The open house was packed. I fought my anxious impulse to disappear, reminding myself that now it wasn’t just my responsibility to be a visible, social-activist butterfly… it was my
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Oct. 11th in DC: Equality or Egoism?Oct. 11th in DC: Equality or Egoism?
[First off, sorry for the lag in posts. I am now officially settled in my new job at Oberlin College which means the blog is coming back to life!] There
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Ohio “Gay” PrideOhio “Gay” Pride
Pride season has come, and gone. All queers going busily berserk for 30 days altogether: Always interesting. I gave a speech for Cincinnati’s pride, skillfully skipping the middle chunk of
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Healthy is for the WealthyHealthy is for the Wealthy
“…What do the young know or care about health insurance?” According to conservative columnist Michael Barone young people have “the fewest medical problems of the whole population.” Clearly this guy
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Gender-Variant Shot – We’re All CluelessGender-Variant Shot – We’re All Clueless
Last week, two female presenting people, possibly transwomen or crossdressers, where attacked and robbed in Cincinnati. One was shot when the thief tried to take her purse. How did no
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Ageism Fucks Over ActivismAgeism Fucks Over Activism
This week I went to lobby in Columbus, Ohio’s capital, for the LGBT Equal Housing and Employment Protections Act. Equality Ohio collected almost 500 people for the event, most of
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Death FetishDeath Fetish
How much does fear and sadness motivate? Does it motivate at all? I mentor my old high-school’s Gay-Straight Alliance, and the last big project was Day of Silence. I listened
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Pink Hair Trumps Human Rights?Pink Hair Trumps Human Rights?
An Update on the University of Cincinnati: For over three years we’ve been jumping through administrative hoops trying to get a campus queer center with a staff person. This week
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Gift-wrapped ActivismGift-wrapped Activism
A couple of my fellow sex education teamsters and I went to an activist conference this weekend. It was for getting activists together from around the state and doing a
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GIE Policy came through!GIE Policy came through!
It happened! The University of Cincinnati has officially included Gender Identity and Expression in it’s Non-Discrimination Policy. Now anyone who’s transgender, genderqueer, gender-variant, or queer is now protected from discrimination
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