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The Kuchu Movement: LGBT Ugandans Are Kuchu, Not Gay

30 August, 2010 | Derrick Mathis | No Comment

A painting by Ugandan artist Brian Kezaala Nkoyooyo representing the kuchu movement today

From Behind The Mask

How activists are using coalitions to promote LGBTI rights in Uganda.
The kuchu movement is abuzz in Uganda. Kuchu is a (plural: kuchus) word, apparently of Swahili origin, that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) Ugandans have minted to describe their identities.

“We do not use the word ‘queer,’” explains Frank Mugisha, chairman of Sexual Minorities Uganda, an umbrella entity that brings together LGBTI organizations for advocacy purposes. “We’ve got our own word that encompasses the whole idea: kuchu.”

Despite a penal code that criminalizes homosexual acts with penalties of upwards of 10 years of imprisonment, Uganda has witnessed an astounding flowering of kuchu organizations in recent years.

Each cluster is structured differently: some exist primarily as online discussion fora while others run legal aid clinics or provide health services to sexual minorities. Some meet in bars and members’ living rooms while others maintain offices with laptop computers and Wi-Fi internet connections.
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Turn Off Fox News, Get A Cute Sticker

26 August, 2010 | Derrick Mathis | No Comment

Color Of Change has this great new boycott/campaign called Turn Off Fox News. We love it! Even if just getting a lame sticker is a dumb idea. Why not a t-shirt? Whateves, we’re still cool with the idea of TURNING OFF FOX NEWS. Yea, it’s time to shut those lying conniving eeffers down. Check out the following:
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Former RNC Head Ken Mehlman Comes Out The Closet; Heads Fundraiser Against Prop 8

25 August, 2010 | Derrick Mathis | No Comment
Here’s the complete story from Joe By God:
Repulsive Anti-Gay Quisling Homophobic Scumbag Asshat Closeted Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman Has Come Out

Maybe the $4M loft he bought in gay gay gay Chelsea this summer did (or more likely, brought) the trick, as Mike Rogers reports today that repulsive 2004 Dubya campaign manager and former RNC chairman Ken Mehlman is about to come out. [UPDATE: It's official. See update at the bottom of this post.]
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The Equality Movement, Prop 8, And Why Black Activists Should Get Out Before Obama Leaves Office

24 August, 2010 | Derrick Mathis | 14 Comments

One of them is a black civil rights leader. The other is the President of the United States. Here comes the million dollar question: Which of these two is often mistaken to be the leader of the LGBT movement?

Ed Rollins, who served as national campaign director for Ronald Reagan‘s 1984 bid and as a former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said on Monday that RNC head Michael Steele has “obviously been a disaster.”

“Michael Steele has failed miserably to do the things you’re supposed to do: raise money, basically go out and articulate a message,” Rollins said in an interview with the Washington Post.

He added that “what (Steele) says or does in the next 11 weeks is not going to matter” on Election Day, because other party leaders have “picked up the mantle and are raising the resources that we need.”
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Openly Gay Detroit City Council Prez Charles Pugh On Black LGBT Youth In Motown

17 August, 2010 | Derrick Mathis | No Comment

Charles Pugh, council president of Detroit City Council

CHARLES PUGH, COUNCIL PRESIDENT OF DETROIT CITY COUNCIL

Cross Posted from Model D

When Charles Pugh was campaigning for city council, he held a workshop at his home with a handful of his team to prepare for what he calls the “gay question.” They spent the night working through 25 different scenarios that might come up during the race about his sexual orientation.

“We over prepared,” he says. “None of it came up. I was pleasantly surprised.”

Pugh became the first openly gay politician elected to office in the city of Detroit last November. He’s under 40, he’s black, he’s gay, and he’s the city council president.

“It’s just one part of me,” he says from his 13th floor office over looking the Detroit River, “an important part, but just one part.”
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Chi-Town Activists Show How It’s Done: GLN Brings It Old Skool At Anti-gay Christian Academy

10 August, 2010 | Derrick Mathis | 3 Comments

GLN: Chicago-Area's LGBTQA Liberation Network raisin' all kinds of delightful hell.

Can we just bring some Sylvester in the mix for a little “back in the day” effect? Press play if you’re feeling it like we are.

So Courage Campaign has been firing off a ton of videos in the last few weeks highlighting the marriage equality supporters at the NOM Summer Of Marriage tour stops around the country—YAWN.  NOM supporters are outnumbered each time.  And in the videos we see nice pasty white people being nice pasty white people protesting NOM.  How nice.
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