Month: September 2010

  • Pansexual

  • Another tragedy

    Another tragedy, another young person has taken his life due to anti-gay bullying in school.

    “Brown, his family said, was ‘bullied to death’ — picked on for his small size, his religion and because he did not wear designer clothes and shoes. Kids also accused him of being gay, some of them performing mock gay acts on him in his physical education class, his mother and stepfather said.

    “The 13-year-old’s parents said they had complained about the bullying to Hamilton Middle School officials during the past 18 months, but claimed their concerns fell on deaf ears.

    “David and Amy Truong said they made several visits to the school to complain about the harassment, and Amy Truong said she made numerous phone calls to the school that were never returned.”

    Read the full article at the Houston Chronicle:

    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7220896.html

  • The T In LGBT

    So much attention is focused on the “L,” G” and “B” that the “T” is often ignored or cast aside

    Results of a six month study of 6,450 transgender people by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

        * 97% say they have experienced harassment or mistreatment at work.
        * 47% say they have been fired, denied a promotion, or not hired because of their transgender identity
        * 26% say they lost their jobs because they are transgender
        * 19% said they are or have been homeless
        * 15% live on $10,000 or less (double the general population)
        * 13% say they are unemployed

  • Did you know???

    In 29 states, it’s still legal to fire someone solely because they’re lesbian, gay, or bisexual; in 38 states it is legal to fire someone solely for being transgender.

    Thousands of hardworking lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans have lost their livelihoods simply  because of who they are. And millions more go to work every day facing that threat.

    It’s time to ban workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

    Word from Capitol Hill is that the House may soon vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) – the bill that would make workplace discrimination illegal against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, once and for all.

    We don’t have much time. Tell your member of Congress to pass ENDA now!


    Employment Non-Discrimination Act
    S. 1584/H.R. 3017

    The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) would provide basic protections against workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. ENDA simply affords to all Americans basic employment protection from discrimination based on irrational prejudice. The bill is closely modeled on existing civil rights laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The bill explicitly prohibits preferential treatment and quotas and does not permit disparate impact suits. In addition, it exempts small businesses, religious organizations and the military, and does not require that domestic partner benefits be provided to the same-sex partners of employees.

    Qualified, hardworking Americans are denied job opportunities, fired or otherwise discriminated against just because they are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). There is no federal law that consistently protects LGBT individuals from employment discrimination; it remains legal in 29 states to discriminate based on sexual orientation, and in 38 states to do so based on gender identity or expression. As a result, LGBT people face serious discrimination in employment, including being fired, being denied a promotion and experiencing harassment on the job.

    What ENDA Does
        * Extends federal employment discrimination protections currently provided based on race, religion, sex, national origin, age and disability to sexual orientation and gender identity
        * Prohibits public and private employers, employment agencies and labor unions from using an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity as the basis for employment decisions, such as hiring, firing, promotion or compensation
        * Provides for the same procedures, and similar, but somewhat more limited, remedies as are permitted under Title VII and the Americans with Disabilities Act
        * Applies to Congress and the federal government, as well as employees of state and local governments

    What ENDA Does Not Do
        * Cover businesses with fewer than 15 employees
        * Apply to religious organizations
        * Apply to the uniformed members of the armed forces (the bill doesn’t affect the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy)
        * Allow for quotas or preferential treatment based on sexual orientation or gender identity
        * Allow a “disparate impact” claim similar to the one available under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Therefore, an employer is not required to justify a neutral practice that may have a statistically disparate impact on individuals because of their sexual orientation or gender identity
        * Allow the imposition of affirmative action for a violation of ENDA
        * Allow the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to collect statistics on sexual orientation or gender identity or compel employers to collect such statistics.
        * Apply retroactively

  • New Look….

    yes, I have a new look :) Here it is………

    I am now a red head :)

    What do you think?

  • Rules of rural Pennsylvania

    The rules of rural Pennsylvania are as follows:

    1. Let’s get this straight: it’s called a ‘dirt road.’ No matter how slow you drive, you’re going to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way.

