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Mona Rae Mason “The Coming Out Party Is Over. Where Do We Go from Here?”

“The Coming Out Party Is Over. Where Do We Go from Here?” Mona Rae Mason Keynote Address Fantasia Fair October 24, 2009 Provincetown, MA For Loubriella Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Mona Rae Mason. Just so you have an idea of my background, I’m from New York City, where I recently completed work on an NIH funded study of the male to female population in the NY Metro area. It was a 5 year, longitudinal study, with almost 600 volunteer transgender participants. That’s a huge number for… Continue

Added by Mona Rae Mason on November 24, 2009 at 4:30am — No Comments

Jamie "SNL" parodies "300," Obama, DADT

While Saturday Night Live has been flailing as of late (Can't we just rewind the tape a few years to the much more hilarious times?), the show has been producing some queer content as of late, especially when it comes to Don't Ask, Don't Tell. This past Saturday, Oct. 17, the show parodied 300 and DADT in a brilliant sketch that highlighted the flaws of the policy and the failure of the Obama administration to remove the ridiculous policy. King Leonidas declares that the time just isn't right… Continue

Added by Jamie on October 21, 2009 at 3:29pm — No Comments

Jamie Lady GaGa beats out Obama on equality

On Sunday, Oct. 11, activists, community organizers and concerned citizens from across America took the long walk past the White House to the U.S. Capitol building with rainbow flags blazing and fists in the air, all in the name of equality. The National Equality March drew an estimated 200,000 people to Washington, D.C., to send a message to policymakers, Americans and the world at large, that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people aren’t going to take it anymore. Equality is on the hor… Continue

Added by Jamie on October 16, 2009 at 1:15pm — No Comments

Jamie National Equality March in video

National Equality March

I apologize for the quality, which took a significant nosedive when I uploaded it to YouTube. At least it is still watchable. Crossposted from Stuff Queer People Need To Know.

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Added by Jamie on October 16, 2009 at 12:58pm — No Comments

Daniel Borysewicz Exerpts from "The Nonexistent Language of Men’s Romantic Friendships of the 1800s"

Excerpt from page 3: No Two Men Were Ever More Intimate In 1837, Abraham Lincoln was not yet considering to run for President of the United States. This was a time when men and women did not socialize together as they do today. Men associated with other men and women associated with other women. During the time men spent together, their conversations were not always of the state of affairs of the nation or of the more intellectual discourse; they discussed sex and sometimes did it throu… Continue

Added by Daniel Borysewicz on July 9, 2009 at 2:00am — No Comments

Chris Mason Hate Mail

I am on a 100-day, 16,000 mile, 48-state trek through the United States to collect stories from queer communities in hopes of advancing LGBT equality. The project is called Driving Equality. (http://drivingequality.com) Since this journey began, I have received a ton of email from supporters and well-wishers. But I have also received hate mail from folks who disagree with the idea of equal rights for LGBT people. It is always a shock to receive an message like the one below: "Gays deserve… Continue

Added by Chris Mason on June 29, 2009 at 6:18pm — No Comments

Vanessa Edwards Foster Lift Your Voices In Pride ... And Outrage!

“I think I… Continue

Added by Vanessa Edwards Foster on June 23, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

Vanessa Edwards Foster Operating Behind Enemy Lines

"When the Hoosegow p… Continue

Added by Vanessa Edwards Foster on April 29, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Ilsa China's leading queer webcast launches third season with a big gay bang

In 2007, a couple of young Chinese gay men started the country’s first independent video podcast dedicated to discussing the issues that effected them and other members of China's Queer/LBGT community. Since then their online talk show “同志亦凡人 Queer Comrades" (tongzhi yi fanren) has earned itself quite a following, and kicks off its third season with some new surprises...… Continue

Added by Ilsa on April 23, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Jamie "The Vagina Monologues" includes transwomen

From my original blog: Stuff Queer People Need To Know Over the weekend I saw the University of Cincinnati's V Day production of The Vagina Monologues. This was the first time I saw it performed with the transwoman monologue, "They Beat The Boy Out Of My Girl," (a random video of it can be found below) and quite frankly, I think it was well done. My companion for the evening had mentioned that the Monologues had recently included a… Continue

