I remember speaking once at a youth organization, and some of the counselors — well-meaning and compassionate people — were concerned about a teen girl who was dating other girls. They believed that she wasn’t “truly” a lesbian, but that she was a straight girl who was dating other girls as a response to past [...]
Posts Tagged ‘homophobia’
Fixing Us: More Comfortable for Whom?
Posted in Commentary, tagged being trans, homophobia, sexual orientation, transphobia on November 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Does T Belong with LGB?
Posted in Commentary, Observations, tagged community, homophobia, identity, LGBT, sexual orientation, transgender, transphobia on September 14, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I was on an interesting panel the other night with two women who identify as transsexual women (one of whom also identifies as transgender), a man who identifies as a transexed man, a male-born crossdresser whose gender identity is sometimes female and sometimes male, and a female-born person who identifies as two-spirit, masculine, and genderqueer. [...]
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Can We Please Dump the Gay/Trans Panic Defense?
Posted in Commentary, News, tagged Angie Zapata, crime, hate crimes legislation, homophobia, Jorge Mercado, legal, transphobia on November 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A story on 365gay.com last week indicated that the alleged killer of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, the 19-year-old Puerto Rican man who was murdered in mid-November — and not just murdered, but beheaded, dismembered, and burned — might use the “homosexual panic” defense at his trial. Apparently, according to reports, Juan Antonio Martinez Matos was [...]
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