    2. They are cattle. They’re live steaks or walking milk bottles. That’s why they smell funny to you, get over it. Don’t like it? I-80 goes east and west, I-81 goes north and south. Pick one.

    3. Pull your droopy pants up, you look like an idiot.

    4. Turn your cap right, your head isn’t crooked.

    5. So you have a $60,000 car, we’re impressed. We have $150,000 corn pickers and hay balers that are driven only 3 weeks a year.

    6. Every person in rural Pennsylvania waves (or head nods…same thing). We think of it as being friendly. Try to understand the concept.

    7. If that cell phone rings while an 8-point buck and three does are coming in, we will shoot it out of your hand. You better hope you don’t have it up to your ear at the time.

    8. Yeah, we eat scrapple, pot pie, funnel cakes, pierogies, shoo-fly pie, apple butter, chow-chow, and schnitz un knepp. Don’t like the sound of them or the names freak you out because you never saw a “Bon Appetit” article on them? Great, more for us!

    9. The ‘opener’ refers to the first day of deer season. It’s a religious holiday held on the Monday after Thanksgiving.

    10. We open doors for women. That is applied to all women, regardless of age.

    11. No, there’s no ‘vegetarian special’ on the menu. Order steak, or you can order the chef’s salad and pick off the 2 pounds of ham & turkey.

    12. When we fill out a table, there are three main dishes: meats (includes fish), vegetables, and potatoes (and bread). We use four spices: salt, pepper, hot sauce, and Heinz ketchup. Oh, yeah…we don’t care what you folks in New York call that stuff you eat. Its not real chili.

    13. You bring ‘coke’ into my house, it better be brown, wet and served over ice.

    14. You bring ‘Mary Jane’ into my house, she better be cute and know how to shoot.

    15. College and high school football are as important here as the Steelers and Eagles and a lot more fun to watch.

    16. Yeah, we have golf courses. But don’t hit the water hazards—it spooks the fish.

    17. Colleges? We have them all over. We have state universities, community colleges, and vo-techs. They come outta there with an education. They still wave at everybody when they come home for the holidays.

    18. We have a whole ton of folks who have been in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard – PA has one of the highest percentages of veterans in the entire country. So don’t mess with us. If you do, you will get whipped by the best.

    19. Turn down that blasted car stereo! That thumpity-thump-thump stuff is not music anyway. We don’t want to hear it anymore than we want to see your boxers. Refer back to # 3.

    20. Four inches isn’t a blizzard–it’s a flurry. Drive like you got some sense, and don’t take all our bread, milk, and toilet paper from the grocery stores. You’re not in Alaska. Worst case you may have to live a whole day without your croissants. The pickups with snow plows will have you out the next day.

  • Today is the 19th annual Celebrate Bisexuality Day

    Celebrate Bisexuality Day was started in 1999. This day is a call for bisexual, pansexual, friends and supporters to recognize and celebrate bi/pansexuality, bi/pansexual history, bi/pansexual community and culture, and the bi/pansexual people in their lives.

  • Falling is like this – The Truth about Jane

    The high school years are full of angst for everyone, but to add to the confusion, Jane gets a serious crush — on a girl! The 15-year-old struggles to come to terms with her sexuality as she begins a relationship with this classmate. Things get more complicated when Jane’s lesbian relationship is exposed; her parents aren’t exactly the accepting type.

  • Failure

    Senate fails to advance a measure that would have let gays serve openly in the military. Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked an effort by Democrats and the White House to lift the ban on gays from serving openly in the military, voting unanimously against advancing a major defense policy bill that included the provision.

    http://www.wgal.com/politics/25095295/detail.html?treets=lan&tml=lan_natlbreak&ts=T&tmi=lan_natlbreak_1_02080109212010

  • ‘Storming RED — My children’s first trip to see America’s Favorite Pastime

    My children got to go to their first ever baseball game. Their grandpa and grandma Martin gave us all tickets to go to the game. It was sooo much fun!!!

    It was a great game!!! We had TONS of fun!!!