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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) Speaks About Matthew Shepard Act On House Floor
(Autumn Sandeen / www.pamshouseblend.com) Update: fixed my transcription error of writing Iman, when it should have been Imam. ~~Autumn~~ As a disabled, Persian Gulf War Veteran, who served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy, and who is transgender -- as a new media reporter for Pam's House Blend who covered the Angie Zapata Hate Crime Murder Trial -- this is a painful House Floor speech to watch. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) states that the Mat...
Weekend This & That: Open Thread
(Autumn Sandeen / www.pamshouseblend.com) It's an open thread! Pleeeeease feel free to chat, blogwhore, and link-share in the comment thread... So below is what my cartoon sockpuppet Bookworm Bob & I have been looking at into this weekend. • Ernest Luning of The Colorado Independent's Post: Buck dropping out of Colorado Senate race as Norton prepares to run: Republican Ken Buck will drop out of the race for the U.S. Senate, The Denv...
Take 2: Allen Ray Andrade MySpace Webpage v2.0 Down
(Autumn Sandeen / www.pamshouseblend.com) From an email I received from MySpace: Hello, Thanks for writing us. We appreciate you bringing the profile(s) to our attention. These accounts have already been deleted or are scheduled for deletion based on prior review. The only reason we delete a MySpace profile is for violation of our Terms & Conditions. Just so you know, we cannot delete a profile based on personal conflicts between MySpace ...
And, Allen Ray Andrade Back On MySpace Again
(Autumn Sandeen / www.pamshouseblend.com) Update: I contacted the prison this morning (as I stated I would in the piece below), and a lieutenant in their Intelligence Division stated they're searching he and his cell for a cell phone this morning. I'm waiting to hear back from MySpace. If this page is deleted and a third webpage goes up, I see my job as one of contacting local media about it. ~~Autumn~~ SD_Dave has let us know that even ...
Thursday Evening This & That: Open Thread
(Autumn Sandeen / www.pamshouseblend.com) It's an open thread! Pleeeeease feel free to chat, blogwhore, and link-share in the comment thread... So below is what my cartoon sockpuppet Bookworm Bob & I have been looking at so far this week. • New York Times' For Puerto Ricans, Sotomayor's Success Stirs Pride: In the summer of 1959, Edwin Torres landed a $60-a-week job and wound up on the front page of El Diario. He had just been hired...
Angie Zapata's Murderer's MySpace Page Gone
(Autumn Sandeen / www.pamshouseblend.com) I've received a couple of notes regarding the Angie Zapata MySpace page, and I believe it's going to be relieving news to Angie Zapata's family. From the previously active link to that webpage: "This user has either cancelled their membership, or their account has been deleted." I guess there really was no space on MySpace for a hate crime murderer Allen Ray Andrade's webpage. And for Angie, I can...
Today would have been Angie Zapata's 20th birthday
(Helen G / birdofparadox.wordpress.com) Angie Zapata (5 August 1989 – 17 July 2008) ————— Previous related po
Angie Zapata's Murderer Has A MySpace Page
(Autumn Sandeen / www.pamshouseblend.com) I'm feeling a little disconcerted today, as a page for Allen Ray Andrade on MySpace was brought to my attention. The webpage appears to be created by Mr. Andrade's brother; the webpage is disturbing to me on a couple of levels... From the text of the Allen Andrade MySpace Page: People THINK that they know my brother based on the ONE mistake that he made last year. Well, you don't. See, he's a BROT...
Federal Hate Crimes Senate Vote Tonight
(Michael Ditto / www.progressnowcolorado.org) In each of our lives, we experience moments of shock that we will never forget. When Kennedy was shot in 1963. When the Challenger exploded over Florida in 1986. For me, it was when 21 year-old Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten, tied to a fence, and left for dead on a cold October night in 1998. Matt was killed because he was gay. It sent chills of terror through the gay and lesbian community be...
Trans People Are Not Deceptive -- Like This Ad From LA Car Guy Implies We Are
(Autumn Sandeen / www.pamshouseblend.com) Y'know, the trans panic strategy used in the Angie Zapata Hate Crime Murder Trial is way to fresh in my mind, where the defense implied (as defense attorneys always do when the trans panic defense is used) that the victim was deceptive in their presentation (usually male-bodied trans women presenting as women), and therefore is a mitigating factor in the commission of a violent "crime of passion."...
New Executive Director Of GLAAD Announced
(Autumn Sandeen / www.pamshouseblend.com) We're making progress toward equality, but we'll only achieve full equality if we change hearts and minds - and that's what GLAAD is all about. We're working for the day when every one of us is accepted, respected and valued for the contributions we make to this country. It's an ambitious goal, but I know we can do it. I believe in our community, and I believe in our country. --Jarrett...
Image Of Black Man Killing A White Woman Is How Mission America's Founder Describes Ed Dept Hire
(Autumn Sandeen / www.pamshouseblend.com) A conservative activist says the appointment of the founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network to head the U.S. Education Department's Office of Safe Schools is the equivalent of putting O.J. Simpson in charge of women's safety. This is how a piece at the American Family Association's OneNewsNow is began by author Jim Brown. The piece is entitled GLSEN founder overseeing safety of...
Matt Barber Is Now Intellectually Honest On This "Thought Crime" Point - What About His Peers?
