Articles Posted in the civil rights Category
Our civil rights are infringed upon every day in America. Our civil rights topics range from gay rights, abortion, women’s rights, transsexual rights, minorities rights to any disenfranchised groups that is continually oppressed by society or the government.
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The Tea Party’s Not Racist? Really?
TweetListen to a Tea Party leader in Arkansas tell this “black” joke to the audience and hear their subsequent laughter. http://www.mootmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Teapartyracist.mp3 “A black kid asks his mom, ‘Mama, what’s a democracy?’ “‘Well, son, that be…
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The Epidemic Murders of Transwomen
TweetThe Epidemic Murders of Transwomen The transgender community faces fear, discrimination, and silence in the wake of their sisters’ murders. Written by Jacquie Piasta An upcoming episode of the television program “What Would You Do?”…
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Gay Rights & The Politics of Fear
TweetWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.-…
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Marriage Equality For All, and The Politicians Who Wash Their Records With It
TweetFear, hatred, and religious dogma… It amazes me that this far into the civilized human condition we are still debating whether or not some of us deserve to have rights that most of us enjoy. …
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Know Your Rights
TweetAn oft heard phrase is “I know my rights.” The question is do American citizens really know their rights? Do they know that those rights can disappear in an instant at the whim of the…
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Gays In The Prison System
TweetDuring a recent stay at the Philadelphia Prison System I saw, first hand, how the gay population in a correctional facility so large is treated. A county jail in which inmates prey upon each other…
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The Battle For America’s Soul
TweetIn apocalyptic times, people look first for a saviour. On paper, it looks like the United States is limping into its 57th presidential election in bad shape. Taxes are high, debt is the dirty word…
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Why Every Girl Needs A Gay
TweetGone are the days when a gay man is expected to marry a woman and live as if he’s straight, never mentioning the truth of how he feels, but there is still a long way…
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Will Someone Please Ask Heterosexuals to Stop Making Gay Babies?
TweetIn regards to civil rights, North Carolina has decided to take more than a few steps back rather than forward. The GLBT people of NC have endured more out loud discrimination recently due to voting…
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The New Rainbow Radicals
TweetThe question of equality in America is really a matter of time at this point; polls show an increasing number of Americans support marriage equality and those numbers show no signs of decreasing. President Obama…
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Out Is The New In
TweetFor me, the most important evolution in any GLBTQ person’s life is becoming comfortable in their own skin. We’ve come a long way from bullying and hate crimes and made coming out more comfortable than…
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Evolving
TweetAs June arrives and PRIDE celebrations begin I like to take inventory of my impressions and thoughts over the past years. Much like President Obama, my ideas on gay marriage have been evolving. As an…
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Closeted: A Southern Epidemic
TweetIt was a warm, spring day in northern Mississippi when I asked my brother’s friend to humor me with an impromptu photo shoot. Despite his insecurities, he obliged, pulled off his shirt, and let me…
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What The Fuck?
TweetMuch the way I do not understand poor, uneducated, blue-collar or service industry workers in the South voting for rich, privileged, Ivy League, Republicans to represent their best interests, I find Gay Republicans to be…
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Dying for Acceptance
TweetThe current focus on ending bullying is a step in the right direction to end the LGBT suicide epidemic. But sometimes the patience of a young person can’t withstand daily torture, sometimes the pain doesn’t…
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UN Concerned About Homophobia and Transphobia, Calls on Countries to End Violence and Discrimination
Tweet On International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) that was celebrated on May 17, Ms. Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, called on countries to “repeal discriminatory laws and ban discriminatory…
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OCCUPY WALL STREET ACTIVIST GEORGE MARTINEZ TO RUN FOR NYC’S 7TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
Tweet Occupiers Announce Initiative to “Bum Rush” Local Political Seats George Martinez, a Brooklyn native, hip-hop artist and seasoned Occupy Wall Street activist has announced his candidacy for New York’s 7th Congressional District. In a…
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DC Comics’ Green Lantern Is Gay
TweetThe first major comic character to be confirmed as gay was announced. The Emerald Guardian’s sexuality was rebooted along with the rest of his fictional universe as part of DC’s “New 52″ initiative aimed at…
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DOMA Ruled Unconstitutional By Federal Appeals Court
TweetA federal appeals court Thursday declared that the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutionally denies federal benefits to married gay couples. According to the AP: The appeals court agreed with a lower court judge who ruled…
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Pastor Worley Defender Says ‘Yes I Agree’ Gays Should Die
TweetYeah, this chic is really a witty mind. Hear the backwards logic of the this religious lunatic, so typical for Southern “Christians”.
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Caucasian woman calls African American Nigger & Gets A Lesson
TweetI think some people still think we’re living in 1963 instead of 2012. See what happens when this woman called this man a nigger.
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The Epitome of Christian Hypocrisy & Homophobia
TweetWatch this “pastor, Reverend Welton Gaddy, from a North Carolina church tell his congregation not to vote for “baby killer” Obama and how he would get rid of all of the “queers” in a very…
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Trayvon Martin killed by single gunshot fired from ‘intermediate range,’ autopsy shows
TweetFlorida teenager Trayvon Martin died from a single gunshot wound to the chest fired from “intermediate range,” according to an autopsy report reviewed Wednesday by NBC News.
