Andrew Tobias, the Democratic Party treasurer and openly gay man, gave a speech last night at the DNCC.
As I watched the convention coverage it occurred to me that I have been watching Democratic Party conventions with interest since 1964.
Dolphin Democrats President Justin Flippen, one of Florida's openly gay delegates to the Democratic National Convention, talks about the issues on CNN.
"The first thing should be the nondiscrimination bill. Human rights is the basis of all of this, and the most discriminatory things that should be gotten rid of at once are the things that allow people to assume that gay people somehow don't have full and equal rights as everybody else.
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I ran into Michelangelo Signorile at the NGLTF cocktail reception Sunday night.
I have an "Honored guest" hall pass for the convention tonight. On Tuesday and Wednesday, I have floor passes.
I'm sitting here at the LGBT Caucus meeting beside Jerame and Indiana delegate Lori Morris. As I look around the room, I see a lot of Projectors in the room including contributors Pam Spaulding, Terrance Heath, Chuck Wolfe, Alexander Robinson and Jeremy Bishop.
The Democratic Convention is kicking off in Denver today (wish I could be there).
Since the Beijing Olympic Games just ended, I'm still in a sports oriented frame of mind.
There's an interesting article in the current GQ about the HIV/AIDS epidemic that asks some pretty interesting questions.
Stonewall Democrats spokesperson John Marble, Bilerico Project alumni Lane Hudson, Indiana delegate Lori Morris, and TBP co-owner Jerame Davis at the DNCC Stonewall Democrats/Matthew Sheppard Foundation reception Sunday night.
Several organizations are shining over the recent Zogby finding that 65% of Americans would vote for an openly gay president:
65% of likely voters nationwide would support an openly gay person to serve as President of the United States if they believed he or she was the most qualified for the job, and they agreed with his or her positions on the issues that matter to them most.
Editors' note: Kelley Winters, Ph.D. is a writer on issues of transgender medical policy, founder of GID Reform Advocates and an Advisory Board Member for the Matthew Shepard Foundation and TransYouth Family Advocates.
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I'm going to go ahead with this one, because although both sides of the story seem incomplete somehow (the media coverage is missing the answers to some questions), there certainly is a bias on the part of legislators and heavy-handed homophobia involved in this situation.
On September 27, 2008, The Center OC, in collaboration with Transgender Economic Empowerment Project at the LA Gay and Lesbian Center, will offer the second in a series of Know Your Rights workshops to the transgender community in Orange County.
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I have been off my game these past few weeks. During that time my father-in-law died of a horrific bout of cancer and my cat passed away recently - those things on top of other pressures, Dobson hasn't been as frequent as I would have liked it to have been.