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May 10
LGBTQ* Political Cartoons Not special rights. It is about the same civil rights. 

LGBTQ* Political Cartoons


Not special rights. It is about the same civil rights. 

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May 9

LGBTQ* In Case You Missed It

Ellen’s audience gives President Obama a standing ovation


read more about President Obama’s support HERE

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May 8
tyleroakley: Rights for LGBTQ Americans, a state-by-state guide.

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Rights for LGBTQ Americans, a state-by-state guide.

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May 4
LGBTQ* Advertising (AGAINST) the Community You Should Know Billy Graham and Amendment 1 Personal Note: The above ad is running in FOURTEEN North Carolina newspapers. News papers, while starting to decrease in numbers, are still one of the strongest ways to communicate with a large population of people. I have posted the ad because I believe it is important for people to see both positive and negative reflections of their community. This ad has created an opportunity for many of you. You can take this, take time to digest it, research both Graham’s work and Amendment 1, and start to create a dialogue with other people about it. I have learned over time that encountering  negative text, advertisements, literature, dialogue, etc,  grants me many chances to start a conversation. It is easy to be mad. It is easy to be irate. You are allowed to feel and even act on those things. It takes a true, solid, proud person to speak rationally. I urge you, be that person when discussing this. We are all proud. The advertisement above shows nothing but naive fear. —Rebecca P.S.  North Carolina voters, please remember to make it to the polls. Please remember the power of unified voices. Oh, and in case someone wants to argue what “traditional marriage” in the United States of America has meant for the last 300+ years, you can have them discuss this picture:

LGBTQ* Advertising (AGAINST) the Community You Should Know

Billy Graham and Amendment 1

Personal Note:

The above ad is running in FOURTEEN North Carolina newspapers. News papers, while starting to decrease in numbers, are still one of the strongest ways to communicate with a large population of people.

I have posted the ad because I believe it is important for people to see both positive and negative reflections of their community. This ad has created an opportunity for many of you. You can take this, take time to digest it, research both Graham’s work and Amendment 1, and start to create a dialogue with other people about it.

I have learned over time that encountering  negative text, advertisements, literature, dialogue, etc,  grants me many chances to start a conversation. It is easy to be mad. It is easy to be irate. You are allowed to feel and even act on those things.

It takes a true, solid, proud person to speak rationally. I urge you, be that person when discussing this. We are all proud. The advertisement above shows nothing but naive fear.


—Rebecca

P.S. 

North Carolina voters, please remember to make it to the polls. Please remember the power of unified voices.

Oh, and in case someone wants to argue what “traditional marriage” in the United States of America has meant for the last 300+ years, you can have them discuss this picture:

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Apr 22
LGBTQ* Political Cartoons People are pretty much alike.  It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.  ~Linda Ellerbee

LGBTQ* Political Cartoons

People are pretty much alike.  It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.  ~Linda Ellerbee

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Mar 3
LBGTQ* Political Cartoons Defined by those who comprise our population… (Political Comic by  MILT PRIGGEE,) 

LBGTQ* Political Cartoons

Defined by those who comprise our population…

(Political Comic by  MILT PRIGGEE,) 

Posted 2 months ago

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Feb 3
LGBTQ* Photographs and Statements Raise (Your) Flag  (photo found on the blog Dangerous Minds)

LGBTQ* Photographs and Statements

Raise (Your) Flag 

(photo found on the blog Dangerous Minds)

Posted 3 months ago

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Jan 28
LBGTQ* Polls, Flow Charts and Info Graphics Change in Same-Sex Marriage Support from InfoGraphics (click image for larger view)

LBGTQ* Polls, Flow Charts and Info Graphics

Change in Same-Sex Marriage Support from InfoGraphics

(click image for larger view)

Posted 4 months ago

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Jan 15
LGBTQ* Humor and Political Cartoons …Traditional Marriage? Do they really know what they are talking about?

LGBTQ* Humor and Political Cartoons

…Traditional Marriage? Do they really know what they are talking about?