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North Carolina Lesbian Denied Marriage License, Arrested
TweetAfter the passage of North Carolina’s Amendment 1 last week, nine gay and lesbian couples filed applications for marriage in protest last week. Their applications were denied, of course, but adding insult to injury,…
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The Rewriting of Marriage History
TweetThe conservatards are always saying that marriage has always been between one man and one woman. Lawrence O’Donnell sets the record straight.
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Stephen Colbert Explains Anti-Gay Christian Views & Jesus’ Take On Gays
TweetCheck out this hilarious video in which Colbert lays down the factual law of the Bible and Jesus’ take homosexuality.
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Obama “evolved” into supporting Gay Marriage Today
TweetToday, President Obama announced his support for gay marriage. He said that after years of “struggling” to come to terms with his belief that civil-unions would be sufficient for gays and lesbians, he has not…
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Why Gay Couples Need Equal Marriage Rights
TweetPowerful and poignant video showing gay marriage opponents why gay couples want and NEED gay marriage equality and federal recognition of gay marriage. Watch this but be prepared to cry if you have a heart.…
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Gay Is OK Says Rapper Adair Lion
TweetYou have to see this video for his song Ben. It has an incredible message for the GLBT community, one which we see far too little of. Watch it all the way through to get…
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Moot Questions – Race
TweetRace is a volatile issue in America. See what we found average Americans think about Race today in our man on the street interviews we call, Moot Questions. Come back each month to see what…
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Gay Bashers Hit & Tell Lesbian to “Take It Like A Man”
TweetJulie Ward and her friends went to The Bunkhouse, a bar in Weir, Texas for drinks this past weekend. Ward recounted her incident saying that a female bartender at the bar told them that they…
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JUNE ISSUE IS OUR GAY ISSUE!
Tweet MOOT MAGAZINE’S JUNE ISSUE IS ALL GAY COMING JUNE 5TH We celebrate gay rights, freedom and love every day on Moot with our GLBT department. But our upcoming gay issue will be full of…
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Trayvon Martin and the Microcosm of American Racism
TweetTrayvon Martin, a seventeen year old high school student was walking home in his father’s gated community in southern Florida, talking to his girlfriend on his cell phone and carrying an Arizona iced tea and…
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The Truth About Race
TweetSo often people are concerned with race. In America, it is a most volatile subject, one that causes hate crimes, murders, hatred, bigotry, prejudice, discrimination and many other horrible consequences. To be concerned with race…
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The Trayvon Martin Case: A Narrative of Race and Class Warfare
TweetIt goes without saying that an anecdote about rural Arkansas is an unlikely point of departure for a discussion about the political implications surrounding the refusal of the Sanford, Florida police department to initially arrest…
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Bi-Polar America
TweetRecent events have once again brought race relations in America into the media spotlight, continuing the now long record that exists of an endemic discrimination against minorities in the Land of the Free. From the…
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Editor’s Letter – Race Issue
Tweet The complexities of race are something that I personally understand and feel I have a unique perspective on. I am biracial (half German and half African-American), whom is often perceived as either Hispanic or…
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Worldwide, Extremism and Racism On The Rise
TweetGovernments Not Immune to Racism. The Shameful Truth. Surrounded by a metal fence, with some 30 video cameras and a controlled entrance, the Via Salone 323 camp, a segregated settlement constructed on the periphery of…
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Subtle Racism in American Politics
TweetI’ve never been much for playing the race card. In fact, I tend to go well out of my way to ensure that I don’t make what social scientists call a Type I error, or…
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Interracial Relationships
TweetThe New York Times reports that, “A surge of interracial dating and marriage in a multi-racial 21st century America, is now more visible and has clearly become more diverse than ever.” This cultural phenomenon comprises…
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Trayvon Martin: His Shooter’s Intentions
TweetIntentions? “He’s got his hand in his waistband and he’s a black male,” George Zimmerman told the 9-1-1 dispatcher. Do not follow him,…
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It’s Just Hair, If You’re White
TweetRecently, I was on the Seattle ferry and found myself a few seats from a beauty school student. We began talking hair and I told her of research I conducted on Black women and the…
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Old White People
TweetWhy would a simple act as offering an elderly woman my seat be imbued with Racial Overtones? So I am sitting on a pew With three other young women All White Watching a concert…
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How To Be A Racist
Tweet The most visible sort of racist seems to start either as a rich, old, white dude, or else as a poor, young, Southerner with a shaved…
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Racism in America
Tweet Racism in America has special implications due to our history with slavery, the Native Americans, and the interment of the Japanese during WWII. How has race affected the people of the United States, both…
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Racism Is Alive And Well in Houston (And All of Texas)
TweetThis “rent-a-cop” is obviously a “Good Ol’ Boy” down in Houston, TX, one of the most racist cities in Texas. See if you think this guy’s reaction to these two men videotaping a Wal-Mart is…
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Moot Magazine’s April Issue is Coming Soon!
TweetMoot Magazine’s April Issue is Coming Soon! Features: Race In America Trayvon Martin Case Interracial Dating Minority Racists and of course our political content and much more! Look for our April issue soon!
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My Big Fat Legal Wedding
by Ivy Louise Crawford-Jonker on Jun 05, 2012 | No Comments
TweetMy wife of three years and I are going to get married in New York next week. We have intermittently discussed going somewhere to get legally married, but have always decided that there is no…
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