Hal Duncan: "It Gets Better"

[greygirlbeast]

Tomorrow is the Twelfth Annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance. I don't think I need to explain what this is, or why it means a lot to me, personally. The world remains fucked up, and people are ignorant and hateful, and many transgender people are harassed, murdered, and commit suicide because of this ignorance and hatred. I will live, grow old, and die, and the world will still be fucked up. But you say what you can, and do what you can, and you keep on moving.

Here in Providence, a Transgender Day of Remembrance event will be held at 6:00 pm. Participants will gather at Youth Pride, Inc., 171 Chestnut Street and will walk in a candlelight procession to the Beneficent Congregational Church at 300 Weybosset St. for the memorial ceremony. At the conclusion of the ceremony, participants will walk by candlelight back to Youth Pride, Inc.

And on that note, I leave you with Hal Duncan, one Scottish sodomite who doesn't mince his fucking words.

Comments

Surprising update from Texas

[darkarmadillo.livejournal.com]

Lately I've been dreading any updates about education in Texas, for fear of hearing that all science textbooks were being replaced by the old testament, but a friend of mine who teaches at Trinity University sent along this link. If it can happen here, it can happen anywhere.

http://www.queerty.com/trinity-university-sorority-opens-up-rush-to-trans-student-20101117/

[westlinwind.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Just that.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

And that is what I Love that man. Thank you, Hal.

[activistgirl.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I can't say that I have been through even a tenth of what it is to deal with what LGBT kids go through, but as an outsider in so many other ways this is relatable, and this is real.

[katesavage2001.livejournal.com]

Glad that you are too full of piss and vinegar to do anything but grow old and be who you are. As messed up as the world is, there are movements of sanity and rightness like the Transgender Day of Remembrance. I wish I could be there to add my support.

[mizliz13.livejournal.com]

Well said, indeed. Ta.