I TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH THE BANNING of the Go-Daddy.com “Lola” Ad.
Let’s see…we have a super-sized Afro-American portraying a retired football player who goes into the business of designing and selling specialty women’s dresses. It shows him with the ladies and the dresses doing the obvious “effeminate” thing (shame on Go-Daddy for stereotyping) but falls short of having him in drag or mounting another guy.
So once again I say… WTF????
BTW…CBS WILL be airing an anti-abortion ad by ultra conservative organization “Focus On The Family” when five years ago it REJECTED an ad from the United Church of Christ which featured a gay couple, citing their policy of dis-allowing “advocacy ads.”
So can anybody say…”Flip-Flop?” (Or does that only apply to “liberals?”)
Here’s the contact info for CBS. PLEASE SEND YOUR REACTIONS TO THIS BLATANT DISCRIMINATION! Tell them you’re going to pay very close attention to the sponsors they do run on Sunday and BOYCOTT them.
Chris Ender
Senior Vice President, Communications, CBS Television cender@cbs.com
818-655-1100
LeslieAnne Wade
Senior Vice President, Communications, CBS Sports lwade@cbs.com
212-975-5171
PLEASE CONTACT THESE PEOPLE AND REGISTER YOUR OBJECTIONS TO THIS BULL.
Cristina Reitz-Krueger, a Doctoral Student at University of Virginia sent this request:
Engaged volunteers needed!
I am looking for volunteers for a study of attitudes towards marriage and parenthood among engaged couples. The study consists of a 25-30 minute online survey. To qualify for the study, you must be 20-35 years old, live in the U.S., and plan to marry or have a commitment ceremony within the next 365 days. You and your romantic partner must not have children, and this must be the first marriage for both of you.
You can:
-Help a doctoral candidate;
-Increase the pool of scientific knowledge;
-Support research on marriage and families; and
-Spend some time thinking about your relationship!
I am working with Dr. Charlotte J. Patterson, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. This study has been approved by the University of Virginia Institutional Review Board #2009025800.
If you and/or your romantic partner are interested in participating or want further information, please email me at survey.couples@gmail.com. I will send you a link that you can use to access the study.
Thanks!
Cristina Reitz-Krueger
Doctoral Student
University of Virginia
(434) 243-8558 survey.couples@gmail.com
The non-profit organization working on this project is totally accepting of All People! I have been an integral part of it for over 23 years. Please read this, watch the video – and help this effort. If you get to this after December 31st – pass it on anyway. It won’t be too late! Thanks. MsQ
URGENT! HELP SAVE 230 ACRES AT THE BASE OF THE WEST RIM OF THE GRAND CANYON FROM FALLING INTO THE HANDS OF STRIP MINING COMPANIES!
Needed! People who care enough to donate $1.00 (yes, that’s One Dollar) to keep this place of beauty remain natural and undisturbed. A registered tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit organization is working to become the permanent stewards of this land in order to preserve it in its natural state for future generations.
MUST REACH 200,000 caring people by December 31, 2009. IT’S NOT TOO LATE!
Please help spread the word and send your donation to:
Hey Everybody….After a prolonged absence from the blogosphere, I’m pleased to announce I’m back and ready to make 2010 a banner year for MsQueer.com
A heart-felt THANKS to my dear friend from our old OurChart/TeeLu family who helped me get the computer needed for staying on the net. My deepest appreciation, Sis!
Grandmother Parisha will be on conference call this evening at 9 pm EST to discuss recent developments regarding the earth changes prophesied for this time with particular attention to 2012.
Listen in at
646-519-5860, pin no. 2930
Please mute your phone once you are “in” out of courtesy for all the participants.
For a limited time, the Pink Sofa lesbian chat site is offering 12 months free membership to their American sisters!
You can find MsQueer there as “Greatdoe.”
This is a great chat site, well-secured, that operates on a premise of helping lesbians to connect. Don’t look for sexually explicit posts here because they’re not allowed. But you can message, flirt (by sending “smiles”) and participate in live chat rooms with lesbians from all over the world.
Families of Gender Non-Conforming Children Ask For Your Help
Many newspapers have reported on the recent program on KRXQ in Sacremento which concerned transgender and gender-non-conforming children. An excerpt from the Huffington Post article by Michael Rowe summarizes the statements of the radio disk jockeys, Rob Williams and Arnie State.
