Showing posts with label GLBT human rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GLBT human rights. Show all posts
Thursday, October 12, 2017

LZ Granderson's TEDx 'Gay Agenda' Talk

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I had the pleasure of meeting and having some insightful conversations with CNN and ESPN journalist LZ Granderson during the 2012 edition ...
Monday, June 29, 2015

What Next For Our TBLG Rights Movement?

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The parades are over and the street sweepers have done their work to clean up the trash after they ended.   Some of our BTLG peeps said pr...
Thursday, October 02, 2014

Trans and Gay Panic Legal Defenses Banned In California

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The good human rights news just keeps on coming.  The California Assembly passed on a 50-10 vote in August the AB 2501 bill authored by Ass...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Shreveport Passes TBLG Rights Ordinance!

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For the longest time the city of New Orleans was the lone municipality in the state of Louisiana that protected their TBLG citizens from dis...
Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Naomi Testifies At Philippine Congress Hearing

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Y'all know I have much love for my transpinay sister Naomi Fontanos, who is the Executive Director of GANDA Filipinas. Was thrilled ...
Friday, November 08, 2013

Moni's Thoughts About The Trans Inclusive ENDA Passing The Senate

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The renaissance of the trans human rights movement in the late 80s early 90's led to our first lobbying foray into Washington DC in 199...
Thursday, November 07, 2013

Trans Inclusive ENDA Faces Key Senate Votes Today

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According to my sources on Capitol Hill and the Senate Democrats page , the moves will be made today for final passage of S. 815, the trans ...
Monday, November 04, 2013

ENDA Passes Key Senate Cloture Vote

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By a 61-30 margin, the US Senate passed a procedural cloture vote on the trans inclusive Employment and Non Discrimination Act (ENDA) that...

US Senate Vote On Trans Inclusive ENDA Happening Later Tonight

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For the first time since November 2007, a vote is scheduled to be taken on The Employment and Non Discrimination Act  (ENDA) later this even...
Monday, October 07, 2013

2014 Olympic Flame Lit And Headed To Sochi

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As an lifelong Olympics junkie, the news from Greece that the Olympic flame has been lit usually gets me excited and fired up for and breath...
Sunday, October 06, 2013

Bigotry Costs You Big Money

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One of the lessons that corporations should know but seem to forget at times until it whacks them on their bottom line is that bigotry can c...
Sunday, September 22, 2013

The San Antonio Non-Discrimination Ordinance Is Becoming A Houston City Election Issue

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When San Antonio passed their trans inclusive human rights ordinance by a lopsided 8-3 margin on September 6, I and many TBLG people here o...
Monday, August 12, 2013

CAUSA Change.org Petition About San Antonio Non-Discrimination Ordinance

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'After a delay of the final vote in June, the San Antonio City Council is back at work and will soon vote on prohibiting discrimination...

Open Letter To San Antonio City Councilmember Ivy Taylor

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Dear Councilmember Taylor, I'm writing this open letter to you because I understand at the moment you are one of four San Antonio counc...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

Help Our San Antonio Trans Brothers And Sisters Pass A Trans Human Rights Non Discrimination Ordinance

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TransGriot readers, need your help with a critical Lone Star State human rights mission.  I wrote about the upcoming vote around Septembe...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Not Feeling The Sochi Olympic Boycott Proposal

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In the wake of the draconian anti-LGBT laws that Russia has implemented resulting in persecution for our TBLG cousins living there, their al...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

WTF Just Happened In Puerto Rico With SB 238?

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Oops, guess I spoke too soon about SB 238 passing the Puerto Rican House and Senate . Seems that while the news was being trumpeted aroun...