Fire Walk With Me
This page is a weird mix of rantings and ravings, Music, graffiti, punk,Doctor Who, postpunk, comics,art, general silliness and GPOB (gratuitous pictures of Bowie). Sometimes I post about the 2012 US elections
white radical nerd lady in my 30s
transplanted to the East Coast US
happily living in sin with my co-conspirator Mr. X
Why did I follow you??
my Dragon Age sideblog
Other tags of interest - Places I Wish I Was Right Now, GPOY, owls, you are cordially invited to my pants, this has been a post, OH MY GOD, Favorite of all the things, Maru is the best cat in the whole world
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TW: suicide, outing
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Anonymous asked: I think you're a beautiful woman doing your best living in a ugly world. I feel you're strong enough to overcome whatever is put on your plate. I hope that you find all the happiness you deserve.
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(Act 2)Sebastian: Are you an Andrastian, Fenris?Fenris: If I say no, will you attempt to convert me?Sebastian: Many elves believe in the Maker. I ask only because I wonder if your experiences... soured your faith.... ...
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grant me the power to bring the world revolution!
“Rose of the noble castle,
Power of Dios that sleeps within me,
Heed your master and...
This is your annual reminder that The Salvation Army threatened to close all of their New York City soup kitchens if they were going to be forced to stop discriminating against their gay employees. I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t want to donate to any charity that would use the hungry as a bargaining chip to get what it wants. There are better charities to donate to. There are charities that donate 100% of their money to the people they’re trying to help, rather than taking some of that money and using it to fight against gay rights (as the Salvation Army does.) There are charities that don’t state on their website that homosexuals are morally obligated to live a life of celibacy. There are charities that accept everyone and help EVERYONE.
For more information on how exactly the Salvation Army is anti-gay and, just in general, horrible, you can click here.
And please, if you’re my friend, or if you know any gay people, or even if you’re just not an asshole, PLEASE stop going bargain-hunting at the Salvation Army. And stop donating your money to them. There are better places for clothes. There are better places to donate.
I am sick. I knew they were anti-equality and I knew that they refused aid, but this is disgusting. I am truly sorry for all the times I put money in those buckets over the years. :( :(
I have clothes and furniture from the salvation army. :/
(via ileolai)
When asked by The Barna Group what words or phrases best describe Christianity, the top response among Americans ages 16-29 was “antihomosexual.” For a staggering 91 percent of non-Christians, this was the first word that came to their mind when asked about the Christian faith. The same was true for 80 percent of young churchgoers. (The next most common negative images? : “judgmental,” “hypocritical,” and “too involved in politics.”)
Later research, documented in Kinnaman’s You Lost Me, reveals that one of the top reasons 59 percent of young adults with a Christian background have left the church is because they perceive the church to be too exclusive, particularly regarding their LGBT friends. Eight million twenty-somethings have left the church, and this is one reason why.
Patients in Medicare- and Medicaid-participating hospitals now have the right to choose their own visitors during a hospital stay, regardless of whether or not the visitors are family members.
According to new guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, hospitals can’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
Patients will also be allowed to name a person of their choice, including a same-sex partner, to make medical decisions on their behalf if they are medically unable to do so.
The new guidance updates the Conditions of Participation, which are standards that apply to all Medicare- and Medicaid-participating hospitals, critical access hospitals, and patients in those hospitals even if they aren’t on Medicaid or Medicare.
Hospitals will need to have written policies that explain visitation rights, as well as clear guidance on when hospitals may restrict access based on reasonable clinical needs.
This is far too sensible. It’ll never work.
Please please please go through. This would benefit same-sex couples as well as people in long-term relationships who are not married (and/or choose not to be).
ETA: It also just make sense in general. Why is it that only immediate family can visit? I live pretty far away from most of my family; I’d want to have close friends visit me if I were in the hospital with a serious condition.
Choose your own visitors. What a strange and unusual notion!
