The 13th Annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance will honor transgender and gender variant individuals killed due to anti-transgender violence around the world over the previous twelve months. The National Day falls on Sunday, November 20.
A county-wide event will be held in Oakland on Friday, November 18,… Read more
Summer 2011 has been and continues to be an eventful time for the Ella Baker Center. Just last weekend, Throw Down for the Town: the Oakland Service Festival brought over 300 community members to serve and celebrate our city; the upcoming 2011 Ella Awards will mark… Read more
I love to read. I taught myself to read before I had even started Kindergarten. For me, one of the best ways to stay resilient in the face of oppression and activist burnout is to lose myself in a rich narrative. Words have so much power to transform, to uplift,… Read more
This morning I learned that the American Family Association is calling for the impeachment of Judge Vaughn Walker for his decision that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. Their reasoning is that Walker’s decision was made entirely based on the fact that he, himself, is gay and therefore demonstrates a failure to… Read more
Today, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker found that Proposition 8, the November 2008 ballot initiative that took away marriage rights from gay and lesbian couples, is unconstitutional. At the heart of his decision is the belief that Proposition 8 violates the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth
This post is part of our Silence the Violence series in commemoration of National Silence the Violence Day on July 24th, 2010.
For most people, it might seem that its a lot safer and easier to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ) in our country than… Read more
On May 22nd, California will observe the first annual Harvey Milk Day, honoring the life of the first out gay person to be elected to any public office. When he was murdered by fellow San Francisco Supervisor Dan White, he left a legacy of out and proud organizing… Read more
