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Archive for the Legal Category
A Matter of Time
Posted in Activism, Legal, LGBT Rights, News, Politics and Sex, Videos with tags cautious optimisim, congress, DADT, GetEqual.org, Lt. Dan Choi, military, Obama on May 27, 2010 by Chase“Being a contemptible, pathetic hypocrite can be cured”
Posted in Legal, News, Religion, Videos with tags American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Pediatricians, anti-gay, Christian fundamentalists, George Rekers, hypocrisy, lucian, luggage, ouch, rentboy, schadenfreude, sex workers, specific massages on May 9, 2010 by Chase“Even the irony’s bigger in Texas”
Posted in Legal, LGBT Rights, Videos with tags divorce, gay divorce, Greg Abbott, irony, marriage equality, protect marriage prohibit divorce, sanctity of divorce, that's so gay on May 1, 2010 by ChaseNothing like a diagram to make sense of the senselessness. Kinda reminds me of that Protect Marriage, Prohibit Divorce spot from awhile back.
Mississippi School Erases Lesbian Student from Yearbook
Posted in Activism, Legal, LGBT Rights, News, Stuff to do, You Fucked Up! with tags ACLU, balls, butch, call to action, ceara sturgis, dumbass, genderbender, high school drama, Mississippi, protest, social construct, tuxedo on April 30, 2010 by ChaseOh Mississippi. The ACLU must be so tired of visiting you. The same state that has seen the highly publicized legal battle unfold over Constance McMillien is back in the news.
Before all the prom drama, we previously covered the story of Ceara Sturgis, an honor student at Wesson Attendance Center who had her senior photo banned from the yearbook because she rocked a tux. She fought the decision with the help of the ACLU, and now yearbooks have been printed… with no trace of Sturgis AT ALL. No photo. No name. Nothing.
Ironically, with all the news coverage more people will see the photo that high school officials tried to ban. Object lesson: Courage gets you recognized.
And what does cowardice and hatred get you? Angry calls and e-mails! Wesson Attendance Center needs to hear that they cannot go around erasing students from their yearbook.
Principal Ronald Greer can be reached here: rdgreer@copiah.k12.ms.us
Principal Oscar Hawkins can be reached here: ohawkins@copiah.k12.ms.us
The school’s phone number is (601) 643-2221 and their fax number is (601) 643-2458
Find them on the web here
Oh Mississippi, when are you going to learn…
Texas Attorney General: Gays Must Stay Married
Posted in Legal, LGBT Rights, News with tags Angelique Naylor, dallas, divorce, gay divorce, Greg Abbott, lgbt, marriage equality, sanctity of divorce, Texas on April 21, 2010 by ChaseIt’s nothing new that queers can’t get married in the great state of Texas. But if you have the guts to get married and then move here, you better be sure as hell you wanna stay that way. Round these parts not only do we protect the sacred institution of marriage, but the sacred institution of divorce too!
(AP Photo/Thao Nguyen) Angelique Naylor stands near the Texas state capital in Austin, Texas
(From the Associated Press) ”After the joy of a wedding and the adoption of a baby came arguments that couldn’t be resolved, leading Angelique Naylor to file for divorce. That left her fighting both the woman she married in Massachusetts and the state of Texas… A judge in Austin granted the divorce, but Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is appealing the decision. He also is appealing a divorce granted to a gay couple in Dallas, saying protecting the “traditional definition of marriage” means doing the same for divorce.” Read more
Protecting the Sanctity of Divorce… that slogan’s gonna look so good on a poster
Call To Action: Justice for Clay and Harold
Posted in Legal, LGBT Rights, Medical, News, You Fucked Up! with tags call to action, Clay and Harold, Clay Greene, Greene v. County of Sonoma et al., Harold Scull, hospital visitation, human decency, Justice, lgbt, required reading, Sonoma County on April 19, 2010 by ChaseThis is gonna be a long one folks, but this story needs to be posted in it’s entirety. This is required reading, especially in light of Obama’s recent memorandum regarding hospitals. In the name of human decency, this shit needs to get right, and it needs to happen right now.
