If you haven’t heard of GetEQUAL, you will soon. Distraught by recent delays, LGBT activists turn to civil disobedience to encourage the passage of the Employment Non Discrimination and repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”. Thumbnail link: Trans-Ponder Internet Radio with Mila Ponder and Jayna PonderGroups like GetEQUAL are making their voices known though direct  Read More »

With news breaking of Kip Williams of GetEQUAL mounting yet another civilly disobedient action to keep pressure on the issue of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal, I thought it’d be a good time to share this. I had an occasion to mention an action from the 1980s, by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT  Read More »

C.D. Kirven, left, screams into a megaphone with Michael Robinson at her side as members of the group GetEQUAL protest outside the annual ExxonMobile shareholders’ meeting Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in downtown Dallas. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, G.J. McCarthy) See photo.

This letter was written to Speaker Nancy Pelosi by Samantha Ames, a DC law student and GetEQUAL activist. Samantha was also one of the four arrested in DC (and six in San Francisco) on March 18th for occupying the Speaker’s office in an attempt to bring a floor vote for a transgender-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act  Read More »

Local activists seeking an end to job discrimination against LGBT people held a protest on Thursday before the U.S. Capitol to urge Congress to take action on the issue. Wielding signs reading “I can still be fired for being me” and “1 in 7 LGBTQ face job discrimination,” around a dozen protesters marched up and  Read More »

Yesterday, I joined the GetEqual picket for ENDA on Capitol Hill. About 20 of us met on the corner just across the street from the Library of Congress and the Cannon House office building. For about an hour, we marched around the block, watched by cops and protected by organizers and a legal observer. We  Read More »