Bayard Rustin- An African American LGBT Forgotten Hero

 

A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. He brought Gandhi’s protest techniques to the American civil rights movement, and helped mold Martin Luther King, Jr. into an international symbol of peace and nonviolence.

Despite these achievements, Rustin was silenced, threatened, arrested, beaten, imprisoned and fired from important leadership positions, largely because he was an openly gay man in a fiercely homophobic era.

Gay man in the Civil Rights Movement. – YouTube.

 

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WE DO Campaign in Greenville, SC

As an Ex-Greenville Citizen, this one hits especially close to home…  As oppressive as Utah can be (and is) South Carolina is suppressive… Of course, that is unless you’re affluent… Then you’re just eccentric!

I’m glad to see South Carolinians fight for their rights for first class citizenry.  Keep up the great work and your efforts MATTER!

WE DO Campaign – South Carolina – YouTube.

 

Black History Month: Celebrating Notable LGBT African Americans and their Struggle for Equality

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Although February has been marked by LGBT marriage victories in California and Washington, lets not forget and more Importantly take time to recognize the LGBT African-Americans who have fought and struggled for Equal Rights and Human rights not just because of their sexuality, but because of their ethnic background.  They have in so many ways paved the way and blazed the trail which we follow today.  Take time out to respect those who put their lives on the line so that we have the right to fight our battles in court, protest on the street, and lobby for change.  Harvey Milk exhorted LGBT’s to follow the path of the African-American Civil Rights leaders of the 50′s and 60′s…

Harvey Milk once said “The blacks did not win their rights by sitting quietly in the back of the bus. They got off! Gay people, we will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets… We are coming out! We are coming out to fight the lies, the myths, the distortions! We are coming out to tell the truth about gays!”

FAMOUS AND NOTABLE LGBT AFRICAN AMERICAN PEOPLE

Alice Walker: author, poet, and advocate

Alvin Ailey: choreographer and advocate

André Leon Talley: editor-at-large for Vogue magazine, current contributing editor

Angela Davis: political advocate, scholar, and author

Audre Lorde: author and advocate

Bayard Rustin: chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, advisor to Martin Luther King Jr.

Bessie Smith: blues singer

Bill T. Jones: artistic director, choreographer and dancer

Countee Cullen: poet

Darryl Stevens: actor

Don Lemon: reporter for CNN and news anchor

Doug Spearman: actor

E. Denise Simmons: mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the 2008-2009 term, first openly lesbian African American mayor in the United States

E. Lyn Harris: author

Emil Wilbekin: former openly gay Editor-in-Chief of Vibe Magazine, current managing editor of Essence.com

Felicia “Snoop” Pearson: actress

Glen Burke: Major League Baseball player

Isis King: America’s Next Top Model contestant

James Baldwin: author

Jasika Nicole: actress

Jean-Michel Basquiat: artist

John Amaechi: former NBA player

Josephine Baker: dancer, singer, and actress

June Jordan: author

Kevin Aviance: female impressionist and entertainer

LZ Granderson: ESPN.com columnist

Langston Hughes: poet and social advocate

Laverne Cox: actress, producer and transgender advocate

Lee Daniels: film producer and director

Linda Villaros: author, journalist and public speaker

Ma Rainey: blues singer

Maurice Jamal: filmmaker and director

Meshell Ndegeocello: singer

Paris Barclay: television director and producer

Patrik-Ian Polk: director, producer, screenwriter, singer and actor

Roy Simmons: former NFL player

RuPaul: actor, drag queen and singer-songwriter

Sheryl Swoopes: WNBA player

Stacy Ann Chin: author and poet

Tracy Chapman: singer

Wanda Sykes: actress and comedian

via Black History Month Resource Kit | GLAAD.

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Idaho Legislators: We Will NOT Protect LGBTQ Citizens from Discrimination

 

 

Post-it(r) notes are a sticky subject at the Idaho capital.  Members of a group called “Add the Words” was halted by state troopers while placing post-it notes on the glass state capital doors.  Their message?  Add the words “sexual orientation and gender identity” to the Idaho Human Rights Bill.  Since October Idahoans have been mailing and emailing messages asking lawmakers to give legislation protecting the   LGBTQIA population from discrimination a hearing and pass the legislation.

While efforts have been going on since October to have a Human Rights Bill be heard by the House State Affairs Committee legislators were stunned and shocked when the “Add the Words” campaign showed up on their marble door step.  In Idaho, the House State Affairs Committee refused to give the Human Rights Bill a hearing for the fifth year in a row.  Sounds like they’re taking a page out of the Utah LDS Legislator handbook.

