“Big Love,” which airs Sunday nights on HBO, is the story of a family trying to follow The Principle (i.e fundamentalist Mormon beliefs) in modern-day Utah. Because "Big Love" centers on a...
Listening to President Obama’s State of the Union address and the ensuing response by Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, I was struck by the near absence of substantive policy differences. It seems...
With the all the newspaper ink dedicated to a historic economic decline and record-breaking figures for drug murders, there's not been a lot of leftover attention for polarizing social issues in...
One of the major reasons I don't like radical feminism is the virulent transphobia that was espoused by the quartet of Sheila Jeffreys, Janice Raymond, Germaine Greer, and the woman who died on...
"Precious," based on the novel Push by Sapphire, tells the tale of Claireece "Precious" Jones, an illiterate, dark skinned, fat, Black teenager who is a survivor of physical, emotional and sexual...
If you’ve been perusing my home blog and other transgender-themed blogs across the Internet recently, you may have noticed the TDOR acronym pop up, and wondered what it means. TDOR stands for the...
I was celebrating with every trans person around the world in November 1999, when I heard the news that New Zealand’s Georgina Beyer became the first open trans person elected to a national...
The face of anti-GLBT activism in Ukraine is not necessarily what you'd expect it to be. In my case, I expected something resembling a bearded preacher with a fiery stare and little gobs of spit...
Eudy Simelane was an athlete and a lesbian. In a perfect world that validated love in all of its forms, her sexuality would be a non-issue. In South Africa, however, identifying as a lesbian (or...
“Family Guy” is approaching ten years on television. The show uses ironic humour to discuss race, gender, and sexuality. Quite often, it crosses the line of what is considered to be in good...