Thursday’s Viewpoints

Filed Under Headlines | November 5th, 2009 

Thursday’s LGBT Related Viewpoints, Editorials & Observations on: Politics, Marriage, Maine, Sex Scandals, Homophobia, Elders, Media and More…

LGBT ViewpointsDisability Viewpoints: ThisAbility: Gay and disabled – Back in the closet for you.

Elder Viewpoint: Don Kilhefner: Gay Elders! Gay Elders! Where Are You?

Health Viewpoint: Petrelis Files: UCSF’s Hysterical Gay Staph Crisis — Accountability Needed 2-Years Later

Homophobic Police State Viewpoint: (IPS) VENEZUELA: Homophobia Stalks the Streets – in Uniform

Marriage, Maine & Political Viewpoints:

- Daily Beast — Linda Hirshman: Get Gay Marriage Off the Ballot — The Maine gay-marriage initiative went down to defeat Tuesday. But the real tragedy is that it should never have been put to a vote in the first place.

- David Mixner: Election (Part One): Enough, No More, Enough — Part 2: What Now?

- Michael’s Gay Thought: “The Mourning After”

- doubleX — June Thomas: Why the Maine vote on gay marriage makes me angry.

- doubleX — Emily Bazelon: Maine Didn’t Give Gay Marriage a Chance

Media Viewpoints:

- MediaMatters: MSNBC’s Brewer adopts anti-gay rhetoric

- Ad Astrum: When complaints reveal covert bigotry

Military Viewpoint: Jon Soltz: On Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, Army’s Ready, So What’s the Hold-up

Other Political Viewpoints:

- Deb Price: Savor the Moment — Expectations about how far and how fast President Obama can escort gay Americans down the road to full equality are so high…

- Daily Beast — Berlusconi’s Tranny Defense — As Italy’s leader tries to use a politician’s affair with a transsexual prostitute to deflect his own scandals, Barbie Latza Nadeau says his misogyny is finally catching up with him.

Pacific Peoples’ Viewpoints: GayNZ: Love Life Fono’s – Making life better for our people in the Pacific

Transgender Viewpoints: Leslie Davis: Transgender issues from a ‘cisgender’ perspective.