What publishing this novel has taught me...

The publication of this Sally Field Can Play The Transsexual, Or I Was Cursed By Polly Holiday has taught me a lot. After an absence, I am returning to regular blogging to tell you about those lessons today. More is to come.

Mostly the experience has taught me that as far as we have come on Transgender rights in recent years, we still have a long way to go. On my tour, I learned that I live in a rarified bubble that surrounds transgender issues. In spite, of Chaz Bono, Laverne Cox, Caitlyn Jenner and hundred of other public Transgender figures, the seemingly collective celebration of their bravery, and the media’s portrayal of their journey as normal, there are more Americans than not who still have an incredible fear of trans topics.

How Brian Williams and Jessica Williams Are Related

In the past few weeks, both Brian Williams and Jessica Williams have made headlines for their relationship to “fake” news. The NBC news correspondent is rapidly falling from grace, and The Daily Show correspondent is rising to a new level of fame.

The Unexamined Cost of Reduced AIDS Activism.

Last week on a sex site, I got a message from a twenty-four year old, that said, “I just read your profile. You have AIDS. You don’t have a chance,” —I assumed he meant a chance with him. I had not attempted to hit on this young man; he offered this message of his own volition, without solicitation. Over the past decade, my experience of comments like this has become increasingly frequent, and this is among the more reasonable unsolicited rejections.

AIDS, Community Debates, politicsLeslie SmithFebruary 9, 2015endaids, stophiv Comments

Steve Anderson - More Sad Than Vile. Who Knew That Was Possible?

If I wasn’t too busy laughing at him, I might get really upset about Steve Anderson’s incredibly vile and homophobic remarks that suggest an AIDS-free America might be possible if all the gay people were murdered before Christmas. He has single handy given a whole new operational tact to the AIDS Free Generation movement.

politics, Community Debates, AIDS Free Generation, AIDSLeslie SmithDecember 4, 2014Homophobia, endaids, AIDS, Religion, Steve AndersonComment

Among other things, Leslie sometimes writes thoughtful stuff!