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Protest "JERRY BRENDA," editorial writer for POST INTELLEGENCER, Paris TN:

  • Jerry Brenda writes a weekly column called "Across the Tracks" These are hate filled editorials. In his Feb 28, 2012 editorial - he bashed Gay and Transgender children as being unnatural and placed fault on liberals. Therefore, we ask that all members check into the "PI "weekly, write on each of his articles your comment as follows:
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    "Jerry Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial anti-gay, anti-transgender statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made by the Post Intelligencer! Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate? Therefore, Boycott all Paris Fish Fry's and any company that supports it! Boycott Mfrs of Henry County, TN and its Chamber of Commerce! cc. Budweiser, Allegro and Customers, Applebees (Stop your Project), TARGET (RULE-OUT FUTURE STORE), Home Depot (RULE-OUT FUTURE STORE)."
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The Affordable Care Act: Our Second Most Important Tool for Combating HIV and Ending AIDS

Huffington Post - 03/23/2012 - Scott Schoettes (HIV Project Director, Lambda Legal)

As the nation turns its eyes toward the Supreme Court and its review of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the "ACA") this coming week, people living with HIV and their advocates will be among those watching carefully and most anxiously awaiting the outcome. For many of the approximately 1.2 million people with HIV in this country, the Court's decisions will directly affect access to quality care and life-saving treatment. Though not by any means the only group with a great deal at stake here, those affected by HIV present an exceptionally strong example of the positive impact the ACA will have, and a particularly compelling argument for the statute's constitutionality.

People living with HIV have been systematically excluded from the health-care insurance and health-care markets. Only 17 percent of people living with HIV have private health insurance, compared with 67 percent of the general population. While some of the remaining 83 percent have insurance through public programs (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, etc.), nearly 30 percent are forced to rely exclusively upon the often spotty benefits provided through the overburdened and underfunded Ryan White programs, or to go without care altogether.

The consequences of this patchwork quilt of health care for people living with HIV are devastating: they discover their status later, go longer without lifesaving care and treatment, suffer greater complications and poorer health outcomes, and continue to die at frustratingly high and unnecessary rates. These negative consequences are more pronounced and concentrated in already marginalized populations, such as low-income communities; the gay, bisexual, and transgender communities; and communities of color -- most acutely, the black community.

We have at our disposal the means to avoid many of these consequences. Antiretroviral medications (ARVs) provide us with the opportunity to seriously impede progression of the disease, especially when it is discovered in a timely fashion, to prevent most of the complications and poor health outcomes associated with an AIDS diagnosis, and to dramatically reduce the number of AIDS-related deaths each year. For those with access to consistent, quality care and treatment, HIV can now be a chronic, manageable condition -- akin to diabetes or high blood pressure.

What's more, quality care and effective treatment for those currently living with HIV will significantly curtail the further spread of HIV. ARVs work by reducing the level of virus in a person's blood to extremely low levels -- and the less virus in the blood, the lower the chances of transmitting the disease. Recent studies show that the already-lower-than-generally-realized risk of contracting HIV sexually is reduced by up to 96 percent when a person's viral load is suppressed to undetectable levels. Not only is near-universal access to quality health care good for people living with HIV, but it is also one of the best prevention tools we have.

The positive effects of the ACA and the near-universal access to health care it will provide to people living with HIV by 2015 are not just theoretical. Massachusetts, where health-care reform similar to the ACA was enacted years ago, experienced a 37-percent reduction in new HIV infections from 2005 to 2008, while the rest of the country experienced an 8-percent increase. And Massachusetts's age-adjusted HIV/AIDS death rate is almost half the national average (2 percent vs. 3.7 percent). These statistics, and the improved circumstances they describe, foretell what the nation can expect when the ACA is fully implemented.

When viewed through the prism of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the argument for the constitutionality of the ACA's minimum coverage requirement (or "individual mandate") is relatively simple. Congress has the power to address the exclusion of a particular group -- specifically people living with HIV, but more broadly anyone with a pre-existing condition -- from a market that operates in interstate commerce. But the ban on preexisting condition exclusions will not work without the accompanying individual mandate, which requires every American to become a part of the health-care insurance pool regardless of their current health status. For that reason, the individual mandate is a necessary and proper means by which Congress can effectuate its clearly constitutional power to regulate an interstate market under the Commerce Clause.

