Tag: Chelsea Manning

Quickies: Terrorist Attacks, Trans Suicide, Religion Vs LGBT

By Jac

In Quickies

On November 16, 2015

“What Can We Do in the Face of Such Hate?” – By now you’ve all heard about the terrorist attacks that shook Paris and Beruit, and of the ongoing violence in Iraq and Syria. Our thoughts go out to all those injured, all those who lost someone special to them, and all those displaced by […]

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Quickies: Discriminatory State Laws, TWoC White House Briefing, Malta Protects Intersex Babies

By Jac

On April 6, 2015

Amanda Marcotte Asks Liberals to Stop Harassing Bigots – Marcotte admonishes those taking part in the ongoing harassment campaign that has forced a IN pizza shop to close its doors after public

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Quickies – Obama, Biden, Manning, Miller

By Jac

On March 9, 2015

Obama Speaks at Selma, Mentions Gay Rights – President Obama spoke on the 50th anniversary of the brutal police assault on peaceful civil rights marchers as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bri

Quickies: Chelsea Manning, Discriminatory State Laws, #QueerLoveLooksLike

By Jac

In Quickies

On February 16, 2015

Chelsea Manning to Receive Hormone Therapy – The military has finally approved hormone therapy for Chelsea Manning. However, she will still be restricted to men’s haircuts for “security reasons.” – From Will “Trans Women of Color Deserve to Be Mourned as Much as Leelah Alcorn” – “Leelah was white, came from a middle-class family, and […]

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Quickies: WBC vs Adam Hills, Chelsea Manning, Deadly Fungus

By Jac

On August 23, 2014

Westboro Baptist Church vs comedian Adam Hills – Outraged by the WBC’s threat to protest Robbin Williams’s funeral, Hills challenged the WBC to take their protest somewhere Christia

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Quickies: Chelsea Manning, Executive Order, and Same-Sex Marriage

By Jac

On July 21, 2014

Chelsea Manning has finally been approved to receive treatment for gender dysphoria. President Obama is slated to sign an executive order today that prohibits anti-LGBT discrimination in the governme

Quickies: Pride, Cuba, and Lavender Country

By Jac

In Quickies

On June 30, 2014

NPR has a piece on what it’s like to be a queer socialist in modern Cuba. Roughougly 8% of rams are gay, and it seems they’re born that way. The Stranger interviews the frontman of Lavender Country. Pioneers of gay country music, they played Seattle’s first Pride festival in 1974 and are back to perform […]

Activism , Cissexism , Discrimination , Gender , Law , Media Portrayals of LGBT , Politics / Activism , Transgender

Guest Post: Will Chelsea Manning Get People Talking About Trans* Issues?

By Will

On August 24, 2013

The following post is a guest post from Marci. Marci is a 23-year-old transgender woman from the UK who creates music, is an equality activist, runs a support group, and a gammer in her free time. She