Tuesday, November 25, 2008Posted by Lena Dahlstrom at
12:20 AM 🔗 [Link: transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/shades-of-to-wong-foo.html/] Shades of "To Wong Foo" 🔗 [Link: transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/shades-of-to-wong-foo.html/] At least
150 locals in Silverton, OR showed their support for the first openly transgender/gender queer person elected major 🔗 [Link: oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/silverton_rebuffs_protest_of_t.html/]--
Stu Rasmussen, 🔗 [Link: megdaly.com/NormanGenderqueer.html/] who sees himself as male but who had breast implants and presents himself as a woman -- drastically outnumbering the quartet of
Westboro haters 🔗 [Link: guardian.co.uk/media/2007/mar/31/tvandradio.usnews/] who had come to protest and get their media fix.
Best sign of the day: "My love is bigger than your hate." And there was this heart-warming encounter:
A woman pushing a baby jogger past City Hall did a doubletake on her run, backing up to question 16-year-old Victoria Phelps, whose family runs the small Kansas church.
"I'm a Christian," Lesley Brighton said, clearly perplexed by the girl's "God Hates ->-bleeped-<-s" sign. "This is some kind of joke, right?"
