Category Archives: glbt

Sports, Still as Stupid as Ever

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Why can’t Jason Collins find an NBA job? (sfgate.com) Deadspin raises the blacklisting question about Chris Kluwe (blogs.citypages.com) I won’t deny feeling quite a bit of pleasure earlier this year when NBA player Jason Collins, shortly after his season was over, came out in Sports Illustrated as a homosexual. Coming on the heels of the military finally allowing non-heterosexuals to serve openly (and the colossal non-story integration was, with only two chaplains resigning in protest instead of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers predicted by the…

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First They Came for the Homosexuals

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Disclaimer: The links below include both pictures and video depicting hateful, horrible violence taken against a gay Russian teenager and a transgender Russian woman by other Russians. Many of you are likely to find the images very disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised. Russian Transgender Woman Beaten In Public Park Caught On Tape (GRAPHIC VIDEO) (Huffington Post) Russian neo-Nazis  torture gay teenager they tricked into meeting them as part of online scam (Daily Mail) One of the traps that many Americans fall into — and I…

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Murdering a Dying Wish

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Mike DeWine promises to “lead the fight” against dying man’s last wish (Plunderbund.com) Most (okay, all) of the time it feels like there’s too much demonization in politics. Portraying your opponents as not just incorrect or misguided, but evil, can be a good way to gin up support in your base and raise money and make headlines, but it’s usually harmful to public discourse and efforts to find actual solutions to problems. There’s a very large part of the public that’s susceptible to this kind of…

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No Justice

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I was about to start recording audio for a new .musecast last night when the first tweets about George Zimmerman being found not guilty in the death of Trayvon Martin hit my timeline. It was in the wake of my first real interest in politics — the 2 Live Crew obscenity trials — that I witnessed the nationwide riots in 1992 after the first criminal trial of the police officers who beat Rodney King resulted in acquittals. I was too young to really appreciate the…

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There Are Red States, There Are Blue States

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Same-sex marriage fight not over yet, both sides say (CBS News) GOP sneak tactic gives Ohio new anti-abortion laws with new budget (The Rachel Maddow Show) High Court Opens Door To More Voting Rights Suppression (Hartford Courant) I admit that I have occasionally entertained the thought of moving to another country. A little over ten years ago, as George W. Bush sent this country to war under false pretenses, I gave a lot of consideration to moving to Canada, and I did so again the…

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