Open Question: What to call an NGO that helps the social minorities?
so im planning to open up a small group that hopefully will become an NGO and im having problems naming it. its all about minorities, lgbt mostly but it also targets every non adult who suffers from being on the sideline. black, disabled, gay, poor, every single thing that leads society to outcast someone
i need a name please help 🙂

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God Says….
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God Says….
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Open Question: What does it feel like to be gay?
Hi I’m a 15 year old straight guy and I was wondering, what does it feel like exactly to be homosexual? When did you realize you were attracted to the same gender and how did you feel when you discovered you were really homosexual? I’m really curious about this! No I’m NOT asking this question out of hate. I have NOTHING against LGBT people whatsoever!! I’ve just always wondered what it felt like to be a gay person. Thanks for your answers!!!

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A Trans Parent: How One Woman Is Inspiring a Nation
The first time I ever heard of Jessica Lynn, I was sitting down in a small recording studio at the base of UCSB’s Storke Tower. I had been invited as a guest to be interviewed for Your True Gender Radio about my life as a transgender correctional officer. The program was part of Your True Gender, a non-profit organization co-founded by Jessica Lynn. At the time, she seemed like a mythical figure. An amazing woman who’d overcome the war trenches of life to emerge a shining beacon for the Trans community. I looked upon her like a superstar, an unreachable force of nature that I would never meet.

Imagine my surprise when she reached out to me. It came to her attention that I was looking for Transgender stories to tell; I wanted to sharpen my journalistic skills. Barely a month after my radio interview, there she was, sitting in my living room. Over dinner, we began to feel each other out. She knew my work as a writer and loved it. I was given a crash course on her own unbelievably spectacular life story. Before parting, I agreed to working with her as a writer, and an occasional speaker.

We corresponded over the next few months. Learning that she was quickly becoming a premier speaker at colleges and universities across the United States. Every Trans person has a story. Tales of suffering, of utter hopelessness, and of coming out. But none are quite like the life led by Jessica. As a Trans woman myself, there is much of her story that I connect with. Just as many transgender stories parallel the next. Yet her saga has a flavor to it, an unidentifiable anomaly that draws in audience after audience. And that’s before you even begin to learn about her children.

Having grown up in 1960s and 70s America, there was not much information for a transgender child to find, let alone any Trans role models. The particular details of her early days, while undeniably fascinating, pale in comparison to the sideshow she was exposed to in the great state of Texas. Where she was forced to prove her worth as a father and a human being, in order to keep her son.

The first thing that many people notice when Jessica walks into their classroom is how unabashedly feminine she is. Perhaps the expectation lay elsewhere when you hear that a guest speaker is Trans. But at 50 years old, she immediately shatters many of the preconceived notions of what “transgender” looks like. Typically dressed in a light flowing blouse and sensibly short skirt, she stands confidently in front of the class, ready to blow their minds.

Her candid delivery is unfiltered. Each group is instantly made at ease when they realize that she is not there to lecture them. Instead, they are treated to some of the darkest moments of her life; even a few of its highlights. The presentation is accompanied by a PowerPoint slideshow, giving the audience a visual guide to color in the details. There is much to draw from emotionally, in Jessica’s story, yet it is the court battle over her youngest son that ultimately brings the Trans narrative into perspective.

Jessica is a father to three children. For most of their lives, she was Dad, a man. She lived 45 years as the person others wanted her to be, who they thought she was meant to be. During this dark period, she met a girl and together had three beautiful boys. While Jessica was supremely gifted as a father, she severely lacked in her capacity to be a husband. This inefficiency broke the couple apart. Jessica’s wife couldn’t deal with a man who wanted to become a woman, a man that would not, could not show her the love and affection she expected of a husband.

As Jessica’s transition progressed, the relationship between the divorced pair faced a new hurdle; the custody of the children. Jessica had already come out to the two eldest boys. But there was concern over the right moment to tell their youngest that his dad, was now a woman. What happened next floored Jessica; the ex-wife was seeking to have her parental rights abolished. She wanted to take away Jessica’s youngest son. And a Texas judge agreed.

For the sin of seeking an authentic life, of being a transgender woman, Jessica Lynn lost her child. She was not only barred from any involvement with her son’s life but from revealing her true self to him on the threat of confinement in prison. Her name was erased from his birth certificate. The one good thing about her former life, her children, and one of them had been stolen from her.

This is what Jessica’s story is all about. Why it is so important, so compelling to the thousands across the country privileged enough to hear it. They don’t have to be transgender to understand the loss of a child. To know that for any parent, no matter the physical makeup or alignment, it is a literal nightmare.

By the end of her presentation, Jessica is visibly drained. Though she hides it well, the effect of recalling over and over again the loss of her son is heartbreaking. She always hangs around to answer any pressing questions burning in the overstimulated minds of the crowd. Even exiting the speaking hall, she continues to field questions of her newest fans. Some come to her with stories of their own, some move in for a warm embrace with tears in their eyes. All, are affected, changed.

Jessica has changed my life too. She has inspired me in countless ways. To be a better person, a vocal advocate, and of course… to write. She is not done. Not done telling her story. Not done helping others. And she is not done, fighting for her son.

