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#NJSen: Man, Jeff Bell has some sad, bewildered ignoramuses behind his campaign.
The sheer stupidity of this accounts for the fact you've probably already seen it; it's heavily shared. I'm sure the Virginia-based, fake official-sounding group that put it out - Public Advocate of...
View ArticleHere’s a reason to come to – not leave – New Jersey.
This week we learned that millionaires are fleeing New Jersey by the thousands (to be read in a freaked-out voice while running useless circles in the room), a phenomenon perfectly skewered by Drew...
View ArticleGarden State Equality outreach for Feb. 15 Obamacare deadline: Healthcare’s...
For the past many days, Democrats have been lending their efforts to enrollment events designed to help alert New Jerseyans to the open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act, which ends on...
View ArticleTransgender people: GSE is looking for your healthcare stories
Are you transgender? Garden State Equality, as it continues efforts to help LGBT people find the best available healthcare in New Jersey, wants to know if you've been denied insurance coverage for any...
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We celebrated national marriage equality last night in Mantaloking
We don't always get victories. And sometimes when we do, we're onto the next hurdle before anybody even suggests we should take a second, raise a glass and be happy together. Last night, Ray Lesniak...
View ArticleThis is what happened when bigotry showed its face in Franklin Township.
"The days of shaming people because of their identity are gone." - public comment, Franklin Twp. School Board Not long ago, bigots and fearful people could use intimidation to force gay...
View ArticleDNC Summer Meeting From a LGBT Perspective
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) held its Summer meeting from August 27 -29 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Since next year is a presidential election year, this meeting featured a "meet the...
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The Home Rule: How LGBT-Friendly Is Your Town?
The best advocacy organizations are the ones that give you a roadmap to Changeville; the ones that give you a toolkit to take to City Hall or provide a metric to gauge whether or not that change is...
View ArticleUpdate & success: PNC dumps anti-LGBT Congressman Scott Garrett
Last night, I did a quickie post to help Assemblyman Tim Eustace and Garden State Equality get out a call to rally today outside PNC’s Hackensack branch, to ask them to end their financial support of...
View ArticleSheneman: Free speech is expensive for Scott Garrett
Drew Sheneman wonders why it took Wall Street so long to get religion and cut off the money and love supply to Scott Garrett. After all, he’s been a bigot for years. With Sheneman, I always come for...
View ArticleKarma has EVERY right to be a bitch to Jack Kelly. Do you remember Laurel...
Parole Board? Why the fuss? If you’re new to New Jersey you might not realize why opposition is growing to Gov. Christie’s appointment of Freeholder Jack Kelly to the NJ Parole Board, a news item that...
View ArticleWhat seems obvious, people (still) have to fight for
Seems like a no-brainer, to bar the practice of disqualifying jurors based on their sexual orientation or their gender identity. But no, somebody has to actually put that into writing, into a piece of...
View ArticleBonnie Watson Coleman on Transgender Equality Task Force, Launched Today in...
In New Jersey, a nine-year old named Joe Maldonado got kicked out out of a Secaucus scout troop, so he and his mother got the Boy Scouts of America to change their policy to allow transgender students....
View ArticleTim Eustace & Ed Zipprich score an LGBT endorsement: How that relates to Neil...
Tim Eustace, 2nd from left in top row, Ed Zipprich, far right in bottom row Heyyy: Just a quick shout-out to two people I like and admire; Tim Eustace, running for re-election to the Assembly in the...
View ArticleNew Jersey > Texas for Transgender Equity
New Jersey, in a major victory for LGBT rights, will now be required to give guidance to public schools about policies for transgender students. The move comes virtually at the same time as a Texas...
View ArticleCory Booker on Trump’s Sudden Ban on Transgender Individuals Serving in Military
Below, this is Sen. Booker’s statement today re: President Trump’s sudden and bizarre decision to ban transgender persons from serving in the United States military – something they are already doing....
View ArticleCan you help me get this transgender Air Force airman’s back? He’s got yours.
Please share this with your friends. I want you to meet someone Pres. Trump’s ban on transgender people in the military will affect. Apologies for this post which strays a little far, but not too far,...
View ArticleBabs Siperstein, highest-ranking trans person in Democratic Party, is out.
“And I said to myself, this is the business we’ve chosen …” – Hyman Roth, gangster, Godfather II, 1974 And it reeks. In these politics, in this Party, you fall in line or you’re out. And that’s fine,...
View ArticleFederal Judge Blocks Trump’s Ban On Transgender Military Service Members: Two...
The headline above, from Washington Post, is all for context. If you want to learn about priorities in this country’s spending, and who is served – and I include the willing spending on Viagra over...
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