(Autumn Sandeen / www.pamshouseblend.com) One of the reasons I've had a hard time believing conservative "Christians" regarding their stand on a federal hate crime legislation. Many have been making the "thought crime" argument against the bill commonly known the Matthew Shepard Act because it includes protections based on the thoughts of the criminals. The rebuttal argument against this "thought crime" meme is provided below the f...
Breaking: 2nd Degree Murder Verdicts Upheld In Murder Of Gwen Araujo
(Autumn Sandeen / www.pamshouseblend.com) From the San Francisco Chronicle's Verdicts upheld in murder of transgender teen: A state appeals court upheld the murder convictions of two East Bay men today for their roles in battering and strangling a transgender teenager after learning she was biologically male. The killing of 17-year-old Gwen Araujo of Newark in 2002 drew national attention to incidents of violence against transgender peopl...
Judge adds 60 years to Andrade’s life sentence for transgender slaying
(Ernest Luning / coloradoindependent.com) A judge sentenced the man convicted of killing transgender Greeley teen Angie Zapata to an additional 60 years in prison on top of a life sentence without parole already handed down last month. Finding Allen Andrade, 32, guilty of habitual criminal charges based on his six prior felony convictions, Weld County District Court Judge Marcelo Kopcow on Friday afternoon quadrupled the maximum sentences...
Frontier IN L.A.: "Transgender Blogger Covers Trial of Transgender Teen's Murderer"
(Autumn Sandeen / www.pamshouseblend.com) For those who are interested, I've had the first piece I've ever written for a hard copy publication published this week. It's my first hard copy byline. The electronic copy of Frontiers IN L.A. Magazine has been published this week as well, and you can read the piece that their headline writer entitled Transgender Blogger Covers Trial of Transgender Teen's Murderer. As it's written for Frontier I...
More "Thought Crime" Meme, But This Time From A Pulitzer Prize Winning Editorialist
(Autumn Sandeen / www.pamshouseblend.com) It amazes me that Pulitzer Prize winning editorialist Paul Greenberg follows the talking points of conservative "Christians" like Focus On The Family, the American Family Association via their "news" organization OneNewsNow, and the Concerned Women for America (CWA audio files of Rep. Trent Franks, R-Arizona and Concerned Women for America President Wendy Wright, for example) regarding hate crimes...
Angie Zapata murder trial - further sentences announced
(Helen G / birdofparadox.wordpress.com) On May 8, Justice Kopcow announced the sentences to be handed down to Allen Andrade on the remainin
Breaking: Angie Zapata's Killer Sentenced To 60 Additional Years
(Autumn Sandeen / www.pamshouseblend.com) From The GLBT Center of Colorado (Denver, Colorado): GREELEY - Allen Andrade has been sentenced to life plus 60 years for all counts related to murder of Angie Zapata. Judge Marcelo Kopcow on Friday sentenced Andrade, 32, to the maximum 60 consecutive years for the additional charges in the Zapata murder case. On April 23, a Weld County jury found Andrade guilty of first-degree murder and a hate c...
Was Allen Ray Andrade Expressing The Kind Of Christian Free Speech That FOTF Is Talking About?
(Autumn Sandeen / www.pamshouseblend.com) Pam, in her diary Daddy D crawls out of the crypt for lie-ridden hate crimes hysteria video, talks about Daddy D and his nutty views. Let me tell you about the Focus On The Family/CitizenLink Take Action alert on the same federal hate crime legislation, entitled Take Action: Senate Committee to Take Up Hate-Crimes Legislation. There is a paragraph in it that angered me immensely: "There is n...
You're Very Welcome, And Thank You So Much
(Autumn Sandeen / www.pamshouseblend.com) I know I haven't said it before, but I've been thinking about it a lot -- many of you here at The Blend thanked me for my coverage of the Angie Zapata Hate Crime Murder Trial. For my part, I know mainstream media coverage of the trial was impacted by my presence there covering the trial. I think my own coverage was secondary to that, but I feel a need to humbly say to y'all who thanked me for the ...
Rep. Markey Speaks on Hate Crimes Bill
(Autumn Sandeen / www.pamshouseblend.com) Rep. Betsy Markey is the Colorado Democrat who unseated former Rep. Marilynn Musgrave, the Republican congresswoman who submitted to congress the Federal Marriage Amendment that would have banned same gender marriages. The YouTube video below documents what Markey said on the House Floor regarding the federal hate crimes legislation bill -- the hate crimes legislation that passed in the House of R...
Markey to House: Shepard, Zapata 'two victims of hate crime in my district', CO Independent
(... / blogs.myspace.com) Representative Markey addressed the U.S. House of Representatives, Read the entire Colorado Independent article here: http://coloradoindependent.com/27885/markey-to-house-shepard-zapata-two-victims-of...
Markey to House: Shepard, Zapata ‘two victims of hate crimes in my district’
(Ernest Luning / coloradoindependent.com) An impassioned U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey invoked the brutal murders of gay college student Matthew Shepard and transgender Greeley woman Angie Zapata in her remarks Wednesday afternoon supporting federal hate-crimes legislation on the floor of the House of Representatives.
Hate Crime Verdict Sends Messagem by Kenneth Buck, Denver Post Editorial
(... / blogs.myspace.com) guest commentary, Denver PostHate-crime verdict sends messageBy Kenneth BuckPosted: 04/26/2009 12:30:00 AM MDTUpdated: 04/26/2009 10:40:02 AM MDTIn July 2008, Angie Zapata, a young transgender woman,...