a promise to our opponents that we will gain our rights back, and we will crush discrimination. She said don't lose heart; use this as a push; don't give up... vow to continue the fight. She said to talk to everyone you know and tell them why the vote was wrong and how it was wrong from the start. Tell them how the majority was tyrannical to the minority, she continued. Tomorrow we will march on the Mormon Temple. The crowd cheered. The emphasis seems to be against the Mormons, and to fight against them. The crowd cheered in unison 'Equal rights! Equal rights!' There was a sign next to me that said 'You can't amend love.'
At that point she told us the rally was over. She said that tonight do not take it to the streets. We aren't taking it to our streets, she continued, tomorrow we take it to theirs."
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11/5/08
Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies now affiliated with the United Kingdoms Queer Youth Network
Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies a member of the US's Queer Today.com is now affiliated with The Youth Queer Network, UK's National LGBT Youth Organisation.
In a show of solidarity which reaches across the planet two queer organizations from separate continents have joined together to secure a better world for the gender diverse.
In a remarkable set of "coincidences" a GLB organization in the United Kingdom called the "Stonewall" has adopted an agenda identical in results of the United States Gay and Lesbian organization the "Human Rights Campaign."
Both organizations claim full inclusiveness in fundraising while simultaneously engaging in discrimination against and removal of Queer folk from consideration in human rights.
The shock wave that follows exclusionary actions taken by nationally recognized Gay and Lesbian groups results in the increases of horrific murders of young queer folk.
Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies adamantly and LOUDLY OPPOSES ANY agenda from any group who's actions result in the death of queer folk.
By kelli Busey
Nov 6, 2008
planetransgender
11/3/08
email version of steping up
Bishop Robinson Stepping UP/an Invitation
Letters and petition were sent to the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Bishop, New Hampshire, the only openly gay Bishop in the Anglican communion, asking him to consider how his attendance at certain social organizations fund raiser might affect transgender people. It is the belief of many transgender people that the exclusion from the national human rights movement was inhumane and his attendance would validate a sense that Transgender people were somehow less than Gays and Lesbians.
Our petitions and protests are without constraint from political and religious influence.
The response we received from Bishop Robinson took us completely off guard. Bishop Robinson asked to meet us, anywhere anytime! Well, how dare he? A religious leader of the Anglican communion willingly stepping up and taking this risk to meet? I was astounded and had to rethink how could we best respond to such a offer.
I went back to my roots at the Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN), and what I have learned of philosophy and faith. I considered what could be the most important out come of such a meeting?
In response to Bishops Robinson's invitation we formed the Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies from previously friendly but separate people.
We all realized our need to be cohesive yet diverse and to respect each other for our common goal of lifting up the Transgender, Queer, Intersexed, Asexual and Questioning people from the sense of despair, frustration and anger we have found ourselves in since our exclusion from the national Gay and Lesbian human rights movement.
Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies are now extending our hand in friendship and welcome to all. We are everything, from radical to conservative and there are no guarantees. It is a leap of faith.
Come and be part of the Conversation with Bishop Robinson on November 22 in Dallas Texas.
We are so different yet so much the same. This realization of our humanity is due to Bishop Robinson "Stepping Up"
By Kelli Busey
Nov. 3,2008
planetransgender
Petition to End Spiritual Violence
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Endspiritualviolence/
Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire
http://www.nhepiscopal.org/contact.html Rt.
Reconciling Ministries Network
http://www.rmnetwork.org/
Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies
http://dallastaa.ning.com/
Exclusion from the national Gay and Lesbian human rights movement.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3686/blogs
Conversation with Bishop Robinson
http://planetransgender.blogspot.com/2008/09/press-release-dallas-transgender_30.html
planetransgender Rambling to a Far Lef T/an Invitation
http://planetransgender.blogspot.com/2008/11/rambling-to-far-lef-t-invitation-to.html
Letters and petition were sent to the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Bishop, New Hampshire, the only openly gay Bishop in the Anglican communion, asking him to consider how his attendance at certain social organizations fund raiser might affect transgender people. It is the belief of many transgender people that the exclusion from the national human rights movement was inhumane and his attendance would validate a sense that Transgender people were somehow less than Gays and Lesbians.
Our petitions and protests are without constraint from political and religious influence.
