SNT: WTF, Sorry GAGA you are not worth 25, 000 dollars

Lady Gaga is playing the Fontainebleau in Miami on New Year's Eve, and has sold over $1 million in tickets:
"The 'Poker Face' singer is said to be getting about 300,000 dollars for the show. Based on sales through Web site NewYearsEve.com, tickets for the singer's performance to ring in 2010 are almost non-existent, with only a few 25,000-dollar tables left and some general admission seats at 425 dollars."

These types of events are for the sick f'ing rich, this is just fucking sickening big time... 

Something I found was surfing the net

the effort to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) for many years – in fact, entirely too many years. It is inexcusable that our LGBT families and loved ones must continue to endure a legal system in which they can be fired in 29 states for being gay or lesbian, and in 38 for being transgender or expressing their gender identity differently.

This pic just might be true, however Str8 and gays are sometime fired for things that should not matter.

I wonder how many of those whom join Soul force in the past and present just might one day lose their job for simply being arrest for trespassing. Better yet, how about being fired for a bad check you wrote back in 1991, that was taken care but is still on your records.

I personally feel that our community use this as the main excuse to justice why they were fired. Because we always do our jobs, we are never late, we never take personal calls, take more then our breaks allow, we never surf the web or visit those no no site while at work.

It would seem that we blame everything that happens to us as gay hate, The only thing I haven't heard of  is "I was deny a loan because I was gay.."

So is there anything in our life that we don't blame on our sexuality???

Current Events 12/28/09

many DC lgbt citizens are piss over the new public Transportation Ads, what else is new.

The recent killing of gay activist Walter Tróchez in Honduras shows a troubling increase in hate crimes in the past six months in the Central American

Charlotte Robinson chats with gay political humorist Kate Clinton to get her reflection on how 2009 played out for addressing LGBT issues.

The statistics show that reported hate crimes against the LGBT community have increased for the third year in a row. Hate crimes based on sexual orientation

Here is another take on the call to protest the new movie Avatar, which inmy opinion is about the stupidest protest call to action for 2009 

A Benton Harbor-based gay advocacy organization issued a "community alert" earlier this week after a gay man was beaten at a Benton Township gas station, possibly because of his sexual orientation.

Currents Events

Gay Man attacked in Mid town

Irish man attack in Queen

A gay bashing in St. Louis

There was a mistrial in this Gay bashing.

The case against Darren Morgan and Howard Rice in the alleged assault and gay bashing of two men this past summer has been continued

FORMER Australia's Next Top Model contestant Lola Van Vorst has unwittingly been caught up in a gay bashing incident.

A Call to Action Demand Justice

This is From Rod 2.0 blog, click to read post

A gay Toledo man is dead after a brutal beating and the suspect is released from jail without bond. There is no official explanation for the vicious assault on Marland Woods that included "kicking and stomping" his head ... but police say "there is no indication" it was a hate crime.

The trouble began the early morning of December 13 on the dance floor at Caesar’s Showbar. The brawl spilled into the street after the crowd was ejected. Thirty-two-year-old Woods reportedly tried to intervene and protect another individual during the melee.

Woods then walked across the street to the bus station at 711 Jefferson, where he was attacked by another man, Toledo police said. The man kicked Mr. Woods and stomped on his head. He then fled with two others in a white Jeep. Shortly after, police stopped the vehicle at 17th and Adams streets and arrested Mr. Corggens after a brief scuffle, officers said. Jade Boff, 21, of Fostoria also was charged with disorderly conduct, intoxication, and resisting arrest.

Woods was hospitalized and succumbed to head injuries nearly a week later on Dec. 19. Prosecutors charged 20-year-old Corggens with felonious assault, reports The Courier, "but have not charged him or anyone else with murder." Corggens was released on his own recognizance pending a January 8 preliminary hearing. It's not known if Lucas County prosecutors will upgrade charges to manslaughter or perhaps second-degree murder.

Woods had a 10-year domestic partnership with Brian Hunker. The two purchased a house together in Findlay in 2005 and had a commitment ceremony in September. "Every hour is a struggle," Hunker tells WTVG.

Says Shonda Floyd, the sister: "He was such a homebody. This was only the second time this year he went to a bar and this happened to him. He never started any trouble. He died trying to keep someone else from being hurt." Shonda Floyd adds to WTVG: "I am so angry ... I want to see some type of justice. They stomped my brother. It’s absolutely not right... They took away my kids’ uncle. They took away my brother."

We must call and demand justice in this case..

Freedom of Speech and Expression under attack from Equality DC

A freedom of expression battle is underway in D.C. as Stand for Marriage D.C., the most outspoken voice against D.C.'s recent legalization of marriage equality, has placed ads on the District's Metrobuses urging that citizens be allowed to vote on civil rights.
Full Equality Now DC wants the ads removed by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) on the grounds that they disrespect LGBT residents.

Wow, what else is new.

DC pass Marriage Equality, Anti-gay Marriage groups vow to undo it, take out ad, which is their legal right and the Local Gays Group cry foul.. Its ok for us to have these rights but not the anti-groups to have them.

Q-notes Another Year bites the dust.

To read the is story Click here.

As I read this news piece I read with trepidation. I thought to myself that this piece who almost completely evolve around the actions and inaction in Charlotte. I must say I was reading it to see if the Staff of Qnotes included actions of Greenville LGBT Community this past Year.

 

If they weren't mention This Post would've been a complete attack on Qnotes for not including the whole NC LGBT Community.

I'm glad to said that The Staff did a great job, by mention Our actions that had taken Place in Greenville over this year.

So with Thanks,,

hope to see many more articles from the East in 2010

Question

the photo that Glaad is bitching about,,what if that photo was of Chaz Bono who was taken male hormones and started to grow hair every, but yet hasn't had the cut off my breast op yet.. would it still be trans-phobic????

Must Read, UK section 44 photography

Police officers in the UK Police Constabularies apparently do not understand English, and continue to use Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and and Section 76A of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 to prevent public photography, despite Home Office instructions to the contrary.
The British Journal of Photography is conducting a ‘Not A Crime’ campaign to raise awareness about the increasing restrictions imposed on professional photographers in the UK and overseas. For more information, visit www.not-a-crime.com.
[ Read the article at: BJP ]

Sandra Bernhard hits New York, you go girl

Sandra Bernhard talks to Autostraddle about prepping her eight live shows next week at Joe’s Pub in New York City, separatism between gay men & lesbians, Obama and the gay rights movement, her fave celeb trainwreck on Twitter, and gives advice to Lindsay & Samantha.