Memory is a record.

Reblogged from maneatingbadger, Posted by justinspoliticalcorner. Filed under: #law #US Supreme Court #Defense of Marriage Act #DOMA #Prop 8 #lgbtq #human rights

justinspoliticalcorner:

Facts about SCOTUS’ potential outcomes on DOMA and Prop 8.

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Reblogged from maneatingbadger, Posted by current. Filed under: #human rights #marriage #lgbtq #Bonus political church burn.

current:

John Fugelsang on equal rights versus “special rights”

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Russia: Drop Homophobic Law

humanrightswatch:

Russia’s parliament should reject a draft law that would de-facto ban disseminating information about “non-traditional” sexuality. The bill’s provisions would infringe on Russian citizens’ freedom of expression and information, and discriminate against Russia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.

Russia is trying very hard to make discrimination look respectable by calling it ‘tradition.’

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Nepal court orders passport change for transgenders

neharaysays:

KATHMANDU — Nepal’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to alter passports so that transgenders no longer have to describe themselves as male or female, a court spokesman said, a move welcomed by rights activists.

Not all is bad at home :)

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Same-sex marriage (top) and acceptance of homosexuality (bottom) around the world.

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"I was a father for six years, a mother for ten, and for a time in between I was both, or neither, like some parental version of the schnoodle, or the cockapoo. … But in dealing with a parent who subverts a lot of expectations about gender, I hope my sons have learned to be more flexible and openhearted than many of their peers with traditionally gendered parents. I would like to think that this has been a gift to them and not a curse. It is my hope that having a father who became a woman has made my two remarkable boys, in turn, into better men."

Love Over Biology – Jennifer Finney Boylan on what it’s like to be a transgender parent, (via explore-blog)

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Same-sex spouses, who cannot divide their labor based on preexisting gender norms, must approach marriage differently than their heterosexual peers. From sex to fighting, from child-rearing to chores, they must hammer out every last detail of domestic life without falling back on assumptions about who will do what. In this regard, they provide an example that can be enlightening to all couples. Critics warn of an institution rendered “genderless.” But if a genderless marriage is a marriage in which the wife is not automatically expected to be responsible for school forms and child care and dinner preparation and birthday parties and midnight feedings and holiday shopping, I think it’s fair to say that many heterosexual women would cry “Bring it on!”

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Gay marriage can function as a controlled experiment, helping us see which aspects of marital difficulty are truly rooted in gender and which are not. A growing body of social science has begun to compare straight and same-sex couples in an attempt to get at the question of what is female, what is male. Some of the findings are surprising.
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Fantastic, necessary article by Liza Mundy on what gay couples can teach us about healthy, happy marriages as society’s conception of marriage in general continues to evolve.

Even the penguins can attest.

(via explore-blog)

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Reblogged from glaad, Posted by glaad. Filed under: #lgbtq #human rights

glaad:

Jennifer Tyrrell and son Cruz react to the Boy Scouts news. We’re going to keep pressure on until Jen can serve: http://glaad.org/scouts

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Reblogged from guernicamag, Posted by guernicamag. Filed under: #Elle Pérez #art #photography #gender politics #lgbtq

guernicamag:

In late 2011, I traveled across the United States to Southern gay bars, isolated vegan communes, midwestern universities, community centers, and academic queer conferences with the goal of making portraits.

via Radical Transgenderism - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics

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Florida teen Kaitlyn Hunt, 18, is seeing her young life turned upside down and her future jeopardized simply because she fell in love. Unfortunately for her, she fell in love with a younger girl who has vindictive bigots for parents.

wilwheaton:

She was kicked off the basketball team because of the potential for “drama” her presence created. She’s been vilified by fellow students, called “criminal,” “rapist” and “child abuser.” She was expelled from school. And far worse. She’s facing a lifetime label of “sex-offender,” because the other girl’s parents brought criminal charges against her despite the fact that the relationship was consensual. What’s more, according to Hunt’s parents, Hunt was 17 when the relationship began, but the other girl’s parents waited until after she turned 18 to go to police.

Unbelievably, prosecutors have decided to press the criminal charge.

Emphasis mine.

So the prosecutor’s office in Sebastian River, Florida thinks this is a worthwhile use of taxpayer money and the court’s time.

Fuck everything about this.

The girl on the other side of this was fourteen at the time the relationship began. (LGBTQNation has information on the other girl’s age as provided by the arrest record and the Indian River County Sheriff’s office.)

While the parents may have made the decision to wait until Ms. Hunt was 18 years old to press charges, that doesn’t change the fact that the age of consent in the State of Florida is 18. The parents come off as persecuting Ms. Hunt for waiting, but there is still a legal issue at hand and Indian River County has to act on what the statute is.

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