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[FatCat]

mylo wins for best post of the day

i think you're short-changing Mylo--that's easily the best post of the WEEK---

[Farley]

In honor of Gay History Month:

Shannon Minter, the legal director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights has been named one of the winners of the Leadership for a Changing World awards.

He is one of 17 people - and the only one from the LGBT community - chosen from nearly 1,000 nominations for the prestigious Ford Foundation award that carries a $100,000 prize.

The Center has been at the forefront of legal battles to secure marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples. Minter also has been instrumental in a number of cases involving the rights of transgender women and men.

Minter has been an adviser, mentor, and lawyer to transgender people across the country. He has represented dozens of transgender clients in cutting edge civil rights cases, as well as provided assistance to other attorneys who represent transgender people.

In 2003, Minter represented transgender father Michael Kantaras in a highly publicized custody case that was televised on Court TV and that exposed millions of viewers, many for the first time, to accurate information about transgender people and the process of sex-reassignment.

Minter has helped to draft and lobby for innovative new federal, state and local laws prohibiting discrimination against transgender people. In Portland, Oregon, he helped local activists develop a non-discrimination policy protecting transgender inmates in the county jail. In San Francisco, he and other community members succeeded in a campaign that led to the city and county being the first government employer in the country to provide equal health-care benefits for transgender employees.

In 1993, Minter founded NCLR’s Youth Project, the first national legal-advocacy group to address the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth. Over a decade later, he is now supervising the Safe Homes Project at NCLR, which helps LGBT youth who face discrimination and problems in foster care, group homes, or the juvenile-justice system. Currently, Minter is collaborating with Legal Services for Children to author a best practices guide for professionals who deal with LGBT youth in state care, which will be published by the Child Welfare League of America in 2006.

Minter, who was born biologically female was raised in East Texas. In high school, Minter said, he "had some vague idea" that he was born to the wrong gender. In 1992, his last year of law school, Minter began to actively confront transsexuality and in 1996 began transitioning.

Four years later the sex reassignment surgery was completed and a year later he married.

http://www.365gay.co...00605minter.htm

[cybertrano]

Boy George



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[folsom500]

Boy George

Another Inane response from a moderator---

Get a grip ...

Cheers
F500

[Farley]

Trying to trivialize the accomplishments of Shannon Minter for winning one of the prestigious Ford Foundation awards including a cash prize of $100,000 seems a little petty to me.

This is the real world and real people in it. Shannon Minter is a married man, and I would hope happily married. Yes he was once a she. Can you even begin to imagine what this man has gone through in his life? Not only that, he is a survivor and accomplishing things that are beneficial to many other human beings.

He is a humanitarian in every sense of the word. The world could use a lot more humanitarians.

HUMANITARIAN: Concerned with the needs of mankind and the alleviation of human suffering.

[anonymous]

Trying to trivialize the accomplishments of Shannon Minter for winning one of the prestigious Ford Foundation awards including a cash prize of $100,000 seems a little petty to me.

This is the real world and real people in it.  Shannon Minter is a married man, and I would hope happily married.  Yes he was once a she.  Can you even begin to imagine what this man has gone through in his life?  Not only that, he is a survivor and accomplishing things that are beneficial to many other human beings.

He is a humanitarian in every sense of the word.  The world could use a lot more humanitarians.

HUMANITARIAN:  Concerned with the needs of mankind and the alleviation of human suffering.

so she goes down in gay history along with liberace, elton john and all those other great achievers.
Jessica Biel's acheivement tops em all

[Farley]

so she goes down in gay history along with liberace, elton john and all those other great achievers. 
Jessica Biel's acheivement tops em all

Your list was pathetically missing some great gay figures, so I will help you out a little. Also I will leave out the many names of great gay people throughout history. The names are numerous however, and simple research provides plenty of great people who were gay...Celebrate their diversity this month.

Here is just a few for you:

Giorgio Armani
Dag Hammarskjold
Martina Navratilova
Freddy Mercury
Ellen Degeneres
Greg Louganis
Melissa Etheridge
Cole Porter
Lily Tomlin
Rosie O'Donnell
Tennessee Williams
Gore Vidal
Oscar Wilde
Tchaikovsky ..... and, oh yes, Elton John
http://www.tworoadsd...amous_Gays.html

[cybertrano]

Freddy Mercury of the 70's rock band Queen. My fava.

[nhardy]

great gay people throughout history. 

Here is just a few for you:

Lily Tomlin
Rosie O'Donnell

Farley,
Your kidding when you say "great" right? Gay? Sure...Great? Gonna have to disagree.

[folsomBlondie]

are you kidding mr nhardy? u don't know lily tomlin? my gosh. lily tomlin is the greatest lesbian movie star of the 21st century. i have her 51 greatest movie collection right here in my house. i love her. her greatest is "lesbos go Dallas". your xxx collection can't be complete without this one

[swmr545]

And we must not forget the love scandal between Joan Crawford and Marylyn Monroe.

[Farley]

Farley,
Your kidding when you say "great" right? Gay? Sure...Great? Gonna have to disagree.

LOL of course they are not great. I was using the word directly from the post by anonymous who was being snide when he/she (anonymous) referred to Liberace and Elton John and all those other great achievers.....

I was just replying to a dig!

[mylo]

Ellen Degeneres

Ya'know, I was with you for a while there, Farley. You've got some great gay names in that list. I'll even give Rosie a big gay wave for making a lasting impression on the media. But Ellen? Jesus man, if I were gay I would excise her from my community! She makes the entire human species look imbecilic!

[ngilbert]

Trying to trivialize the accomplishments of Shannon Minter for winning one of the prestigious Ford Foundation awards including a cash prize of $100,000 seems a little petty to me.

Of course the $100,000 is nice and all, but if the Ford Foundation really wanted to honor a guy they would've also tossed in one of them there Super Duty F250's



or am I thinking about a different Ford?

J/K - the Ford Foundation awards are quite an honor.

[ngilbert]

Farley,
Your kidding when you say "great" right? Gay? Sure...Great? Gonna have to disagree.

Lily Tomlin's cool. She's the one who said they should take all the crazy people who talk to themselves and pair them up so at least it looks like they're having a conversation


I suppose the 2005 equivalent would be to take all the people talking on the handsfree cell phones and pair *them* up.