[Cody Hafner]  invites the public to post their own sticky notes or if you can’t make it to Boise you can send your request to your lawmakers to amend the Human Rights Bill by submitting it to the Add The Words, Idaho website at www.addthewords.org.There will be an Add the Words, Idaho fundraising party this Thursday, January 12th, from 5:30-8:30 PM at the Beside Bardenay on the Basque Block in Downtown Boise. It will be hosted by more than 30 human rights leaders from across the state. Cost is a $10.00 to $100.00 donation at the door. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION. If you can not attend, you can send a donation to: Add the Words PAC Box 2661 Boise, ID 83701.

via Idaho State Police Attempt to Halt Sticky Note Campaign « The Idaho Agenda.

Janice Crouse: Gay Relationships Threaten Marriage

Concerned Women for America’s Janice Crouse trots out a cavalcade of statistical cliches to demonstrate how gay relationship threaten the institution of marriage.

via Crouse: Stats Prove That Gay Relationships Threaten Marriage – YouTube.

 

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Here’s Cindy!- Devil behind OWS… of Course!

Yes.. That’s right Cindy.  Jesus doesn’t want 99% of the people to have jobs, a living wage and a Government that represents it’s citizens… Satan does!

Cindy Jacobs says Christians need to pray against the “power of darkness” behind the Occupy Wall Street protests which seeks to foment revolution and unleash a full-blown civil war.

via Jacobs: OWS Protests Driven By “A Power Of Darkness” – YouTube.

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CBOT Traders- “We Are the One Percent!”

The Occupy Chicago demonstrations are still going strong even after Chicago City Police arrested 175 demonstrators for spending the night in Chicago’s 319 acre Grant Park.

CBOT Trader Sign

As protestors marched past the CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade); traders dropped leaflets saying “We are the 1% Paying for This”…

I guess the traders have already forgotten December 16th 2005 when CBOT laid-off 5% of their workforce after technology made their jobs redundant.  Perhaps it’s time for another round of cuts to refresh their memories!

Chicago Sun Times

December 16, 2005

CBOT to lay off 40

…On the same day that its share price fell by more than 4 percent,

the Chicago Board of Trade said Thursday it will lay off 40

people….The cutbacks affect about 5 percent of the exchange’s work

force and should be completed by Dec. 31, the exchange said after the

market’s close. CBOT President Bernard Dan said extensive spending on

technology made the jobs expendable.

via Google Answers: Chicago-area job cuts.

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Honda Calls for Hearing on Republican’s Legal Tab of $1.5m Spend to Defend Discriminatory Law

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WASHINGTON DC – Today, US Congressman Mike Honda (CA-15), Ranking Member of the House Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, sent a letter to the Subcommittee’s Chairman calling for a hearing to shine light on the House Republican Leadership’s irresponsible, backdoor use of taxpayer money to pay the private law firm Bancroft PLLC to represent the House in support of the constitutionally-questionable Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).  After having Bancroft PLLC blow through the original cap of half a million dollars, the House Republican Leadership recently modified the contract, likely tripling the cost for the American taxpayer to $1.5 million.  During a time of professed fiscal responsibility, the House Republican Leadership has chosen to continue to spend taxpayer money to protect discrimination through a process that has lacked any semblance of transparency.

via Rep Honda Calls for Hearing on Republican Leadership’s Legal Tab of $1.5m in Taxpayer Money to Defend Discriminatory DOMA Practices.

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Remembering LGBT History: Frank Kameny

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Frank Kameny (5/21/25 – 10/11/11) was one of the most significant figures in the American gay rights movement. In 1957, Kameny was dismissed from his position as an astronomer in the Army Map Service in Washington, D.C. because of his homosexuality, leading him to begin a Herculean struggle with the American establishment that would spearhead a new period of militancy in the homosexual rights movement of the early 1960s. Kameny protested his firing by the U.S. Civil Service Commission due to his homosexuality, and argued this case to the United States Supreme Court in 1961. Although the court denied his petition, it is notable as the first civil rights claim based on sexual orientation.

via Rachel Maddow On Gay Rights Pioneer Frank Kameny – YouTube.

