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From the Editor, Speak Out and Out Front Panel Voices
Michael Carr, Elizabeth Long, Karl Wesley and George Gramer weigh in on this week’s question.
We could spend much time talking about the complex relationship between trans people and the rest of the LGBT community, or whether trans people are accepted enough within the community – but the truth is, trans people are already at the center of our community and its social world, history and politics.
I volunteer because I believe HRC is the most effective organization at creating positive change for LGBT individuals at the federal level, including in the area of workplace discrimination.
I got to enact my dreams for the big screen on a local scale – playing in Colorado theatre house productions when I was 15 to 21, creating an identity through on-stage success, with dreams – the lofty goal – of one day taking it to the silver screen.
Michael Carr, Jen Schumacher, George Gramer and ‘Shanida Lawya” weigh in on this week’s question.
Over the years, I have fondly, yet with a straight face, shared with my friends that I am writing a book called I have a Dream…and you’re not in it. No one really believes I will do it, but the impetus for me even saying it is something that I struggle with each day – when will we have a community with a coordinated dream where everyone is included?
In most ways we’re no different from heterosexual couples, but one thing our community is full of – since ideas about romance are bound up with gender and the gender we are or want is what makes us LGBT – are really diverse ways to be in love.
Jace Woodrum, Phil Nash, Karl Wesley and George Gramer weigh in on this week’s question.
Growing up in a large Catholic family, my mother was very in tune with keeping the household in some sort of organized chaos, assuring that everyone had her or his chores in mind. One of her more common phrases was, ‘“everyone is doing something.’
I urge all of us in the LGBT and allied community to take a stand for the under-represented and under-served.
