11/11/08

Bishop Robinson visits Dallas for a "Transgender Conversation"



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Contact;
Kelli Busey, Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies (DTAA)
214-226-7080
kellibusey@yahoo.com

posted November 11, 2008

Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies are thrilled to welcome to Dallas the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire for a public conversation with transgender people.

Sheraton Dallas Hotel
Seminar Theater
400 North Olive Street · Dallas, Texas 75201 · United States

Map and Directions

November 22, 2008 from 1:00 until 2:00pm

Bishop Robinson will attend a "Transgender Conversation" with the Dallas Transgender Advocates, and Allies(DTAA) to share with us his wisdom and faith and to learn of the transgender struggle for equality.

Bishop Robinson has bravely stepped forward to answer questions regarding religion and it's influence on progressive social action, and to share with us what he has learned from the recent Lambeth and how his diocese situation parallels the Queer and Transgenders class struggle against social, religious and political exclusionary and revisionist agendas.

Who are the Dallas Transgender and Advocates Queers and Allies?
We are Transgender Questioning Intersexed Asexual Queers and allies. We comprise a nationwide network of diversity in ethnic, social, educational, economic, religious, gender identities, sexual orientations and political views. Our goal is to unite the Transgender Questioning Intersexed Asexual Queer community through realization of potential in soul and mind and moving forward as a whole in the cause of social, legal and religious equality.

Hosting entity
Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies

Donations are encouraged and appreciated to defray expenses. All remaining funds will forwarded to Carmens Place, an Episcopal home and outreach for LBGT youth, Astoria, New York
Carmens Place

Allied and concerned organizations

Reconciling Ministries Network(RMN)
RMN.org

Dallas Peace Center
Dallas Peace Center.org

Queer Today
Queer Today

Left In SF
Left In SF

Organisation Intersex International, OII-USA

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11/10/08

Tell President Elect Obama Your Story


Courtesy of the LGBT Democrats and the Atomic Gay Wonk we have learned of the President elect Obama's web page where he is asking Americans to tell him your story.

Start right now. Tell us your story in your own words about what this campaign and this election means to you. Share your hopes for an Obama Administration and a government for the people.

Tell President-elect Barack Obama your thoughts about gay marriage, an inclusive ENDA, DOMA, Don't Ask Don't Tell, gay adoption, gay immigration equality, the need for national leadership in fighting anti-gay ballot initiatives, and more at Change.gov

kelli Busey
Nov. 10, 2008
planetransgender

ANTI-PROP 8 PROTEST at DALLAS TOWN HALL 11-15-08

ANTI-PROP 8 PROTEST SET FOR DALLAS 11-15-08

posted by Kelli Busey
planetransgender

On election day of this year while the LGBT community was celebrating the end of Bush politics our inequality was being written into the California, Florida, Arizona and Arkansas constitutions. In California where LGBT people had enjoyed marriage equality since June our rights were ripped away from us over night.

Since the elections tens of thousands of people have been pouring into the streets throughout California in disgust over the passing of Prop 8. This Saturday, November 15 at 12:30 PM, we in Dallas will stand in front of City Hall with those in California in expressing our abhorrence of the passing of this hateful measure.

Dallas’ Protest is part of a nationwide day of action against Prop 8. This effort coordinated through the website www.jointheimpact.com will take place at exactly the same time this coming Saturday in front of City Halls throughout the country.

Although last Tuesday’s vote in California prompted officials in that state to cease issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, it’s an open question whether the Supreme Court in that state will confirm the ballot referendum or throw it out. Officially, their decision will probably hinge on a legal technicality, whether or not the referendum language broke a vaguely worded provision of the state constitution that says that referenda cannot be overly-broad in the matters they cover.

However, the real reason for the court’s decision will probably have much more to do with the amount of protest heat that LGBT people and our allies can generate outside of the courtrooms. While courts are always loath to admit that public protest influences their decisions, some of the most important progressive decisions have in fact been the direct results of such public protest. A large women’s movement in the streets of America made the Nixon-packed, anti-abortion US Supreme Court give us the Roe v. Wade pro-choice decision in the 1970s to name one example.

Saturday’s nationwide protests are aimed at pressuring the California Supreme Court to reaffirm its earlier pro-gay decision and restore the state’s reputation as a beacon for progressives elsewhere. Also on the agenda is repealing the Texas state constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage and advancing LGBT equality here in our home state, this is not an impossible task that our elected leaders often present it as being.

For more information about Saturday’s demonstration please contact the following individuals:

Blake Wilkinson
214-679-6321
fromabilitiestoneeds@hotmail.com

Etta Zamboni
469-323-3060
stoptheh8@ymail.com

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11/9/08

Stu Rasmussen Oregon Transgender Mayor


The Silverton Appeal maybe the small town atomsphere of trust and understanding that accompanies fresh air living.



Silverton Oregon just elected lifetime resident Stu Rasmussen Oregon Mayor. Stu is a self described man who is comfortable looking and dressing as a woman.

Gender diversity rocks and Stu you are the king of Rock and Roll!


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Dallas Baptist Hate Mongers promote death











Sunday November 9th 2008




The smug, smiling members of Dallas First Baptist Church greeted the 100 angry protesters with robotic programed message "we love you". But soon this smugness was replaced with a look of horror as they learned of the reality of advertising homophobic bigotry as their own church has done.

Look what you have done




You put up a message as this and it will push a killer to believe that they you are morally justified in their killing such as gunman at the Unitarian Universalist church, the 10 year old killer of Lawrence King who walked up behind Lawrence and blew his head off, the murderer 18 year old Angie Zapata who smashed "it again" with a fire extinguisher because he saw....

"IT MOVE AGAIN".

2008 = 20 transgender smashed bloody mutilated corpses.

There has been much gloating from "religious" figures who were instrumental in the recent Marriage Equality initiatives. The Transgender Day of Remembrance is November 20. And you love me?

DO YOU LOVE THEM?

The lady nearly in tears as I shown her my own scars. This is the reality. A gang beat me nearly to death and you good Baptists stepped over my lifeless body on the cold city street.

Do you really love me?

Or her?

or her?

How about this baby?



We want you to leave us live. We have our faith, our gods, or none at all.



GOD.

North Texans say "GAY IS OK"



Some North Texans said they plan to picket a Dallas church because of a sign reading, "Why gay is not OK."

The topic of Sunday's sermon at the First Baptist Dallas Church is, "Why gay is not OK." It is written on the church's sign at the corner of Ervay and Patterson streets in the heart of downtown Dallas.

"I am surprised that in 2008, any church would have a sign like this out," Grace McFerrin said.


Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies supports marriage equality