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admin on November 11th, 2009
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You know how it is sometimes, when you think and think about the way to put something and then someone does it a thousand times better than you could? Well, that’s just happened: Andrew Wheeler over at the Post-Game Show just did the post to end all posts on gay marriage and on poking through [...]

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admin on September 25th, 2009
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I love the blog written by Sarah Hoffman about her son Sam, who’s a ‘pink boy’. It must be terribly difficult to bring up a child who is different from their classmates. Sam is a normal boy who likes some things that boys aren’t ‘meant’ to like and instead of telling him how a boy [...]

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admin on August 12th, 2009

Grrrr… I’m fed up. Why do we keep on doing this? Over the past few years, there have been lots of rumours that Queen Latifah is a lesbian. The straight press are doing it (here), just as the gay press is, too (here). This week, everyone’s going crazy because she was seen in a lesbian [...]

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admin on July 27th, 2009

It’s funny how being trans has started to be ‘cool’ in certain communities. The thing is, being trans is most definitely not cool… It’s a pain, it’s horrible and it’s something that destroys lives. My biggest wish? It’s to not be trans. No, that doesn’t mean I would like to live as a man (that [...]

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admin on April 27th, 2009

On 17th July, 2008, a vivacious young woman called Angie Zapata was viciously murdered by a man called Allen Andrade, who beat her in the head multiple times with a fire extinguisher. That’s horrible enough, but the story doesn’t end there. It continues with a trial where a cold-blooded murderer and an equally cold-blooded defence [...]

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admin on April 4th, 2009

When I hear the shocked hysteria about the gay/lesbian/trans lifestyle, it always raises a giggle. I love it when the conservatives use these phrases because it shows how isolated and myopic they are. You see, there is a gay/lesbian/trans lifestyle, but the only reason for that is because the hetero and cis communities create an [...]

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admin on January 24th, 2009

France is a country which has a very mixed record on discrimination. However, it must be said that it is a country that is trying to make LGBT issues a key focus and whilst they may not be fixing things as they should, the fact that the country and society in general is trying to [...]

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admin on January 19th, 2009

One thing which I am very proud of is how so many of Western Europe’s states maintain a strict division between church and state. Even Italy, the country with the heart of Catholicism at its core, is taking great steps to make laws which match the modern world. So, I’m afraid that I got very, [...]

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admin on January 14th, 2009

For some reason, certain cis people are convinced that letting people use the toilet which matches their gender is going to end up with a rash of hideously horrible behaviour, flashing and violent sexual activity. In both the US and the UK, this is a big issue at the moment and it is getting a [...]

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admin on January 9th, 2009

A few weeks back, I went through a change in the terminology I use. It all started with a comment from a member of the UK’s Press for Change (PfC) who had explained the terminology they were recommending to companies, the government and the press. Their recommendation is the following: Classic term PfC term Generic [...]

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