WATCH: Obama Invokes Gay Rights Movement in Selma Commemoration
The marchers at Selma opened doors for gay Americans and other marginalized groups, the president says.
Trudy Ring
www.advocate.com/politics/2015/03/07/watch-obama-invokes-gay-rights-movement-selma-commemoration
Alabama couple celebrates same sex marriage ruling ‘I’m ecstatic’ LGBT, Equality
Alabama couple celebrates same sex marriage ruling ‘I’m ecstatic’ LGBT, Equality.
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WATCH: Trans Women Tell Janet Mock, 'I Am a Woman'
Mock and four guests school viewers on the basics of being transgender.
Dawn Ennis
www.advocate.com/politics/media/2015/03/07/watch-trans-women-tell-janet-mock-i-am-woman
ICYMi: Six Great Moments from Vice President Biden’s Keynote at HRC Convention
Yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden addressed HRC board members, steering committees, staff and volunteers at our 2015 Spring Equality Convention.
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Gay Iconography: Shonda Rhimes' Inclusive TV Empire
Typically, we talk about icons in terms of notability, recognition, fame, impact. You know the names — Madonna, Gaga, Cher, Liza, Judy, Bette. We hear the arguments about vocally supporting the LGBT community, marching in parades and contributing to charities. Then there’s the argument that an icon needs to be the kind of person a drag queen could “do” in their act. But what about an ally that’s leaving her mark on pop culture behind the scenes?
Enter Shonda Rhimes, a TV master so powerful that ABC handed her an entire night of their primetime schedule. Her shows have become some of the most talked about series of the last decade, blending steamy sex scenes, ripped-from-the-headlines commentary and so much soapy melodrama. But through it all, she’s also been committed to diversifying the kinds of stories we see on television. Her casting process for breakout hit Grey’s Anatomy made headlines for the “colorblind” role descriptions that yielded one of the most richly diverse ensembles on television.
Part of that inclusive approach includes telling stories of LGBT characters. The Advocate named her one of the Coolest Straight People In Entertainment in 2014, saying “Rhimes isn’t simply setting the gold standard in character diversity for network television, she’s setting the standard for creators as well.” In 2012, she accepted GLAAD’s Golden Gate Award. She’ll also be honored later this month at the 2015 Human Rights Campaign Los Angeles Gala Dinner. “We are thrilled to honor such a fierce and longtime advocate for LGBT equality at this year’s HRC Los Angeles Gala Dinner,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “Shonda Rhimes is not only politically outspoken on issues of equality, but has also created some of the most groundbreaking portrayals of LGBT people ever seen on television, helping to change hearts and minds around the world.”
Get familiar with some of Rhimes’ work in a few of our favorite clips, AFTER THE JUMP …
Before she hit it big with her television series, Shonda earned recognition for writing the HBO original film, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. She’s also the writer of so-bad-it’s-sort-of-good-maybe?, camp classic, Crossroads. Yes, that Crossroads, the Britney Spears-starring cross-country trip film.
There have been lots of gay characters to pass through the doors of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital (formerly Seattle Grace Mercy West, and prior to that Seattle Grace), but the most enduring story has belonged to Callie Torres (Sara Ramirez). The clip above is one of the show’s most famous scenes in the show’s eleven-season history, featuring Callie’s first female lover, Erica Hahn (Brooke Smith), describing the realization she was a lesbian.
One of Grey’s Anatomy’s most important (and longest-lasting) couples are Callie and Arizona, whose relationship has been treated with the same seriousness (and strained by the same dramatic turns) as any other in the series’ run. One of their more memorable moments occurred during the show’s musical episode.
Shonda’s success was no fluke. In 2012, she launched Scandal. Not only was it a ratings smash, but it was the first network TV drama since 1974 headlined by an African-American woman, Kerry Washington. (Washington, by the way, will be presented with the Vanguard Award at the next GLAAD Media Awards.) In addition to Olivia Pope (Washington)’s scandalous romances, let’s not forget James (Dan Bucatinsky) and openly gay Chief of Staff Cyrus (Jeff Perry).
The biggest buzzing around a Shonda show has been this season’s How To Get Away With Murder, which Rhimes executive produces. The addictive legal thriller had more conservative viewers clasping their pearls at the show’s sex scenes. In response to criticism that the gay scenes were “too much,” Rhimes tweeted “There are no GAY scenes. There are scenes with people in them. If you are suddenly discovering that Shondaland shows have scenes involving people who are gay, you are LATE TO THE PARTY. f u use the phrase “gay scenes”, u are not only LATE to the party but also NOT INVITED to the party. Bye Felicia.”
What’s your favorite Shonda series?
Bobby Hankinson
www.towleroad.com/2015/03/gay-iconography-shonda-rhimes-inclusive-tv-empire.html
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Este video da consejos a las personas LGBT La presentacion de entrenamiento "Becca" fue hecha para ayudar a combatir el acoso escolar. Creado en honor a Rebecca Sedwick. Viene en 16 partes…
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This Is What a (Marriage Equality) Movement Looks Like
A little over a week ago, same-sex couples from Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, and Kentucky filed briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking the freedom to marry nationally. Just last Friday, hundreds of Fortune 500 corporations, faith leaders, Republican and Democratic officials, civil rights organizations, law professors, and the Obama Administration filed supporting amicus briefs. And the Supreme Court finally set oral arguments for April 28. For thousands of same-sex couples across the country, the day when their families might be fully protected and their love equally recognized seems closer than ever.
Arriving at this moment was neither an inevitability nor the work product of a few heroic individuals. Rather, it’s the culmination of a movement’s work over decades – careful strategy; individual story-telling; grassroots organizing; setbacks and recovery from setbacks; litigation, legislation, and ballot questions – involving all kinds of people and organizations putting in blood, sweat, and tears.
