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Respectability politics. Respectability politics or the politics of respectability refers to attempts by marginalised groups to police their own members and show their social values as being continuous and compatible with mainstream values rather than challenging the mainstream for its failure to accept difference. The concept was first articulated by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham in her book Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880—1920.

In the context of Black American history, respectability politics was practised as a way of attempting to consciously set aside and undermine cultural and moral practices thought to be disrespected by wider society, especially in the context of the family and good manners.[1] The development of African American politics of responsibility has been traced to writers and activists including W. E. B. DuBois and Booker T. Campaigners for gay rights have also struggled with the issue of respectability politics. Trans Women + Sex = Awesome. In a Time of Torture: The Assault on Justice In Egypt’s Crackdown on Homosexual Conduct: III. Scandal and Stigma: The Queen Boat Trials. <<previous | index | next>> In the early hours of Friday, May 11, 2001, the Cairo Vice Squad and officers from State Security Investigations (Mabahbith Amn al-Dawla) raided the Queen Boat, a discotheque on a cruise vessel moored in the Nile.42 They detained some three dozen men. Newspapers told the public a major case was in the offing.

They trumpeted the arrest of over fifty adherents of a “devil-worshippers’ organization,” who practiced “perverted activities” and took “pornographic photographs.”43 The Satanists were seized “during their practice of debauchery and while naked in the hall”44; their party was “a marriage ceremony for two male youth, God protect.”45 Over six months, the men’s names made headlines while their faces stared from newsstands. Homosexual conduct drew unprecedented, censorious, and salacious attention. Fifty-two men were tried before an Emergency State Security Court, one boy before a juvenile court.

A. State Security now called on the Cairo Vice Squad for help. Helem English | !EXIST. Calendar Girls: Alison is Miss May! It’s May and therefore it’s Autostraddle Calendar Girl time! Firstly, a little refresh of the Calendar Girl concept for any newbies: We just think Maxim, COED and Playboy shouldn’t get to corner the market on “monthly devotions to very very good looking women.” We know lots of hot lesbians who also look good casually lounging on bedsheets and hanging out at the pool/on the couch. Each month our photographer Robin will shoot a Le Cadeau by Robin set (as featured on WeTV) with one beautiful, talented, smart, interesting and sexy lesbian lady.

At the end of the year, we’ll have a pretty kickass calendar that you can buy for 2011, which is our last year on earth before the apocalypse. Missed a month, or need an repeat performance? This month’s Autostraddle Calendar Girl is: Alison Miss May From Photoblogger Robin: When Alison wrote to me and told me she’s a big fan of Agent Provacateur, I knew we’d get along. See all the calendar girls so far this year. The Gist: More on False Prophet Andrew Marin. If Andrew Marin has lied about The Advocate having "retracted" my 2006 expose of him, what else is he lying about?

And shouldn't LGBT people be concerned about that? I've written about Andrew Marin and his surfacing again, with his group, The Marin Foundation, showing up at Chicago Pride last month, and "apologizing" for Christians. His group claims to be a "bridge" between Christians and gays but in fact he refuses to say homosexuality is not a sin and tells gays and Christians both whatever they want to hear while he tries to promote himself.

Below are some audio clips which we played on the show two weeks ago when his group received some attention on the blogs for the Pride "apology. " The audio is from a 2008 seminar where he counsels youth pastors on how to deal with gays, and I think you'll agree -- though I'd like you to judge for yourself -- that what he says is very disturbing and ultimately antigay. The Advocate did no such thing. Brittney Griner Comes Out, and Sports World Shrugs. Jason Collins Is the Envy of Straight Men Everywhere by Sherman Alexie. + Enlarge this Image JASON COLLINS One of the best 1,000 basketball players in the world. As a straight-boy jock, I have been showering with large groups of naked men for decades. And these showers have not taken place in bathrooms where we straight men yell at one another from modest private stalls. No, we athletes clean ourselves in large, communal Roman gladiator bathhouses. My high-school locker room's showerheads were placed so that we boys soaped up while facing one another.

