Listag Film, Benim Çocuğum & My Child, Fragman & Trailer. @turkgayclub

These parents risked everything to proclaim their love for there trans and gay children during a time of intense police brutality and arbitrary murders. They are my heroes.

[bing translate] Angel Okan, Bursa, transgender Irem Okan's mother brutally murdered in 2010, stabbed 44 times. This documentary, seven mom and dad, they live in a conservative, homophobic and transphobic society, parents, family and what it means to be an activist again be described, these special experiences with the audience witness to share in a friendly manner.

Source Turkey Gay Club: Turkey, especially in recent years, a growing conservatism in making itself felt, and many life significantly under the influence of the sanctions to continue.
On the other hand come out with the moms and dads told the children of LGBT and LGBT these approaches and other relatives and friends, and have received impressive results when they try to convince all of society.

So far, they have families LİSTAG'lı interviews, participated in both events or news pseudonyms are used in newspapers and magazines all the time and not showing their faces were included. Now open up the society, family members who choose to show their faces so they decided to realize my child documentary and crossed the whole world in front of the camera to announce the words

Michelangelo Signorile speaks with Arizona State Representative John #NoLoo4U Kavanagh

Michelangelo Signorile takes apart the rationale behind John Kavanagh's noloo4u bill recently voted out of committee along party lines. His original bill expressly targeted transgender people for all intents made normal daily functions illegal.

Signorile: So now a business could make a choice (subjective determination) and not allow someone to use there restrooms?

Kavanagh replies indicating his abhorrence of gender non conforming people "Someone who is biological male but thinks in there mind they are female" would be allowed to patronize stores, restaurants and other places of public accommodations. What the business could do is to restrict a person from using there restrooms and could call the police if they refused to comply.



Kavanagh: "Bathroom wasn't the central issue. People are clearly uncomfortable when a person enters a bathroom of the opposite sex all off us have experienced that." (really?)

Signorile: "so what are you worried about? No one knows or cares about whats going on in the next stall over!"

Kavanagh defends his bill saying "A tree fall in the the woods nobody hears it " implying if his law is broken and no one knows or is harmed by us using the bathroom that keeps us from being attacked, who would know?

Exactly!

Q:If we trees have been falling since the beginning of time why would Kavanagh criminalize our 'movements' now, when no one ever heard us falling before?
A:Transphobia

Why ARE NY Police Busting GNC Peeps? Fashion?

So you're standing on a corner minding my own when a cop suddenly whirls you around, gratuitously grabs your tits and ass and throws you roughly in a squad car charging you with prostitution.

You're crime? Being in possession of nine condoms, wearing $990 platforms, a slit mini skirt and white pirates top, braless.

But really, what did you do wrong?

In order to be arrested for what you were wearing as a NY Times article "Arrests by the Fashion Police" frames it, you would have to have committed a fashion Faux Pas. So whats that?

A faux pas is "a socially awkward or tactless act, especially one that violates accepted social norms, standard customs, or the rules of etiquette".

Well you're not tactless, violating social norms and customs enough to get busted and sure not messing with anyone's etiquette. And nether am I. We're just expressing our gender, legally and creatively.

I think the Times well intentioned article unintentionally puts the victims in the offenders camp. The fact is the NYPD see us as convent easy targets of opportunity to satisfy there bosses insatiable appetite for stop and frisks.

NYPD, we are GNC. We are here.

Plus, writing about this is a great excuse to show off my new pumps.

Indigo Girls Letter to our community in regards to Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival

be sure to check out the boycott petition at the end of the Indigo girls letter PETICIÓN A LAS PARTICIPANTES EN EL 'Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival' (MWMF): BOICOT AL 'MWMF' HASTA QUE LAS ORGANIZADORAS INCLUYAN COMPLETAMENTE A LAS MUUJER3ES TRANSEXUALES

We want you to know some of our thoughts about our participation in Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. Indigo Girls have a lot of respect for protest and dialogue in our feminist and queer movements, and we want to do our part to encourage growth and evolution in our community. We care about MWMF deeply, and in our years of playing the Festival, we have evolved and benefited from the experience. We have received many gifts from this unique and powerful gathering.

Our hope for all the past years has been that the Festival would move towards an intention of Trans-Inclusion. We have continued to search our selves and look at both sides of this issue and truly respect the different points of view, but have always come back to our core belief that Trans Womyn should be included in the Festival, and their womynhood should be honored by the intentions of MWMF. The current intention for the Festival to be for “Womyn born Womyn” only grew out of an important necessity to honor the idea that womyn have a variety of self expression and appearance and they need a safe space where their womynhood is not in question as they stand in many different places on the spectrum from femininity to masculinity. This intention has a very important historic basis and has kept the space safe for many womyn over the years. But we strongly feel that the time is long overdue for a change of intention, to one that states very plainly the inclusion of Trans Womyn. To us, this change of intention is the only path to a truly
“safe space” for womyn.

