WTF? Whitney Ain't Even In Her Grave Yet...

And we already have a white gay activist repeating an old news rumor she already debunked over two decades ago. Renee of Womanist Musings had her say about it, now it's my turn.  

What's disgusting about this bull feces is that Peter Tatchell is doing so as preparations for her funeral in Newark are happening and she isn't able to defend herself.

“Whitney Houston RIP. She was happiest and at her peak in the 1980s, when she was with her female partner. They were so loved up and joyful together,” said Tatchell on his Facebook page the day after she died..

“It’s important to tell the truth about this aspect of her life. Colluding with the cover-up of her same-sex relationship is not right."

Cover up my azz, Peter Tatchell.  Neither is it right for you in your vanillacentric arrogance to repeat decades old rumors about one of our African-American icons when you know damned well she has repeatedly denied the rumors during her lifetime and isn't here to defend herself. 

This is what Whitney had to say about the alleged same sex relationship.

“You know what? I am so tired of this. I’m really sick of it. People want to know if there is a relationship: Our relationship is that we’re friends,” Houston told journalist Anthony DeCurtis in 1993. “We’ve been friends since we were kids. She now is my employee. I’m her employer. And we’re still best of friends. That’s what it is. You mean to tell me that if I have a woman friend, I have to have a lesbian relationship with her? That’s bulls—.”

In addition, you have dragged a grieving Robyn Crawford into this mess to pimp your own agenda.   It's even more aggravating for me to discover Tatchell started flapping his gums the day after Houston passed from this plane of existence.

This is the kind of crap that pisses African-Americans off about the white dominated GL community and white gay men in general   Not all of y'all exhibit these nekulturny tendencies, but far too many times elements of you act in ways that give others the impression outside your group that the GL(bt) movement is all about y'all, your quest for regaining full fledged WMP, and you don't care or give a rats anus about anybody else unless it fits your agenda.

When it comes to people of color inside or outside the community, that impression is magnified.     

And no, this isn't the first time that a white gay person has pulled this crap and we've had to call y'all on it.  The same thing was done to Luther Vandross after he passed away in 2005.   Vandross also dealt with persistent rumors about his sexuality during his lifetime and also publicly denied them. 

There was also the recent attempt to claim that Malcolm X was bisexual several decades after his 1965 assassination that angered the African-American community as well. 

Oprah Winfrey has endured the same persistent rumors about her longtime friendship with Gayle King that Whitney dealt with. 

Alicia Keys and Queen Laitfah are being hounded as well to 'come out of the closet' despite repeated denials from both women they are part of the rainbow community.   

Now there is nothing wrong with being a member of the rainbow community.  Hey, I'm a proud African descended transwoman myself.

But the difference is I am open about being a transwoman and made that choice to do so.  For my friends who are transsexuals but who don't want the world to know that, I respect their wishes in not wanting to risk their lives, family relationships and careers for a political cause that doesn't fully represent our people and the issues important to the African-American community. 

Besides, when we have TBLG African-Americans who are out and proud about being part of the rainbow community but have minds of their own or opinions diametrically opposed to your vanillacentric groupthink, sure is interesting to note that y'all ain't rushing to claim them. 

I'm not running around outing people, nor do I plan to unless they are acting in ways deleterious to the human rights progress of the trans community.  I also operate under the rule that until a person declares that they are a member of the trans and SGL community, I presume they are cis. 

As much as I loved Whitney Houston as an artist and a complex human being, it ain't my business to know who she was sharing her bedroom with nor do I care.

If she wanted to divulge that information to the world, that was her prerogative to do so and no one else.

She also had 48 years of her life and multiple opportunities in the hundreds of media interviews she conducted during her career to do just that.    

What Peter Tatchell did was egregiously foul and grossly unfair to her, Robyn Crawford, the grieving Houston and Brown families, and Whitney's fans all over the planet.  .  

Martin Bashir Tells It Like It T-I-S Is About Santorum

The truth hurts doesn't it conservafools?