No really, my immediate family doesn’t live anywhere near here, I would want my uncle on the list before any of them, and my unmarried partner-in-crime before everyone. Plenty of people would rather have their best friend at their side than a parent. We need this change.
When I was seeing patients in clinic for a research study, one of my sickest patients was an elderly man who was in a lot of pain, and his male partner managed everything for him - talked to the doctors, took notes, kept the records, everything, and he did it so lovingly. After we talked, he asked me to make a copy of something for him, and he hesitated a long moment before handing it over to me. It was a health-care proxy/medical power of attourney legal document. He looked at me like I might tear it up or run away with it, like he was taking a risk in handing it to me. I made him several copies straight off and brought it back to him. It broke my heart. I’ve honestly got tears in my eyes right now just thinking about it, because it’s so goddamn unfair. The other people there didn’t need a legal document to be there, it was just assumed that they are the spouse and they have the right automatically. To have so much riding on a piece of paper and having to be ready for other people to try to deny you the right. I hope this guidance helps that to change.
(via stfuconservatives)
Lauper says in the press release, “In New York City, a very disproportionate number [up to 40 percent] of homeless youth identity as LGBT. Even more disturbing are reports that these young people often face discrimination and at times physical assault in some of the very places they have to go for help. Our primary goal is to provide a physically and emotionally safe and supportive environment that will empower our young residents to be the self-loving, happy and successful individuals they were meant to be.”
:’)
Support: you’re doin’ it right.
For real? That’s fantastic.
(via lesbianlegbreaker)
Perhaps desperate that societal support for marriage equality and other LGBT issues continues to grow, anti-gay hate groups seem to be showing their true colors more and more, abandoning tame “protect our family values” talking points for flagrantly pro-bullying rants. MassResistance, in particular, is increasing its visibility, attacking Mitt Romney by painting him as pro-gay, partnering with the Family Research Council to smear GLSEN, and today inspiring fear in the American Family Association’s “news” outlet that the anti-bullying “It Gets Better” project might soon be used in schools. Oh dear!
The OneNewsNow “article” is merely a pedestal for MassResistance’s Brian Camenker to remind people of the group’s campaign against the “It Gets Better” project:
CAMENKER: The homosexual movement discovered in the early 1990s that they could use this tactic of claiming safety or anti-bullying or anti-suicide to do anything. They’ll scream and holler that if you don’t let them into the schools to give their program, then you favor kids killing themselves.
In addition to an archive of “Dan Savage’s sick and obscene attacks, writings, and statements,” MassResistance maintains a page designed to rebut the “It Gets Better” campaign as well as The Trevor Project, which provides suicide prevention resources for young people. Here are the four “big lies” MassResistance worries that these LGBT-affirming resources provide:
“LIE” #1: “You were born that way and can’t change.”
“LIE” #2: “It gets better.”
“LIE” #3: Suicide is caused by hate and intolerance.
“LIE” #4: Promoting homosexuality as being normal and natural is good for troubled kids.MassResistance would rather young people get the following messages:
1: Homosexuality is an “addiction,” and “the worldwide ex-gay movement has shown that people can heal and change if they desire.”
2: “It DOESN’T get better,” because “male homosexual behavior takes 20 years off one’s life” and “loneliness and depression are par for the course.”
3: The real reason gay (“gay”) teens contemplate suicide is “because they’re horrified at the disgusting things they’re doing to themselves.”
4: Promoting homosexuality is “psychological trauma” that harms kids “emotionally, psychologically, and certainly medically.”
H/T: ThinkProgress LGBT
This is horrible. Why can’t people just be respectful and agree to disagree?
I would love to go after these MassResistence people. They make me so angry. This is basically encouraging gay kids to kill themselves.
Going to a Town || Rufus Wainwright
I’m so tired of America
One in four gay teenagers living in the US state of Massachusetts are homeless, says a new study.
