Death Of Puerto Rican Teen Sparks Rally In NYC

Anti-gay New York Senator Ruben Diaz WAS NOT there.

outing priests

 

Blogger Sebastian @ Suffer The Arrows is against outing priests.

His rationale?

The typical diocesan priest has no pension that cannot be abrogated by the diocese, has no unemployment compensation, has no apartment or dwelling that he owns or rents but instead lives in a dwelling owned by the diocese, and earns far below market value for his services - typically about $25,000 a year. So if a priest is outed, and he loses his job, he will also lose his residence, pension, health care, and any chance to get a job in his profession.

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Attacking gay priests makes as much sense as attacking gay members of the military. Both the Catholic Church and the military have a 'don't ask don't tell' policy! and its first victims are those who dare not tell.

Yeah, okay… So let’s understand this.  If there is a bishop, let’s say, Timothy Dolan, a man who believes gays and abortion are intrinsically evil, while capital punishment and war are just fine and dandy as far as he’s concerned, then he informs his members, oh, I don’t know, by e-mail or divinity perhaps, that they must inform the members of their congregation or parish they must sign a declaration of war against gays and liberals, then that priest, even if he’s gay and complicit by demand, should not be outed because he might lose his job?

Explain that to the hundreds or thousands of gay teens and adults forced into homelessness or victims of violence due to religious mandated persecution.

The difference between a priest and gay members of the military is that priests chose to be in the closet, gay military members do not.

And as I’ve noted here, some priests who do come out aren’t very honest as to why they did.

because the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many…

…even if they’re victims of murder.

Autumn’s response to the controversy she generated by trying to revisionise a hate crime murder to her own narrow-minded views and lifestyle was to write, “you’re probably right.”

Probably, Autumn?

Family, friends, numerous activists and bloggers on scene all say Mr. Lopez identified as gay.   Michael Lavers says he identified as gay. He works for an actual news organization, not a make believe one.

You think you know better?

What’s astonishing is that Autumn simply couldn’t leave it alone; no instead, she had to make this about her.

Don’t believe me? Go to Pam’s House Blend and read for yourself.  Or for those too damn lazy…

To those who say I jumped too far in my conclusion...

...You're probably right.

My feeling is that the assumption should be the victim was trans until shown the victim was shown not to be, based on gender expression of the victim at the time of the brutal murder, and what the styleguides say about how to refer to people based on how they present themselves publicly.

Frankly, I'm tired of media always getting gender identity wrong on the first brush of the story, and then constantly using the male name over and over again when covering the story of trans people later.

The thing is, I don't know any sex workers who present as female only when working. They probably exist, but everyone I'm aware of from Spanish and Portuguese language countries/areas in our country -- or south of our southern boarder -- who presents as female while working the streets, also presents as female while not working. (And, I know I'm also making an strong assumption the victim was a sex worker when we only have the murder's statement that the victim was a sex worker.)

Genitalia under clothing shouldn't be an excuse for murder, I think we would all agree there. But calling it trans erasure? I should have said possible erasure. I would even say probable erasure. But you're right, I likely jumped the gun in anger saying it definitely was erasure. Again, none of us know how the victim presented when not on the streets, so we'll have to wait and see if she is trans or if he is gay -- or if, as I know some trans women from south of the border identify as both transgender and gay.

But that said, the lead investigator was taken off of the case for blaming the victim for the crime, saying on a Spanish language television (I think it was Telemundo) shouldn't have been out dressed as a female, when the victim was male, and working the streets. The investigator blamed the victim for gender expression, sexual orientation, and assumed profession. That angers me.

We know no matter what this is an LGBT related murder as the killer is claiming the standard gay panic/trans panic defense. Hate is for gay/trans people is at the heart of this killing. And, as I saw with the Angie Zapata Hate Crime Murder Trial, the killers often don't separate gay hating and trans hating.

But, if -- God forbid -- I'm killed in a hate crime, I don't want to be called a gay man, and/or referred to by my old, male name. I am a woman who currently has male genitalia; I will fix that anomaly within 2 or 3 years, but in the meantime I am what I am.

