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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-13: Haiti earthquake

Today’s tweets were dominated by news of yesterday’s magnitude 7 earthquake in Haiti, the idiotic statement about the earthquake by Christianist Pat Robertson, & the Prop 8 trial in California. Continue reading

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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-12: Faux Palin, Prop 8, DADT, & fresh produce

RT: @shannynmoore: Palin is to journalism what Dahmer was to cooking. // She should fit in quite well with Faux News. # Mainstream media coverage of Cheney & Palin: stenography & “regurgitating press releases.” http://tiny.cc/zDHkY (h/t @celticdiva) #fb # Bent … Continue reading

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My story of 2009

Not quite ALL about my 2009, because that would take a year to write. This only took several hours.

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The Daily Tweets, 2009-12-03: Happy coming out!

@jansonjones Good to see your head poked up over that big hump! in reply to jansonjones # Happy coming out to Meredith Baxter, a “later in life” lesbian. http://bit.ly/8j3LlI #

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Crossed Genres announces its first short story anthology — and "Cold" will be in it!

Crossed Genres will publish its first anthology containing one story from each of its first 12 issues — including my story “Cold” from the LGBTQ issue.

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Crossed Genres LGBTQ issue: The ad goes live

Crossed Genres’ Issue 12, the LGBTQ issue, goes live on November 1. And I’m in it! — And meanwhile, it’s ad on Tor.com went live yesterday, in an unexpected act of generosity & welcoming to queers & their allies from one of the biggest names in science fiction & fantasy. Thanks, Tor.com!

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Coming out

In celebration of National Coming Out Day 2009. As Julia O’Malley pointed out after Sullivan vetoed the Anchorage equal rights ordinance, it’s not laws that change people, but personal relationships. Which is why the most important work I’ve done in the struggle for equal rights for LGBTQ people is simply to live my life, openly, as who I am.

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Overheard: Antigay pogroms in Iraq

Gay men are systematically been hunted down and killed in Iraq. Members of the LGBT Human Rights Division at Human Rights Watch are trying to help, but more help is needed — from us.

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True Diversity Dinner video, part 3: Hotel workers, & Elvi's speech

Part 3 of Janson Jones’ video of the September 25 True Diversity Dinner in Anchorage includes Hilton hotel workers protesting outside the Mayor’s Unity Dinner, and the speech of Assembly Member Elvi Gray-Jackson.

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True Diversity Dinner: Slideshow

Here’s a selection of photos I took at last night’s True Diversity Dinner.

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