Queer Blogs

We’ve seen pop culture, gay and otherwise, go through many changes over the years. Remember America Online?! Of course you do! AOL, it was better known as, started it all. Getting in those chat rooms was nearly impossible! I would keep my stapler sitting on top of the enter key in hopes I would be able to get in one of the many M4M rooms they had running. I think they held 24 people at a time, with L.A. and major cities having four to five chat rooms each. And those horrid templates you could...Read Full Story

Julia Serano was at the University of Cincinnati on Wednesday, April 22, lecturing on transsexual and transfeminine perspectives on feminism. Serano is the author of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman On Sexism And The Scapegoating Of Feminity , and she regularly lectures on the intersections of being transgender and identifying and being perceived as female.  One interesting point that Serano brought up was the idea of facsimilation in regards to having a queer identity. Her example of...Read Full Story

GenderBloc , the University of Cincinnati’s radical queer organization that focuses on trans activism, has produced a survival guide to help trangender people navigate UC’s tricky policies and resources. GenderBloc members contacted administrators to see what their current policies and resources were for trans students, and worked with them to form policies where there were none. Some of the topics can be generalized to most schools, and the guide can serve as a template for other places to...Read Full Story

www.twitter.com/katebornstein I love Kate Bornstein's description of Ann Coulter via Twitter. They are both lecturing at the same time at the same campus. That should be interesting. Posted in LGBTQ Tagged: ally, ann coulter, bisexual, Black Mondays, butch, cincinnati, civil rights, Clifton, DOMA, drag, drag king, ENDA, equality, Equality Cincinnati, Equality Ohio, femme, gay, GenderBloc, genderqueer, GLBT, GLBTQ, HRC, Intersectionality, Jamie, kate bornstein, L-Word, lesbian, Lez...Read Full Story

Posted in LGBTQ Tagged: ally, bisexual, Black Mondays, butch, cincinnati, civil rights, Clifton, DOMA, drag, drag king, drag queen, ENDA, equality, Equality Cincinnati, Equality Ohio, femme, gay, GenderBloc, genderqueer, GLBT, GLBTQ, HRC, Intersectionality, Jamie, L-Word, lesbian, Lez, Lezzie, LGBT, LGBTQ, Ohio, out, Out On Campus, pansexual, politics, Prop. 8, Proposition 8, queer, queer center, questioning, scott turner schofield, SheBar, The L-Word, trans, transgender, two truths and a lie...Read Full Story