May 18, 2007
Queer Music Friday - The Gossip
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 18, 2007 | 5:00 PM |The Gossip's "Standing in the Way of Control": Lead singer Beth Ditto in her own words for The Guardian:Growing up isn't easy when you're different from other kids. I was physically different, and a lesbian, too, so there was potentially...Read More
Wow. Okay then. Tell us how you really feel.
Filed by Bil Browning | May 18, 2007 | 3:18 PM |Just in case you missed the Roanoke Times' editorial about Jerry Falwell's death, I'd like to point you in the right direction. I have an ex-boyfriend that grew up in Lynchburg and Roanoke. He told stories about meeting Jerry Falwell...Read More
Sneak preview
Filed by Bil Browning | May 18, 2007 | 1:24 PM |Since we keep talking about the relaunch of bilerico.com that's coming soon, I thought I'd give you a sneak peak of one of our new contributors. While we have several fantastic new bloggers, activists, authors and celebrities joining the bilerico...Read More
Hillary needs a song
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 18, 2007 | 1:02 PM |YouTube's been putting up short videos from each of the candidates, and, let me tell you, as a politically-interested blogger and YouTuber, I have found these videos to be insanely boring. So imagine my surprise to find that Hillary's, was,...Read More
Transgender Youth Family Advocates Public Service Announcement
Filed by Bruce Parker | May 18, 2007 | 1:00 PM |Wednesday I posted some of the guidelines for dealing with gender variant youth from the Transgender Youth Family Advocates Website. In the comments section, Kelly mentioned that they had a good public service announcement titled "Out of the Shadows." I...Read More
Pete LaB on bottoming
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 18, 2007 | 12:29 PM |This one's been sitting on my "to post" list all week. From Peter LaBarbera of the Americans for Truth:The film, of course, seeks to advance the fiction that "gay" romantic love is just like the normal variety except with different...Read More
TGIF question
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 18, 2007 | 9:07 AM |Any plans for this weekend?...Read More
Friday Update - Haiku format
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 18, 2007 | 9:00 AM |Talking about gays might be taboo in Poland because of new bill (International Herald-Tribune) Dozens of couples from New York now have valid MA marriages(NY Times) That one Mormon girl in the "That's so gay" court case went home...Read More
Hey Hillary! Once you go Black...
Filed by Storm Bear | May 18, 2007 | 8:00 AM |click to enlarge Remember back in March when Hillary went to Selma, Alabama? During Hillary's Selma speech, she performed a rendition from James Cleveland's hymn "I don't feel noways tired." When I first heard the piece, it was on...Read More
Some Thoughts on Detour by Lizzie Simon
Filed by Bruce Parker | May 18, 2007 | 7:30 AM |Finally having the ability to spend some time reading for enjoyment instead of reading specifically for school, I picked up Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D, a memoir about bipolar disorder by Lizzie Simon. Being 211 pages long, I...Read More
Coffee & Toast with Al Gore
Filed by Ed Team | May 18, 2007 | 6:00 AM |The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy, even in the face of massive and well-understood evidence to the contrary, seems to many Americans to have reached levels that were previously unimaginable. A large and growing...Read More
