 Folks who have been reading this site for a while may recall the story of Largo, Florida City Manager Steve Stanton, who was fired in March 2007 after disclosing that he was in the process of making a gender identity...
 Back in November I posted that Oklahoma state senator Steve Russell planned to introduce a bill that would exempt the state from having to abide by the recently passed Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act on the basis of the 10th...
It's not often that the mainstream media covers transgender issues, but CNN will debut a documentary this week that will be worth watching to see the treatment of someone in transition is covered. In this case, it was the high-profile transition of Steven Stanton. The former Largo, FL, city manager appeared to have the perfect life: a loving wife and son, an influential job. Stanton described it as "paradise." That dream world - "Steven's World" - all changed when Stanton's plans to become a woman were revealed. Stanton tells a dramatic story of public and private struggle during this transition. Interviews with Stanton's wife, teen-age son and co-workers, along with childhood diaries, personal journals, and family films, take viewers into the world of Steven as he transitions to Susan.
When local reporter Lorri Helfand, following a tip about Stanton's cross dressing and explorations of gender reassignment, called Stanton to confirm her story, the city manager's world came crashing down. Stanton, now facing a public professional and personal outing, was thrust abruptly into a media firestorm. A press conference and explosive community hearing ensued, ending Stanton's Largo city manager career, fundamentally altering his family forever, and forcing Stanton to make decisions about how he would live the rest of his life.
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Missing ABC's sci-fi series V? You're not alone.
I caught up with new showrunner Scott Rosenbaum for a one-on-one interview about what's coming up for Erica Evans and the resistance in the next eight episodes of V, which returns at the end of the month.
Head over to the Los Angeles Times/Show Tracker site to read my interview with Rosenbaum, in which we talk about "rodent desire," multiple pregnancies, the similarities between Erica and Anna, what's to come, and much more.
Beware, though, my interview with Rosenbaum contains major spoilers!
V returns on Tuesday, March 30th at 10 pm ET/PT on ABC.
Read the full article at Televisionary (http://www.televisionarytv.com).
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 Yes! Smack them the hell down. From the ACLU press release:The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit today against a Mississippi High School that has canceled prom rather than let a lesbian high school student attend the prom with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo to the event. In papers filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, the ACLU asks the court to reinstate the prom for all students at the school and charges Itawamba County School District officials are violating Constance McMillen's First Amendment right to freedom of expression.
"All I wanted was the same chance to enjoy my prom night like any other student. But my school would rather hurt all the students than treat everyone fairly," said McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Mississippi. "This isn't just about me and my rights anymore - now I'm fighting for the right of all the students at my school to have our prom."
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 Chatroulette map. Facebook to take over entire internet with Facebook pages. Rare all-black penguin discovered. Mario Lopez to be a father. Maryland state senator Nancy Jacobs introduces bill to block state from recognizing same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. Devotion: Sons pull...
Originally published in MetroWeekly.
 It's funny, and often fascinating, how so much can change in such a short time — and yet change so little. When our family arrived back home on Tuesday evening, we were the same family we were when we left home that afternoon.
Yet, as a family we experienced an important change when my husband and I — after being married in all but the legal sense for 10 years — were legally married to each other Tuesday afternoon. More...
 Yesterday, I posted about the 27-year-old Saudi Arabian man who was arrested and charged with "homosexuality", among other offenses, after a video he posted to YouTube went viral. Now we have learned his punishment: "A 27-year-old Saudi man from Jeddah...
The lead attorneys in the fed challenge to Proposition 8, David Boies and Ted Olson took questions at an invitation-only gathering of media yesterday in NY to discuss several issues surrounding the Perry v. Schwarzeneggar case, more familiarly known as the Prop 8 fed trial. One conversation revolved around the ruling by SCOTUS that banned cameras in the courtroom to record the proceedings. (Gay City News):Arguing that the court's conclusion about the dangers of compromising privacy in this case was "fundamentally wrong," Boies said of Prop 8's defenders, "These were professional experts... these were people who made speeches, who had given money, who had intentionally gone out and made themselves part of this thing."
"They weren't worried about the publicity," Olson said. "They were worried about David Boies cross-examining them."