It’s notable, for example, that like most of the cases currently before the Supreme Court, the first significant marriage equality case was brought back in the early 1990s by a private attorney in Hawaii, Dan Foley, on behalf of Nina Baehr and Genora Dancel. While their initial victory in the courts was eventually overturned by constitutional amendment, their lawsuit catapulted the marriage equality movement to the national stage and, with the help of movement leader Evan Wolfson, kicked off a broader conversation about the injustices and harms of excluding same-sex couples from marriage.
Twenty years later, after a narrowly averted car accident, April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse of Michigan, visited their attorney Dana Nessel to ensure that both of them would be recognized as the legal parents of their four children. They were shocked to learn that without the ability to marry, they could not jointly adopt and ensure the security of their family. For April and Jayne, their journey to the doors of the Supreme Court has been guided both by their own moral compass and their parental instinct to protect their children.
And certainly, “the movement” writ large has come together in this moment. All four major LGBT legal organizations that have worked long and hard to get us to where we are today are co-counsel in the cases before the high court. GLAD’s Mary Bonauto, who won the first marriage case in the country in Massachusetts in 2003, is co-counsel in Michigan with Dana and a team of talented private attorneys, including Carole Stanyar, Kenneth Mogill of Mogill, Posner & Cohen, and Wayne State University Law Professor Robert Sedler. Lambda Legal, which won the first unanimous judicial victory in Iowa and later helped secure marriage throughout the 9th Circuit, is co-counsel in Ohio. NCLR, which won a game changing legal victory in California, helping reverse a string of judicial losses in the mid-2000s, is now co-counsel in Tennessee. Finally, the ACLU, whose landmark Windsor victory at the Supreme Court overturning DOMA last year set off the avalanche of federal judicial victories on marriage in the last year, is co-counsel in Kentucky and Ohio.
It’s also significant that the Supreme Court cases originated in states from the heartland and the south, thanks to the movement’s state-by-state strategy that began with Massachusetts and grew to 37 states just last month with Alabama. This strategy has succeeded through a mixture of judicial, legislative, and electoral wins. Statewide equality groups, as well as national organizations like Freedom to Marry, the Equality Federation, the National LGBTQ Task Force, and HRC, knew that to win nationally at the Supreme Court, we needed as many states as possible in the pro-equality column, and we needed to win those states by every means possible. And did. As a result, there are now only 13 states, all in the most conservative areas of our country, left that discriminate against same-sex couples in marriage.
This is what a movement looks like. Ordinary people exercising their ordinary rights with extraordinary courage. Private attorneys sacrificing their time and livelihoods for a just cause. Movement organizations planning a strategy of incremental progress to be included within one of society’s most cherished institutions. And the transformative power of LGBT people and families sharing their lives with their neighbors, friend, coworkers, and family. None of this profound change was inevitable; instead, every piece had to come together, along with a bit of luck and a lot of hard work, in order to climb to where we are today.
But this cannot be all that our movement looks like. Even as we reach the top of this mountain, if we fail to see the mountains beyond, then all we will be left with is a steep climb down. Even if same-sex couples begin marrying across the country in June, those same couples still face discrimination in their everyday lives, especially as our opponents seek to expand religious exemptions to undermine anti-discrimination protections. Even as same-sex couples gain greater acceptance within society, the same is not true for all in our community, including youth, elders, people of color, transgender individuals, and HIV-positive individuals.
The real test of a movement is whether it has the vision to imagine an even more just society for everyone, and the tenacity to get it done.
The marriage equality movement has given us the tools to tackle these new challenges. We have built shared values of love, respect and family that we can now use to fuel society’s greater understanding of all LGBTQ individuals, in all aspects of our lives. We have learned how to use personal stories to teach about the realities of our lives in a way that highlights our common humanity as opposed to our differences. And we understand the power of everyday actions by ordinary people – every person who has ever come out to a family member, placed a photo of their partner on their desk at work, or shared a story about their transgender child.
We may not know exactly what the movement will look like going forward, but the many faces of our ever diverse LGBTQ community is not a bad place to start.
Obama Invokes Stonewall, Draws Comparisons Between Civil Rights and LGBT Equality in #Selma50 Speech
Speaking before a crowd of thousands on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge marking the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” and the historic civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery today, President Obama noted the progress made in the fight for racial and LGBT equality and the similarities between those two civil rights movements.
Said Obama:
We do a disservice to the cause of justice by intimating that bias and discrimination are immutable, or that racial division is inherent to America. If you think nothing’s changed in the past fifty years, ask somebody who lived through the Selma or Chicago or L.A. of the Fifties. Ask the female CEO who once might have been assigned to the secretarial pool if nothing’s changed. Ask your gay friend if it’s easier to be out and proud in America now than it was thirty years ago. To deny this progress – our progress – would be to rob us of our own agency; our responsibility to do what we can to make America better.
Of course, a more common mistake is to suggest that racism is banished, that the work that drew men and women to Selma is complete, and that whatever racial tensions remain are a consequence of those seeking to play the “race card” for their own purposes. We don’t need the Ferguson report to know that’s not true. We just need to open our eyes, and ears, and hearts, to know that this nation’s racial history still casts its long shadow upon us. We know the march is not yet over, the race is not yet won, and that reaching that blessed destination where we are judged by the content of our character – requires admitting as much.
Later, Obama invoked the Stonewall riots saying “we are the gay Americans whose blood ran on the streets of San Francisco and New York, just as blood ran down this bridge.”
Read the full transcript of Obama’s speech HERE.
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