Findings by the Children’s Hospital Boston also indicate that 15% of bisexual teenagers are homeless - compared to three percent of heterosexual teenagers.
6,300 public high school students were questioned as part of the study. 5% of respondents identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual - and LGB respondents accounted for 19% of the homeless questioned.
The full report will be published in the Online American Journal of Public Health.
our progressive state
They first had the person from my staffing agency contact me (instead of speaking to me personally) requesting that I not use the correct bathroom, because I might make people uncomfortable. When I asked him to please find out if there was a unisex bathroom in the building I could use (as I did not want to go to HR/my supervisor myself and make it a big deal) they informed him (and thus he informed me) that there is no unisex bathroom available and that I was no longer a good fit for the company.
When I contested that there was no issue, I would suck it up and use the wrong bathroom, they changed their tune to say that they didn’t interview “Aaron”, they interviewed “(legal name)”, and that I was “obviously” not the person I claimed to be.
What really disgusts me is that at 5:00pm, before I left, my supervisor was telling me how great I was doing, that I seemed like a really great fit and did so well with training, set me up my own desk and computer and told me when I came in tomorrow, I’d be on my own. At 5:40pm it was confirmed that they were not willing to work anything out, my “situation” made me an ill fit for the company, and they had already lined up someone else for my job.
It makes no difference that my skills, experience, and qualifications were the same, regardless of preferred name/pronouns. If I had requested to be called by a preferred traditionally feminine name, like say, a shortened version of my legal name or my middle name, I would still have my job.
For more information, please read the wikipedia article on the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and get involved in helping to fight for its passing.
EDIT to add: There are no laws in the state of florida (or most other states) to protect transgender people from being terminated based on gender identity or expression. It was perfectly legal for them to fire me based solely on my trans* status. I appreciate the mutual anger but no, I cannot sue them. Legally, my hands are tied.
that’s fucking terrible.
Is it possible or practical to reveal the name of the company, so they might feel the wrath of the internet?
radicalallianceforgenderequality:
A Guerilla Musical for Gender Equality!Wednesday, June 15 · 6:00pm - 8:00pm Park Street T Station and State HouseCome join us to raise awareness about the Transgender non-discrimination bill trying to be passed this session during this all-singing, all-dancing event!
Meet at Park Street station at 6pm for instructions, and then get ready to flash chant, show off your singing pipes at the State House, and help promote gender equality in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts!Next week the Coalition for Marriage and Family is holding a Lobby Day specifically to campaign against the Transgender non-discrimination bill (which they refer to as “the Bathroom Bill”) along with their opposition of the Maria Talks website and other assorted bullshit nonsense.
Show your support for Transgender rights and speak out against right-wing hate at the Join The Impact flashmob June 15th!
I will try to make it to this today
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lemondifficult:
alexleo:
Ana Matronic, of Scissor Sisters fame, reached out to Tracy Morgan’s son via Twitter to tell him that even though his dad would slaughter him in his sleep if he turned out to be gay, she’d be happy to take him in. The Scissor Sisters hold the record for having my favorite Wiki opening of all time:
Scissor Sisters are an American band “spawned by the scuzzy, gay nightlife scene of New York”[1] who took their name from a sexual position between two women also known as tribadism.
(Via Joe.My.God.)
The Scissor Sisters are on Twitter?!
Can I come live with you??](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmlgrjEA141qfozvqo1_500.jpg)
Ana Matronic, of Scissor Sisters fame, reached out to Tracy Morgan’s son via Twitter to tell him that even though his dad would slaughter him in his sleep if he turned out to be gay, she’d be happy to take him in. The Scissor Sisters hold the record for having my favorite Wiki opening of all time:
Scissor Sisters are an American band “spawned by the scuzzy, gay nightlife scene of New York”[1] who took their name from a sexual position between two women also known as tribadism.
(Via Joe.My.God.)
The Scissor Sisters are on Twitter?!
Can I come live with you??
(via youfelinedevil)
