Monday, March 19. 2007Largo: Injustice Under the Florida Sun What happens when a popular and well-regarded city manager of a small city in Florida comes out as a transgendered person? All hell breaks loose, of course.Steve Stanton is Largo's universally respected city manager. None of the members of the city commission had mooted the slightest hint of criticism of his performance in running the small city, near St. Petersburg and Tampa Bay. But when he took the courageous step to acknowledge publicly his own internally felt sense of gender identity and announced that he intended to transition from male to female, he was summarily terminated by the city commission. To compound the injustice, the Largo city police arrested Nadine Smith, an African American lesbian who is executive director of Equality Florida (the statewide LGBT organization in Florida), when she went to Largo to protest this clear act of discrimination based on gender identity. That violent arrest was really more a physical assault on her by a police officer who was trying to prevent her from distributing flyers in support of Steve Stanton at a meeting of the Largo City Commission. Continue reading "Largo: Injustice Under the Florida Sun" Thursday, March 15. 2007And you are saying that I am immoral? The Bay Area Reporter reported that top military general, Marine General Peter Pace, called homosexual acts between individuals immoral. But seriously, a-hole General Pace, do you really hink that killing people is moral? I don't care what your rationale is, but killing? — now that is immoral.Good luck to your soul. Monday, March 12. 2007Snickers Gay Superbowl AdWednesday, March 7. 2007A 55-Year Old Virgin So, finally! Our favorite female financier has publicly come out in an interview with NY Times Magazine.I would normally ask - what's the big deal? The more the merrier, and well, it was about time my suspicions were confirmed! But (now this is Suze Orman talk), "girlfriend! What do you mean you're a 55-Year Old Virgin?" Now, I may love her show (particularly that section "Can I Afford It?"), and will continue to keep her on my DVR, but I find it outrageous that she defines virginity as that which can only be lost when a man and a woman have sex! I can't help but wonder how this makes K.T., her life partner, feel? How would YOU feel? Tuesday, March 6. 2007Conservapedia? Fuck yeah! The Guardian reports that the Christian Right has taken on the evildoers at Wikipedia. That's right, Wikipedia promotes Satanism. Wikipedia is WIKID, full of demons, evil Evil EVIL!!!. When good ol' Andy Schlafly, founder of Conservapedia, tried to edit Wikipedia entries, his changes were erased by wikid editors. He had no other option than to establish insert cherubic choir Conservapedia...and they say God smiles upon us? He's laughing his ass off. Shlafly's vision of honest and correct encyclopedic entries can be inferred from reading the list of Wikipedia's sins posted on Conservapedia. Truth, he implies, is full of praise for Jesus and full of praise for America and full of spite towards commies, queers, and foreign languages. Oh, and by the way, "You will much prefer using Conservapedia compared to Wikipedia if you want concise answers free of "political correctness" (from the site's friendly home page). So correctness has nothing to do with correctness, correct? Continue reading "Conservapedia? Fuck yeah!" Monday, March 5. 2007H.I.V. ABCs 4 U 'n' Me
2 New Drugs Offer Options in H.I.V. Fight (New York Times, February 28, 2007) For those who do not understand why this is such a big deal, here's a little info to get you up to speed on HIV/AIDS and it's treatment. HIV/AIDSWhat you probably already know is that Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (or AIDS) is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (or HIV). The virus lives in particular human body fluids - thriving especially in blood, semen (cum), vaginal fluid (uh...pussy juice), preseminal fluid (pre-cum), and breast milk - and is spread from person to person when those fluids are exchanged. When HIV gets into a person's blood stream, it starts killing their T cells (our primary disease fighting cells) leaving the person open to all kinds of infections. [I need to step back from the writing of this article for a Big Mouth moment: why the fuck is the disease called Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome? Do the names of any other non-genetic diseases start out with the word "acquired?" Do we feel such a need to blame PWAs for getting sick that we've built blame into the name of the disease itself?] Continue reading "H.I.V. ABCs 4 U 'n' Me" |
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As recently reported in the New York Times two new drugs in the fight against AIDS will likely be on the market later this year. What's especially significant is that these new drugs also introduce two new drug classes.
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