sexual orientation

I beleive that it was yesterday that the Matthew Shepard Act went before the Senate. Today I received an email from the Human Rights Campaign saying "the U.S. Senate has just passed the Matthew Shepard Act!"  Read More »

So today my girlfriend (yes, I'm not straight) informed me that she was nominated to be homecoming queen at her (my former) high school. She was nominated by the gay-straight alliance club at the high school. Since she was chosen by this club she decided she wants to have a girl escort instead of a traditional male escort.  Read More »

Disclaimer: I am in the process of educating myself on trans issues, so I will shortly have an entry focusing on trans and gender-related terms. 

Last summer, when I was making preparations to give a workshop on queer issues for allies, my co-presenter frantically found me five minutes before the workshop was due to start.

 "What does bi-curious, fluid, downe, queer, questioning, and pansexual mean?" he asked, worriedly. That's when I realized that the terms weren't in as widespread use as I thought they were. That, and a thread on my ProgressiveU blog made me decide to write this primer.  Read More »

Broadening the statistics used during the Kinsey Study of 1948, 1 of every 10 Americans, or 10% has identified as being predominantly homosexual, while 25% have had homosexual experiences.  Read More »