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Robert Jeffress: Gays are Brainwashing America

 

Dr. Robert Jeffress

 

 

 

Robert Jeffress (quotes NARTH Dr. Charles Socrates) to argue that gay activists are using Chinese brainwashing techniques.  As a refresher, NARTH is a group of psychologists who believe ex-gay therapy works… and that Africans were better off as slaves in America, than a free people in their own country…

Anyway- Here’s Jeffress outline on our brainwashing tactics:

1. Desensitize- Show that Homosexuals are just like everyone else

2. Jamming- Causing the public to feel guilty of their bigotry

3. Conversion- Planned psychological propaganda attack

Apparently when all three steps are complete; society is going to accept the “gay lifestyle” as normal.  Mr. Jeffress- We gays don’t have a gay “lifestyle”–we’re born this way.  You have a bigoted pseudo-Christian lifestyle.  You weren’t born a pseudo-Christian with bigoted beliefs… they’re a CHOICE for you.

As an activist, I want to personally thank Mr. Jeffress.  I had no idea how to brainwash the public.  Thank you for educating me on a toolset I can use to help the gays take over the world!

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New Mormon “Independent” Poll says 64% of Americans are Against Same Sex Marriage

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The Deseret News, a Mormon run biased newspaper with little journalistic credibility recently ran an article  that Lawrence Research (owned and operated by Gary C. Lawrence) has recently released a new poll which contends that 64% of American’s are against same sex marriage.  Although Gallup’s poll contends that 52% of American’s favor same sex marriage, Gary Lawrence (a card carrying Mormon) claims those pollsters ask the wrong questions.  Of course, Gary definitely knows how to ask a question.  It’s Gary and Company which conducted polls in California during the Proposition 8 vote.  Additionally, when asked about his data and how it’s collected, neither Deseret News (a Mormon newspaper) or Gary would answer how many were polled, in what States and specifically what questions were asked.  Like the Mormon leadership, Gary just expects the public to ‘trust’ him.

SANTA ANA, Calif. — When it comes to polls about same-sex marriage, it’s all about how you ask the question. A new national poll by Lawrence Research found that 64 percent of Americans feel that marriage should only be between one man and one woman. Thirty-three percent feel marriage should be redefined to include any two people.

The poll results may seem to contradict a Gallup poll in May that found 53 percent of Americans thought “marriage between same-sex couples should … be recognized by the law as valid, with the same rights as traditional marriage.”

But the results, like the issue itself, are open to debate.

Gary Lawrence is the president of Lawrence Research in Santa Ana, Calif., and is very familiar with both the topic and the polling. His company conducted polls in 2008 for the “Yes on 8″ campaign, which successfully pushed for the passage of Proposition 8 in California to define marriage as between a man and a woman.

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Maggie Gallagher, the president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy and the former president of the National Organization for Marriage, thinks Lawrence’s poll results match the results at the ballot box when the question is put to voters. “People are becoming increasingly sensitive to not wanting to be perceived as hostile to gay people and that is affecting the polling,” Gallagher said. She said this change has a lot to do with what she perceives as an enormous change in gay marriage advocates’ rhetoric following the passage of Proposition 8. “In the past they acknowledged that not everyone who opposes gay marriage is a bigot or a hater or a discriminator. But the main message in the press now is that if you simply don’t believe in gay marriage, that in itself, is enough to demonstrate that you have bigotry or animus,” Gallagher said. “And people are becoming reluctant to tell pollsters what they really believe unless they have a signal from the pollster that it is safe to do so.”

via 64% don’t support gay marriage new poll says | Deseret News.

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One Liner of the Day….from UTAH!

 

 

“It’s a good thing gays can’t reproduce…. otherwise there would be thousands of ‘straight’ mormon men running around Utah county in maternity outfits!”

“Iowa, The State Where You Can’t Smoke A Fag…BUT You Can Marry One!”

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Bob Vander Plaats enjoys the punchline of a bigoted joke a colleague tells him… “Iowa, the state where you can’t smoke a fag….but you can marry one!”

 

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‪Bryan Fischer Promotes Ex-Gay Therapy

True to The AFA (American Family Association) and Bryan Fischer’s standard motive of operation, he’s promoting Ex-Gay Therapy on his broadcast.  He hosts Dr. Tim Rampey (doctor of what, and valid published research accepted by the medical community is where?) to share his views on how well this therapy works (Note that the this type of therapy has been discredited by every major medical association in the country).

Bryan Fischer comes to the defense of Michele Bachmann by inviting Dr. Tim Rampey on to his radio program to promote ex-gay therapy.

via ‪Bryan Fischer Promotes Ex-Gay Therapy‬‏ – YouTube.

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