Trans Activist Runs for Pine Lake City Council (2001)
The tiny town of Pine Lake, a former resort community located just outside 1-285 near Stone Mountain, will soon learn whether it will be home to another political first for Georgia and possibly the U.S. on Nov. 6.
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Cobb Judge Denies Transgender Name Change (1999)
Cobb County, as Charles Dickens might have said, is a ass.
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9/11: Please Take Precautions While Traveling (2001)
To our readers who have lost loves ones, our deepest sympathies.
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A Message to Terrorists Everywhere from One Person in America (2001)
The United States of America will never capitulate. Never. The events of September 11 served only to strengthen the national resolve.
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Wanted: Nation/State to Fill Vacant Axis of Evil Slot (2003)
Wanted: Nation/State to Fill Vacant “Axis of Evil” Slot
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They Told Me I Would Become a Republican (1972-1973)
Here are two politically-oriented short pieces I wrote in 1972 and 1973, during the waning hours of my evening shift, while working as a psychiatric aide at Central State Psychiatric Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Terrorism: Why Does it Frighten Us So Much? (1998)
Think the nineties made the sixties look like the fifties? Just wait. We’re all going to get even more seriously crazy as soon as 2001 rolls around. Hell, we may just jump the gun and do it at 2000. And if the past behavior of the U.S. government is any predictor, we can expect increased restrictions on our freedoms to travel, own guns, say what we think—which will just piss everyone off even more, and lead to more berserker rages and anonymous bombings.
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Rick Santorum, Boy Gender Fascist (2012)
Republicans are attempting to roll back a half-century of social progress by women, gay men and lesbians, and transgendered and transsexual Americans.
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The Real ID Act: A Catastrophe in the Making (2012)
I felt compelled to write this essay because of the effect of the Real ID Act upon a friend. She has had a driver’s license here in Georgia since the 1970s. When she went to the DMV last week she was turned away because she could not produce a birth certificate. Unless she can locate a copy and copies of two divorce decrees she no longer has to show changes to her name, she will most likely lose the right to drive a motor vehicle.
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Obama: The Most Transgender-Friendly President Ever—Re-elect Him!
I wrote this during the lead-up to the 2012 Presidential Election.
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ENDA Without the “T” is Toothless For All (2001)
This letter was a response to an editorial by he ever-clueless Chris Crain.
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Transgendered Won’t Stop ENDA (Letter to Editor, Southern Voice, 1999)
While a few trans activists are actively opposed to a non-inclusive ENDA, the rest of us are merely working toward our own inclusion
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Rodney and the Rest of Us (1993)
Three transgendered people were murdered in Atlanta last year, their bodies found in ditches. Another was shot. No suspects, no charges, no convictions. The year before, a transgendered person was found murdered in her apartment at Christmastime. There is a curious apathy in the police department about this sort of violence, and it extends to gay people as well.
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Maynard and Tula (1992)
Caroline Cossey is a beautiful British model who was brutally outed some years ago by the British tabloid News of the World. The story is in her autobiography, My Story, which was recently published in England by Faber and Faber. My Story hasn’t yet been released in the U.S. Caroline told me she is negotiating with several publishers here. They want her to kiss and tell; she refuses. Good for her.
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