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 Says Weir "I do not get laid nearly enough, nor am I allowed to be laid. So this machine was basically the closest thing I could get to sex. To real, unbridled, passionate, sweaty dirty sex....oh, Daddy!" Watch the scene...
 The Washington Post reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was alerted to concerns about former Rep. Eric Massa last October: "Joe Racalto, Massa's chief of staff, was uneasy that Massa, 50, was living with several young, unmarried male staffers and...
 Here we are, back to the land of Sally Kern, where the hot bigoted wind comes sweepin' down the plain.
The latest piece of legislative bigotry is from State Sen. Steve Russell (R-Oklahoma City),and it's about as low as you can go. States' rights, peeps -- let's opt out of federal hate crimes protections! In an amendment presented on the Senate floor Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Steve Russell, R-Oklahoma City, gutted a bill that had been filed to create a task force to study the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association, and inserted language to make changes to the state's hate crime statutes.
Under the new provisions of Senate Bill 1965, reports that were collected during investigations of possible hate crime that did not end in a conviction would be destroyed or kept by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
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 They'd make a great couple. (source)
 Running against the media is apparently Meg Whitman's campaign strategy. The California GOP gubernatorial hopeful calls a press conference and then proceeds to refuse to answer questions, block cameras, and escort the press out of the room. Watch, AFTER THE...
 Gay couple to marry at Ben & Jerry's in Georgetown today: "Keith Spangler and Andreas Vellios plan to exchange vows inside the Georgetown Ben & Jerry's Scoop Shop on Thursday. Father Lance Ornoff of Ward 1's All Souls Unitarian Church...
With my head spinning after this week's episode of Lost on Tuesday night, I didn't get a chance to watch White Collar's fantastic first season finale until last night.
It was definitely worth the wait.
The season finale of White Collar ("Out of the Box"), written by Jeff Eastin and directed by Kevin Bray, offered further pressure to the already strained central relationships within the series, pushing both Neal (Matthew Bomer) and Peter (Tim DeKay) to make some hard choices, as Neal pursued the music box and his always-just-out-of-reach true love Kate and Peter sought to bring down the shady OPR Agent Garrett Fowler (Noah Emmerich) and stop Neal from making a disastrous decision.
Plus, it featured the long-awaited return of Marsha Thomason's Agent Diana Lancing, who I've missed terribly since she disappeared after the White Collar pilot. (No worries, Diana fans, she's sticking around for Season Two.)
So what did I think of the season finale? Let's discuss.
I have to give Eastin credit for offering a cliffhanger ending that throws some of the series' main conceits into the air, so to speak. Throughout the first season, Neal's main mission--while ostensibly working with Peter and the FBI's White Collar Crimes Division--has been to find a way to find Kate (Alexandra Daddario) and be reunited with his one true love. It's a quest that has at times splintered his friendship with his partner Peter and taken him up against Fowler, multiple criminals, and the Italian...
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With the U.S. Senate Dem majority hanging by a thread, each and every race in 2010 is critical for all of us to pay attention to. In North Carolina, the sleazy conservative Republican Richard "Bank Run" Burr is up for re-election, and on the Dem side we have three viable candidates who have declared public support for LGBT issues in various ways, something that was almost completely missing in action from Kay Hagan's campaign in 2008.
 On Monday, Durham for Obama is holding a candidate forum (along with an endorsement straw poll), featuring these Democratic Senatorial Candidates from North Carolina: Lexington native and former State Senator and Captain in the U.S. Army Reserves, Cal Cunningham, Durham Attorney Ken Lewis, and Secretary of State Elaine Marshall. Currently Marshall has a healthy polling lead over Lewis and Cunningham, but it's still early and the big media push hasn't hit the airwaves. That's when the rubber hits the road.
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 Christian repression has apparently left a wake of destruction in another Colorado town. Daniel Brock, a former Colorado Christian school principal whom his attorney describes as "a family man committed to education" was acquitted last month of "sexually touching" and...
 Scott Evans and Brett Claywell's gay storyline will be written out of One Life to Live by mid-April, TV Guide reports: "Word is, the decision to drop the duo didn’t come easily. Kish has been a big success with the...
 The Episcopal Rev. Canon Mary Glasspool, whose election to bishop in December has been in limbo during a routine consent process, has received enough approvals to ascend to bishop, Episcopal News reports: "The Los Angeles Standing Committee reported March 10...
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