(from the National Coalition for Lesbian Rights) Clay and his partner of 20 years, Harold, lived in California. Clay and Harold made diligent efforts to protect their legal rights, and had their legal paperwork in place—wills, powers of attorney, and medical directives, all naming each other. Harold was 88 years old and in frail medical condition, but still living at home with Clay, 77, who was in good health.
One evening, Harold fell down the front steps of their home and was taken to the hospital…. Read more »
Unofficially Raped
Posted in Legal, Medical, News, Politics and Sex with tags police, politics, rape on April 17, 2010 by paigetsindfwI have no jokes here. I barely have words. This story speaks for itself and sickens me with the kind of inarticulate rage usually reserved for genocide.
But if genocide is the act of obliterating an entire ethnic group, then this tragedy of errors is clearly the act of obliterating a person so completely, invalidating them, that her bravery in choosing to resist and live is simple incalculable.
Just a small handful of the tools and documents required for the average rape kit. I speak from experience here when I say getting one of these done is both time consuming and deeply humiliating.
For some statistics on just how many assaults there are every year, you can go here to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network. Among the important highlights? One in six women, on average, and one in thirty three men are sexually assaulted at some point in their life. College age women are at four times the national average risk. About 3/4 of victims knew their assailant beforehand, as a friend, colleague, peer, someone they interacted with on at least a few occasions.
But there’s more to this story … Read more »
Presidential Memorandum Demands Hospital Visitation for Gays & Lesbians
Posted in Legal, LGBT Rights, News with tags civil rights, gay rights, Gobama!, hospital visitation, human decency, Obama on April 15, 2010 by ChaseCan queers visit their partner’s bedside at a federally funded hospital? Yes we can.
“There are few moments in our lives that call for greater compassion and companionship than when a loved one is admitted to the hospital. In these hours of need and moments of pain and anxiety, all of us would hope to have a hand to hold, a shoulder on which to lean — a loved one to be there for us, as we would be there for them.”
“Yet every day, all across America, patients are denied the kindnesses and caring of a loved one at their sides… uniquely affected are gay and lesbian Americans who are often barred from the bedsides of the partners with whom they may have spent decades of their lives — unable to be there for the person they love, and unable to act as a legal surrogate if their partner is incapacitated.”
Read the memorandum here
By “Personal Assistant” I clearly meant “Fuck Toy”
Posted in Legal with tags flashlight gun, fuck toy, lawsuit, models, panda, personal assistant, Steven Seagal, unique physiological reaction on April 14, 2010 by ChaseAllegedly, Steven Segal sees little distinction between the two…
Watch out Mr. Panda!
(From MSNBC) “Steven Seagal is accused of hiring young women as personal attendants whose real job was to serve his strange and sometimes violent sexual desires, according to a civil lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles by a 23-year-old former model who describes her experience in harrowing detail.” Read more
The veracity of these accusations aside, I can’t decide which detail I like best: the part where she’s making her escape and Steven follows her to the cab with a combo gun/flashlight (sooo practical), or the part where she claims to be able to identify Seagal’s “unique physiological reaction” when aroused… some things are better left unsaid
Court Ruling: Boy Scouts ignored sex abuse
Posted in Legal, News, You Fucked Up! with tags boy scouts, Boy Scouts of America, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, churches, mormons, ouch, pedophiles, Timur Dykes on April 13, 2010 by ChaseIt’s not just the Pope! Though oddly enough this scandal involves the Mormons…
Today’s court ruling found the Boy Scouts of America were negligent to the tune of 1.4 million dollars, thanks in part to secret “perv files” used as evidence in the trial (ironically, the Scouts kept these files for the purpose of avoiding molestation). That is on top of the punative damages that will be decided later… ouch
(from the Associated Press) “Lawyers for Kerry Lewis, the victim who filed the lawsuit, argued the Boy Scouts organization was reckless for allowing former assistant Scoutmaster Timur Dykes to continue to associate with the victim’s Scout troop after Dykes admitted to a bishop for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints early in 1983 that he had molested 17 Boy Scouts.” Read more
Timur Dykes, boy molester… some jokes just write themselves
