Mother’s day was yesterday, or so I am told, and I have to think, what is the significance of this day to me, given my family situation? When people think of their mother, many people think of a person who is kind, compassionate and caring towards their children, an image with a mom that I [...]
Can I Accept Christians in my Life?
For the most part, I believe I could accept Christians in my life as friends or family as long as they are socially conscious on how they worship. I don’t necessarily agree with their practices but at the very least, they shouldn’t support churches which support a homophobic slant on politics and homophobic organizations such [...]
Womyn-born Womyn, Discrimination in Sheep’s Clothing
One thing that the movement uses to try to keep out transwomen and make them into the ‘other’ category, if not try to make them men, is the idea of Womyn-born womyn. Womyn-born womyn is a form of discrimination that exerts cisgendered privilege of having born into a sex that accurately and correctly corresponds to [...]
How do the Parents Know?
For the first time since I came out, I was friends with someone who just had a baby. The mother and I lived in the same building and I really got to know her when she was pregnant with her child. In fact, we were planning on having me officiate their civil marriage (until we [...]
You Really Did It, Didn’t You?
Okay, you really did it this time – you went and co-opted one of the most stupid television ad campaigns in existence and used it to ask voters to vote no on prop 8. Please tell me that you did not use the same idea as Apple and compare the two when the reality is [...]
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