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Just in time for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, the International Olympic Committee has taken on the issue of intersexed athletes. Their determination? That each case should be viewed individually and as a medical […]
Born and raised in Utah and currently residing in San Francisco, I’m the Director of Marketing for Steamworks, the bathhouse chain. I have a long history with LGBT activism, mostly in Utah where I was a founding member of Queer Nation Utah, the LGBT Liaison to Salt Lake City Mayor Deedee Coradini, a board member of the Desert and Mountain States Lesbian and Gay Conference, and active in leadership and membership of many other community organizations and LGBT employee groups over the years. As a former Mormon, I have a particular interest in the intersection between the LGBT fight for equality and the Mormon Church’s battle to deprive LGBT folks of full equality.
I was a member of the Drag group “the Lovebirds” for 3 years in the 1980’s, and also performed briefly in the 90’s as part of “Sylvia and the Pykettes”. I clearly have thing for girl groups.
As a voracious consumer of pop culture and film I have a lifetime of obsessive knowledge about film, television and music. I’m an opinionated queen and happy to share my thoughts with anyone who will listen or read.
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Comments
Wow, somebody actually gets it? Bring on the haters.
This is exciting and great news! How about we use the words “gender variance” or the more grammatically correct “sex variance” instead of the creepy sounding “medical disoder?”
Fabulousness is not a disorder!
Yeah the choice of language was very awkward, but the ruling is so right on target and void of the kind of hyperbole and sensationalism that I would expect if this were say a governmental body making this ruling. Can you imagine the crazy rhetoric if this were a Congressional investigation? We’d have right wingers denouncing the athletes as cheats and abominations and gutless Dems who would say almost nothing and we would get a ruling that would likely be some meaningless drivel that prevents these athletes from competing so as not to upset the “American Family”.