This morning we held our protest. Lu's Pharmacy decided to show their true colours and closed rather than allow us inside. We held our protest anyway, and got on camera doing so.
My prescription for Lu's: Take two doses of tolerance and call me in the morning.

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From spectrumcaferss. See also:


http://nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/07/10/2009-07-10_chaz_bono_shows_off_girlfriend_at_outfest.html

Chaz Bono shows off girlfriend Jennifer Elia at Outfest
BY Joanna Sloame
DAILIY NEWS WRITER
Friday, July 10th 2009, 11:59 AM


Chaz Bono (R) and his girlfriend Jennifer Elia (L) live together in West Hollywood. (Vazquez/Getty)

Who knew Chaz had a hottie girlfriend?

Chaz Bono, who usually keeps his personal life private, showed off gorgeous galpal Jennifer Elia Thursday night at Outfest in Los Angeles.

Outfest is the largest film festival for gay/lesbian/transgender-themed flicks in the country.

The son of Cher and the late Sonny Bono recently revealed he is undergoing a sex change to become a man, and has changed his name from Chastity to Chaz in the process.

A political and social activist, Chaz lives in West Hollywood with the brunette beauty. Bono began the sex change process in early March shortly after his 40th birthday.

"I am excited for Chaz that he will now be able to live life the way he wants to and in a body that is more comfortable for him," Kristen Schaffer, the executive director of Outfest told RadarOnline.com in June. "Chaz's 'coming out' as transgender is wonderful for the LGBT community as it not only increases transgender visibility, but also shows that we should never compromise our own identity."

http://examiner.com/x-16330-Philadelphia-Transgendered-Relationships-Examiner~y2009m7d9-To-disclose-or-not-to-disclose

To disclose or not to disclose
by Joe Ippolito
July 9, 3:21 PM

Disclosing to a potential dating partner can be an anxiety producing experience for many "passing" transgender people. Passing is the ability to present oneself as a gender other than one assigned at birth and to live in an unrecognizable state in society as this new gender.

For some, the notion of being rejected because of their transgender identity is so terrifying they opt to remain "in the closet," and end up not dating at all. For others, telling a potential dating partner may not be something they ever do. However, if disclosing is something you personally feel is important to you then it might be helpful to keep these few points in mind when deciding to open up in this way. For starters, you may want to feel the person out first to see exactly where they stand on similar political and social issues, such as gay and lesbian concerns, and/or determine how they relate to certain gender roles? Is this person more politically conservative then you expected? Do they think lesbians are really women who have merely not "landed" a good man? Do they think it is wrong for men to wear pink and women to wear blue? Depending on what the answer to these questions are, you may want or need to reconsider who this person is and if they really make a good dating partner for you. However, if you decide to go forward with the dating relationship you will then need to figure out a good time to talk with them about your gender identity.
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Allegheny County OKs nondiscrimination bill

Philadelphia Gay News
July 9, 2009
by Jen Colletta

The Allegheny County Council approved a bill last week that would prohibit discrimination against LGBT county residents in employment, housing and public accommodations.

The council approved the Allegheny County Human Relations Ordinance in an 8-6 vote July 1, and county executive Dan Onorato indicated later that night that he will sign the legislation.

The bill, proposed by Councilwoman Amanda Green last summer, additionally creates a seven-member human-relations commission to investigate and adjudicate cases of potential discrimination.
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SEPTA panel recommends end to genderized fares

Philadelphia Gay News
July 9, 2009
by Timothy Cwiek

The 27-member SEPTA Citizen Advisory Committee has unanimously recommended that the transit agency stop using gender markers in its fare-collection system.

Since the 1970s, SEPTA has placed gender stickers on its weekly and monthly passes to reduce swapping between males and females. SEPTA also issues gender-specific reduced-fare cards for seniors and the disabled.

But LGBT advocates have protested this practice, noting that its implementation requires gender stereotyping on the part of SEPTA personnel, which they contend is against federal law.

Now advocates have the support of SEPTA’s advisory committee, due to the committee’s unanimous vote at its June 30 public meeting.

“SEPTA is unintentionally discriminating on the basis of sex because it’s only singling out the category of gender for fraud reduction,” said committee chair Robert Clearfield. “We believe SEPTA may be violating federal law. And it’s our hope they’ll stop doing so, immediately.”
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Please note that I personally do not agree with the headline of this article.
Also note that the article from the Daily News dated July 3.

Man in women's clothing found dead in park
Philadelphia Gay News
Wednesday, July 9, 2009

A jogger in Fairmount Park last week found a man dressed in female clothing whom police say was murdered.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/16/rose.transgender/

Commentary: Transgender people are everywhere
By Donna Rose
Special to CNN
updated 3:20 p.m. EDT, Tue June 16, 2009

Editor's note: Donna Rose is a speaker and advocate for transgender and transsexual issues. She is the author of a memoir, "Wrapped In Blue: A Journey of Self-Discovery." Her Web site is http://donnarose.com/ .


Donna Rose says transgender people don't fit the stereotypes society often tries to impose.

