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So, it was a gorgeous and noisy day outside of Buli coffeehouse in the Oak Lawn area and Tuan and I went from talking about the Silence Equals Consent tour which is what brings him to town this weekend, to our pity for the blind rage of some Ugandan citizens against gays, plus anger at [...]
As I’ve mentioned before here on the blog, it’s tough to know exactly how to reach out and assist my gay/same-gender-loving family on the continent of Africa withouts connecting with individuals closely related to the varying situations on the ground there. So many stories this week about wrongs against gay people in South Africa, Kenya, [...]
Here’s a note from my friends in Equality March Texas: The First Annual Holocaust Candelight March will be this January 27th, 2010 at 7:00pm. We will walk on the sidewalks from the Fountain at Oak Lawn/Armstrong to the Oak Lawn/Cedar Spring’s Memorial. The event will then move inside the Melrose Hotel where free Hot Chocolate, [...]
While reading Behind the Mask this morning, I ran across a repost of a story from the Daily Monitor which mentions Speaker Edward Ssekandi’s insistence to debate the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in the Ugandan parliament despite rebuttal from the international community and President Yoweni Musuveni’s pledge to the US State Department to veto the bill should [...]
Thanks to the site, Justice for Don Belton, I learned of a moving statement recently released by Jonathan Elmers, Chair of the English Department at Indiana University. The open letter honors Don’s life and speaks of the acute pain friends and faculty are going through because of his violent death. Please read it in it’s [...]
Just came across my Facebook stream today about a new national conference happening April 8 -10, 2010, to focus on Spirituality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people. Under the direction of Mark Anthony Lord, the conference entitled, Liberation 2010, looks like something you would think that a national organization like Human Rights Campaign would [...]
This special multimedia feature posted at NY Times features four individuals in Uganda, two transmen and two heterosexual men, and where they stand around the issue of the proposed “death to gays” amendment in the parliament. Since the recent retraction of support from key U.S. religious and political figures (also reported about in the NY [...]
The website, Justice for Don Belton, has been established to celebrate his life and work, as well as “a place to monitor the progress of the criminal case and the media coverage of this horrific act of violence against a member of our community.” In these early days after Belton’s death, we are concerned by [...]
