May 14, 2007
New contributor!
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 14, 2007 5:00 PM |We have a new contributor on board here at Bilerico! Mattilda a.k.a Matt Bernstein Sycamore, a talented writer, blogger, activist, and editor operating out of San Francisco, will now be sharing her insights with us on this blog. Mattilda wrote...Read More
You just can't show Brokeback Mountain to kids anymore
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 14, 2007 2:02 PM |ABC reports: A girl and her grandparents have sued the Chicago Board of Education, alleging that a substitute teacher showed the R-rated film "Brokeback Mountain" in class. [...] Turner and her grandparents, Kenneth and LaVerne Richardson, are seeking around $500,000...Read More
Cuz you gotta have faith, faith, faith
Filed by Bil Browning | May 14, 2007 1:53 PM |Remember the billboards that have sprung up all over Indianapolis we were talking about recently? They're gay positive and quote the Bible. The signs are the result of a lot of hard work by Indy's Jesus Metropolitan Community Church and...Read More
Violence is apparently his prerogative
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 14, 2007 1:25 PM |Bobby Brown on Jamie Campbell's 24 Hours, via Keith Boykin: It should come as no surprise that someone with a history of domestic violence would have such a reaction, as I would imagine the same hyper-sensitivity about one's own masculinity,...Read More
Tommy Thompson says he needed to use the bathroom
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 14, 2007 12:47 PM |Wow, I didn't think the bathroom excuse worked outside of elementary school. From the IHT: Tommy Thompson cited a dead hearing aid and an urgent need to use the bathroom in explaining on Saturday why he said at a Republican...Read More
The State of the Despot
Filed by Storm Bear | May 14, 2007 9:32 AM |click to enlarge...Read More
Monday Question
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 14, 2007 9:08 AM |Here's one from GLSEN: What do you like to be called? Do people call you anything that you don't like?...Read More
Coffee & Toast with Peggy Tabor Millin
Filed by Ed Team | May 14, 2007 6:14 AM |"I was on a train on a rainy day. The train was slowing down to pull into a station. For some reason, I became intent on watching the raindrops on the window. Two separate drops, pushed by the wind, merged...Read More