We are in a time of struggle and rapid changes in our movement and we would be remiss to not recognize that many of the strides that have been made are a result of Trans Activism and the strength and perspective they have brought to the queer and feminist revolutions. We feel that if someone identifies as a womyn, they are a womyn and should be welcomed into our community with open arms. We will only be stronger for it.

We will be playing the Festival this year in the spirit of change We encourage the Founders and the community of MWMF to find the bravery and compassion that we are all endowed with to create a space that is Trans Inclusive. We know these changes are complex and take time and careful consideration. MWMF has a long and important history of being on the cutting edge of positive change- a torchbearer for the hard transitions within the feminist and queer movements. This is the time to fulfill MWMF’s most vital role in our community and help to honor the Trans Community out in the world, by honoring them within the world of Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. We hope in the end that we can all find our “safe space” and comfort on the sacred land of MWMF.

We understand that there are many folks who feel passionately about these issues, but we encourage people on both sides to act peacefully when they express themselves. There is nothing to be gained from hateful rhetoric or aggressive actions. All over the world queer, and specifically Trans folks are beaten and killed for being who they are. The community of MWMF has a responsibility to fight this hate and be a beacon of love and light for all womyn suffering under hate and oppression, and this includes our Trans Sisters. If you are against Trans Inclusion at MWMF, that is your prerogative, but that does not mean you have to be aggressive towards the Trans community. This kind of hate and aggression will rip our community apart and we all know who benefits from “divide and conquer” and it’s not womyn or queers.

Although we are playing the festival, we honor the current protest against MWMF and hope that it will help move the community towards change. Any money that we make playing the Festival will go towards Trans Activism. We will make a statement from stage at the Festival in support of Trans Inclusion. We have made it clear that this will be our last time at the Festival until MWMF shows visible and concrete signs of changing their intention. We have no animosity towards anyone in this case but see the deep and fearless legacy that MWMF has had during its existence and we honor that. We also honor the prayerfulness that has been a part of this struggle on both sides. This is not an easy path, so we empathize with all who struggle to make their decisions. We love Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival and hope for it’s continued presence and power in our lives.

Sincerely,
Amy and Emily, Indigo Girls
April 4th, 2013

FIRMEMOS TODAS/OS PARA PARAR LA TRANSFOBIA, EL CISEXISMO Y LA EXCUSIÓN DE LAS MUJERES TRANSEXUALES DEL 'Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival', el evento «para mujeres»[sic] (SOLAMENTE para mujeres CISEXUALES, ya que NOS EXCLUYE EXPRESAMENTE A LAS MUJERES TRANSEXUALES) más grande del mundo:

Petition: Indigo Girls and other MichFest 2013 Performers: Boycott MWMF until the organizers fully include trans women.

"The official stance of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival indicates that the Festival is open only to cisgender women and that transgender women are not officially allowed on the grounds as volunteers or attendees. This is in accordance with a long-standing policy of exclusion that founder and producer Lisa Vogel confirmed as recently as 2006. Although in the past some of the staff has “looked the other way,” the policy against trans women that is in place has cultivated a climate of transphobia at the Festival. This situation is unwelcoming and unsafe for transgender women and has become a divisive influence on feminist communities, both at Fest and around the US."

Texas Aggie's Student Senate Approves LGBT Discrimination Cloaked in Christianity

SourceKBTX.com: "It was standing room only in the meeting room of the Texas A&M Student Senate Wednesday night as senators voted in favor of the "Religious Funding Exemption Bill," a bill recommending to university leadership that students have the ability to opt out of mandatory student fees which are contrary to a student's particular religious or moral views."

"The vote total as announced at the meeting was 35-28 - an official count published by the Senate has yet to have been published."

"The bill, which previously bore the name "The GLBT Funding Opt-Out Bill", has taken heat from critics who say the bill is a blatant attempt to de-fund Texas A&M's Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Resource Center."

I was overwhelmed with sadness today thinking about this today. It is a shame people who call themselves Christians should spend so much time and energy making others foreigners to the lord. Welcome to Texas young minds.

Kelly Young, Baltimore Transgender Woman Murdered

This video is heart wrenching. Kelly Young was truly loved by her family, friends and community. She was loved.
Early Wednesday morning police were called to a home in the 2200 block of Barclay Street for a report of a shooting.
Rescue crews found Young inside of the home; she died at the hospital.

If you have any information about the murder of Kelly Young, you can call the Baltimore City Police Homicide Division at (410) 396-2100.