LGBT
Growing up different is difficult, especially if one belongs to the LGBT spectrum. As it is, being a child is complex enough. Being known to be gay, lesbian, bi or trans adds to that complexity and ones peers all too often use those sorts of differences to make life hell. We’ve all heard the stories [...]
This week-end, a transphobic nut job left a comment on one of my posts which was of a nature I refuse to approve (it was a derogatory rant and we have enough of those on the net as it is). As is my habit, however, I dropped a note explaining why it wasn’t approved which [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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