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For several years, Michelle at Burgh Baby has organized a holiday gift project called “Christmas Crazy.” In this indeavor, she’s enlisted folks as diverse as Solstice Cafe and Scarehouse. Michelle divides the gifts between local domestic violence programs to provide holiday gifts for women who often flee into the night with little in hand save […]
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As we wind down our Christmas Eve festivities, Ledcat and I want to wish you a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa and a general Happy Holidays from our family! We spent the evening eating takeout Thai food and watching “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” on YouTube. Of course, we had a few cats […]
I’m on a quest. Since learning that Justin Bieber is a food pantry advocate and that his own family used a pantry to supplement their food needs until Justin got his big break, I’ve made a pledge to listen to his holiday album “Under the Mistletoe” all the way through for each new like our […]
The New York Times has a nice piece up on the impact of educating the community about the discriminatory practices of the Salvation Army against the LGBTQ community. George Hood, a Salvation Army spokesman, said all revenue from Salvation Army thrift stores is used locally. But he said a small percentage of money dropped into […]
This is very powerful. These young LGBTQ people experience homelessness, find themselves with nowhere to live but the streets because of rejection by their family (often fueled by religious-themed ignorance and hated) and a society that considers anyone in poverty, even more so queer, expendable. Nor do their stories conform to the traditional narrative of […]
Well, there’s nothing good to report Facebook has had multiple people report three separate status updates that contain the phrase “Hag Bag Headquarters welcome to whore ville (sic) all dykes welcome” but they have yet to remove the posts. Interestingly, when I tried to do a status update about this topic, it would not let […]
A few months ago, a man I’ve never met (we went to same high school, several years apart) was upset because I reported him to Facebook for posting anti-gay content. I blocked him after a bit, then heard from mutal friends that he was posting negative comments about me, including being an mentally ill unstable […]
In an earlier post, I shared some recent experiences being gay bashed on the FourSquare.com website by a man I’ve never met. He established a fake venue to mock my volunteer work and described our home as “whoreville all dykes welcome.” 5 other people validated this offensive conduct by “checking in” to the site. No […]
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