Editors' Note: Guest blogger Kim Fountain, PhD, is the Deputy Director of the NYC Anti Violence Project. She is standing with Joseph Holladay, a recent hate crimes victim, in the picture below. Holladay's bashing was covered on Bilerico-Indiana; he's originally from Indianapolis and his cousin is a friend of the site.
Earlier this week, as the deputy director of the NYC Anti-Violence Project AVP) I welcomed a room full of reporters and elected officials to New York City Anti-Violence Project's offices for the release of the 2008 New York statistics on anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender hate violence. Full story...
Have you ever wondered why architectural photography books make such delicious gifts even in a Google Earthy world in which every building on the planet may be zoomed at your desk.
"We didn't [win in Maine], and there's a simple reason. Our message to protect our civil rights is about us, not about all of America.
Jeff Merkley's opening statement on ENDA.
TBP reader Scott sent in this video for gay pop/rock singer Aiden James' video for "On the run." Scott says: "A good song, even after the election results.
Thinking of gay marriage reminds me of Detroit. Here was a team that did everything wrong; up until the third game of this season they hadn't won a game since 2007.
Today is Sesame Street's 40th birthday! Google has a special front page image for the show and I automatically thought back to my dad's favorite story about me as a kid.
If "Let the people vote!" is now the dominant, deeply-considered political philosophy, I don't see why we can't all dream about what we want to see on the ballot.
It's funny, Tuesday afternoon, after watching the noon news, inside my head, I was willing to entertain the idea that we could lose.
Editors' note: Antonia "Toni" D'orsay is an advocate and sociologist based out of Phoenix Arizona working for several organizations in an advisory capacity, where she works on issues of empowerment, education, and language within and without the LGBT community under the pen name of Dyssonance.
The furious explosion of nutjobs over the passage of the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act continues.
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