Last night I was on KPFA (about 72 minutes into the show) with Josie Lehrer discussing the Men’s Story Project. I hope to see you there. I will be readiing a letter to my father and performing with 16 other men discussing masculinity.

Marc Solomon’s argument against a United ENDA is right on one point: legislative politics is often about achieving compromise. It’s understandable that this would be the case since multiple facets of an issue are involved. It’s hard to accommodate each group whose opposition might be based on any number of financial, ethical, policy, or hundreds of other considerations. Plus, getting Congress to pass anything remotely protecting queer rights is incredibly difficult. Still, I steadfastly agree that a United ENDA is the only acceptable choice.

Here are the PAC’s recommendations for the state and local propositions as well as Community College Board. The General Membership meeting to vote on the endorsements will be Tuesday, August 12th, from 7-9pm at the LGBT Center.

The Debate on ENDA continues.

Guest Editorial: The Least Worst Choice
by Marc Salomon‚ Aug. 01‚ 2008

It’s always difficult to lose a political contest. Sometimes it takes a while to mourn that loss and move on, adapt and face the new political reality. Such is the case with the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) and the fiction crafted by United ENDA to justify their politically untenable position.

First off, nobody is saying that transgenders were not active in the 1960s. What is empirically true is that transgenders did not do the political work to build a majority in Congress to pass an inclusive ENDA, otherwise the votes would have been there.
more here.

I started to write a quick post about a good op-ed in today’s New York Times about a good op-ed in the New York Times today about gender and the Olympics. Apparently, the Chinese Olympic Host Committee is planning on instituting gender testing for female athletes.

The Olympic hosts seem to want to impose a binary order upon the messy continuum of gender. They are searching for concreteness and certainty in a world that contains neither.

Local hero
Queer Youth Organizing Project

photos by Terrrie Frye at the Left Out Party

The queer-labor alliance Pride at Work, a constituent group of the AFL-CIO, added a youth brigade last year, and it’s been doing some of the most inspired organizing and advocacy in San Francisco. The Queer Youth Organizing Project can marshal dozens of teen and twentysomething activists with a strong sense of both style and social justice for its events and causes.

EDIT: Since Robert has in fact already posted these (note to self, coffee, then post), I will add links to Brian Leubitz’s videos:

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From Terrrie Frye

Check out Kip’s website here.

http://cbs5.com/local/human.rights.campaign.2.780492.html