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Prince at TEDx: Mind the Gap
Filed by Bil Browning | June 18, 2013 | 3:00 PM |Bilerico alumni Prince Gomolvilas did a TEDx talk earlier this year and the video is now online. Prince is a brilliant playwright and was, hands down, one of our funniest contributors to grace the site.Read More
Lindsey Graham on the GOP's Demographic Problem
Filed by John M. Becker | June 18, 2013 | 8:30 AM |On Sunday, South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham acknowledged the obvious: the GOP can't afford not to pass immigration reform.Read More
Tone-Deaf: Michelle Shocked Playing SF on Pride Day
Filed by John M. Becker | June 17, 2013 | 5:00 PM |In a shocking display of tone deafness, a San Francisco newspaper will present anti-gay folk singer Michelle Shocked live, in a free concert, during that city's Pride weekend.Read More
The Dumbest Answer in Pageant History?
Filed by John M. Becker | June 17, 2013 | 3:00 PM |Utah's Marissa Powell gave an epically bizarre answer at last night's Miss USA Pageant. But was hers "the most nonsensical answer in Miss USA history?"Read More
Pam Spaulding to Close Site & Retire
Filed by Bil Browning | June 17, 2013 | 2:00 PM |Pam Spaulding, a longtime fixture of the LGBT blogosphere, announced last night that she will be retiring and closing her site, Pam's House Blend, on July 1.Read More
Update About the "You Have a Purpose Project"
Filed by Annette Gross | June 17, 2013 | 11:00 AM |The You Have a Purpose Project is off to a great start. But we need more videos, so we hope you'll make a video to let LGBT youth know that they indeed have a purpose!Read More
From the Beginning: The Prop 8 Supreme Court Case
Filed by Bil Browning | June 17, 2013 | 10:15 AM |As the LGBT community waits on pins and needles for word about the Supreme Court's decision on two landmark marriage equality cases, AFER has released a video showing the road they took to get here with the Prop 8 case.Read More
OP(era) ED II: Top TENors
Filed by Guest Blogger | June 16, 2013 | 5:30 PM |The tenor is a mystery and a marvel: women love them and men want to be them, and vice versa. Here is a list of the ten greatest tenors in recent memory, rated from ten to one in order of awesomeness.Read More
What You Need to Know: 6/9 - 6/16
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | June 16, 2013 | 3:30 PM |Israel isn't as accepting as it might seem, the Vatican's "gay lobby" makes a stir, Russia returns to its oppressive roots, Marco Rubio doesn't suppport ENDA and more. Read More
'Call Me Kuchu' Documents Ugandan LGBT Activists
Filed by John M. Becker | June 16, 2013 | 1:30 PM |The powerful new documentary "Call Me Kuchu" documents the struggle of the Ugandan LGBT community. Watch the trailer here.Read More
Breadwinning Women, Surrogacy & the Single Dad
Filed by Terrance Heath | June 16, 2013 | 11:30 AM |Americans aren't any more comfortable with stay-at-home dads than they are with working moms, and men who take on a fairer share of childcare get no respect at work.Read More
Obama Recognizes Gay Fathers
Filed by John M. Becker | June 16, 2013 | 10:00 AM |"Being a good parent - whether you're gay or straight; a foster parent or a grandparent - isn't easy. It demands your constant attention, frequent sacrifice, and a healthy dose of patience."Read More
Oklahoma License Plate: Does This Cross the Line?
Filed by Bil Browning | June 15, 2013 | 3:30 PM |A Christian man is suing the state of Oklahoma because he believes he is being forced to honor a Native American deity. Here's why he's going to win.Read More
Not Just Something to Check Off on the Calendar
Filed by Bil Browning | June 15, 2013 | 1:00 PM |Montana Senator Max Baucus' op-ed in the Montana Standard is definitely worth highlighting.Read More
Superheroes, Father's Day & Israeli Pride [Weekly Reader]
Filed by Bil Browning | June 15, 2013 | 11:00 AM |You weren't able to read every post on Bilerico Project last week? Don't worry! Every weekend I round up the best Bilerico posts from the past seven days to help you stay up to date on the latest queer news and analysis.Read More
Another Russian Injustice: A Choice We Have to Make
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | June 14, 2013 | 3:30 PM |The possibility that Russian children who have been adopted by same-sex families could be ripped from their homes is terrifyingly real. We can be a community, united across cultural and national lines by a shared experience not only of oppression, but of life. But to do so we have to make the choice to care. Read More
Watch: California Family Holds Funeral for Prop 8
Filed by John M. Becker | June 14, 2013 | 1:30 PM |The Leffew family, whose son Daniel powerfully pleaded with Chief Justice John Roberts to support marriage equality, recently held a funeral for California's Proposition 8. Read More
