The Way We Were
Yesterday I noticed that Turner Classic Movies was going to be showing the 1973 movie The Way We Were, with Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. I remembered going to see it in San Francisco with...
View ArticleI am at a Loss…
I told all of you to support Hillary Clinton six years ago, but a lot of you said supporting her was supporting the lesser of two evils. Too many took the position I took as first time voter in 1968...
View ArticleI Got Mail From a Qnut
On maybe more appropriately from a Qunt. Is Qunt the female identified version of a Qnut? I’ll never know but the University of North Texas plays with the order of the initials for its radio station...
View ArticleEnovid 10 and the Gleaners
On May 9th , 1960 the FDA approved Enovid 10, a high level hormonal based birth control pill for use as a contraceptive. It had previously been approved in 1957 for use as an aid in treating...
View ArticleG-d’s Will
Right wing Evangelicals love to claim they hear the voice of G-d telling them to be a bunch of hateful right wing bigots. G-d talks to them more than G-d talked to the actual prophets in the Tanakh....
View Article50 Years Ago Today I Had Sex Reassignment Surgery
In the late 1960s and early 1970s we were far more existential than people are today. We were because of actions, identity not so much. Which is not to say that identity wasn’t important, identity...
View ArticleTrans Eliminationist Bigots
Not just for Lesbian Separatists or second Wave Radical Feminists anymore. First order of business: TERF has to go. Why? Because it completely fails to describe the range of people who are engaged in...
View Article“I identify as____” is a lot like, “I was born in July and I’m a Leo.
Yeah… I was a hippie way back in the 1960s before many if not most of you were born. Long hair, big old Martin Dreadnaught guitar, sandals in the summer and boots in the winter. I went to...
View ArticleApril Ashley, Transsexual Pioneer, Dies at 86
Last month April Ashley died. Her New York Times Obituary can be found by clicking Here. In 1962 she saved my life just by existing. Back then I was a lonely trans-kid living in small rural towns in...
View ArticleStatement on the Progress Flag
Lately there seems to be a trend of turning various movements into profit generating corporations. \ Some 15 years ago I met a person who occupied various high level career positions. She said...
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