New York GL Peeps Can Get Married Today.

Niagara Falls is known and still is considered on both sides of the border as a  marriage and honeymoon mecca for people to tie the knot.  

The Falls are also backlit from time to time in various colors to reflect Canadian or US independence days, et cetera.

They been backlit this week in rainbow colors to signify the fact that today is the first day that GL couples can get legally get married in New York State and have them recognized.    The gay marriage bill passed the New York legislature last month and was signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on June 24.  

Congratulations and break out the appletinis.  As to what effects it has for transpeople, we don't know yet. 

But what about GENDA?    You know, the trans rights bill that has passed the assembly by lopsided margins in four consecutive legislative sessions only to die when it gets to the Senate because you had marriage on the mind.   The trans rights bill that was necessary because we were cut out of the SONDA one you passed for your GL selves back in 2002?  .

Don't think we transpeeps will forget about being legislatively Left Behind again. or the other inconvenient fact about SONDA as we watch you GL peeps getting married on the news today.

Moni's On TransFM Tonight

Your favorite award winning blogger will be on TransFM later tonight with Ethan St. Pierre and Marti Abernathey on the Sodium Pentothal Sunday show discussing tomorrow's trans free NAACP town hall meeting on TBLG issues on Monday.

I'll also be talking about whatever else I can pontificate on with Ethan and Marti in the time alloted to moi for the show.   My segment on TransFM will start at 7 PM CDT and you can reach it and the live streaming link for it here..

For you peeps who had to work and want to catch it, the show will be archived so you can download it for your listening pleasure later.

I will let y'all know when it's available.    But if you can listen, please do..

NFL Lockout Over?

On Thursday the NFL owners voted 31-0 with the Oakland Raiders abstaining to ratify a new collective bargaining agreement that withh run until 2020.

Only problem is that the players hadn't signed off on it yet before the NFL owners conducted their quickie vote.and started crowing about  how great the new agreement is to the press.

Of course the players have every right to be wary about what the owners voted on, and it is wise that they are taking their time to go through it with an electron microscope if necessary.   It will probably take them longer than the Tuesday deadline the owners set to sort the legalese out and see if this is a good and fair deal for them.

Hey, as long as the 2011 NFL season kicks off in September on time, I'm all for it.

TransGriot Update: Not long after I posted this, the players voted to accept the CBA deal and the lockout was over

USA Women Still Number One In FIFA World Rankings

Despite the upset loss on penalty kicks in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup final, the team USA women are still number one in the just released FIFA world rankings.

As a matter of fact, the top five didn't change despite early exits by Brazil and Germany in the quarterfinals of the tournament and the Swedes losing in the semis to the eventual world champion Japan.

The top five remain in order the USA, Germany, Brazil, Japan and Sweden

Where the movement occurred was in the second five.   England jumped four spots to number 6, France stayed at number 7 while Canada slid two spots to number 8.  Australia moved up two spots to number 9 with Norway dropping one to number 10.  .


And if you're wondering how they are calculated, here's the explanation of the formula for how they do so by FIFA.

Next update in the FIFA world rankings will occur September 23, and we'll see if it stays that way.