looking for an intern

In order to keep Be Yr Own Queero fresh with new content, we’re looking for an intern to help out and manage all the requests we’ve received. It’s not paid, but trust me, you will get free things and learn a lot. About anything that you want to learn about. Micro-biology, string theory, chemical reactions. We are quite versed in our intellect.

If interested, hit us up.

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This Saturday (8/28) WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA
MUSIC FOR YOUR BRAINZ 

This Saturday (8/28) 
WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA

MUSIC FOR YOUR BRAINZ 

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Check out Lynn/Scantron’s new vlog series on the The New Gay.  The first episode talks about finding support in the coming out process through online communities

New videos will be posted every other Tuesday. 

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marinazoe:

cuteboyishlesbiangirls:

crooksandqueens:

equalitopia:

BREAKING: Proposition 8 ruled unconstitutional
In a landmark victory, a federal judge declared Proposition 8 unconstitutional, after a long-awaited decision.
In a 136-page ruling, Judge Vaughn Walker has ruled that California’s Proposition 8 should be overturned.
According to the Dallas Voice:

The defense has said it will appeal Walker’s decision to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and the case is expected to eventually wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The defense has also requested a stay of Walker’s ruling pending appeal, but Walker has not yet ruled on that request. If the stay is granted as expected, same-sex couples could not begin marrying in California right away.

The conclusion of the ruling:

“Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite- sex couples are superior to same-sex couples. Because California has no interest in discriminating against gay men and lesbians, and because Proposition 8 prevents California from fulfilling its constitutional obligation to provide marriages on an equal basis, the court concludes that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.”

And an excerpt from the ruling:

A private moral view that same-sex couples are inferior to opposite-se couples is not a proper basis for legislation.

(Photo: Land of Confusion, hat tip to Queerty)

CONGRATS CALI FRIENDS ! :)

marinazoe:

cuteboyishlesbiangirls:

crooksandqueens:

equalitopia:

BREAKING: Proposition 8 ruled unconstitutional

In a landmark victory, a federal judge declared Proposition 8 unconstitutional, after a long-awaited decision.

In a 136-page ruling, Judge Vaughn Walker has ruled that California’s Proposition 8 should be overturned.

According to the Dallas Voice:

The defense has said it will appeal Walker’s decision to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and the case is expected to eventually wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The defense has also requested a stay of Walker’s ruling pending appeal, but Walker has not yet ruled on that request. If the stay is granted as expected, same-sex couples could not begin marrying in California right away.

The conclusion of the ruling:

“Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite- sex couples are superior to same-sex couples. Because California has no interest in discriminating against gay men and lesbians, and because Proposition 8 prevents California from fulfilling its constitutional obligation to provide marriages on an equal basis, the court concludes that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.”

And an excerpt from the ruling:

A private moral view that same-sex couples are inferior to opposite-se couples is not a proper basis for legislation.

(Photo: Land of Confusion, hat tip to Queerty)

CONGRATS CALI FRIENDS ! :)

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calling all creative queers!

We want to start a series where we highlight creatively smart queers. If you identify as anything under the queer umbrella tree and do something creative, we want you to SUBMIT. It could be anything from photography to filmmaking to origami to hairstyling to whatever creative thing you do to keep your mind sane. 

We all express our selves in different ways and we want to share these expressions! Let us know what you do and how to get in touch with you

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Transgender issue leads club to cancel membership

By Shannan Bowen, Wilmington StarNews
Source: http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100714/ARTICLES/100719840/1177?Title=Sex-issue-leads-club-to-remove-member&tc=ar# 

Besides the obvious, life was different when Rachael Gieschen was a man. Gieschen had a membership to a beach-side club in Wrightsville Beach, founded a century ago by her family, and was part of a tight-knit local German community.

But now 69-year-old Gieschen, who transitioned physically three years ago to live as a woman, is left hurt and feeling discriminated against after the board of directors for Hanover Seaside Club decided to cancel her membership, citing reasons such as members expressing “agitation and concern” about Gieschen’s presence as a woman.

Gieschen has not filed a lawsuit against the Wrightsville Beach club, which is at 601 S. Lumina Ave. Instead, she said she and her attorney are trying to resolve issues with the club amicably in an attempt to have her membership reinstated.

“We think it’s the right time for the club to come back and give me my membership back,” she said.

Michael Silverman, an attorney retained by Gieschen who works at a law firm representing transgender issues, said there are several things the club can do to help its members accept Gieschen’s new identity, such as member orientations and educational meetings.

“Essentially what they’re telling us is people feel uncomfortable. While that may in fact be true, our feeling is it’s natural and predictable to feel uncomfortable, but there’s a lot of things the club can do to not exclude someone,” he said.

