Lucky Bitch Radio with Wanda Wisdom

This was a pretty good episode. Gotta love the Lady Raptastic and Ugly Betty.

You look AMAZING at your Oscar night party.

Hey Wanda,
hows my favorite drag queen???? I love this show and I would love for you to come to my house and podcast naked I would not mind a bit LOL anyways you need to call me damn it!!! oh you did look Absolutley Fabulos on the big night WOW looking hot… When are we going on a date!!! lol well you have a great day and send a shout out to me over the radio that would be HOT!!! Tell Kirby Pumper that I said hello and that he needs to come back on the show he is too cute and funny. Yall are good together on the air Very Funny

Love Always

*Beaux Sexual*

Hey Wanda. This show was very thought provoking and I hope that it spurs a good conversation here in the forum. You asked us to comment, so here it goes. On marriage rights. First let me say that I think this is very important. My partner and I have been together for 5 years and I very often think about what our future holds, about how difficult it is to build a life together without the expectation that your partner will be financially secure when you die, or whether he will inherit the home you built together. Even hospital visitation rights are up in the air in Georiga as people of the same sex can\\\\\\\’t even legally enter a contract together. It seems everything I think of concerns the bad things that can happen, but it\\\\\\\’s never the good things that we have to worry about. Having said that I think we need to start our fight for equality with our rights to live. We can support each other and love one another without being married, but if we don\\\\\\\’t have a job, or a place to live, well that affects everything. So while we deserve marriage equality, we all deserve protection in our day to day lives as well. Seeing as how this is getting long I\\\\\\\’ll stop there. Thanks again for the great shows Wanda. Seth.

Wanda,

I thought your discussion on the notion (and the necessity) of community in countering discrimination was excellent.

I think there is a false tension which is perceived between our desire to be treated as equal to straight people (as well we should be), and yet still remain diverse in our individuality (again, as we should be). There is no single representation of a GBLT person, and there could never be, yet there is no point denying that the common factor which undeniably unites us is the fact that we are discriminated against.

If nothing else, it is that shared experience of being discriminated against (to greater or lesser degrees) which, as you rightly say, should be the basis for solidarity and community; the necessary foundation for confronting discrimination and defeating it.

Acknowledging that we are similarly discriminated against doesn’t mean that we are all ‘the same’ and I agree with you that a lot of GBLT people can’t seem to get beyond that. They don’t want to be ‘lumped in’ with people that they ordinarily don’t see as part of their community of social group, so they refuse to acknowledge what every GBLT person is up against.

I believe that, if our founding principle is the demand for equality, then, to a gay man like myself, the fact that a lebian or transgendered or bisexual person is discriminated against, matters profoundly. It is, in the end, merely a different expression of the same hatred, and ought to invoke the same response of protest and condemnation, regardless.

Thanks again Wanda, you continue to surprise and enlighten,

Don x