Added by Jamie on March 2, 2009 at 9:57am — 1 Comment

Jamie Kanye West reinvents the word "gay," appreciates rainbows

I was reading Radical Queer News and came across an article from Pink News that explains how Kanye West, hip-hop star and

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Added by Jamie on February 22, 2009 at 6:32pm — 1 Comment

Chris Mason LGBT Rights Protest

This Saturday, supporters of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) people, will rally at Boston City Hall to call on President-Elect Obama and the new Congress support equal rights. The event is being organized by Join The Impact MA, the same group that organized the protest at Boston City Hall on November 15th which drew thousands of people as Boston saw the largest LGBT related protest in decades. LGBT Rights Protest… Continue

Added by Chris Mason on January 8, 2009 at 2:37am — No Comments

Chris Mason "Turn Your Back on Rick Warren" Campaign

President-elect Barack Obama's decision to invite Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration is an insult to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) people and their allies of equality. Warren's outspoken work to cement LGBT people's status as second-class citizens is a disgrace. President-elect Obama received the support and votes of millions of LGBT people. We do not deserve to have to see a man who believes that we are unequal speak from the podium at the inauguration… Continue

Added by Chris Mason on December 19, 2008 at 5:00pm — 6 Comments

Vanessa Edwards Foster Barney Hires A Who? 1st Trans Staffer Hired On Capitol Hill

Barney Frank’s really getting a bit too predictable. Some months back, when Mara Keisling began her “I Hate HRC” tour, I began musing about the prospect of how both the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and especially Ol’ Barn’ (“let me lock ‘em up Andy! ...I caught ‘em in the women’… Continue

Added by Vanessa Edwards Foster on December 19, 2008 at 4:39pm — 2 Comments

Chris Mason Boston Phelps-A-Thon

Fred Phelps' clan is coming to Boston! The "God Hates Fags" Westboro Baptist Church is coming to picket the Laramie Project at the Boston Center for the Arts. Fred Phelps and his group travel all across the United States spreading their message of hate. When the group comes to Boston, however, they will be helping to drive equality across America. Driving Equality is hosting a… Continue

Added by Chris Mason on December 1, 2008 at 4:01am — No Comments

Chris Mason News Coverage of Protest in Cambridge

The protest at Cambridge City Hall on Sunday was a testament to the city's strong commitment to social justice and to the queer community. It was literally freezing out, yet dozens of people showed up to hear the mayor, city counselor, and four state representatives speak. After the speaking program at city hall, we marched to Harvard Square, chanting the entire way. Here are a couple of good news articles about the protest: The Harv… Continue

Added by Chris Mason on November 25, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Chris Mason Harvey Milk Candlelight Vigil

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Added by Chris Mason on November 23, 2008 at 7:06pm — No Comments

Chris Mason Protest at Cambridge City Hall

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Added by Chris Mason on November 22, 2008 at 12:38pm — No Comments

Chris Mason "You mother fucking transsexuals, get the fuck out of my neighborhood!"

I attended the Boston Transgender Day of Remembrance last night. It was very moving. The speakers were great. The MC, Judah Abijah Dorrington, was amazing. After the speaking programing we lit our candles and walked down the street in the 25 degree weather to Union Square. We read the names of the transgender victims that had been killed in Massachusetts and around the world. There were far too many names. One of the organizers said there were more names of trans people killed this year than any… Continue

Added by Chris Mason on November 21, 2008 at 10:31pm — 5 Comments

Chris Mason Largest LGBT Queer Protest Boston has Seen in Decades

Thousands of people protested on Saturday in front of Boston City Hall. The official count is between 5,000 and 10,000 people. That is the largest LGBT Queer related protest in the city of Boston since the 1970's. Old school activists were coming up to me, saying that they haven't seen anything like it in decades. More people turned out for Saturday's protest than showed up during our state's own fight for marriage equality. As organizers, we made the decision to focus the protest on more than… Continue

Added by Chris Mason on November 16, 2008 at 4:35pm — 1 Comment

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