(CNN) -- It was only a matter of time. The real-life drama of being transsexual has come to Hollywood. Chastity Bono, the impossibly cute little blond girl who, for many of my generation, remains frozen in time as the sweet, chubby-faced cherub closing many a Sonny and Cher show in the arms of her doting parents, recently announced that he is transsexual and will be transitioning from female to male. He will go by the name of Chaz.

As shocking as this news may be to some, it is yet another reminder that all is not necessarily as it appears and that each of us is more complicated than simply the skin and bones of our bodies. Rather, it is our heart and spirit that defines us.

Transgender people -- that is, people who may not experience or express their gender in ways that are necessarily typical for the physical sex of their body -- have been part of the fabric of cultures for as long as history has been recorded.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8129836.stm

Gay sex decriminalised in India

A court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has ruled that homosexual intercourse between consenting adults is not a criminal act.

The ruling overturns a 148-year-old colonial law which describes a same-sex relationship as an "unnatural offence".

Homosexual acts were punishable by a 10-year prison sentence.


Rights groups have long campaigned for a repeal of the law

Many people in India regard same-sex relationships as illegitimate. Rights groups have long argued that the law contravened human rights.

Delhi's High Court ruled that the law outlawing homosexual acts was discriminatory and a "violation of fundamental rights".

The court said that a statute in Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which defines homosexual acts as "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" and made them illegal, was an "antithesis of the right to equality".
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http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/gay_marriage/

Gay marriage legal from today in Hungary, but gap in rights persists
By: Hungary Around the Clock
2009-07-01 11:16


Marchers in the 2007 Budapest Pride parade. Today marks the first day gay couples can form legal partnerships in Hungary.

Homosexual couples can forge life partnerships before public notaries from Wednesday.

These life partnerships will be guaranteed the same tax, employment, social and immigration benefits as heterosexual marriages. Gay couples will be barred from adopting children and taking their spouse's name, however.

Constitutional Court spokesman András Sereg told Magyar Hírlap that the Act, which was passed in March, can only now be challenged at the Constitutional Court.

http://www.nclrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=press_MinterDOJstatement070109

A Statement from NCLR Legal Director Shannon Minter


(San Francisco, CA, July 1, 2009)—The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has declined to appeal a federal court ruling awarding transgender veteran Diane Schroer the maximum compensation for the discrimination she suffered by being refused a job with the Library of Congress because of her transgender status. Yesterday, June 30, was the deadline for the government to seek an appeal in Schroer v. Library of Congress, in which Ms. Schroer has been ably represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The Bush Administration had defended this case vigorously, arguing that transgender Americans are not protected by any existing federal laws, but the district court rejected that argument.

A statement from Shannon Minter, Legal Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights:

The DOJ’s decision not to appeal this case is correct, and we applaud it. Discrimination against transgender people is sex discrimination, and the discrimination levied against Ms. Schroer by the Library of Congress was blatant and indefensible.

The DOJ’s decision not to appeal the verdict is consistent with the Obama administration’s campaign promises to protect transgender workers against discrimination and the administration’s recent order taking steps to bar gender identity discrimination in federal employment.

Ms. Schroer, an Army Special Forces veteran with 25 years service, has our deepest appreciation for honorably and steadfastly pursuing her rights for several years to this successful conclusion which marks a significant victory for transgender workers across the country.

A copy of the decision, the complaint, a video, a bio and photographs of Diane Schroer are available at: http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/transgender/24969res20050602.html.

This weekend I went to the movies and before the film started this Boost Mobile ad was shown. Danica Patrick's pit crew is composed of male-bodied people dressed in women's clothing and wearing high-heeled shoes. The movie audience laughed uproariously--what could be funnier than men dressed as women? This transphobic, misogynistic and offensive ad should be stopped. When will society stop making trans women the butt of cruel jokes? I encourage you to write to GLAAD to encourage them to do something about this hateful ad, where Danica Patrick calls being transgender "wrong." Apparently, it is just fine for Danica Patrick to enter the male-dominated field of competitive car racing, provided she maintains her hetero-femininity and degrades gender-variant people to secure and maintain her place in the patriarchal order.

GLAAD's "Report Media Defamation" instructions: GLAAD communicates with many editors, reporters and producers about media coverage both problematic and commendable. GLAAD needs your help in ensuring we are able to respond to the greatest number of important instances of media defamation.
Please report unfair or defamatory coverage by emailing incident@glaad.org with the information below.
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Here is the ad itself:



Boost Mobile had the audacity to make a riveting "behind the scenes" video about the making of the video, where they make additional offensive statements. "Brainchilds of my insane creative team. I can channel that insanity." Danica won a "bet" (i.e. men cross-dressing is a form of sadistic abuse). The ads will "get people laughing." Some of the actors enjoyed it too much (those who enjoy cross-dressing are perverted and sick.) This ads are "funny, edging and pushing the limits" campaigns, says Danica, who loves taking part in them.

http://theage.com.au/national/transsexual-takes-to-the-footy-field-20090606-bz7v.html

Transsexual takes to the footy field
Jill Stark
June 7, 2009


Will, 25, who has been living as a man for two years, hopes to play competition football. Photo: Simon O'Dwyer

LIKE many young Victorian males, Will loves his footy. He dreams of joining the thousands of men who lace up their boots every weekend and play in amateur competitions. He's just like them in every way but one — he was born female.

