This video corrects of few misconceptions about why the Nikki Araguz case is so important to the trans community, reviews the history of how the media has dealt with gender queer news and reviews how the media spin has played out in the GLBT community:
An open letter to Lisa Falkenberg: I’ve attended the last two hearings in the Nikki Araguz case. I noticed that you weren’t there. I also couldn’t help but notice the editorial you wrote in the Houston Chronicle. Of course I’m miffed at your yellow journalist skills, but not to worry… You’re in good company!
Some of you might remember Ruth Jacobs from her public smack-down in DC. She tried to argue that gay men had a high HIV infection rate and therefore should not be allowed to marry. Watching her argument get pulled apart would be almost painful if it were not for the fact that the good doctor seems to be oblivious to her own ineptitude.
This was a protest by the TG groups that come to the 2007 National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta as well as other groups. We were all protesting the shrinking of HIV prevention funding, the micromanagement of HIV prevention efforts by Christian-based ideology propagated by the right wing and the fact that the conference blackballed the entire transgender community. […]
