Get A Backbone!
Filed by: Brett Abrams
February 14, 2009 2:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/02/get_a_backbone.phpThe opening session of the 16th Annual American University Conference on Lavender Languages and Linguistics challenges gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders and queers to believe in our rights and push politicians.
The discussion, "Is 'Hope' Enough? Anticipating the LGBTQ Discursive Landscape of the Obama Administration" featured five panelists and a lively audience of fifty people. The opening declaration by conference organizer Professor William Leap, called for the academics to make their thinking resonate more closely with the political and social conditions that affect all our lives.
snip
The group analyzed the Obama Administration's website with its statement on Civil Rights: Support for the LGBT Community. Noting that this appeared on the first day in office, several also observed that this is one of the few areas on the Administration's websites that spell out specific aims and action items. However, several noted that the language was stronger when applied to actions against gender and racial discrimination, then toward GLBTQ issues.