From man to woman

Gieschen’s physical transition took more than 60 years. The signs that something was different came early, between 6 to 9 years old, but growing up in the 1940s meant she was expected to live as the gender and sex with which she was born.

“It was a life on a revolving stage each second, each minute,” she said.

Gieschen was married twice, had five children and retired after almost 23 years with the U.S. Air Force.

Finally, after spending a short time as a cross-dresser in which she would dress up in women’s clothes, Gieschen was diagnosed in 2007 by her therapist as being transgender, meaning she did not identify with her gender role as a man. That began her physical process of becoming a woman.

Gieschen, who legally changed her first name to Rachael, said she wrote the club’s board of directors in 2008 to inform them about the change in her life.

After no response, she visited the club on vacation. Gieschen, who grew up in Wilmington and now lives in Raleigh, said no one at the club spoke to her, and she was snubbed by people she considered family and friends most her life.

‘Kicked out’

The president of the club’s board of directors wrote Gieschen in May 2009 to suggest she resign her membership based on the concerns the club had about her presence there.

The letter said Gieschen caused members to experience discomfort and distress at her last visit to the club. The letter also addressed bathroom facilities. “Other members’ comments support the conclusion that, although you are now a woman, members will be uncomfortable regardless of which locker rooms or rest rooms you use. In view of the physical limitations of the club, we do not see how this problem can be resolved to everyone’s satisfaction,” the letter said.

The board of directors gave Gieschen the chance to meet with them, but they declined allowing her therapist to come and talk about being transgender, Gieschen said. After that meeting, the board’s president sent a letter informing Gieschen that the board thought it was in the club’s best interest to cancel her membership and refund the money she had already paid for the year.

“I was just kicked out and asked to leave,” Gieschen said.

“It really hurt. These are the people I grew up with,” she added.

Phone calls to the club’s president were not returned, and an attorney on behalf of the club said in an e-mail to the StarNews that the club declined to comment about the issue.

The club itself was founded in 1898 by Gieschen’s great-grandfather and other members of a German community that settled in the Wilmington area, Gieschen said.

For Gieschen, it was a place where she grew up and where she took her five children to spend summer days.

“For me, it was a place of tranquility. I didn’t have to be on a revolving stage,” she said.

But the memories Gieschen had of holidays, picnics and playing games at the club were from her days as a man.

Still, Gieschen said she’s the same internally. “The outer changes have been made, but I’m still the same person,” she said.

While a lawsuit has not been filed, and since the private club has a right to its own rules, Gieschen and her attorney are working to restore her membership without going to court.

But, Gieschen said, “The options are there.”

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Judge in Massachusetts says that the ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.  

“Gay advocates are hailing a U.S. district court ruling in Boston, that could bring federal recognition to gay marriages from Massachusetts. On Thursday, the judge said part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act — or DOMA — is unconstitutional.”

Judge in Massachusetts says that the ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.  

“Gay advocates are hailing a U.S. district court ruling in Boston, that could bring federal recognition to gay marriages from Massachusetts. On Thursday, the judge said part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act — or DOMA — is unconstitutional.”

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Not being a huge country music fan, I didn’t know about Chely Wright and her coming out…considering (you can debate me about this) that country music is the largest genre in the U.S.  - this is BIG! Hear her story…

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Yvonne Moore, a Washington D.C. woman who told CNN that she sued her church because they began to perform gay marriages. She asked the church for $250,000 in donations she’d made over the past 37 years. 

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The words of black feminist writers touched Alexis Pauline Gumbs at an early age. She connected deeply with the theories of Audre Lorde, a Carribbean-American author and activist, and embodied Lorde’s revolutionary spirit in college and into graduate school at Duke University where she concentrated on English, Women’s Studies and African-American Studies. Gumbs now operates the School of Our Lorde, a series of educational sessions for the Durham community on politics, social change and feminist theory. Gumbs can also be heard as the host of a podcast and public access TV program called “Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind” and she is currently traveling the country in an R.V. that she calls her “revolutionary vehicle” collecting personal stories from black homosexual communities. Gumbs joins host Frank Stasio to talk about how black spirituality, sexuality, motherhood and sisterhood play a role in the survival of our society.

Click here to listen.

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PRIDE is happening all over the nation, click through to CarlosinDC’s YouTube channel to see LTBGQ views, opinions and happenings in the DC area.

Carlos in DC is about the peoples and the spaces of Washington, D.C., about his experience as an immigrant living in this city, about the influence of U.S. policies in Latin America, about Latino issues [mostly Indigenous and Afro descendant peoples], Immigration Reform and other stuff. Follow him on Twitter @CarlosQC

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