Every LGBT person in America should understand where we stand on Same-Sex Marriage, because we’re not as close to full equality as most assume. The genesis of this post was the assumption by someone on Twitter who said that “Obama should just legalize gay marriage!” So, let’s get this out of the way first: Obama [...]

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Grassroots activists remain uneducated in the ways of leadership, and generally refuse to work collectively to gather resources. Institutional Organizations expect that, when they call, the grassroots will respond with money and manpower. Somewhere in the middle is a powerful new paradigm that will create success: a coordinated campaign that not only fires the enthusiasm [...]

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I just finished reading “Marriage equality or bust?“, an editorial by a trans writer asking if the marriage equality agenda is basically another change for major LGBT orgs to push trans equality to a later date. A number of questions come to mind as I read this: Is the fact that LGB activists are actually [...]

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Don’t ever let someone tell you that we haven’t “paid” for our civil rights, or that we haven’t “suffered enough.” Those who believe such things don’t know our history. They don’t know that we have been an oppressed people in cultures all over the world, in some way or another, since the dawn of Christianity. [...]

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