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Judy Gold: Why can’t we make fun of Caitlyn Jenner?
The comic lamented that “people are so overly sensitive now.”
Tashara Jones

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Open Question: Why am I more scared of being gay then trans?
I’m a halfway closet case ftm, and I’ve found it makes me more anxious to admit I’m gay then to admit I’m trans.

I’m not homophobic to people because I’m still somewhat closeted, I just have a weird instinct to hide I have feelings for men.

Btw I have nothing against gay men as I have befriended several over my life. It just makes me nervous to admit that I am really gay. Its kind of weird to me, because its easier to lie and say I’m bi or pansexual rather then admit I’m gay. I don’t know why this is, as I live in a lgbt community with many open gay males. So I can’t figure out why its so difficult for me to just say it myself.

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Fired Gay Priest Calls Catholic Church 'Violently Homophobic'

The Roman Catholic Church is “frequently violently homophobic” and makes LGBT Catholics’ lives “a hell,” says a priest who was fired by the Vatican after coming out as gay.

Krzysztof Charamsa, who held a post at the Vatican until early October, expressed these sentiments in a letter to Pope Francis, written the same day as his coming-out announcement, the BBC reports. Charamsa provided the network with a copy.

In the letter, he takes the church to task for “persecuting” and bringing “immeasurable suffering” to LGBT Catholics and their loved ones. After a “long and tormented period of discernment and prayer,” he wrote, he decided to “publicly reject the violence of the Church towards homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and intersexual people.”

He denounced the “homophobic hate of the Church, the exclusion, the marginalisation and the stigmatisation of people like me,” and said that while there are many gay people in the church, including clergy, the institution is  “frequently violently homophobic.” He urged “all gay cardinals, gay bishops and gay priests [to] have the courage to abandon this insensitive, unfair and brutal Church.”

Charamsa thanked Pope Francis for some of his conciliatory remarks about LGBT people but said they will be meaningful only if the church reverses some of its attitudes. The priest condemned a statement by Francis’s predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, that homosexuality is “a strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil,” and he said the church should nullify its policy barring men with “deep-seated homosexual tendencies” from the priesthood.

Despite the policy, there are gay Catholic priests, Charamsa said. But he has noted previously that during his time at the Vatican, he had met only the occasional “isolated” one, and no “gay lobby,” said to exist by a variety of observers, even Pope Francis.

Trudy Ring

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GOTLV: Get out the Lesbian Vote in 2015
Every day, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer women make herstory. It is made by each of us, often times in ways that may be underappreciated or unrecognized. But when we work together, our power as LGBTQ women manifests one by one, in our communities, and in our actions to help change the world. Whether we are volunteering or running non-profits, cracking the glass ceiling as business leaders or challenging discrimination in the law or politics – LGBTQ women are the driving force behind so much progress!

With only days until the November 3 election, LPAC is joining with LGBTQ women throughout the nation to focus our efforts on our “5 for 15” endorsements. Five women — each making her own herstory in running for mayor, or state auditor or state senator — will continue to make more communities more progressive and pro- women. But it will take the support of LGBTQ women and our allies throughout the country, and our collective power and voice, to make them successful on Election Day.

Local politics rarely receives the attention it deserves; yet, the vast majority of our interactions with our government come at this local level. And we are thrilled to endorse three dynamic mayoral candidates:

Jackie Biskupski is a vanguard, as the first out woman in the Utah State Assembly. Now, she is running to be the first out lesbian mayor of Salt Lake City, where she’d also be the first single mother in that role; in fact she’d only be the second woman mayor of the city! Ginny Deerin would be the first out bisexual mayor in America, if she is wins her election in Charleston, South Carolina. She has been a long-time civic leader, both as an advisor to the current mayor, and as a proven non-profit leader. Ginny Foat is seeking to become the mayor of Palm Springs, California, where she has spent over a decade serving on the city council.

As the LGBTQ community seeks to expand our power into every state in the union – beyond the comfortable confines of urban centers or progressive states, we’re honored to endorse Joce Pritchett, who is the first out gay or lesbian candidate ever to run for statewide office in Mississippi. Joce is running for state auditor and this highly accomplished Mississippi business leader wants to bring integrity and ethics to state government in Mississippi. She wants to be a public servant on the state government level, but Joce has already helped change the dialogue for LGBTQ women in the south.

Finally, we must continue to celebrate our allies – particularly in races against the most challenging of opponents. Dr. Jill McCabe is a proud LGBTQ ally who is running to unseat one of the worst state legislators for women and our LGBTQ community in the country, in Northern Virginia’s Loudoun County.

These five women represent the power that every one of us has to change the world. Together, LPAC’s supporters’ donations and activism can make a meaningful impact in these five races. And in turn, these five candidates can have tremendous impacts in their communities – from municipal employment non-discrimination bans to fair housing, from protecting women’s health in their communities to standing up for pay equity and social justice. Each vote for mayor, each contribution to an auditor’s campaign, each phone call on behalf of a state senate candidate are all small acts of civic participation which can help our LGBTQ community build and sustain our political power. Join us in supporting LPAC’s #5for15.

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