Where do our congresspeople stand on open military service for trans people? For background regarding trans military service members, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) was enshrined into law in 1993. The military services could no longer legally ask a recruit whether he or she was a homosexual, nor could they legally ask whether a then…
There’s been many words spoken by Lisa Vogel, the founder and 39-year key organizer of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival about the festival’s women-born-women (WBW) policy. This year, she’s referring to the policy as an intention, but six of one, half-a-dozen of the other – she’s referred to the intention as policy in the past….
In 2010 I was selected as one of the two Champions of Pride, and in 2012 I was a speaker at the Stonewall Rally. In both cases it had to do with LGBT military service issues. Connor Maddocks was a speaker at the 2013 Stonewall Rally, in large part because his participation in trans leadership…
Prior to this year’s Friday night Stonewall Rally, July 18, the organizing collective of the first annual San Diego Trans* Pride and March requested a few times of San Diego Pride that a dedicated space be set aside for the marchers in the audience area of San Diego Pride weekend’s kickoff event. The march was…
What would an uncensored video production on transgender topics from an African American and trans point of view look like? What would we see from a community perspective that wasn’t produced by middle-aged, white transitioners? Ciora LeGrand is the host, writer and executive producer of sisTers, a new production for Transperience.TV. “I’m doing the show…
The trans community in San Diego is both visible and invisible. That is to say some are out activists and/or advocates for the trans community and visible in LGBT spaces in San Diego, some are behind the scenes activists and/or advocates and not visible in LGBT spaces, some are out to their friends and families…
Burger King recently released an ad on LGBT equality, and one store in San Francisco served a burger called the “Proud Whopper” for a short while during San Francisco’s Pride Weekend celebration. They added social media to their campaign. For example, they Tweeted, “We are who we are. And it’s awesome. #BeYourWay” with an image…
From Seattle to Toronto, from Vancouver to New York, many cities across North America have annual Trans Pride Marches. I remember my first time I attended a Trans March. In 2005, two years after I came out, I went to San Francisco’s second annual Trans Pride March. Hundreds of trans and intersex people, along with…
What an agenda I had in the past week or so. June 16 I celebrated the 26th anniversary of my last birthday (my last birthday being my 29th), and enjoyed a diet-busting piece of chocolate cake from North Park’s Heavenly Desserts. Friday June 20, I went to Lake Cuyamaca to fish for trout and crappie….
In 2013, The Department of Defense (DoD) designated June as an annual celebration of LGBT Pride. “The Department of Defense and the Office of Diversity Management have added LGBT Pride Month as an annual observance to be celebrated by military and civilian members of the Armed Forces,” wrote the DoD in an article promulgated by…
