Category Archives: glbt

So It’s More Acceptable to Bully Kids?

arts, cyberbullying, glbt, politics, rhetoric, teaching, television 2012.06.23 Sean Shannon Leave a comment

Donations for bullied bus monitor soar past $500,000 (MSNBC.com) It’s difficult to figure out just how to phrase what this story has compelled me to say without sounding like I’m trying to play down what Karen Klein went through, and continues to go through as the video of her being bullied on the school bus she was monitoring gets played over and over again, on news broadcasts and millions of computer screens all over the world. Let me say at the start, then, that what…

Equality Will Not Be Denied

glbt, politics, rhetoric, transgender 2010.08.04 Sean Shannon 1 Comment

Judge overturns Calif. gay marriage ban (AP via Yahoo! News) It is one of the most (in)famous videos of its era. Freshly installed as the governor of Alabama, George Wallace stands before a cheering crowd during his inaugural address to the state and declares, in a booming voice, that in Alabama there will be “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” It’s hard to call it the most galling video of the time, in the face of white police officers turning fire hoses on young African-Americans,…

In honour of Margaret Cho turning 40 today

fridayfive, glbt, Uncategorized 2008.12.05 Sean Shannon Leave a comment

… a special video introduction to today’s friday5.org Friday Five: Cho and others in "Proposition 8: the Musical". http://player.ordienetworks.com/flash/fodplayer.swf See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die 1. When did you last have a mid-day nap?I can’t remember for sure. I tried to have one yesterday because I was still worn out from a super-caffeinated Wednesday, but it didn’t work. I usually only nap if I have a sugar high to work off, and I don’t anticipate that being a problem soon. 2. When…

Qualifications

glbt, politics, Uncategorized 2008.08.03 Sean Shannon Leave a comment

Even back before the United States invaded Iraq, some people on the left were pointing out how the current administration wasn’t talking about Osama bin Laden that much. At the time, though, those voices were kind of on the fringes; the nation as a whole was still not far enough removed from the terrible events of 09.11 that it was all too trusting of the administration’s words and actions. It’s only been in the past few years that there has been widespread understanding that overthrowing…

The things that slide through the news these days

glbt, kucinich, politics, transgender, Uncategorized 2007.11.07 Sean Shannon Leave a comment

Poll: 70 percent of LGBTs support noninclusive ENDA (Planet Out via Yahoo! News) I don’t know what pisses me off more right now: the fact that there’s so little news coverage of Kucinich introducing Articles of Impeachment against Cheney, or that there’s so little news coverage of the machinations of the ENDA. For all the talk out there about this huge left-wing media conspiracy, the fact that the media is burying stories like these in favour of things like the President of France cozying up…