NGLTF's Transgender-Inclusive Campaign for ENDA
The executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Matt Foreman, has penned an excellent column about a transgender-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
This group has been leading the charge to make sure the transgenders, the T in LGBT, are not thrown under the bus in order to pass ENDA and Foreman's essay deserves to be read by all who care about winning equality for the entire gay community.
From Foreman's column All Of Us, Every One of Us:
At this critical moment in our efforts to pass an Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) that includes transgender people under its protections, it is important to recall just why so many of us believe that no one can be left behind.
The last five days have been a grueling and defining moment in our movement’s history. When we learned that protections for transgender people would be stripped from ENDA, an unprecedented groundswell of anger, energy and determination rose up to reverse that decision. [...]
Click here and learn more about the NGLTF campaign for a fully inclusive ENDA, and do your part to stand with our transgender brothers and sisters.
Flogging to death by instalments:
ReplyDelete7000 LASHES FOR BEING GAY.
TWO men in Saudi Arabia have been sentenced to 7000 lashes each after being convicted of sodomy and have received their first round of punishment in public, a newspaper said today.
The men, who were not identified, were meted out an unspecified number of lashes in public in the the southwestern city of Al-Bahah on Tuesday evening, the Al-Okaz daily reported.
They were then returned to prison where they are to be held until the full punishment is completed, the newspaper added, without saying how many sessions this would involve.
Homosexual acts are illegal in Saudi Arabia, which metes out strict punishment based on sharia, or Islamic law.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22532620-23109,00.html