(My laptop situation is currently 'up-in-the-air'; my apologies for any errors or incomplete listings. Please add any other vigils you know of in "comments"- thanks! ~Louise~)
PLEASE NOTE- THE ONE IN PHILLY IS TONIGHT- all others at this time are on Sunday.
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Prop 8 defenders still haven't handed over documents even after third order from judge? Oprah show finished in 2011. The abs and poetry of hot NJ Guidos. NJ Democrats search for spine on marriage equality as state senator says economy...
 On the 20th of November each year, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice with the International Transgender Day Of Remembrance (TDOR).
The Transgender Day of Remembrance was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder on November 28th, 1998 kicked off the "Remembering Our Dead" web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Rita Hester's murder - like most anti-transgender murder cases - has yet to be solved.
Although not every person represented during the Day of Remembrance self-identified as transgender - that is, as a transsexual, crossdresser, or otherwise gender-variant - each was a victim of violence based on bias against transgender people.
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Workers' union UNISON is holding its annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) conference today and tomorrow. The organisation is calling for more encouragement for LGBT victims of hate crime to report offences to police.
The International Transgender Day of Remembrance is meant to raise awareness about those who are killed in anti-transgender hate crimes. Events marking this day are occurring around the world today. In related news, Tampa passed a transgender anti-discrimination ordinance yesterday:...
crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters don't know why the Family Research Council continues to keep me on its email list. I received one today about ENDA.
Like so many things put out by the Family Research Council, the email is full of distortions and doublespeak. I want to highlight two of the most egregious:
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Writes editor Kevin Naff: "The former staff of the Washington Blade remains united and DC Agenda represents our effort at continuing the important mission and work of the Blade. It will grow and evolve to include a much larger and...
When the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) mainstream media (MSM) can't get trans related stories right, I have to wonder what the hell is wrong with LGB reporters who the lack of competency regarding trans people and issues. Trans people are part of the LGBT community; it's not that incredibly hard to develop professional relationships with transgender people; not that hard to familiarize oneself with the Associated Press Styleguide, GLAAD Media Guide's Transgender Glossary, and the old NLGJA Styleguide Supplement.
This is what the Associated Press Styleguide states under the term transgender:
Use the pronoun preferred by the individuals who have acquired the physical characteristics of the opposite sex or present themselves in a way that does not correspond with their sex at birth.
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While hate crimes dropped overall in Los Angeles county last year, bias crimes against LGBT residents has increased, according to
a new report.
(San Juan, Puerto Rico) Murder charges were filed Wednesday in the slaying of a gay teenager whose decapitated, partially burned body was found last week, while U.S. authorities said they were still considering whether to make it a hate crime case.
Gay activists expressed disappointment that the suspect wasn't immediately charged ...
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The Massachusetts legislature held a hearing on an anti-bullying bill that would include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected categories. Sirdeaner Walker of Springfield, Mass., whose 11-year-old son, Carl J. Walker-Hoover, committed suicide in April after being subject to extensive anti-gay taunts, was among those who spoke at the hearing.
Lawyer Julie Shapiro [...]
The AP catches up with the story of slain Puerto Rican gay teen Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado. Over the weekend the decapitated, dismembered, and partially charred body of gay teen Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado was found by the side of...
Wow... translated by iReporter Chris Pagan.
MULTI MILLION DOLLAR BOND SET FOR KILLER OF THE YOUNG HOMOSEXUAL VICTIM
Judge Madeline Vega of the Courts in Guayama, found cause for the arrest of Juan Martinez Matos for charges related to the killing of a young homosexual Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, and his bond was set for 4 million dollars. (NO BONDSMAN IN PR OFFERS THAT AMOUNT)
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- Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) on the new recommendations from the United States Preventive Services Task Force on breast cancer screening that says regular mammograms don't need to begin until age 50 and self-exams aren't necessary:
As someone who found my own breast cancer through a breast self-exam and had a mammogram — and knowing that there are tens of thousands of women from 40 to 49 years old in this country that are diagnosed with breast cancer every year and that it’s often diagnosed at a later stage and is more aggressive — to say that women in that 10 year age gap should not get mammograms is just totally inappropriate…. More...
UPDATE: Jackson and the Alliance Defense Fund have filed suit against the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics over its refusal to allow an initiative to ban same-sex marriage. And BFF Tony Perkins has put John Berry, director of the Office of Personnel Management and the highest ranking openly gay official in the Obama administration in the bullseye.
 In what has to be one of the shoddiest bits of journalism since its boot-licking profile of NOM's Brian Brown, the Washington Post's Wil Haygood fails to do even a cursory use of TEH GOOGLE to discover anything negative about the reputation of professional homophobe, carpetbagger and useful tool of the religious right, Bishop Harry Jackson. Protect your keyboards, because the desire to hurl will be almost uncontrollable after this snippet from "Seeking to put asunder: Despite D.C. setback, Bishop Jackson carries his national message -- and mission -- against gay marriage":Setbacks seem only to embolden him. "All over the country, it's evident that the strategy of the radical gay movement is to work the courts and legislatures," Jackson says. "It's gonna be a knock-down, drag-out legal situation."
His neck is thick -- nearly stretching the clerical collar -- and his voice is smooth as molasses. "I just feel like I'm on a mission," he says. "It's not a mission of hate. It's a mission to protect godly boundaries."
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More insight into the murder of gay 19-year-old Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, whose killer was arrested yesterday. Christopher Pagan, whose original iReport was the first I learned of the crime, has been following it. It appears that the killer, 26-year-old...
Here we are, back to the land of Sally Kern, where the hot bigoted wind comes sweepin' down the plain. The hot air belching from the lips of State Sen. Steve Russell (R-Oklahoma City) is a stench to behold.  State Sen. Steve Russell, R-Oklahoma City, said the newly passed Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which extends hate crimes law protections to include actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability, oversteps the bounds of the federal government and hinders free speech and religious freedom.
"The federal government should not be creating a special class of people, and that is just what they did when they passed and signed this bill," Russell said. "All crimes against another person have some level of hate in them, and people can be assured that our laws that protect people against crimes such as murder are sufficient to protect everyone."
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Comparing homosexuality to necrophilia, Oklahoma State Sen. Steve Russell (R-Oklahoma City) plans to introduce a bill that would exempt the state from having to abide by the recently passed Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act on the basis of the 10th...
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