Martin Bashir during yesterday's 'Clear The Air' segment of his show called out Rick Santorum and made a doubleplusgood comparison of him to Big Brother in the George Orwell novel 1984.

It’s now time to clear the air, and when we saw the latest Republican frontrunner, Rick Santorum, speaking before a crowd yesterday, all we could think of was George Orwell’s novel, “1984,” about a society dominated by the most extreme form of totalitarianism.

The similarities with George Orwell’s novel, and that movie, are not just superficial. No, Rick Santorum holds some pretty stern views on a number of important issues and he regularly sounds like a theocrat.

For example, he asserted that the right to privacy does not exist and has equated same-sex relationships with bestiality.

From ‘1984’: “Brothers and sisters, the endless catalogue of bestial atrocities, which will inevitably ensure from this appalling act, must, can, and will be terminated.”

Mr. Santorum has pledged to repeal all federal funding for contraception and says individual states should be allowed to outlaw any kind of birth control.

From ‘1984’: “The forces of darkness and the treasonable maggots who collaborate with them must, can and will be wiped from the face of the earth.”

In reviewing his book, “It Takes a Family,” one writer said Mr. Santorum has “one of the finest minds of the 13th century.” But, I’m not sure. If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent the Third.

Hey, we can't help it that truth has a liberal bias and you got busted by a real journalist in terms of being called on the totalitarian playbook y'all been running in this 2012 presidential campaign.

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1984 was supposed to be a novel, not a playbook to political power.

The 2012 Presidential Debate Schedule

While we're still waiting for the Republifools to sort out who their presidential nominee will be in their knockdown dragged our primary fight, thanks to the  Commission on Presidential Debates we already know the dates of the 2012 Presidential and Vice Presidential debates and where they will take place.
 
The first will happen on October 3 in Denver, CO. President Obama will take on the GOP presidential nominee on the University of Denver campus.

On October 11 in Danville, KY Vice President Joe Biden will take on the GOP vice presidental nominee in the only vice presidential debate on the beautiful campus of Centre College.

October 16 will see the second presidential debate happen on the campus of Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY between the POTUS and his GOP opponent.

The final presidential debate will occur on October 22 between President Obama and his Republican opponent on the campus of Lynn University in Boca Raton, FL.

The formats, moderators and times are still to be determined. 

I'm Not Shocked About The Maryland Trans Rights Bill Being Sidelined For Gay Marriage

Why am I not surprised that Maryland is rapidly turning into a replay of New York 2011 in terms of a gay marriage bill and trans rights bill both up in same session, and the trans rights bill (SB 212) that is urgently needed and will benefit far more people is kicked to the curb while the gay marriage bill is advancing toward possible passage?

And the reason excuse for this situation happening in Maryland?  According to Maryland Senate President Mike Miller, 'he only has time for one gay bill this session'.   

Umm hmm. What, he doesn't have the ability to advance more than one GLBT oriented bill at the same time in his chamber?

And meanwhile, back on the GL(bt) Ranch, we have Kat coming under increasing attack by a group of gay male bloggers for telling it like it T-I-S is about the jacked up situation.  

As she said in this post, GL people demanding that transpeople forget about past legislative screwings by Gay, Inc is transphobia. 

I'll take that statement a step further. It's transphobia dipped in the scent of arrogant vanillacentric cis privilege.

So count on the GL community to ignore their Dallas Principles in their feeding frenzy to get gay marriage passed in that state.   Once it passes they'll loudly proclaim their victory, raise their appletinis in celebration while Maryland's transpeeps get screwed once again like they did in 2001 and 2011 while waiting for legislative redress of their grievances.  

Cristan's KPFT-FM Interview About Transgender Language

One of the cool things about the Houston community is the ginormous media outlet we have in our local Pacifica station KPFT-FM and it's Queer Voices and After Hours TBLG shows

Cristan Williams was on Queer Voices Monday night and had this radio interview in which she talked about the history of transgender language.

You can click on this link to listen to the show.