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SEXUALITY
Transgender people seek openness, acceptance, civil rights
IN
THE NORTHEAST
• Massachusetts
state Rep. Carl M. Sciortino Jr., D-Medford, sponsored a bill
to include gender identity in the state’s anti-discrimination and hate crime
laws. Contact 617-722-2014, carl.sciortino@state.ma.us.
• Holly
Ryan and Gunner Scott are co-chairs of the Massachusetts
Transgender Political Coalition. Contact Ryan, 857-231-1566, hryan@masstpc.org;
Scott, 617-669-5144 (cell), gscott@masstpc.org;
or past co-chair Diego Sanchez, 617-835-1455, dsanchez@masstpc.org.
• Anne
Fausto-Sterling is a professor of biology and gender studies at Brown University,
Providence, R.I., and is researching gender distinctions in early childhood
behavior. She wrote Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the
Construction of Sexuality. Contact Anne_Fausto-Sterling@brown.edu.
• Brett-Genny
Janiczek Beemyn directs the Stonewall
Center: A Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Educational Resource Center
at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Contact 413-545-4824, brettgenny@stuaf.umass.edu.
• Jerimarie
Liesegang directs the Connecticut
TransAdvocacy Coalition. Contact 860-983-8139,
jerimarie@transadvocacy.com.
IN
THE EAST
• Cris Beam, an adjunct assistant professor of creative writing at
Columbia University in New York City, wrote the 2007 book Transparent: Love,
Family and Living the T With Transgender Teenagers. Read a Jan.
5, 2007, Salon.com article. Contact 212-854-3886, beamc@earthlink.net.
• James
T. Sears is a professor of education at Pennsylvania State University in
University Park and an author and scholar who has written widely about issues
of sexual orientation and education. His books include, as editor, Gay, Lesbian
and Transgender Issues in Education: Programs, Policies and Practices. Contact
814-865-1500, jts18@psu.edu.
• Edgardo
Menvielle, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, works in a program
for children with gender-variant behaviors and their families at Children’s
National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Contact 202-884-3862, emenviel@cnmc.org.
• Transgender
rights advocate Paisley
Currah is associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College and
co-editor of the book Transgender Rights. Contact 212-817-1955, pcurrah@brooklyn.cuny.edu.
IN
THE SOUTHEAST
•
Rand Hoch is president and founder of the Palm
Beach County Human Rights Council in Florida. Contact 561-804-9399, rand-hoch@usa.net.
• Ian
Palmquist is executive director of Raleigh-based Equality North Carolina,
which advocates on behalf of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents
of the state, and chairs the national Equality
Federation. The federation lists state
groups. Contact 919-829-0343, ian@equalitync.org.
• Mark
Yarhouse is a psychology professor at Regent University in Virginia Beach,
Va. He has written about sexual orientation and Christianity, and he developed
and directs the Institute
for the Study of Sexual Identity. Contact 757-226-4829, markyar@regent.edu.
IN
THE SOUTH
• Howard Bayless is chairman of Equality
Alabama, based in Birmingham, which works on behalf of lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender residents. Contact equalityalabama@equalityalabama.org.
• The
North Alabama Gender
Center is a social and support group that meets in Huntsville. Contact nagc_tg@hotmail.com.
• The
Gulf Gender Alliance
is a support group in New Orleans for transgender people. Contact 504-466-0342,
Contact@gga.org.
• Paul
Overstreet is the founder of MS
Rainbow Alliance, which meets in Biloxi. Contact 228-831-8152, pauloverstreet@msrainbowalliance.com.
• Christina
Gilgor is executive director of the Kentucky
Fairness Alliance. Contact 859-420-6677, cgilgor@kentuckyfairness.org.
IN
THE MIDWEST
• Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland on May 17, 2007, signed an executive
order establishing a policy that bars discrimination against state employees
on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation. Contact Keith Dailey,
press secretary, 614-644-0957, keith.dailey@governor.ohio.gov.
• Mickey
Hart oversees Ohio University’s Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Center. He also serves on the board of Equality
Ohio. Contact 740-593-0239, hartm@ohio.edu.
• Leslie
Ann Thompson is chief executive officer of Affirmations,
a community center in Detroit for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people
that is Michigan’s largest. Contact 248-398-7105, lthompson@goaffirmations.org.
• Christine
Peterson is president, for the 2007-08 academic year, of the Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Ally Alliance at Iowa State University in Ames.
Contact 515-294-2104 or 319-621-5547, petey10@iastate.edu.
• Randi
Barnabee of Bedford, Ohio, who underwent sex-change surgery to become a woman,
is a civil rights attorney who specializes in transgender cases. Contact 440-786-1910,
randi.barnabee@gmail.com.
• Ryan
Roemerman is founder and director of the Iowa
Pride Network, based in Des Moines, which works with and on behalf of lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning college and public school students.
Read the organization’s 2005
High School Climate Survey report. Contact 512-243-1110, ryan@iowapridenetwork.org.
• Modesto
Tico Valle (as of July 1, 2007) is executive director of the Center
on Halsted, the Chicago community center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender people. Mayor Richard Daley and community leaders on June 5, 2007,
cut the ribbon at the new $20 million center. Read a news
release. Contact 773-472-6469 ext. 250, mvalle@centeronhalsted.org.
IN
THE SOUTHWEST
• Pam Bennett,
who until 2002 was Bruce Dennis Bennett, is running in the 2007 City Council
election in Aurora, Colo. Read an April
5, 2007, Aurora Sentinel article and a May
13, 2007, Newsweek article. Contact 303-557-5361.
• Wingspan
is a community center in Tucson that serves lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
people in southern Arizona. Contact 520-624-1779, wingspan@wingspan.org.
• The
Houston Transgender Unity Committee
serves as a bridge for several area groups. Contact through Web
site.
• Paul
Scott is executive director of Equality
Texas. Contact 512-474-5475, info@equalitytexas.org.
IN
THE WEST/NORTHWEST
•
Jonathan K. Weedman is program director at the Sexual
Minority Youth Resource Center in Portland, Ore. Contact 503-872-9664, jonathan@cascadiabhc.org.
• Jill
Jacobs is executive director of the San Francisco-based adoption agency Family
Builders, which in May 2007 kicked off an advertising campaign encouraging
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families to adopt. Contact 510-272-0204,
kids@familybuilders.org.
• The
San Francisco-based Transgender
Law Center works statewide on behalf of transgender civil rights. Contact
415-865-0176, info@transgenderlawcenter.org.
• The
L.A. Gay & Lesbian
Center in March 2007 started a transgender job placement program. Read a
news
release. Contact Bob Adams, communications manager, 323-993-7622, badams@lagaycenter.org.
• Geoffrey
Kors is executive director of Equality
California, a nonprofit group that advocates on behalf of gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender Californians. Contact Ali Bay, communications manager,
916-284-9187, ali@eqca.org.
• Karen
Lebacqz is professor of theological ethics at the Graduate Theological Union
in Berkeley, Calif. She co-authored the book Sex in the Parish. Contact
510-849-8250, klebacqz@psr.edu.
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