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Your Handy Guide to Cell Phone Etiquette
Filed by Bil Browning | May 19, 2013 | 3:00 PM |To help folks realize what is and isn't okay about using your phone in public, I thought I'd post a helpful infographic. No need to thank me. It's a public service really.Read More
I Am Your Daughter: Making Peace Before Pop Dies
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 19, 2013 | 12:30 PM |Inner peace was unknown to me until these past four years after I had finally come out as a transgender lesbian woman. Now I'm driving to a hospital so my father can meet me, the real me, Pamela, in person, before he dies.Read More
Tybee Island Georgia Has Its First Gay Days
Filed by Father Tony | May 19, 2013 | 10:30 AM |Is Tybee Island, Georgia, gay? That is the wrong question. Tybee might be the perfect example of the post-post-Stonewall well-integrated gay/straight community in which LGBT visibility, and a sense of fellowship overriding the bigotry of which southern states are usually suspected.Read More
What You Need To Know This Week (5/12 - 5/18)
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | May 18, 2013 | 3:00 PM |Priests lead a violent attack on gay protesters, a Eurovision kiss scares Turkey, the DoD recognizes a trans* veteran's gender, Texas "morality" tears apart a family, and more stories from the past week. Read More
A History Lesson, Christian Allies, & Writing a Book [Weekly Reader]
Filed by Bil Browning | May 18, 2013 | 12:00 PM |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
Why Do We Defend Discrimination?
Filed by John M. Becker | May 17, 2013 | 6:00 PM |Hearing fellow members of the LGBT community stick up for bigoted business owners and provide excuses for our oppressors -- even those who break the law -- absolutely sickens me, and it should sicken you too.Read More
One Million Moms vs. the Boy Scouts: Intolerance of Biblical Proportions
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 17, 2013 | 1:00 PM |Whether or not you believe in God, if you don't speak up when groups like One Million Moms use the name of God to spread intolerance, theirs is the only voice that will be heard. And that's exactly what they want.Read More
Help Me Write My Book
Filed by Bil Browning | May 17, 2013 | 11:30 AM |After years of saying I was rlly, rlly gonna do it (no, seriously, you guys!), I've started writing a book.Read More
LGBT History and Hispanic Heritage Month: Two Puerto Rican AIDS Activists
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | May 17, 2013 | 10:00 AM |Venerable activist José Fernando Colón died of AIDS this week. In memoriam for José, we honor his long battle to end the sickening political and administrative corruption around AIDS funding and treatment in Puerto Rico.Read More
Failed Florida Mayoral Candidate: Voters Chose Lucifer Over Jesus
Filed by John M. Becker | May 16, 2013 | 3:00 PM |Anna Pierre, the failed Florida mayoral candidate who said her campaign was endorsed by Jesus Christ -- but couldn't muster even 1% of the vote in the actual election -- isn't taking her shellacking lying down.Read More
Is This Okay?
Filed by Bil Browning | May 16, 2013 | 12:00 PM |I despise folks who have a quick yack at the top of their lungs about Aunt Betty's varicose veins on a crowded bus or how to properly file a Form SB82734-E(9) for consideration by the Department of Nobody Gives A Shit while seated in a crowded theater.Read More
Running On Empty: GOP Obstruction & Government Vacancies
Filed by Terrance Heath | May 16, 2013 | 10:45 AM |Republicans in Congress have a new tactic for shrinking government: making sure that nobody's there to run it.Read More
Wedding Cake Wars: Oregon Edition
Filed by John M. Becker | May 15, 2013 | 5:00 PM |Yet another small business owner is going to the barricades and claiming that her private religious beliefs grant her the "liberty" to illegally discriminate against same-sex couples in the public marketplace. Sorry, but they don't.Read More
Marriage Equality Coming to Brazil?
Filed by John M. Becker | May 15, 2013 | 3:30 PM |If yesterday's ruling holds, equal marriage rights will be extended to same-sex couples nationwide and Brazil will become the fifteenth country where gays and lesbians can legally marry.Read More
Fitch the Homeless: A Helpful Protest
Filed by Bil Browning | May 15, 2013 | 2:00 PM |An interview Abercrombie and Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries did with Salon back in 2006 has found new life on the intertubes mememobile over the past couple of weeks. Unfortunately for Jeffries, honesty is not a virtue when it comes to brand marketing.Read More
Quote of the Day
"The IRS's conduct in this matter has been unacceptable, and I look forward to working with my colleagues to find out what the IRS knew, when it knew it, and the officials responsible for such discrimination. The IRS must be held accountable for its actions."
-- Selective outrage from Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA), who's upset about a draft report from a Treasury Department inspector general which found that the I.R.S. targeted Tea Party groups for special scrutiny. Reichert conveniently overlooks the fact that under Bush, the I.R.S. targeted liberal groups like the NAACP and Greenpeace. The agency also harassed gay rights groups for years.
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