The Portland City Council has voted unanimously to implement trans inclusive heath care. As reported by Bilerico: They [Portland City Council] are only the third municipality ever to do so. This is obviously important to any trans employees of the city, however, it is just as important that the city…
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Airman Fired Under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
it’s june of 2011, but still. Via Washington – The Air Force has discharged an airman under the law banning gays from serving openly in the military, the first firing since President Barack Obama signed legislation aimed at ending the ban. The ban, laid out in the 1993 “don’t ask,…
White House Meets With Transgender Activists and Leaders
I missed this when it happened back in April, but haven’t heard a peep of it since (until I was cleaning out my feed reader and there it was!) Via The Washington Blade Online Transgender activists intend to discuss federal policy issues at an upcoming White House meeting that…
On Duty Cop Gets Away With Rape
Police do get away with things that us regular folks never would. This case is sickening and grossly unfair for so many reasons…but on the other hand, “He had been officer of the month a couple times” and this had nothing to do with the fact that the victim was…
Snapshots Foundation
My friends over at the Snapshots Foundation shot a video that features me. Go check out there site and watch other interesting video interviews. The Snapshots Foundation preserves music history of today’s great artists through film and new media.
Slow-Fi EP
Slow-Fi is a generative self correcting audio/visual environment. Original concept and software by Jason Soares 2004. Modified in 2009 by Jason Soares & JFRE Coad. We made an EP using the software! Download From Dropbox
Christian right leader George Rekers takes vacation with “rent boy”
via boingboing For decades, George Alan Rekers has been a general in the culture wars, though his work has often been behind the scenes. In 1983, he and James Dobson, America’s best-known homophobe, formed the Family Research Council, a D.C.-based, rabidly Christian, and vehemently anti-gay lobbying group that has become…
On Technology and Naturalism
‘The more ingenious and accurate our instruments, the more unsusceptible and inexpert become our organs: by assembling a heap of machinery about us, we find afterwards none in ourselves.’ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Florida Family Policy Council’s Mistake
The picture says it all really. A Christian Florida hate group used the picture on the left to describe a couple that was allowed to adopt a family member’s child they had been fostering. FFPC says it was a ‘mistake’. More Here , Here and Here
Sex not specified
The Australian government has issued what is likely the first gender neutral identification card, or Recognised Details Certificate (similar to a U.S. birth certificate). Norrie, 48, was born in Scotland and was labeled male at birth. At age 23 Norrie commenced sex and gender conversion to female through hormone and…