And we did this soaping while standing two feet apart. In other words, I, Sherman, a heterosexual lifelong basketball player, have seen a lot more cock and man-ass than many gay men. As I age, my cock is essentially the same one I owned in 1983. So why do certain homely straight men worry that gay men are even remotely interested in sexually harassing their concave asses? And, hey, I don't mean to punish those folks who are not hot, hot, hot. How do I react to these sexual advances? Cut. LGBT Percentage Highest in D.C., Lowest in North Dakota. PRINCETON, NJ -- The percentage of U.S. adults who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) ranges from 1.7% in North Dakota to 5.1% in Hawaii and 10% in the District of Columbia, according to Gallup surveys conducted from June-December 2012.

Residents in the District of Columbia were most likely to identify as LGBT (10%). Among states, the highest percentage was in Hawaii (5.1%) and the lowest in North Dakota (1.7%), but all states are within two percentage points of the nationwide average of 3.5%. These results are based on responses to the question, "Do you, personally, identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender? " included in 206,186 Gallup Daily tracking interviews conducted between June 1 and Dec. 30, 2012. As was outlined in the first report of these data in October, measuring sexual orientation and gender identity can be challenging because these concepts involve complex social and cultural patterns. State: - + Reset Share Bottom Line Gary J. Survey Methods.

Gay rights in the US, state by state | World news. Sugarbutch Chronicles | The sex, gender, and relationship adventures of a kinky queer butch top. NSFW Sunday: Everyone Wants to Take a Lesbian Purity Test. "A purity test is a self-graded survey that assesses the participants' supposed degree of innocence in worldly matters (sex, drugs, deceit, and other activities assumed to be vices ), generally on a percentage scale with 100% being the most and 0% being the least "pure". Online purity tests were among the earliest of Internet memes , popular on Usenet beginning in the early 1980s.

However, similar types of tests circulated under various names long before the existence of the Internet. " The best-known purity test of all time is The Unisex Purity Test, written pre-1980 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Baker House. In 1983, Carnegie Mellon produced a 247-question version. Many revisions occured as the internet took off with a 2000-questions long version written in fall '95. You may be familiar with the Unisex Omnisexual Purity Test , a 500-question version readily classified as the internet's most popular purity test. via pinktacolovers WARNING: Purity Tests are not PC. The Basics.

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SFGN_1024_spread. GRAPHIC: Why Texas needs ENDA. Lana Wachowski receives the HRC Visibility Award. Rift Forms in Movement as Belief in Gay ‘Cure’ Is Renounced. Raw Data: Text of Bush's Speech. Following is the full text of President Bush's speech supporting a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2004: GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Thank you. Please be seated. Good morning. Eight years ago, Congress passed, and President Clinton signed, the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage for purposes of federal law as the legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.

The act passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 342-67 and the Senate by a vote of 85-14. Those congressional votes, and the passage of similar defense of marriage laws in 38 states, express an overwhelming consensus in our country for protecting the institution of marriage. In recent months, however, some activist judges and local officials have made an aggressive attempt to redefine marriage. In San Francisco, city officials have issued thousands of marriage licenses to people of the same gender, contrary to the California Family Code. Butch Please: Butch Buys A Drink. BUTCH PLEASE is all about a butch and her adventures in queer masculinity, with dabblings in such topics as gender roles, boy briefs, and aftershave. Header by Rory Midhani “What can I get you, sir?” I didn’t look up because I didn’t think I was being addressed.

I continued to look at the whiskey list before me, as I have been on a whiskey kick for the past few months. I had lost myself to the same progression of thoughts I experience whenever I buy a drink: I’m broke and shouldn’t be spending my money on alcohol; alcoholism runs so deep in the family that it looks like a crack in the earth; I am participating in this legacy by consuming alcohol and this would probably upset my mother if she knew. “Sir?” Something about the second “sir” was different. I looked up and made my order.

The bartender couldn’t make eye contact with me anymore. The other patrons at the bar looked over at me. What were the cues that caused the bartender to assume I was a “sir”? “How are you tonight?” “What?” Cray Interview.

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