The response we received from Bishop Robinson took us completely off guard. Bishop Robinson asked to meet us, anywhere anytime! Well, how dare he? A religious leader of the Anglican communion willingly stepping up and taking this risk to meet? I was astounded and had to rethink how could we best respond to such a offer.
I went back to my roots at the Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN), and what I have learned of philosophy and faith. I considered what could be the most important out come of such a meeting?
In response to Bishops Robinson's invitation we formed the Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies from previously friendly but separate people.
We all realized our need to be cohesive yet diverse and to respect each other for our common goal of lifting up the Transgender, Queer, Intersexed, Asexual and Questioning people from the sense of despair, frustration and anger we have found ourselves in since our exclusion from the national Gay and Lesbian human rights movement.
Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies are now extending our hand in friendship and welcome to all. We are everything, from radical to conservative and there are no guarantees. It is a leap of faith.
Come and be part of the Conversation with Bishop Robinson on November 22 in Dallas Texas.
We are so different yet so much the same. This realization of our humanity is due to Bishop Robinson "Stepping Up"
By Kelli Busey
Nov. 3,2008
planetransgender
Petition to End Spiritual Violence
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Endspiritualviolence/
Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire
http://www.nhepiscopal.org/contact.html Rt.
Reconciling Ministries Network
http://www.rmnetwork.org/
Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies
http://dallastaa.ning.com/
Exclusion from the national Gay and Lesbian human rights movement.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3686/blogs
Conversation with Bishop Robinson
http://planetransgender.blogspot.com/2008/09/press-release-dallas-transgender_30.html
planetransgender Rambling to a Far Lef T/an Invitation
http://planetransgender.blogspot.com/2008/11/rambling-to-far-lef-t-invitation-to.html
Rambling to a Far Lef T/ Invitation to Step Up
Bishop Robinson Stepping UP/an Invitation
Letters and petitions were sent to the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Bishop, New Hampshire the only openly gay Bishop in the Anglican communion, asking him to consider how his attendance at certain social organizations fund raiser might affect transgender people. It is the belief of many transgender people that the exclusion from the national human rights movement was inhumane and his attendance would validate a sense that Transgender people were somehow less than Gays and Lesbians.
Our petitions and protests are without constraint from political and religious influence.
The response we received from Bishop Robinson took us completely off guard. Bishop Robinson asked to meet us, anywhere anytime! Well, how dare he? A religious leader of the Anglican communion willingly stepping up and taking this risk to meet? I was astounded and had to rethink how could we best respond to such a offer.
I went back to my roots at the Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN), and what I have learned of philosophy and faith. I considered what could be the most important out come of such a meeting?
In response to Bishops Robinson's invitation we formed the Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies from previously friendly but separate people.
We all realized our need to be cohesive yet diverse and to respect each other for our common goal of lifting up the Transgender, Queer, Intersexed, Asexual and Questioning people from the sense of despair, frustration and anger we have found ourselves in since our exclusion from the national Gay and Lesbian human rights movement.
Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies are now extending our hand in friendship and welcome to all. We are everything, from radical to conservative and there are no guarantees. It is a leap of faith.
Come and be part of the Conversation with Bishop Robinson on November 22 in Dallas Texas.
We are so different yet so much the same. This realization of our humanity is due to Bishop Robinson "Stepping UP!"
By Kelli Busey
Nov. 3,2008
planetransgender
11/2/08
Georgia becoming transgender friendly (one municipality at a time)
By Kelli Busey
Nov. 2, 2008
planetransgender
The Southern Voice in a article by Matt Schafer reports that Doraville Georgia is taking steps to join Atlanta and Decatur in extending their non-discrimination statements to include transgender municipal employees.
According to the article both Cole Thaler, national transgender rights attorney for Lambda Legal and Jeff Graham, the executive director of Georgia Georgia Equality are instrumental in moving this forward.
Nov. 2, 2008
planetransgender
The Southern Voice in a article by Matt Schafer reports that Doraville Georgia is taking steps to join Atlanta and Decatur in extending their non-discrimination statements to include transgender municipal employees.
According to the article both Cole Thaler, national transgender rights attorney for Lambda Legal and Jeff Graham, the executive director of Georgia Georgia Equality are instrumental in moving this forward.
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