May 15, 2007
Former President Carter calls for end to DADT
Filed by Bil Browning | May 15, 2007 3:00 PM |Former President Jimmy Carter spoke out today about America's discriminatory "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy that forces gays and lesbians in the closet in order to serve in the military. The former President won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002...Read More
Lesbians Claim Credit For Falwell Demise
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | May 15, 2007 1:56 PM |For Immediate Release Lesbians Claim Credit For Falwell Demise The Lesbian Death Angels, concerned that Rev. Falwell's followers will misattribute the cause of their leader's demise to their antigod or to some weenie group like Soulforce, have announced that, in...Read More
Does this mean the Teletubbies are straight again?
Filed by Jerame Davis | May 15, 2007 1:46 PM |OK, maybe not. That Tinky Winky always was rather fey. Sadly, we may never know the other children's television characters who are surreptitiously making American's children into Nancy boys and Tom girls. The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who in his...Read More
Jerry Falwell Dead at 73
Filed by Ellen Andersen | May 15, 2007 1:42 PM |The Indianapolis Star is reporting that Jerry Falwell died earlier today. Falwell stands in interesting juxtaposition to the movement for LGBT rights. On the one hand, this is the guy who so famously opined "I really believe that the pagans,...Read More
Latina trans teen an awesome prom queen!
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 15, 2007 12:44 PM |Roosevelt High School, a Fresno area school, had it's first transgender prom queen this weekend. Johnny Vera (yes, she goes by Johnny) won in a landslide. From the Fresno Bee:"For me, it's about more than a crown. It's about...Read More
Where's a border patrol agent when you need one?
Filed by Jen Jorczak | May 15, 2007 11:47 AM |From the "don't let this guy back in" files: the Kansas Witchita Eagle reported yesterday that the former deputy attorney general of Kansas, Bryan Brown, is moving back to Fort Wayne to open a law firm specifically to "be a...Read More
Transgender Candidate for City Council
Filed by Bruce Parker | May 15, 2007 11:36 AM |As a part of a fairly impressive and definitely exciting discussion of transgender issues on the Newsweek website there is a story about Pam Bennett. Pam is a transgender woman who is running for a city council seat in Aurora,...Read More
Disappointing Mom and Dad
Filed by Michele O'Mara | May 15, 2007 10:16 AM |I never felt married, until I got married. I got married twice, in fact, to the same person. The legal ceremony, if you will, took place in Canada (no bitterness there, right?) I don't have a long history of partners,...Read More
Talk back to us
Filed by Bil Browning | May 15, 2007 9:28 AM |If you haven't done so already, please take this brief survey and tell us a little bit about yourself. All answers are anonymous, so don't worry about getting SPAM. In fact, no one will see any identifying information about you....Read More
Tuesday open thread
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 15, 2007 9:02 AM |Gender made the front page of Newsweek. How would you describe how you perform your gender? Masculine, feminine, androgynous, something else? Is this something that people should care about?...Read More
Morning with Mitt
Filed by Bil Browning | May 15, 2007 8:36 AM |My God this man is an ass. Just in case you missed the fabulousness that was Mitt Romney's 60 Minutes appearance last week, never fear. Here's the part you were waiting for... You guessed it, it's a "Screw the queers....Read More
The Dark Side of Yard Sales
Filed by Storm Bear | May 15, 2007 8:07 AM |click to enlarge...Read More
Coffee & Toast with Lucretius
Filed by Ed Team | May 15, 2007 6:00 AM |"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling." -- Lucretius...Read More
Particularly Pertinent at 3:30 AM
Filed by Bruce Parker | May 15, 2007 3:15 AM |A while back one of our past contributors Brylo posted a link to a blog that dealt with issues of productivity and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. From time to time when I can't sleep or have decided to spend a...Read More
Jeremy Scahill and the privatization of war
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | May 15, 2007 1:46 AM |Of course, just about every detail about the US war on Iraq is horrifying and overwhelming, but the first time I watched this, I started sobbing. Which is impressive, considering Jeremy Scahill's dispassionate delivery geared towards convincing the monsters...Read More
