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Join the Impact has partnered with other national LGBT groups to develop a web based public education campaign, http://www.tell-three.org/, to encourage LGBT people and their supporters to have three conversations with friends and family to help build support for LGBT equality.“The passage of Prop 8 in California has motivated LGBT people and their supporters like never before,†said Amy Balliett of Join the Impact, a grass roots organization with more than 15,000 members that has helped to organize massive demonstrations throughout the U.S. since the November elections. “Now that we’ve had some time to get over our anger and sadness, we’re ready to act. And the single most important thing we can do to guarantee we don’t find ourselves on the losing side of another political campaign is to have conversations with our friends and family about what it means to be LGBT.â€
Other organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union; Equality California; the Equality Federation; Freedom to Marry; The National Lesbian and Gay Task Force; the National Center for Lesbian Rights; and Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, will be rolling out their own versions of the campaign on their websites. The goal of the campaign is for all LGBT groups and individuals to seize upon the momentum that has been generated since the passage of Proposition 8 in November and work together to tell their stories to build support for all of the issues affecting LGBT people.
Visitors to http://www.tell-three.org/ can find additional information on who to talk with and how to start these important conversations. There are also resources for those who want to learn more about the issues affecting LGBT people. But, as the website notes, the most important thing is for people to have personal conversations. The website encourages LGBT people to talk about their relationships, about growing up, and about how being LGBT has made them feel different from others in some respects and the same in others. Straight allies are encouraged to talk about their relationships with LGBT people and to speak up when they hear others make homophobic or transphobic comments.
The groups are encouraging everyone â€" members of national and local LGBT groups, individuals and couples supportive moms and dads, and allied friends and colleagues â€" to join the campaign and get people talking. The site makes it easy to spread the word to others to send an e-mail to their friends. Eventually there will also be opportunities for people to share their experiences on the site.
The groups are encouraging everyone â€" members of national and local LGBT groups, individuals and couples supportive moms and dads, and allied friends and colleagues â€" to join the campaign and get people talking. The site makes it easy to spread the word to others to send an e-mail to their friends. Eventually there will also be opportunities for people to share their experiences on the site.
For more information, or to participate, visit http://www.tell-three.org/.
I had the pleasure of traveling to Utah last summer, visiting Salt Lake City and other towns in the region. Aside from being a very beautiful state, I was surprised by the presence of a larger LGBT community that I had anticipated. I was also struck by the resiliency of the Utah LGBT community.Recently, the "Common Grounds Initiative" - a series of four bills designed to expand the rights of LGBT Utahans - has been vigorously supported by groups such as Equality Utah.
The Salt Lake City Tribune reports today that one key component of the Common Grounds Initiative failed last week, but that hasn't stopped Equality Utah from pushing public awareness and fighting for the remaining parts of the initiative.
At stake now are "remaining bills would create a statewide domestic-partner registry, outlaw employment and housing discrimination against gay and transgender Utahans, and repeal -- if voters signed on -- the portion of Amendment 3 that forbids civil unions."
Stay tuned for future news on the outcomes of these bills in Utah. As many PFLAGers know, public awareness, visibility and education are key in gaining public support even in areas that seem hard for LGBT people to gain inroads and public support.
Nature’s Choice is a compilation and review of many research studies about the characteristics of sexual orientation in conjunction with hormonal and physical interactions during pregnancy and early life. The author includes studies of the neurohormonal theory of sexual orientation, the possibility of heritability, anomalies in the gene structures and their ability to react to hormones, and the effects of alcohol and drug use during pregnancy. Thorough and very well written, this is a must book for anyone concerned with the cause of sexual orientation â€" whether heterosexual or homosexual.Dr. Weill makes this subject understandable by including definitions, explanations of theory, and science and the scientific method. She covers anatomy, genetics, body measurements, sensory systems, birth order effects, and maternal behaviors â€" all of which have been studied recently in relation to sexual orientation. While there is no definitive proof of the cause of sexual orientation, the sheer number of correlations between testosterone and sexual orientation appears to confirm the neurohormonal theory as a major influence. Meanwhile, the most consistent apparent influence on male sexual orientation is birth order, where there is an increasing probability of a gay male within a family as the number of male children increases.
No data are reviewed concerning determination of sexual orientation due to postnatal social environment. Science requires data, complete with peer review and replication of studies and their results. There is no credible scientific data showing postnatal parental, sibling, or societal influence as influencing sexual orientation.
- Dave Parker
I believe there should be a lot of nuance to how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) reporters, LGBT editors, and LGBT new and legacy media organizations using the term tranny, but in the name of “reclaiming” the term for the LGBT community, the nuance is often lost. Since I’ve seen two examples of LGBT [...]
The legislators of New Hampshire will be talking about, and voting on a few bills this session that will change the future of civil union laws. State Representative Jim Splaine (Democrat) is sponsoring a bill that would legalize gay marriage, not just civil unions. On the On the other side however, Republican state Representative Leo Pepino is sponsoring [...]
Figure skating has long been the butt of gay jokes. An organization in Canada is now saying it’s likely one of the reasons that young male skaters in Canada have turned more and more to hockey instead of figure skating; Few boys want to be the targets of gay jokes. From the CBC now comes [...]
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