When the 25-year-old takes to the field he will become Australia's first female-to-male transsexual to play competitive football in a men's team.
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gudbuytjane has some more news about the moron behind tranny alert. Apparently he's a 16 year old adult gay man who's been grounded flounced away from the internet. People know his real name because he got careless. He'll be watched.

Strange though, apparently it's okay for a cisperson to expose transwomen to the possibility of harm or death, but it's not okay for transpeople to expose a cisperson to ridicule and losing a website. Who knew?

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Myths of Stonewall

This article has me a bit pissed.

 I am going to make a media piece on trans women speaking out on healthcare, tentatively titled: 

Our Lives Matter Too! Holding Cissexually Privileged Women's Healthcare Accountable To All Women.

I have a partner who is a video expert, and she is willing to produce it. I can travel on a limited basis. What we need is trans women willing to speak out on our lives, and how the current cissupremacist women's healthcare system affects us.

All our experiences matter! let's make this happen. Ideas? Criticisms? 

Where are you at on this issue?

It couldn't happen to a nicer idiot. Tranny Alert is 404 this morning.

It appears that our complaints worked.

Sex, not gender. Pop will make Pop's gender known pretty clearly at some point, whether or not it aligns with Pop's sex. Either way, this reminds me strongly of Baby X - A Fabulous Child's Story, which I think is fantastic.


http://thelocal.se/20232/20090623/

Swedish parents keep 2-year-old's gender secret
Published: 23 Jun 09 16:24 CET

A couple of Swedish parents have stirred up debate in the country by refusing to reveal whether their two-and-a-half-year-old child is a boy or a girl.

Pop’s parents [see footnote], both 24, made a decision when their baby was born to keep Pop’s sex a secret. Aside from a select few – those who have changed the child’s diaper – nobody knows Pop’s gender; if anyone enquires, Pop’s parents simply say they don’t disclose this information.

In an interview with newspaper Svenska Dagbladet in March, the parents were quoted saying their decision was rooted in the feminist philosophy that gender is a social construction.

“We want Pop to grow up more freely and avoid being forced into a specific gender mould from the outset,” Pop’s mother said. “It's cruel to bring a child into the world with a blue or pink stamp on their forehead.”
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http://baywindows.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=92846

Local activists among 40 ’transgender heroes’ honored at Stonewall bar
by Ethan Jacobs
Bay Windows staff reporter
Thursday 25 June 2009


Stonewall’s legacy: (from left) Gunner Scott, Nancy Nangeroni and Grace Sterling Stowell will be immortalized as ’Transgender Heroes’ at the Stonewall Inn in New York City. (Source:Marilyn Humphries)

Historians have long credited poor and working class drag queens, bull dykes and other transgender and gender-non-conforming people as key participants in the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion, but within the wider LGBT community that defining moment is all-too-often remembered as a gay, rather than LGBT, milestone. The International Court System and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force hope to change that. On June 25, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the riots that marked the birth of the modern LGBT rights movement, the two organizations will hold a dedication ceremony at the fabled New York City bar to unveil a plaque featuring the names of 40 transgender heroes past and present.

The plaque will go on permanent display at the bar, and Bay State visitors will likely recognize a few familiar names on the list. Among the 40 heroes are Gunner Scott, director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC); Grace Sterling Stowell, executive director of the Boston Alliance of GLBT Youth (BAGLY); longtime activist Nancy Nangeroni, former president of the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), former co-host of GenderTalk Radio and current host of GenderVision; and Cole Thaler, an MTPC founder who is now the transgender rights attorney for New York’s Lambda Legal.

"It will be permanent, so people going into the Stonewall Inn will be able to see this plaque and see the names of these, to me, true heroes of our community," said Nicole Murray-Ramirez, a longtime San Diego-based activist who presides over the International Court System as Empress Nicole the Great. The International Court System was founded in 1965, four years before Stonewall. Member courts in the United States, Canada and Mexico, including the Imperial Court of Massachusetts, hold events in which members don campy and outrageous costumes and adopt royal titles, all while raising money for LGBT and HIV/AIDS organizations.
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You need to call your Senator NOW and ask them to save the hate crimes bill from certain death! If it’s added to the defense authorization bill it will be the death of hate crimes this year.

http://www.gendersaurusrex.com/2009/06/action-alert/

Hey there!

I just wanted to take a moment to let you know that I made a post about the conference call the National Center for Transgender Equality just (8pm ET on June 24) had about the re-introduction of ENDA. Want to know that Mara Keisling, Diego Sanchez, Chaz Bono and others said about ENDA? I have quotes and a summary of what was said on this important conference call. Feel free to copy/paste, and link! Sorry in advance for the x-posting, but this is important, spread the word.
http://www.gendersaurusrex.com/2009/06/enda-conference-call-with-ncte/

Sincerely,

Huck
www.gendersaurusrex.com