Dear Abby’s reply to the first letter in this column:

DEAR ABBY: Last night at a restaurant, my husband and I were surprised to see a male server wearing a blond wig and full makeup. I was, to say the least, shocked and very glad we hadn’t brought the children, ages 11 and 14, with us. How do you explain something like that to an 11-year-old? The 14-year-old would be able to “get it.”

What kind of policies are in place for restaurants in cases like this? What if customers are offended? Could I request a different server or just leave? Your comments would be appreciated. — TAKEN ABACK IN CALIFORNIA

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DEAR TAKEN ABACK: In California, people have the legal right to dress in a style not typical of their gender without fear of discrimination or retaliation. That right is protected by state law. If customers find it offensive, they can either request a different server or take their business elsewhere. Presumably, the customer would pay for food that had already been prepared.

Because children today grow up quickly and are less sheltered than in past decades, I recommend you explain to your 11-year-old that not all people are alike, and the importance of treating others with respect. It’s called reality.

Gay.net | Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s 15 Gay-Friendliest Moments.

If God made an Oreo so big even s/he couldn’t dunk it, there still wouldn’t be anything in the Bible about Jesus hating gays. Because Jesus would be too busy chillin’ and eating Oreos.

elysethekraken:

kateordie:

Sometimes I have the time and patience to get from an idea to a fully fleshed-out, penciled, inked and coloured comic.

Sometimes I don’t.

msamberhazard:

msamberhazard:

tal9000:

transawareness:

The above article is an update.  Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost.  She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender.  She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.

Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your friends to sign it. We’ve managed to get 40K signatures for a pageant model, we’ve only gotten 11K for a little girl about to have her life ruined.  Lets get on the ball and spread the word.

Sign It.

I literally just repeated the f-word until I ran out of breath.

Let me catch my breath. I may go on a cursing spree again as soon as I get it back.

Seriously people…

WHY THE FUCK AREN’T PEOPLE REBLOGGING THIS??

ingravinoveritas:

Protip: Saying “I have gay friends and they’d surely tell you that I’m not homophobic” DOES NOT MAKE YOU NOT HOMOPHOBIC. It just makes you someone who’s willing to lump their friends together in a single, defining category and then use them as a faceless prop to defend whatever bile you’re choosing to spew. Nice. Real nice.

Reblogging just because I’m still slightly pissed off…

Protip: Saying “I have gay friends and they’d surely tell you that I’m not homophobic” DOES NOT MAKE YOU NOT HOMOPHOBIC. It just makes you someone who’s willing to lump their friends together in a single, defining category and then use them as a faceless prop to defend whatever bile you’re choosing to spew. Nice. Real nice.

So, President Obama just officially, openly declared his support for same-sex marriage. A bold, sweeping move that stands poised to change the course of equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, and transgendered people in this country.

Yet some people, perhaps by being true cynics through and through, are already flippantly dismissing this historic moment by saying “Talk is cheap” or “Big deal.” As if what has happened today means nothing, or that they’re somehow “more enlightened” than those of us who would celebrate this moment.

It is absolutely true that if the statement Obama made today remains only that—a generic, neutral affirmation suspended in time—then yes, it will mean nothing. The actions that will or won’t be ultimately taken as a result of this statement are what will determine how much weight the president’s words truly have.

But we don’t know when those actions will happen, or what they will be, because so much potential has now arisen that we can only begin to see what the future will bring.

That is why Obama’s statement is so powerful; because it needed to be said for everything that comes after it to happen. The small pebble dropped into a great lake, and the ripples left in its wake, stretching out farther and farther.

It took someone in a position of power to say that racial discrimination was wrong. The start of the civil rights movement, of the end of segregation and the illegality of interracial marriage. That’s where it started, and soon other voices spoke up in agreement, and that’s when the walls finally crumbled.

Someone needed to say what Barack Obama said. Someone in a position of power, of influence, needed to say what so many of us have felt and believed in our hearts for so long: Discrimination against GLBTQ people is wrong. And while the negative effects may be felt in the form of lost votes in certain states come election time, the positives will far outweigh these.

Talk is the starting gun. Action is the finish line. The path ahead is ours to take.

And she says to me, “Oh, the funniest thing happened, I just have to tell you.” And she proceeds to tell me that she received in the mail an invitation from one of her former students to his upcoming wedding to his same-sex partner. “I’ve never been invited to a gay wedding before!” my mom excitedly exclaimed. Holding back laughter to the very best of my ability, I calmly replied: “Congratulations, Mom. Mazel tov.”

My mom is the most adorable person ever, I swear.

Live Long And Proudly of the Day: Actor Zachary Quinto, known for his role as Spock In J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, has confirmed that he is gay in a new interview with New York Magazine.

The actor, despite rampant speculation, has until now been mum on his own sexual orientation. In the interview, Quinto speaks openly about his own life and how playing a gay man in the off-Broadway production of Angels in America has affected him.

Quinto says that his eight-month role in the play was both “challenging” and “rewarding,” but added:

“At the same time, as a gay man, it made me feel like there’s still so much work to be done, and there’s still so many things that need to be looked at and addressed.

Doing that play made me realize how lucky I was to be born when I was born and to not have to witness the decimation of an entire generation of amazingly talented and otherwise vital men.”

Source: http://gossip.thedailywh.at/2011/10/16/live-long-and-proudly-of-the-day/

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(Seriously…you go, ZQ. Big love and hugs to you!)