Posted 4 months ago

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Dec 21
LGBTQ* Political Cartoons Fountains of Love

LGBTQ* Political Cartoons

Fountains of Love

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Dec 17
LGBTQ* People, Events and Insight  Essence.com’s first lesbian couple feature in “Bridal Bliss” Bride: Aisha Mills Bride: Danielle Moodie   Occupations: Aisha, Public Affairs Consultant; Danielle, Environmental Lobbyist Hometown: Washington, D.C.   Wedding Location: Orchard Hill at Old Westbury Gardens, Long Island, NY  Weding Date: August 7, 2010  That What Friends Are For When Aisha’s dear friend Rashad accepted a job in NYC, he invited her and another close friend over to help him pack and reflect on his life in Washington D.C. But when Danielle walked through the door, Aisha put down the cardboard boxes and the packing tape and focused on the vision of love in front of her. It was love at first sight. “Danielle and I sat in Rashad’s window sill and talked about our lives for hours,” Aisha remembers. Six and a half years later, Aisha and Danielle continue their conversation of love. Sushi Surprise For their first date, Aisha took Danielle to Perry’s in Adam’s Morgan, D.C. Five years later, Aisha invited her sweetheart back. Aisha suggested she wear something special, and Danielle obliged. As the two sat on the rooftop terrace, eating sushi, sipping cocktails and reminiscing on their relationship, Danielle was shocked to realize their server was Sheldon, the same waiter who had served them five years before. As Sheldon set a plate down on the table he said, “This is the special of the night, five years in the making.” “Nestled in the sushi is my engagement ring,” Danielle gushes. “I burst into tears as Aisha said, ‘Will you marry me?’ Then an entire storm broke out across D.C.” The clouds were not about to spoil their special night, though. Aisha had another surprise for her new fiancee. They headed down the street to a champagne lounge named Napoleons. “We walk inside and go downstairs and as I walk in the door all our friends say, ‘Surprise!’ and ‘Congratulations!’ Aisha and Danielle finished the night off basking in their love with friends and sipping on their signature cocktail — the “La Danisha,” a play on their name. Love Is All You Need Before learning that they could apply for a marriage license in their hometown, Aisha and Danielle had resolved to file in Connecticut where marriage was legal. “I thought, ‘It’s a travesty that we have to go through a series of hoops and hurdles just to say ‘I do,’” says Danielle. “But at the same time the amount of love that we have is so tremendous that there would be no obstacle high enough to keep it from happening.” On December 18, 2009, D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty signed a bill to legalize marriage for gay and lesbian couples. In March 2010, the bill became law and Danielle and Aisha and other couples in limbo were able to apply for their marriage licenses in the nation’s capital. “To do it at home was really the wowing part for us,” Aisha says. (Essence.com Article) 

LGBTQ* People, Events and Insight 

Essence.com’s first lesbian couple feature in “Bridal Bliss”

Bride: Aisha Mills Bride: Danielle Moodie 

 Occupations: Aisha, Public Affairs Consultant; Danielle, Environmental Lobbyist Hometown: Washington, D.C. 

 Wedding Location: Orchard Hill at Old Westbury Gardens, Long Island, NY

 Weding Date: August 7, 2010 

That What Friends Are For When Aisha’s dear friend Rashad accepted a job in NYC, he invited her and another close friend over to help him pack and reflect on his life in Washington D.C. But when Danielle walked through the door, Aisha put down the cardboard boxes and the packing tape and focused on the vision of love in front of her. It was love at first sight. “Danielle and I sat in Rashad’s window sill and talked about our lives for hours,” Aisha remembers. Six and a half years later, Aisha and Danielle continue their conversation of love.

