On 19 November, Candorville ran it’s last strip in the Pride and Prejudice arc.My thanks to Darren Bell for writing these three strips and making a very quiet statement about the illogic and idiocy of prejudice. Sei is a trans-lesbian who lives in Vermont and has a strong passion for LGBTI rights. She has a BA in History and her hobbies include sci-fi, anime, fantasy, action movies, video games, and more. You can visit her Blogger profile here. ...

A former Memphis police officer pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to Federal civil rights charges in the jailhouse beating of a transgender person, which was captured on video.An indictment unsealed Wednesday accuses Bridges McRae, 28, of using unreasonable force by repeatedly striking Duanna Johnson with his fist and handcuffs in the intake area of the Shelby County Jail in February.Johnson, a biological male who lived as a woman, was being booked into the jail when the incident happened. A videotape of the beating was broadcast on Memphis TV stations and online in June, leading to McRae's firing. His former ...

Vermont State Senator John Campbell spearheaded the commission to study the differences between marriage and civil unions. The far Right groups in Vermont mocked the commission as being out of touch with Vermonters, and that Vermonters did not want to change the definition of marriage. They planned on bringing forth their own report on the subject highlighting the various ways in which same-sex marriages hurt children.These “save marriage” groups never released their report. In large part, they never did because they were unable to provide any sources that had not already been used and discredited.18 November, Senator Campbell made ...

Yesterday we reported that members of the hate group, The Topeka, Kansas based Westboro Baptist Church, led by Fred Phelps, best known for disrupting gay-pride events and funerals of slain American soldiers, says they are heading to the Pacific Northwest to protest the Nations first Transgender Mayor.Now they say they are planning to extend that road trip into Canada and are intending to protest a performance of The Laramie Project on November 28 in Vancouver, B.C.So we gave the authorities in Canada a little call... just to let them know they were coming for a visit and what ...

1. Send a direct mail piece only onceYou need at least 13 impressions to start to be effective with direct mail. Same goes for bulk email, advertising, etc. Kiss your money goodbye if you don't follow through with a consistent marketing plan over at least a 6-month time frame. 12 months is better.2. Figure ROI based on one marketing effortROI means Return on Investment. Don't count your chickens before they hatch, you will need to calculate ROI over a period of time. At least 6 months, but again 12 is better.3. Not planning aheadPlan ahead to develop a marketing ...

If there is one thing you read today, make sure it's this interview with California Assembly Speaker Karen Bass in the Sacramento Bee. The states highest ranking black politician is "appalled" at the racial hostility directed at the black community... ...

Louis Smith is looking for some men with deep pockets. The 19-year-old British Olympic gymnast won bronze in Beijing in the pommel horse—becoming the nation's first individual Olympic medalist in 100 years and only the second black male gymnast to... ...

Could Chicago host the 2016 summer Olympics? The New York Times reports the "city is basking in a moment of triumph that is spilling well beyond the confines of politics" and the 2016 bid "which once seemed like a fanciful... ...

Unapologetically GAY. Penn's best in 13 years. ...

The Associated Press reports Al Qaeda’s 2nd in command, Ayman Zawahiri, released the terrorist group’s first message to include Barack Obama as our nation’s 44th President. In the video message Zawahiri implied that Obama does the bidding of “whites” and is the direct opposite of honorable black leaders, citing the 1960’s black Muslim leader, Malcolm X. The video was spoken in Arabic with English subtitles.  Zawahiri used the words “abeed al-beit” which can be translaed to “house slaves” to describe Barack Obama along with Colin Powel and Condoleezza Rice.  However, Alqaeda’s English subtitle translated the words as “house Negroes.” The AP reports the ...

Scientists have observed magnetic behavior at one of the poles of Saturn unlike anything they've ever seen in the solar system: "Saturn's main auroral ring, like Earth's, is caused by the solar wind. But the newly observed infrared displays go all over the place. 'We've never seen an aurora like this elsewhere,' the University of Leicester's Tom Stallard, lead author of the Nature paper, said today in a NASA news release. 'It's not just a ring of aurorae like those we've seen at Jupiter or Earth. This one covers an enormous area across the pole. Our current ideas on ...

It wasn't enough for "the nation's largest gay political group" to pat itself on the back as one of "the top five winning member interest groups" in this year's election, despite the passage of four more anti-gay ballot measures, including... ...

Even the most rabid anti-gay conservatives rarely trot out the tired old chesnut about a looming "gay agenda." Anyone with access to the Internet can see that we can't even agree on who are enemies are, much less what it... ...

I always said I'd never get a job where I had to get the Tube to the office. But despite my reservations the District line isn't bad, I can a seat on the way home everytime and often get one on the way to work too. And I sit down, something I don't do on trains out of respect for others, but District line trains have fab individual seats in each carriage meaning I don't inconvenience anyone else with my big legs when I'm sat down.But you don't half get some weirdos on the tube. A man got on the ...

Is it wrong to envy a dog? ...

To Africa.Please. ...

Come out in 26 hours, 48 minutes. I thought I would be a wreck for the 4+ months between bar and results – though life kept me busy enough to not dwell on it. Now, however, I have to admit to freaking out just a little bit. It’s going to be a long , 26 hours, 46 minutes. On the plus side, tomorrow is also my daughter’s second birthday. ...

"In 1984, at the age of 22, I moved to San Francisco. During this time period, I could often be found in "The Trocadero," "The End Up," "Buzzby's," "DV8," and various other night clubs. San Francisco's night club scene was "off the hook." Everyone was having a good time. Yet, as the years past, I noticed that my Disco friends were slowly missing. And when I asked others about them, ... the common response was ..."they're dead." And now, at the age of 46, most of my friends are no longer here. Most have died of HIV/AIDS, or complications of ...

This tiny Australian kitten is a two-faced little bitch! It "eats out of just one mouth because of a cleft palate, but both its mouths miaow simultaneously." Awwww. (FYI - miaow = meow in Australian!) Although the kitten looks totally insane, it's actually healthy and happy. More pixx after the JUMPY.Thanks reader SAL, a true connoisseur of genetic deformities, for the tip! ...

 As Family First has seen fit to try to resuscitate the debate over prostitution law reform, I thought I’d provide an alternative perspective that defends our own liberal regulatory regime. Britain is contemplating these repressive ‘reforms’, so here’s the other side of the story, from Sweden’s The Local. In Sweden, sex work was legal until 1999, although brothels, sex work advertisements and profiting from sex work weren’t. In that year, their government criminalised punters who pay for sexual services, but what has that meant in practice? Street soliciting seems to have gone down, but sex workers rights organisations say that this is ...