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He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
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"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego)."Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
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"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
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Fri Jul 04, 2008 at 00:30:00 AM EDT
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When gay men discriminate against transsexual men who identify as bisexual, are we supposed to approve of the discrimination within the LGBT community? This is apparently what CEO Joseph Lee and Technical Director Brian Brown of TangoWire wants gays and lesbians to do, according to the Bay Windows article Bi personals site boots trans member.
"[BisexualDatingNow.com] say[s], tell us about yourself in your own words. And I stated, 'I'm a 25-year old trans guy living in Boston.' ... I didn't want to mislead anyone looking at my profile, so that's why I put that," said Teich. Within a day he had received three "smiles," which members send to express their interest in getting to know each other.
Teich thought little of his decision until he wrote to the site's customer service staff about a problem he was having using the site. He exchanged e-mails with a customer service representative named Kiar Dupuis, and after reading his profile Dupuis informed him that the site does not allow transgender users.
"I am sorry, as a transgender, our site would not meet your needs. I am afraid we have to remove your profile," wrote Dupuis, according to an e-mail provided to Bay Windows by Teich. His profile was deleted shortly after he received the e-mail.
Here's what technical director Brian Brown stated when questioned by Bay Windows about the policy:
Brian Brown, chief technical officer for TangoWire, confirmed that the company does not allow transgender people to create profiles on the site. When asked why identifying as transgender would exclude someone from identifying as bisexual and placing a personal ad on a bisexual dating site, Brown reiterated that TangoWire's site does not accommodate transgender people.
"It's that T side [in LGBT] that we have not been able to fully accommodate within our program. That is shown [by the fact] that in our registration, transgender is not one of the options we provide, and we don't provide that as such. ... That identity is not an identity we have an ability to support," said Brown.
So why isn't adding transgender identities to the list of programmed choices the solution, vice excluding people who publicly identify as transsexual and/or transgender in their profiles? -- Especially as the Why Choose Us? section of BisexualDatingNow.com's site states of the business:
TangoWire was founded by, is directed by, and is run by gay personnel. We don't discriminate against our straight co-workers - they're cool people, too, and just as committed to your great experience on our site.
But, they do make no bones about discriminating against transgender people.
Daryl Herrschaft, director of Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) Workforce Equality Project, said that HRC works to educate gay-owned businesses about the transgender community, but he could not recall an instance of a gay-owned business being so blatant in discriminating against transgender people.
So is it ever okay for a gay or lesbian owned and operated business to fail to accommodate potential transgender patrons -- whether these businesses are web or brick and mortar based? And, is it more egregious, or less egregious discrimination to transgender people if it's gay or lesbian people failing to accommodate transgender patrons because of the concept of LGBT community?
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Further reading:
* Dating Web sites usually are not big revenue generators (references how TangoWire uses their database of dating profiles for multiple dating websites)
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Related:
* eHarmony and California's Unruh Civil Rights Act
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| Autumn Sandeen :: Q Of The Day: When Is It Okay For Gay Owned Businesses To Discriminate Against Transgender People? |
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