Pro Golfer Mel Reid Comes Out, Joins Athlete Ally
“It’s important for me to always fight for equality,” says the six-time Ladies European Tour champ.
www.advocate.com/sports/2018/12/10/pro-golfer-mel-reid-comes-out-joins-athlete-ally
Daily Archives: December 10, 2018
Why Sarah Silverman Can Say ‘F*g’ and Kevin Hart Can’t
Why Sarah Silverman Can Say ‘F*g’ and Kevin Hart Can’t
Sarah Silverman (and one of her gay fans) explains the difference between her “antigay” tweets and Kevin Hart’s.
www.advocate.com/women/2018/12/10/why-sarah-silverman-can-say-fg-and-kevin-hart-cant
WATCH: 5 anti-LGBTQ candidates that lost this year
WATCH: 5 anti-LGBTQ candidates that lost this year
Buh-bye.
In A World That Isn’t Ours
In A World That Isn’t Ours
josephfluet posted a photo:
[redacted][is it a portrait of self or a self-portrait?][who is the self?][redacted] (December ‘17)
Grindr Exec Quits Over Company President’s Remarks on Same-Sex Marriage
Grindr Exec Quits Over Company President’s Remarks on Same-Sex Marriage
Landen Rafe Zumwalt, Grindr’s head of communications, resigned on Friday over remarks about same-sex marriage made by company president Scott Chen. Grindr is the Chinese-owned gay hook-up app.
Chen’s remarks, that marriage is a “holy matrimony between a man and a woman,” made headlines earlier this month. Chen said that his remarks, which were made on an article about Cher Wang, the founder of the Chinese tech company HTC, who had backed groups that opposed same-sex marriage, had been poorly translated by Facebook’s automatic translator and that properly translated showed that he in fact supported marriage equality.
“I am a huge advocate for LGBTQ+ rights since I was young. I support gay marriage and I am proud that I can work for Grindr,” Chen said in a follow-up statement.
Zumwalt announced his resignation in a post on Medium, writing, in part: “As an out and proud gay man madly in love with a man I don’t deserve, I refused to compromise my own values or professional integrity to defend a statement that goes against everything I am and everything I believe. While that resulted in my time at Grindr being cut short, I have absolutely no regrets. And neither should you.”
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Grindr Exec Quits Over Company President’s Remarks on Same-Sex Marriage
Minutes from Border, San Diego Drag Queens Perform for Migrant Caravan
Minutes from Border, San Diego Drag Queens Perform for Migrant Caravan
www.advocate.com/politics/2018/12/10/minutes-border-san-diego-drag-queens-perform-migrant-caravan
Nick Cannon points out all those times white female comedians used antigay slurs and no one cared
Nick Cannon points out all those times white female comedians used antigay slurs and no one cared
Nick Cannon did some detective work in an effort to expose the different standards comedians are held to.
HRC Mourns Keanna Mattel, Transgender Woman Killed in Detroit
HRC Mourns Keanna Mattel, Transgender Woman Killed in Detroit
HRC mourns the death of Keanna Mattel, a 35-year-old Black transgender woman killed in Detroit on Dec. 7.
Police found Mattel dead of a gunshot wound in her Palmer Park neighborhood, according to INTO. LGBTQ advocates who spoke to INTO suggested that Mattel may have been specifically targeted. Police have arrested a 46-year-old male suspect.
In 2015, after the tragic murder of Amber Monroe, Mattel spoke to The Guardian about the epidemic of violence against transgender women and the police’s response to it.
“The police are unaware with our struggle so they have no sympathy for us,” she said. “Nobody ever asks, what happened to that person to get here?”
While police did not initially identify Mattel as the victim, friends and LGBTQ advocates spread word of her passing.
Mattel’s friends posted on social media, noting that she was “a sweet, caring individual” and “a beautiful spirit” who was “loved.” Another friend posted that Mattel had a “beautiful bold personality” and was like a mother to her. Friends also posted videos remembering Mattel as an active member in Detroit’s ballroom scene, calling her “a sweetheart and beautiful character and personality.”
In the wake of Mattel’s death, friends will be hosting a benefit show on Dec. 12 to help raise funds for funeral expenses.
We must listen to her words and address the factors that continue to foster an epidemic of violence targeting transgender people, particularly transgender women of color. It is clear that fatal violence disproportionately affects trans women of color, and that the intersections of racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia conspire to deprive them of necessities to live and thrive.
Alarmingly, Mattel’s death adds to the growing list of a transgender or gender-expansive person killed in 2018.
In November 2018, HRC Foundation released “A National Epidemic: Fatal Anti-Transgender Violence in America in 2018,” a heartbreaking report honoring the transgender people killed in 2018 and detailing the contributing and motivating factors that lead to this tragic violence. To learn more, please follow this link.
To learn more about HRC’s transgender justice work, visit hrc.org/Transgender.
Roda de Leitura
Roda de Leitura
Senado Federal posted a photo:
Biblioteca do Senado realiza roda de leitura com o tema: Direitos Humanos das pessoas transgênero no trabalho. Mulher trans conta sua experiência de luta e desconstrução da violência contra as pessoas transgênero.
Texto de debate: Nasceu Alaor, mas agora é Alana – a história de uma mulher transexual no ambiente de trabalho (Capítulo da publicação “Promoção dos Direitos Humanos de pessoas LGBT no Mundo do Trabalho”, da Organização Internacional do Trabalho – OIT). Esta edição da Roda foi solicitada pelo Programa Pró-Equidade de Gênero e Raça do Senado Federal.
Mediadora: professora Natalha Nascimento.
Foto: Roque de Sá/Agência Senado
A #DayInLGBTQ America 2018: Are You Ready?
A #DayInLGBTQ America 2018: Are You Ready?
#DayInLGBTQ America 2018: Are You Ready?”>
All day Tuesday, December 11, share a slice of your life, America.
www.advocate.com/people/2016/12/06/dayinlgbt-america-2016-are-you-ready