Even by the flexible moral, ethical, and professional standards of American talk radio, the May 28th segment of KRXQ 98.5 FM Sacramento’s Rob, Arnie, & Dawn in the Morning radio talk show makes for a sickening half-hour of ugliness and cruelty. For once, the focus was not LGBT adults, but minors. The hosts, Rob Williams and Arnie States, devoted the segment in question to a vicious diatribe against transgender children, some as young as five, focusing in particular on the case of one Omaha family raising a gender dysphoric child, and their decision to support her transition from male to female.
Williams and States took turns referring to gender dysphoric children as “idiots” and “freaks,” who were just out “for attention” and had “a mental disorder that just needs to somehow be gotten out of them,” either by verbal abuse on the part of the parents, or even shock therapy.
“Allowing transgenders to exist, pretty soon it becomes normal to fall in love with the animals,” they said.
As parents with gender non-conforming and transgender kids, we have come a long way in our understanding of this issue. Supportive parents come from all walks of life, all parts of the country, all religious traditions, all social classes. Some of us identify as conservatives, some liberal; some are hetero / gender normative themselves, some are not. Our kids come from traditional families and non-traditional families. Our kids most often (but not always) have gender normative siblings (or are only children).
Only we really know who these kids are, and who they have to be. We brought them into the world. Now we’re trying to make the world a safer place for them. None of the choices we make in raising our kids are made lightly. We know the dangers our kids face. But we also know the world is changing. And we have to be a part of that change.
“I have every right to call you a freak and judge you on that.” One of these men said. We ask that before anyone’s judgement is final, they listen to us, to the families, to the children, to the experts. Autistic kids were once thought of as freaks. As were Disabled kids. Cleft lip kids. Mixed race kids. Hyperactive kids. These kids are understood and appreciated. Someday soon, so will our kids.
Read our stories before you share any opinion based on incomplete knowledge, or on your own parenting experiences with gender normative children. These kids are different. They’re not freaks or idiots. They can change hearts and minds. They are brave, and strong, but they cannot survive without support and understanding. They lead lives worth living, worth defending.
We love our kids. We will not let them be humiliated, denigrated, harassed or bullied without a fight.
If you’re with us, do something. Contact a sponsor on the naughty list or the nice list. Praise the nice; spank the naughty. Contact the FCC or KRXQ. Support TYFA. You can help save a kid’s life.
Please note: Due to unfortunate circumstances, I will temporarily be able to make fewer posts that previously managed. For those of you who have followed this blog, I appreciate your support. I especially want to thank all The L Word fans who keep coming back for more news!!!
I am currently looking for a donation of a laptop that could help keep MsQueer.com going. (Sorry, I am not tax-deductable). If you, or someone you know might be able to assist with this please contact me through the email link at the bottom of the blog page.
I has been my goal all along to provide news as well as newsworthy commentary and a rich resource online for LGBT persons and allies. If you would like to help to see this accomplished click here.
Thanks and I will be here as often as possible! MsQueer
Never mind that the countdown to Laurel Holloman’s May 23rd 2009 birthday started on the (now defunct) Our Chart TeeLu Threads the day after 2008’s event (with some incredible artwork and photos that defy you to keep certain parts of the anatomy – which will remain un-named here – – dry)…Devoted fans of The L Word actress are ramping up again to do another fundraising drive to help Ms. Holloman’s favored charity, Doctors Without Borders. (see prior post: http://msqueer.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/the-birthday-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/)
In a remarkable show of what can be accomplished by online social networking, message board and chat communities, fans of Laurel Holloman have already raised $22,000 for the humanitarian Doctors Without Borders.
This year, to encourage all who contribute whatever amount, manager of the official LaurelHollomanOnline.com, Angela K. has posted this announcement:
“the site is donating a number of signed photographs including: 1 photograph of Laurel with Jennifer Beals signed by both; 1 photograph of Laurel with Rachel Shelley signed by both; 1 signed photograph of Laurel; 1 signed photograph of Rachel Shelley; 1 L Word CD signed by Kate Moennig. Everybody who donates during April, May and June, however big or small the donation, will be entered into a draw for the above prizes. Please give to this very worthwhile charity, and wish Laurel a happy birthday.”
Organizers are requesting that supportive fans help to spread the word on message boards and relevant websites. Secured donation can be made at:
TO SUBSCRIBE TO THIS BLOG: Click on article title. Go to tags and categories at bottom of that page. Click on "Feed this." Will take you to subsctibe page. MsQ
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