Letters to the Editor
Queer National
Published Letters: 85 Editor's Choice: 7
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Corrected sentence:
[Read the article: How did the T get in LGBT?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Trans people must have equal rights, but if we can't pass ENDA now with them included in it then we need to pass ENDA now with them excluded from it so that we get closer to the point faster where we can get them included.
Sorry about that.
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Poorly written, totally missed the point of John's article, and works against the point she is supposedly trying to make.
[Read the article: Why the T in LGBT is here to stay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's articles like this that can make me embarrassed to be a part of the LGBT community.
There are plenty of people in the LGBT community who can both read and write poorly, but do you have to give any of them a global soapbox? Have we really exhausted the supply of queer individuals who can discuss an LGBT issue without resulting to schoolyard-level discourse? Are there really no trans people anywhere who can write civilly, maturely, professionally and persuasively?
This again proves that intelligent conversation or critique of LGBT issues is the exception and not the rule on Salon. And again I must ask: why is this so?
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Clueless and polite aren't the only choices.
[Read the article: Playing softball with Larry Craig]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Matt Lauer didn't get where he is because he's either of those things. What Lauer was doing last night was his job. His job happens to be spreading disinformation on behalf of his employers and he does it well enough that they have rewarded him handsomely.
When something is "inexplicable" -- such as why would a multi-millionaire professional journalist ask a disgraced Republican softball questions -- the answer is usually the one that's staring you in the face. He's not incompetent. He's not polite. He's doing his job.
And what was polite to gays about what Lauer was doing? Don't you love Lauer's approach that even to insinuate that a man is gay is the worst possible thing you can say about him? Thank you, Republican party line. Would Lauer have had that much trouble even if he was asking Craig if he was really a murderer? And does lackey Lauer really have no idea how stupid and dated his "gays are icky" act is to normal people?
And regarding sodomy: it hasn't been illegal in the United States for years. Lawrence v. Texas took care of that. One or two states still have the laws on their books as a crazy, right-wing protest, but they are meaningless and are not -- and can not be -- enforced.
Finally: a man trying to initiate sex with a strange man in a public restroom is nothing like a man trying to pick up a strange woman at a bar. It is, however, exactly like a man trying to initiate sex with a strange woman in a public restroom. He'd be breaking the law, too.
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Rachel Maddow is literally brilliant.
[Read the article: Bush, Putin and World War III]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She's a Rhodes Scholar with a doctorate in political science and a background as a progressive activist. She's also an excellent radio show host as well as television show guest. She knows she's right, she knows why she's right, and she can clearly explain to everybody how she's right -- all while being absolutely cool, courteous and clearly in command. I can't imagine what we, as a political movement, would be without Rachel.
For better or worse, I believe Larry Craig is one of the best things to ever happen to LGBT civil rights. Americans who still aren't up to speed about the whole everyone-is-equal thing are getting a crash course in the difference between the slimey reality the Republicans embody and the normal, sane reality of everyday LGBT people.
When Republican leaders are crawling around on public bathroom floors looking for sex with strangers, it's a little difficult for the average American to look at two men or two women who want to be married after spending ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years together and say that it's the loving couple who are the perverts.
And it's absolutely hysterical to see Larry Craig say over and over again that he's not gay when not one single human being on the face of this planet believes him. Everytime he lies, the rest of us look better in comparison. Keep up the good work, Larry!
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Excellent news!
[Read the article: Pam Spaulding for Glenn Greenwald: Out gay man challenges Elizabeth Dole]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not only will it be a cakewalk to take this seat away from Dole, we've all already won just by Neal being in the race.
A single father of two sons with a successful career and a history of philanthropy who's a native and resident of the state and who also happens to be gay is a dream come true. Simply by being in this race, he obliterates all the Republican insanity about LGBT people.
No matter what the outcome of the election, North Carolina will be irrevocably moved forward in its regard and its treatment of LGBT people. As has happened throughout LGBT history, this candidate, just by being a candidate, has made it that much easier for the next man or woman to run an open and honest campaign. His visibility will also improve the lives of everyday LGBT North Carolinians.
The party of Mark Foley, Larry Craig and David Drier -- and the many other Republican politicians and party leaders living in glass closets -- is looking more foolish than ever right now.
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Obama panders to the same hate that Republicans do.
[Read the article: Pam Spaulding for Glenn Greenwald: Obama zapped by the third rail of black homophobia]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's as simple as that and this is not the only example. I wouldn't vote for them and I won't vote for him.
All you need to know about Obama is that he parades as a progressive but he is the product of a marriage that was illegal in some states at the time of his birth and he is against marriage equality.
He's a self-serving hypocrite of the highest order and a failure as a leader. He's accomplished nothing in his polical career except to beat out a lunatic right wing extremist for his current seat after his original Republican competition left the race in a sex scandal.
There's no evidence he's even fit for his current office but we're supposed to want him for president because why exactly? Because that would be really cool? No thanks.