Sushi Surprise For their first date, Aisha took Danielle to Perry’s in Adam’s Morgan, D.C. Five years later, Aisha invited her sweetheart back. Aisha suggested she wear something special, and Danielle obliged. As the two sat on the rooftop terrace, eating sushi, sipping cocktails and reminiscing on their relationship, Danielle was shocked to realize their server was Sheldon, the same waiter who had served them five years before. As Sheldon set a plate down on the table he said, “This is the special of the night, five years in the making.” “Nestled in the sushi is my engagement ring,” Danielle gushes. “I burst into tears as Aisha said, ‘Will you marry me?’ Then an entire storm broke out across D.C.” The clouds were not about to spoil their special night, though. Aisha had another surprise for her new fiancee. They headed down the street to a champagne lounge named Napoleons. “We walk inside and go downstairs and as I walk in the door all our friends say, ‘Surprise!’ and ‘Congratulations!’ Aisha and Danielle finished the night off basking in their love with friends and sipping on their signature cocktail — the “La Danisha,” a play on their name.

Love Is All You Need Before learning that they could apply for a marriage license in their hometown, Aisha and Danielle had resolved to file in Connecticut where marriage was legal. “I thought, ‘It’s a travesty that we have to go through a series of hoops and hurdles just to say ‘I do,’” says Danielle. “But at the same time the amount of love that we have is so tremendous that there would be no obstacle high enough to keep it from happening.” On December 18, 2009, D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty signed a bill to legalize marriage for gay and lesbian couples. In March 2010, the bill became law and Danielle and Aisha and other couples in limbo were able to apply for their marriage licenses in the nation’s capital. “To do it at home was really the wowing part for us,” Aisha says.



(Essence.com Article) 

Posted 5 months ago

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Dec 3
LGBTQ* People You Should Know GLADYS BENTLEY (picture NY, circa 1930s)   Bentley flirted with double entendres in her music and dabbled in double dress in her day to day life. Her blues music and sultry lyrics dared anyone to question their true meaning while she flirted with female patrons as she sang. She frequented speakeasies like The Clam House in Harlem and caused a bit of a stir when she married her white New Jersey girlfriend in a civil wedding ceremony.   Much of Bentley’s life would later be subject to the fear/hate of a McCarthy run system in the late 1940s’/1950s.

LGBTQ* People You Should Know

GLADYS BENTLEY (picture NY, circa 1930s)

 

Bentley flirted with double entendres in her music and dabbled in double dress in her day to day life. Her blues music and sultry lyrics dared anyone to question their true meaning while she flirted with female patrons as she sang. She frequented speakeasies like The Clam House in Harlem and caused a bit of a stir when she married her white New Jersey girlfriend in a civil wedding ceremony.

 

Much of Bentley’s life would later be subject to the fear/hate of a McCarthy run system in the late 1940s’/1950s.

Posted 5 months ago

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Nov 17
From Political Loudmouth

From Political Loudmouth

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Nov 13
LGBTQ* Illustrations, Art and Media Expression The Cover That Never Was The above graphic was intended to be the cover of the New Yorker in 2009. However, R. Crumb’s design was rejected by the magazine without explanation or further discussion. If you’d like to read a little more about this story, read Nadja Sayej’s article. (Warning, article’s use of nouns/adjectives may cause some triggers.) R. Crumb, Rejected New Yorker Cover, 2009, watercolor, ink, and graphite on paper, 14 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches. Courtesy the artist, Paul Morris, and David Zwirner, New York, Copyright ©Robert Crumb, 2009.

LGBTQ* Illustrations, Art and Media Expression

The Cover That Never Was

The above graphic was intended to be the cover of the New Yorker in 2009. However, R. Crumb’s design was rejected by the magazine without explanation or further discussion. If you’d like to read a little more about this story, read Nadja Sayej’s article. (Warning, article’s use of nouns/adjectives may cause some triggers.)

R. Crumb, Rejected New Yorker Cover, 2009, watercolor, ink, and graphite on paper, 14 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches. Courtesy the artist, Paul Morris, and David Zwirner, New York, Copyright ©Robert Crumb, 2009.

Posted 6 months ago

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