By Brandy Black Growing up my mother encouraged open conversations in our house. We talked about anything from periods, to sex, to drugs to suicide. She felt that as long as she knew what I was thinking about and what concerned me that she could help me make better decisions along the way. I think […]
Ken Ballard isn’t known for talking much, and it was quite difficult for the father to come to terms with the fact that he had a transgender child — a son. But all that has passed and the father fully supports his trans son, Ashur, so much so that he spoke at the Texas Capitol […]
By Rob Watson It is not news that LGBT folks have suffered abuse and atrocities at the hands of organized religion. From independent Christian Churches who have literally threatened to kill or exile us, to the Catholic Church who for years declared us “intrinsically disordered”, we thought we had heard it all. That was before […]
A gay pride Girl Scouts troop has opened up in Salt Lake City. The group will welcome transgender youth and children from LGBT families. “Girl Scouts is all about empowering girls to become leaders who make the world a better place,” Shari Solomon-Kleba, who has helped start troops at shelters and refugee centers, said. “Why not at […]
Video has again captured a “Christian” parent behaving badly. This week, the Facebook and Twitter mega-page Stop-Homophobia broadcast out a post depicting the plight of a lady named Kelly. Public disapproval over who could marry whom was an issue for Kelly’s family early on. Her father is black, and her mother is white. Kelly and her brother […]
By Rob Watson Since day one in the gay marriage debate, the “traditional marriage” advocates have leveraged cries of indignation, and hyperbolic circular arguments to make their points. Most of these arguments listed the many things that same sex couples “could not do”, which, clearly they not only COULD do but were already doing. The […]
