The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
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)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"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
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
In what probably should be a lesson to city Pride organizations everywhere, Pride London failed to communicate policies regarding trans people's restroom rights to independent contractors at an event that had 875,000 attendees and participants, and the result of that failure to plan resulted in a post-operative woman of trans history being denied access to a women's restroom, a protest by trans people against Pride London that turned violent, and deteriorated relations between trans people and Pride London, as well as deteriorated relations between trans people and London police.
The incident was first reported within the blogosphere at TransAtPride.org, in their entry Transphobia At Pride. Roz Kaveney, a long time human rights campaigner and journalist, has a first person account of her experience at Pride London:
Official stewards who were running the toilets at Trafalgar Square announced that I, and any other transgender or transsexual woman, had to use the disabled toilets and was not allowed to use the regular women's toilets. I pointed out to the stewards that I transitioned and had surgery before they were born; I was more polite than a polite thing. No dice.
I went and fetched a posse of transwomen and transmen and we made a collective fuss. Their response - and remember these were official stewards AT PRIDE - was to radio in "we're being attacked by a mob of trannies! send backup". They were joined by a policeman, who was a LGBT liaison officer, who claimed that we had to be able to show our Gender Recognition Certificates if we wanted to use the women's loos and got quite upset when I explained to him that I had been involved in drafting the Act and that it did not take away rights that existed before it. At one point he threatened to arrest us for demonstrating on private property - those loos belong to Westminster Council, so you are not allowed to make a fuss there.
At one point it was claimed that they had instituted this policy a few minutes earlier because a man had attacked a woman; at another they said it was official Health and Safety policy. I don't think it was particularly to do with how much I do or don't pass - I think I got read in part because I am so tall and turned up in the queue among a particularly short group of lesbians.
It was one of the most wretched experiences I have had in thirty years, only made positive by the love and solidarity of my community - including various transmen who proposed that, since they had no GRCs, they should be made to use the women's loos. Beards and all.
Pride London ended up having to do some damage control. As reported by PinkNews, Patrick Williams, chair of the stakeholders committee and HR Director of Pride London, first pointed out that the stewards in question were not Pride volunteers but employees of a company that provides security and paid stewarding. In other words, Pride London brought in private contractors, and failed to ensure that these contractors were properly prepared for the foreseeable situation of one or more lesbian women objecting to trans people using the event provided public loos.
[Below the fold: Pride London and the police said the incident should have never occurred, and Pride London apologized to the transgender community.]
In what probably should be a lesson to city Pride organizations everywhere, Pride London failed to communicate policies regarding trans people's restroom rights to independent contractors at an event that had 875,000 attendees and participants, and the result of that failure to plan resulted in a post-operative woman of trans history being denied access to a women's restroom, a protest by trans people against Pride London that turned violent, and deteriorated relations between trans people and Pride London, as well as deteriorated relations between trans people and London police.