Full implementation of the ACA is absolutely critical in our battle against HIV/AIDS. Public health authorities are already talking about the "end of AIDS," meaning the ability to prevent a person's progression from HIV-positive to an AIDS diagnosis and the most detrimental effects of the disease. Let's hope the Supreme Court recognizes the constitutionality of the action Congress took when it passed the ACA, which will similarly prevent our nation's broken health-care system from going from bad to worse -- not just for people living with HIV but for all of us.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-schoettes/affordable-care-act-hiv-aids_b_1376561.html
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  • Boycott Bill O'Reilly and FOX News and their advertisers. Bill discussed a French commercial by McDonalds that was meant to show that McDonalds is Gay Friendly. Bill said what is next? Is McDonalds going to be Al-Qaida friendly as well? Imagine - Bill O'Reilly compares Gays to Al-Qaida! Further, Boycott Fox's Owner "Rupert Murcoch" and get him thrown in jail for illegal - Take Action:
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  • End DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act). Prevents Federal employees and Gays in the Military from gaining equal benefits. Prevents Gay Partners from gaining equal benefits.
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  • Boycott Salvation Army as they will not hire Gays! "DO NOT DONATE TO THEM."
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  • Boycott WALMART - The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force criticized Wal-Mart for denying employee benefits to same-s-x partners and for failing to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity. By comparison, the group said two other chain stores with a strong presence in New York, Costco and Walgreens, did much better.
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And Now, Our War of the Fittest!

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Are You a Boy or a Girl?
03/23/2012 / Huffington Post / Lance Brister

I was in kindergarten when I first became consciously aware that I might be different from other boys. During recess my classmates split into two groups. The boys were all football players, and the girls were all cheerleaders. I didn't feel like I belonged to either group, so I sat on the sidelines watching the other children play. My non-participation really bothered one of the girls, who came up to me and demanded, "Why aren't you playing football with the boys?" I thought for a second, then said, "Somebody has to be the audience." Thus began my lifelong role as observer of the strange customs of my classmates, for whom the rules never seemed confusing or absurd.

This self-exclusion continued through junior high. In seventh grade my coach/history "teacher" had us help prepare for a banquet going on that night. We were borrowing spare tables from a church down the street. He instructed all the boys to get into a truck to load up the tables and all the girls to stay in the cafeteria and line up chairs. I walked up to him, confused, and asked him where I should go. I remember how disgusted he looked when he told me to get in the truck with the rest of the boys. But I didn't feel like one of them. I remember feeling like I was too dainty and fragile to be lifting tables. I ended up just holding the door for the "real" guys. Anything typically associated with masculinity gave me anxiety. I couldn't even say words like "strong" or "muscles" or "spit," because they seemed so vulgar.

I wasn't the only one confused. From a young age, adults and children alike would approach me and ask the dreaded question, "Are you a boy or a girl?" This question became a constant refrain during my childhood, coming from strangers in supermarkets, at school, in line at the bank. My mother would be mortified, and, sensing her discomfort, I learned to be embarrassed by proxy. People always want to fit you into a certain category, and when you don't fit neatly, it makes them uncomfortable.

Often I was just mistaken for a girl. The androgynous haircut I maintained through most of my childhood didn't help matters, nor did my high-pitched voice that refused to change until I'd nearly graduated. Moreover, I was small, with delicate features. Pretty. I'd overhear men say "She's cute," only to be corrected by someone who knew me. When a waitress would ask my mom, "What will she have?" my mom would always say, "He'll have..." stressing the "he." But often the waitress wouldn't get the hint.

Anytime I stood with my hand on my hip or drank with my pinkie sticking out, my mom would correct me. I didn't understand what I was doing wrong, or why it bothered her so much. But from a young age it was reinforced that I couldn't be myself, that the natural me wasn't acceptable somehow. So I did my best to build a persona that was acceptable. I got perfect grades. I never misbehaved. I never drank or smoked or said bad words. I never experimented with drugs or did the things that kids usually do, just to prove that I was good, that I had value. I excelled at everything except in winning my parents' approval. No matter how hard I tried, I could never do things right. Even if they didn't say it, I could feel it. When I joined the drama club instead of the baseball team, when I played my Cyndi Lauper albums, when I'd do my best Tina Turner impersonation to "Private Dancer," it was clear that I wasn't the child they'd expected.

By the time I was in high school, the question, for the most part, had changed. It had now become, "Are you gay?" Horrified, I'd always answer, "No!" Being very sheltered as a child, I didn't know exactly what being gay meant, but I inferred that it wasn't something you should be. I was never confused about my sexuality. I knew from an early age that I was attracted to men and not women, but how I fit into the world around me was a constant source of perplexion.

Now I look like a man. My features have become more masculine. I have a well-defined jaw, usually covered in stubble; a receding hairline; a muscular, man's body; a hairy chest. When people see me, there is no longer any doubt how to categorize me. But even when sex is established, questions remain. Gay people are no different from straight people. There's still the need to classify, to pin one another down, to know where you stand: straight-acting or flamboyant, butch or femme, top or bottom. There's still an expectation that you should fit neatly into one category.

I never felt like a girl trapped in a man's body. I never dressed in drag, played with dolls, or had a desire to style hair. But I never watched a football game, either, or tried to change a tire, or went hunting. I still walk a line in between somewhere, identifying with both groups, and ultimately with neither. These days, I'm mostly comfortable in my own skin. I enjoy being a man. But the embarrassed little boy who could never be himself will always be part of me, will be reflected in the way I interact with others, and in the way the world is filtered through me. I try to carry him with tenderness, and tell him, always, that it's OK to be just who he is. 
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Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges."
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