Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are for a Queer discussion around Queer organizing in Connecticut!

Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009
Time: 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Metropolitan Community Church
Street: 155 Wyllys St
City/Town: Hartford, CT
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Marriage equality represents a seat at the table for LGBT folks-but whose table are we sitting at? And what about the rest of us who are still grasping for crumbs?

On the job, at school and on the street, queerfolk of all stripes are still some of the most oppressed in society. Queers Without Borders seeks to build a movement to flip the table over altogether. Come contribute to the discussion, and meet the faces behind the statement below:

“This document is Queer As Fuck”

We are a collective of people with diverse backgrounds, ages, identities and a variety of progressive political outlooks. We are committed to creating a welcoming space for social action with a solid foundation of respect and compassion.

We want a free world based on equality, learning and healthy relationships. We believe in each person’s right to free expression of gender, sexuality and beyond, based on the desires of the consenting individual, not by other peoples’ definitions and prejudices.

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Anti-discrimination measure won’t appear on November ballot

ANNAPOLIS - Maryland’s highest court on Tuesday said a referendum on whether to approve a law banning discrimination against transgender people could not go on the Nov. 4 ballot.

The ruling, a day after the Court of Appeals heard the case and a day before the ballot must be certified, puts legislation passed last year by the Montgomery County Council and signed by County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) in effect as law.

The law prohibits discrimination against transgendered individuals in housing, employment, cable television service and transportation. [Read more →]

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August 12, 2008 The Advocate

LGBT Activists Call Democratic Platform Most Inclusive to Date The final version of the Democratic Platform is being hailed as the most LGBT-inclusive to date by queer activists and politicians alike despite the fact that the words gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender do not appear in the text of the platform, according to those who have read the document. [Read more →]

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August 3, 2008 Op-Ed Contributor, NY Times

The XY Games

By JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN Belgrade Lakes, Me.

IN the 1936 Olympic Games, the sprinter Stella Walsh - running for Poland and known as the fastest woman in the world - was beaten by Helen Stephens of St. Louis, who set a world record by running 100 meters in 11.4 seconds. After the race, a Polish journalist protested that Stephens must be a man. After all, no woman in the world could run that fast.

Olympic officials performed a “sex test” on Stephens, who was found, in fact, to be female, proving once and for all that a person could be incredibly fast and female at the same time.

Forty-four years later, Walsh, who had become an American citizen, was shot to death in the parking lot of a discount store in Cleveland. Her autopsy revealed a surprise: It was Stella Walsh, and not Helen Stephens, who turned out to have been male all along, at least according to the Cuyahoga County Coroner’s office. [Read more →]

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