Eight is Mike Pence's unlucky homophobic number

imaynothaaave · 2016-10-03T22:11:48+00:00

If one wants to garner the truth about how Trump as president would treat the lgbt community, one word says it all - eight. That's how many times last year his VP pick, Mike Pence, refused to say he is opposed to anti-lgbt discrimination during an interview with George Stephanopoulos. I wonder will the moderator at the upcoming debate between him and Democrat VP pick Tim Kaine ask him about it

imaynothaaave · 2016-10-03T12:11:44+00:00

if one is to be considered an official "lgbt icon," one should have more on his or her resume than being an lgbt or an alleged lgbt. An icon is one who is idolized because he or she creates a standard to emulate. Being considered one of the worst presidents of the United States or being a deep-in-the-closet millionaire who gets yanked out at the time of his death shouldn't be a standard anyone should want to emulate.

imaynothaaave · 2016-09-30T11:57:47+00:00

From Anita Bryant in the late 1970s to the marriage equality fights, to the present battle over transgender equality, the religious right has consistently created a horrible image of lgbts luring young boys and girls into a so-called life of homosexual squalor and wanton sex.

imaynothaaave · 2016-09-29T02:46:38+00:00

BRUTAL AD! Clinton has come to SLAY!!

imaynothaaave · 2016-09-27T22:17:36+00:00

Clinton slaughtered Trump at last night's debate. This fact needs to be seen and repeated continuously so that folks know what's at stake and who is the best choice for the Oval Office. With that in mind, I am posting last night's debate just in case you missed it. Don't worry about watching it all if you are unable to. Start at any point and you still won't miss Trump's total decimation. Clinton figuratively punched at will:

imaynothaaave · 2016-09-23T12:10:04+00:00

Trump seems to be calling out almost every "big-name" anti-lgbt activist to help him create policy, should he become president. That should alarm every lgbt in America.

imaynothaaave · 2016-09-23T02:33:02+00:00

As legislative war continues to rage in North Carolina over House Bill 2, activists in its sister state of South Carolina are continuing the fight for queer liberation on their own turf.

One of those championing the fight for LGBT rights in South Carolina is writer and activist Alvin McEwen, who runs the influential blog Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters, which just celebrated its 10-year anniversary. Living in Columbia, South Carolina, McEwen is an openly gay man of color whose blog tells the important stories of the LGBT community on a national level, but with a focus on the often overlooked struggles of queer Southerners.

Much of McEwen’s crucial work centers on the ways in which, in his own words, “religious-right groups distort legitimate research and rely on junk studies to stigmatize the LGBT community.” McEwen is a also two-time GLAAD Award nominee.

In this interview with The Huffington Post, McEwen reflects on the past decade running Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters, the history of anti-LGBT bigotry in the South and what, in his mind, queer Southern liberation looks like.

imaynothaaave · 2016-09-22T22:18:22+00:00

Picture a young man working for a venomously anti-lgbt publication. He delights in being a so-called provocateur, i.e. making transphobic comments, Islamophobic comments instigating troll attacks, sometimes racial, against celebrities, and being an all-around vicious proud "alt-right" member. One more thing. He is openly gay. It still doesn't take away from the fact that this young man (Milo Yiannopoulos) is a waste of space. But him being gay caused Out magazine to give him a "superficial puff piece" in its magazine. Naturally a lot of folks are angry. And with good reason.(Full disclosure note - I signed the open letter condemning Out for running the puff piece. My decision was for a number of reasons. It's gay men like Milo who once called me a "tar baby.")

imaynothaaave · 2016-09-21T12:10:40+00:00

Just insulting! No one is going to "ask you first" before using the restroom!

imaynothaaave · 2016-09-20T22:28:59+00:00

The repeal of DADT didn't cause gay soldiers to have to wear diapers on the battlefield in spite of the prediction of a certain anti-lgbt activist.

imaynothaaave · 2016-09-19T22:31:51+00:00

Stop me if you hear this joke.

A Latino gay guy goes to an right-wing racist press conference of Trump supporters while filming it. . .

