Posts Tagged ‘LGBT’
Do you know that we have an organization leader here in the United States who supports a dictator? Do you know that we have an organization leader here in the U.S. who, speaking for his organization, supports death for people who are gay? Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council, illustrated the accuracy…
Posted: December 7th, 2012
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Sex and Politics
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Convention on the Rights of the Child,
disability rights,
Family Matters Project,
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Hillary Clinton,
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Right to Family,
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Tony Perkins,
Uganda,
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Amber Hollibaugh, Jeffrey Montgomery and Esther Perel To Be Honored The Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance is pleased to announce the 2012 recipients of the Vicki Sexual Freedom Award. The Vicki Sexual Freedom Awards recognize individuals who have made landmark contributions to the sexual freedom movement. This year Woodhull is proud to honor three heroes of the…
Posted: July 12th, 2012
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Sex and Politics
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Amber Hollibaugh,
civil rights,
Esther Perel,
Human Rights,
Jeffrey Montgomery,
LGBT,
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Sexual Freedom Institute,
Sexual Freedom Summit,
Vicki Sexual Freedom Awards
Last week, I was honored to participate in an event titled “Liberate Your Ass: How Sexual Freedom is Key to Fighting the Right” at Netroots Nation, the country’s largest progressive online activist convention. A long-overdue conversation on the politics of sexuality in America made all the more pressing by the advent of the 2012 War…
Posted: June 11th, 2012
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Sex and Politics
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Charlie Glickman,
Favianna Rodriguez,
gender identity,
Human Rights,
immigration equality,
Kierra Johnson,
LGBT,
Netroots Nation,
sex worker rights,
sexual freedom,
William Winters,
women's movement
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote as early as TODAY on the Adams version of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, also known as VAWA, (H.R. 4970). This bill not only eliminates important provisions included in the Senate-passed bipartisan bill (S. 1925), but contains new ones that would actually be dangerous to…
Posted: May 15th, 2012
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Sex and Politics
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college students,
H.R. 4970,
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immigrants,
International Human Rights Treaties,
LGBT,
Native American,
Rep. Sandy Adams,
S. 1925,
VAWA,
Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act
The following statement may be attributed to Jeffrey Montgomery, Woodhull Strategist and Founding Board Member, on President Obama’s Endorsement of Marriage Equality Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance welcomes President Obama to the majority of Americans who endorse marriage equality. While watching his “evolution” on this question over the last many months has been painful and vexing,…
My family roots go back to “The Old Country” on my father’s side and the hills of Tennessee on my mother’s side, so it is no surprise that my ears perk up whenever news comes from the Volunteer State. Lately that news has been disturbing. The legislature of Tennessee has crafted what is being called…
Question: To Whom it May Concern, I am a female seeking a committed gay couple to raise a child with. What better way than to raise a child with two fathers? Most heterosexual men take the gift of fatherhood for granted. I am a 21 year old healthy college educated woman with a BA from…
Guest Post by Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance Board Chair, Hardy Haberman As the battle over same-sex marriage heats up, the opponents of same-sex marriage are stepping up their rhetoric. It’s not surprising.The idea of marriage for most people involves the idea of consummating that marriage and that means SEX. The idea of sex between two…