Ibby • Jun 18, 2012 9:14 pm
These started going up in the Pentagon this week. 
classicman;815893 wrote:I find it curious that it has a quote from Panetta on it.
Ibram;815905 wrote:The quote is, if I'm not mistaken, from a video Panetta recorded in support of LGB servicemembers
(trans* people need not apply - they're still barred from service,
even if the posters and such imply otherwise) recently for pride month.
The federal Fair Housing Act prohibits housing discrimination based
on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, and familial status
(i.e., presence of children in the household).
The Fair Housing Act does not specifically include sexual orientation and [COLOR="Red"]gender identity[/COLOR] as prohibited bases.
However, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or [COLOR="Red"]transgender[/COLOR] (LGB[COLOR="Red"]T[/COLOR]) person's experience
with sexual orientation or [COLOR="Red"]gender identity[/COLOR] housing discrimination may still be covered by the Fair Housing Act.
In addition, housing providers that receive HUD funding, have loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA),
as well as lenders insured by FHA, may be subject to HUD program regulations intended to ensure equal access of LGB[COLOR="Red"]T[/COLOR] persons.


Examples:
• A property manager refuses to rent an apartment to a prospective tenant who is [COLOR="Red"]transgender[/COLOR].
If the housing denial is because of the prospective tenant's non-conformity with gender stereotypes,
it may constitute illegal discrimination on the basis of sex under the Fair Housing Act.
DanaC;815968 wrote:'guy' is a word for males, but 'guys' as a group term can mean either gender.
Ibram;815905 wrote:(trans* people need not apply - they're still barred from service, even if the posters and such imply otherwise)
classicman;815920 wrote:What station is that Wolf?
Last Friday, an attaché of important gay people from Philadelphia made a trip to Washington D.C. as invited guests of President Barack Obama for the White House’s first-ever gay pride reception….some of them took advantage of photo opportunities to give the late President Ronald Reagan the middle finger
“It’s not a gesture that I would use in the White House when representing our city and our community,” opines Philadelphia Gay News publisher Mark Segal (center), who opted for a sarcastic thumbs-up pose in front of the portrait of George W. Bush over the more vulgar one demonstrated by his Reagan-loathing peers, Matthew “Matty” Hart (left), the national director of public engagement at Solutions for Progress, and self-taught photographer turned toast-of-the-town Zoe Strauss (right).
1987
41,027 persons are dead
71,176 persons diagnosed with AIDS in the US.
What did this mean in practical terms?
Most importantly, AIDS research was chronically under-funded.
When doctors at the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health
asked for more funding for their work on AIDS, they were routinely denied it.
Between June 1981 and May 1982 the CDC spent less than $1 million on AIDS and $9 million on Legionnaire's Disease.
At that point more than 1,000 of the 2,000 reported AIDS cases resulted in death;
there were fewer than 50 deaths from Legionnaire's Disease.
This drastic lack of funding would continue through the Reagan years.
When health and support groups in the gay community were beginning
to initiate education and prevention programs, they were denied federal funding.
In October 1987 Senator Helms amended a federal appropriations bill
to prohibit
AIDS education efforts that "encourage or promote homosexual activity"
— that is, efforts that tell gay men how to have safe sex.
Of course it is irrelevant. And would not be posted if not for nonsense about liberal vs conservative / left vs right and other extremist concerns. Why do you not post pictures of others doing same to Jimmy Carter? Political bias.classicman;816731 wrote:Whether you believe that or not is irrelevant,
tw;816743 wrote:Why do you not post pictures of others doing same to Jimmy Carter? Political bias.
not worthy of comment in any Current Events board.
DanaC;816745 wrote:What I don't get, is why that post is in this thread.
It's an interesting news piece, not saying it shouldn't be posted. I just don't see it is relevant to this particular thread.
Last time his posts were constant insults is when he lost his job. Apparently classicman is having another bad week.classicman;816794 wrote:You forget your meds again?