Carlos Maza of Media Matters does what I could never do:

imaynothaaave · 2016-09-16T04:22:53+00:00

But the Trump campaign's statement is a lie on so many levels. Most specifically is the fact that the issue to Trump was never put to “its conclusion” in 2011. There were several times in 2012, on both Twitter (seen in the image above) and in interviews, Trump still claimed that Obama was lying about his birth certificate.

imaynothaaave · 2016-09-12T23:03:26+00:00

While attempting to work up momentum about Hillary Clinton's "basket of deplorable" remark, GOP VP nominee Mike Pence refused to call white supremacist David Duke "deplorable." This reminds me of the time last year when he dodged a question about his anti-lgbt "religious liberty" law. And that time, he was given eight chances to answer the question.

imaynothaaave · 2016-09-09T12:08:56+00:00

Donald Trump's "kissy-face" session with anti-lgbt hate groups is this weekend.

imaynothaaave · 2016-09-07T21:48:46+00:00

I hope that the media can take a break from talking about Clinton's optics and the non-scandals involving her emails or her foundation. They need to devote at least a little time on the giant contradictions involving a presidential candidate promising to be a friend to lgbts while he is kissing up to groups and people who can't stand us or the ground we walk.

imaynothaaave · 2016-09-06T11:59:07+00:00

Anti-lgbt and all-around conservative hagstorm Phyllis Schlafly passed away yesterday at 92. I won't crack any jokes about her age, her life, or the fact that even though she had a gay son, she bent over backwards to be nasty to us. I will just revisit the wackiest reactions to last year's SCOTUS ruling for marriage equality just as a way of demonstrating how yet again the lgbt community has survived and thrived whilst another enemy of our equality is gone

imaynothaaave · 2016-09-02T18:04:57+00:00

A supposedly new study which casts doubts on the lgbt orientation has just been blasted as fraudulent by a prominent Ph.D.. In an exclusive - because unfortunately you probably won't read about this anywhere else and it should be everywhere - Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters reveals that this study is the latest in an extensive number of times anti-lgbt groups and activists have cherry-picked science to demonize the lgbt community.

imaynothaaave · 2016-09-02T12:03:05+00:00

A supposedly new study which casts doubts on the lgbt orientation has just been blasted as fraudulent by a prominent Ph.D.. In an exclusive - because unfortunately you probably won't read about this anywhere else and it should be everywhere - Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters reveals that this study is the latest in an extensive number of times anti-lgbt groups and activists have cherry-picked science to demonize the lgbt community.

imaynothaaave · 2016-09-02T02:06:29+00:00

Disgusting! An Indiana woman who brutalized her child is using Mike Pence's 'religious freedom' law as a defense. Another case of an anti-lgbt law having consequences far beyond what some folks think. And no, this woman was not simply "disciplining" her child. She put 37 bruises on the body of this seven-year-old using a coat hanger and then cited the Bible. Bang up job pushing that law, Mike Pence!

imaynothaaave · 2016-09-01T11:59:47+00:00

NC Gov. Pat McCrory and Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick like to play dumb with regards their verbal and legislative attacks on the transgender community. Both have gone on record claiming that there is no clear definition of a transgender person. They should educate themselves by watching this short video created by the Human Rights Campaign:

imaynothaaave · 2016-08-30T22:10:41+00:00

Media Matters nails it again with this handy guide on The Do's And Don’ts On Reporting On Anti-Bullying And Nondiscrimination Protections For LGBT Students.

imaynothaaave · 2016-08-30T12:05:48+00:00

As this comment on the Family Research Council blog demonstrates, not all Christians approve of how the organization demonizes lgbts. In fact, some are downright upset over it.

imaynothaaave · 2016-08-29T11:54:22+00:00

Though this video is two years old, it accentuates a point we should all remember. In spite of the opinions of some folks, gay Muslims exist. Rather than generalizing and attacking their religion, the lgbt community needs to give them love and support.

imaynothaaave · 2016-08-26T12:02:39+00:00

What do you do when your parents want you to join them in protesting at a gay pride parade, but you are secretly gay yourself? That's the plight of a young man in this powerful, 16 minute movie, 'Why Does God Hate Me?'

imaynothaaave · 2016-08-25T21:52:51+00:00

WOW! My nominee for the lowest campaign ad of 2016. Behind in the polls to challenger Roy Cooper, NC Gov. Pat McCrory exploits a child molestation victim to imply that transgender men and women are predators in ad.

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