The Spencer Hamilton Blog

When I came out I was 19, and by 21 I was in a 2 year struggle to deal with my faith and sexuality, having been on opposite sides of myself to the exclusion of the other. By 23, I met a man that I later wanted to marry, but that relationship would end. However, in between is the amazing story because it would help shape me to take on other issues. In November 2010 I had just come back to the fold of LGBT activism as I began to sever ties with religious groups who made me feel as if my faith and sexuality were at odds, and reconnected to an old friend, Kitty Lambert & Cheryle Rudd…now Lambert-Rudds (Whom I refer to affectionately as Grandma Kitty & Grandma Cheryle) it was a tough time as they had endured harassment and not knowing of my struggle as I had proven myself, she was skeptical of my wanting to be involved. Some had come pretending to be for the cause but fell away after they were asked to circulate letters, petitions, make calls or do something that showed they wer...

   Black Women Rock : 10 Black Women Everyone Should Know About When I was looking up Octavius Catto, I decided to look at notable black women and though I found a LOT of notable ones, even those I hadn't heard of prior. I had to shout out black women and how they rocked this world! So, enjoy and I'll put up the link when I film and edit the video on Youtube!  Most of the information from this video is taken from Biography.com. The link ( https://www.biography.com/people/groups/african-american-firsts-women ) 10 Ida B Wells Barnett Best known as Ida B Wells, she was primarily known for her journalism and was an early figure in the Civil Rights Movement. After the murder of a friend, Wells went about investigating reasons black men were lynched. She found the reasons: Not giving way to whites, competing economically with whites, and the go to reason: an attack or rape of a white woman. She published her findings in an 1892 pamphlet called South...

Confederate Flag & Burning Black Churches So Dylan Roof is a lone wolf in SC, wearing the flags of Rhodesia & South Africa, apartheid era regimes in Africa. He surrounded by white people in his hometown, white straight males outnumber most people of color in his Legislature, Confederate Generals have buildings named after them—which in front of them are wreaths of the Charleston 9 in front—and they fought to uphold slavery. John Fueslgang compared the Confederate flag to keeping your side piece’s picture up in the house that you and your spouse share. The romanticism of the Old Confederacy and South…well, it’s pitiful, but they claim heritage So let me tell you about your heritage. The “War of Northern Aggression” was fought to uphold slavery, to keep people as pets. After slavery, the Black Codes changed the word slave to Negro and the slavery laws were basically intact, then we started seeing and still are seeing how the different races are taught in the legal sys...

Taking a part the UT decision Kitchen v Herbert So Anne once told me she was visiting UT to see her wife’s family there. It sent a shiver down my spine to think of what UT has plenty of and little of. Mormons and black people. So I thought to myself: Do I wanna skip UT on my 48 state journey (AL and MS are currently the ones I DO NOT wanna go to and TX is close to becoming number 3 if Wendy Davis isn’t elected as governor but I might revise it later) or just take a look at what they have to offer? UT also gave us Mia Love who was looked at as the Republican BlackFace that told us that the President’s policies were making people dependent on government and lazy. However, her parents worked their way up in a better economy than we have here. She lost UT-4 in 2012. So, imagine my surprise after some time goes by and the Windsor case struck down DOMA and movement all over the country is mobilizing to get marriage equality. Prior to this MN beat back a constitutional amendment barring...