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Coulter, like Fred Phelps and a handful of other extremist, be-cardiganed Evangelical ministers, has the potential to be of real use to the cause of LGBT rights, but the HRC, GLAAD and other pro-lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights organizations have to play their cards better. We did an excellent job internalizing the elementary school lessons about the importance of discourse, but we seem to have been sidetracked before we learned what to do about...
More importantly, however, Coulter (and her faithful minions) gave LGBT organizations a golden opportunity, and they squandered it. There are few occasions when homophobic speech comes from a source that is indisputably further from the mainstream than these organizations themselves. This “incident” (if you can even call it that) had all the makings of one of those occasions. Yet the HRC and GLAAD, in taking Coulter seriously, only diminished their own respectability...
Back when LGBT rights were on shakier ground, mainstream organizations had a good reason for working within the discourse that homophobic conservatives handed them...
Last night’s event featured Lisa Pic-Harrison, who is co-chair of the Somos Latino/as Coalition, a non-profit organization that represents and serves the LGBT Latino/a population in Massachusetts. Pic-Harrison discussed Latino and Queer Issues after a film screening of “On the Downlow,” which tells the story of two gay Latino...
...Jennifer Chrisler is the Executive Director of Family Pride, the nation's largest LGBT family advocacy group, and the mother of twin boys with her wife Cheryl Jacques. They reside in Washington...