Archive for Transgender

CeCe McDonald: Self-Defense and Still Defending

Jun 07, 2012 6 Comments by

Just a hair over a year ago, a 23-year-old Black transgender woman in Minnesota named CeCe McDonald was walking to store with four friends of her’s, also Black, late in the evening. CeCe and her friends walked past a bar, and there were three white people (one man, two women) on the patio. When the [...]

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Wait, is Barack Obama Gay? Uhm, is He Still Black?!!

May 16, 2012 2 Comments by

Last week after Pres. Obama’s made his “evolution” on gay marriage public, my initial thought was: great, now they’re going to say that Obama is gay, and all gay people are now going to vote for him because of it. You know, pretty much in the same way all black people voted for him in [...]

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Real Men Wear Ascots: Roland Martin, Homophobia, & Fighting Bigotry

Feb 07, 2012 22 Comments by

I don’t watch football; I will neither confirm nor deny whether my reasoning for disinterest is based on my capacity to understand that game. While many of you were enjoying the big sporting event of the year yesterday, I was working (and missing out on festivities that included alcohol and party food). I’m not disappointed, [...]

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Coffee: An Erotica Short Story

Aug 19, 2011 4 Comments by

  Year 3017 Can I tell you about the night I lost my mind????? I’d say it was a stormy night and all that jazz but it was actually a balmy summer evening that we met.  She was unlike any woman I have ever known.  She was an impossibility, compiled of all my lusts.  Her [...]

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America's First Transgender Student Prom Queen is Latino [VIDEO]

Jun 23, 2011 No Comments by
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