So, if a person dressed as a woman has male genitalia when murdered, per the styleguides I'd rather see the assumption made that a victim was trans instead of assuming the victim was gay -- and corrections made later if the victim turns out to be gay. Currently, even LGBT MSM doesn't make that assumption, and I believe that the GLAAD, NLGJA, and AP styleguides indicate that they all should make that assumption.

Making the wrong assumption about a person's gender identity based on genitalia I believe is more harmful in the long run than getting the sexuality of a person wrong -- This is because the wrong name is then consistently used in further coverage. I saw this with the Angie Zapata, LaTiesha Green, and Gwen Araujo murder trials -- frankly, I'm tired of the wrong assumption, based on genitalia alone, always being the starting point.
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~~Autumn~~

Got that bloggers and media? If something ever happens to Autumn, get it right the first time or else they’ll be hell to pay.

How very Frank Reynolds.

As if.

Miscellaneous

 

Apparently Oprah has announced her show will end in 2011.  Rather than wait, a few gay bloggers have already panicked.

Why? Honestly, the last few years, this woman has been nothing but bad news, promoting poser book authors, defending liars and hypocrites such as Bill O’Reilly, Kurt Eichenwald, and Justin Berry, her sex offender fear mongering, making those left homeless from Hurricane Katrina act like performing seals in a circus… I won’t even get into the lesbian/gay rumors that make her a closet case coward… the sooner she’s gone, the better.

• BOQ - THESE ARE THE DAYS OF OUR BEANS

Lyndon Evans also rips the transgender citizen journalist a new one.

 

A New Jersey Senator tries to explain his cowardice.

 

There is a God! “The Family” C Street House Stripped of Tax-Exempt Status

I'm just saying

I was first to call out Michael Rogers hypocrisy, vis a vis his statement on churchouting.org.


Isn't it interesting how Rogers hasn't said a damn word about all the murder and violence that's occurred at the expense of gays (or trans-genders if you're following Autumn Sandeen's warped logic) this week?  I'm just saying.


On the subject of, Phil Attey, founder of churchouting.org said thru Twitter/Facebook that right now he prefers to concentrate his efforts toward those working within the DC Archdiocese.  


Very well.


Given all that's happened this week, these priests who remain ignorant while religious mandated violence murder occurs at our expense are just as much responsible for what's happened as did those who committed the crime.


And we don't need a website or blog to know that.

the manhattan declaration

In a few minutes, a bunch of Orthodox, Catholic and evangelical Christian leaders will appear at the National Press Club in Washington, DC tol announce the release the Manhattan Declaration, a manifesto against gays and liberals.

Others who have released manifestos include Ted Kaczynski and boylovers.

I'm just saying.

Update:

Manhattan Declaration

This & That

Pedro Julio Serrano appeared on WLII TV's Anda Pal Cara, a late night talk and variety show.

Again, for those who don't understand spanish, Mr. Serrano addressed the murder of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado and called out, by name, certain political and religious leaders in Puerto Rico who haven't said one damn word about what happened.

And if you're wondering why Mr. Serrano is near tears toward the end of the segment, it's because he was asked to speak on an incident that occurred in his life some years ago in which he was attacked by four men who had intended to kill him for being gay. One doesn't need translation for that.

Now on to Autumn Sandeen.

As you might have read here, the self proclaimed transgender citizen journalist subscribed herself to school the media and bloggers for improperly reporting the murder as being a gay hate crime. 

No surprise that despite myself, Lyndon, and a less than handful bunch of trepidatious comments on Pam's House Blend, the rest of the LGBT blogosphere remain content playing their silly game of make believe I don't exist which is often what many bloggers do after their caught justifying their sanctimonious hypocrisy and ignorance at my expense and others.

And this despite surviving family and friends being quoted on local TV, newspapers, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and who knows what else, all identifying Mr. Lopez Mercado as a gay man.

I don't know about anyone else but if one were to choose between a freeper transgender blogger who thinks she's ominpotent and Mr. Lopez Mercado's family and friends, I'm choosing the latter.

It's beyond reprehensible that practically every single day, I'm constantly revealing these online paragons of equality advocacy to be nothing more than frauds and shysters and no one is willing to do or say anything.

Whatever.  I go by a simple logic: If no one is willing to dispute the facts as I've presented them, then it means that I'm right and there's nothing to dispute.