http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 18 May 2013 05:00:59 Sat, 18 May 2013 05:00:59 National Coming Out Day (NCOD) is an internationally observed civil awareness day for coming out and discussion about people that are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), etc. It is observed by members of the LGBT communities and their supporters (often referred to as "allies") on October 11 ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/122 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:26:09 Today is National Coming Out day. Take the first step...come out to DU! It can still be scary, but you have family...even if they aren't by blood! If you work with people who think being gay is an illness...Call in "gay" and take the day off! :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/sceneB4/... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/121 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:22:44 Christine Jorgensen (May 30, 1926 – May 3, 1989) was the first widely known person to have sex reassignment surgery—in this case, male to female.

Returning to New York after military service and increasingly concerned over (as one obituary called it) her "lack of male physical development",[3] Jo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/120 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:21:35 We have a number of symbols which identify our community. These are but some:

Likely the most recognizable of our symbols is the rainbow flag. There are a few variations representing different communities within our culture, but below is the one used by all of us. A historical note: Originally... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/119 Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:09:46 Anti-Semitic incidents essentially plateaued last year, reports the Anti-Defamation League -- with Florida being one of the exceptions.

Nationally, people reported 1,239 acts of violence, harassment and vandalism against Jews in 2010, according to the Audit of anti-Semitic Incidents. That’s up ju... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/118 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:04:56 [i][b]Lawrence v Texas[/i][/b], 539 U.S. 558 (2003),[1] is a landmark United States Supreme Court case. In the 6-3 ruling, the Court struck down the sodomy law in Texas. The court had previously addressed the same issue in 1986 in Bowers v. Hardwick, where it upheld a challenged Georgia statute, not... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/117 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:40:39 The Mattachine Society, founded in 1950, was one of the earliest homophile organizations in the United States, probably second only to Chicago’s short-lived Society for Human Rights (1924). Harry Hay and a group of Los Angeles male friends formed the group to protect and improve the rights of homose... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/116 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:31:00 It is important for people to learn about our culture. It is a long history, and what makes it unusual is we are not of one nation, one ethnicity, one country, one religion, or one mindset. We range from engaging artists and poets to military leaders and professional athletes. We come from all wal... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/115 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:08:38 [i]Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967),[1] was a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, declared Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute, the "Racial Integrity Act of 1924", unconstitutional, thereby overturning Pace v. Alabama (1883) and ending... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/114 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 05:40:09 Source: [b]Ha'aretz[/b]

The Interior Ministry has rescinded its decision to deport a German man whose partner was killed in a shooting attack on a Tel Aviv gay youth center last year.

Thomas Schmidt's partner Nir Katz, 26, and Liz Trobishi, 16, died when a gunman opened fire on the Bar Noar on ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/113 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:06:41 Homosexuals are far more likely to be victims of a violent hate crime than any other minority group in the United States, according to a new analysis of federal hate crime statistics in the [link:www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter|latest issue] of the So... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/112 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:04:15 Historians have uncovered evidence leading to the estimation that the Nazis' wartime confiscation of wealth from Europe's Jews financed about 30 percent of the expenditure of the German armed forces during WWII.

The official study of the German Finance Ministry under the Nazis from 1933 to 1945 ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/111 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 04:40:28 Source: [b]Associated Press[/b]

Germany's diplomats were much more deeply involved in carrying out the Holocaust than previously known, according to a new report about the Foreign Ministry's Nazi past published Monday.

Despite decades-long efforts by ministry employees to present the foreign of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/110 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:12:48 [i]pgodbold[/i] has posted this video, [link:www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-1uFsOXWhQ|Last of the Pink Triangles tells his story: Rudolf Brazda], in the Politcial Videos forum. Watch it at this link or go to the PV forum and watch. It is 11 minutes of gay history, often ignored by the public and, somet... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/109 Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:52:51 [div class="excerpt"]FORT COLLINS, Colo., Oct. 12— Matthew Shepard, the gay college student who was kidnapped, robbed and pistol-whipped, died here today, five days after he was rescued from a Wyoming ranch where he had been left tied to a fence for 18 hours in near-freezing temperatures.

His de... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/108 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:21:12 It's been called history's longest hatred. The last aging survivors of Auschwitz see everywhere evidence that virulent Jew-hatred did not die in the Berlin bunker with Hitler. Indeed, in 2010, victims of the Shoah see their suffering denied, their legacy perverted and inverted.

The president of t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/107 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:10:40 With just three months remaining until the midterm elections, tea party billboards are cropping up along Indiana interstates, local groups are hosting favored candidates, and activists are passing out copies of the Constitution at county fairs. All good civic activity.

It also has been the season... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/106 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:50:19 Source: [b]AP[/b]

With every step toward the gate, Jerzy Bielecki was certain he would be shot.

The day was July 21, 1944. Bielecki was walking in broad daylight down a pathway at Auschwitz, wearing a stolen SS uniform with his Jewish sweetheart Cyla Cybulska by his side.

His knees buckling... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/105 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:46:10 The New York Times is reporting today what we've been telling you here at the Upshot for months: Evangelical and Catholic leaders are getting behind President Obama's push for comprehensive immigration reform and are trying to convince Republican senators to join in.

The story flags an interestin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/104 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:52:32 Thousands took part in Tel Aviv's gay pride parade Friday, including several politicians, among them opposition leader and Kadima chairperson Tzipi Livni.

Livni addressed crowds at the parade's opening at Gan Meir park on Tchernichovsky Street, where she said that Israel could "not afford the fe... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/103 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:37:56 Update: Tells paper Aryan stands for noble and he is not racist; Letter on hate site proves he knows significance of 14, 88 and lied to Washington Post

A Virginia Department of Transportation worker who told the Washington Post that he had no clue that his since-revoked vanity license plate conta... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/102 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:49:57 A group of Muslim extremists in the Gaza Strip that is opposed to Hamas
has called on Al-Qaida in Yemen to target Jews there in an effort to drive them from their country -part of what the group described as its war against Jews.

According to e-mails sent by a person identifying himself as Al... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/101 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:03:20 Source: [b]Telegraph[/b]

Criticism of Israel and Zionism led to a rise of anti-Jewish sentiment around the world in 2009, the US said on Thursday in a report that denounced "new forms" of anti-Semitism.

Published: 12:14AM GMT 12 Mar 2010

"Traditional and new forms of anti-Semitism continued... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/100 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:47:24
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has issued a new report that reviews civil, political, and social rights in the Latin American nation, expressing concern about reports of anti-Semitic incidents targeting the Venezuelan Jewish community.

The re... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/99 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:02:57 The winner of SuperBowl XLIV was the New Orleans Saints. Another SB seemingly comes and goes. Yes, it was the most viewed TV program to date. Yes, it was an exciting game to watch. Yes, the commercials and half-time show were...well, sucky (IMHO). However, the "win" was so much more.

Win or ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Behind the Aegis/98 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:59:41