September 5, 2007
Fire Tucker Carlson
Filed by Alex Blaze | September 05, 2007 | 6:35 PM |Javier Morgado, supervising producer of NBC's Today Show, said at the NLGJA conference in San Diego that Tucker Carlson, NBC, and MSNBC have handled Carlson's gleeful endorsement description of fag-bashing in a park bathroom. From the Washington Blade: "It didn't...Read More
Larry Craig, Weapons of Mass Distraction, and Lesbian Public Sex
Filed by Yasmin Nair | September 05, 2007 | 5:10 PM |So Larry Craig is now reconsidering his earlier decision to resign, in the midst of a "sex scandal" that contains no sex at all. We queers seem to agree that the Craig exposure is about the hypocrisy and self-loathing that...Read More
An Indy peek at Larry Craig
Filed by Don Sherfick | September 05, 2007 | 4:45 PM |Across from the editorial page of this morning's Indianapolis Star is a great piece by its regular columnist (and chief resident liberal, which makes him the Right's primary target) Dan Carpenter, who delves into the Larry Craig episode in a...Read More
A watershed moment
Filed by Matt Foreman | September 05, 2007 | 3:24 PM |This week, a House subcommittee held a hearing on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). Given that the bill has been languishing for 17 years -- in spite of overwhelming public support -- a collective "whatever" would be understandable. But folks,...Read More
This will get more and more fun
Filed by Alex Blaze | September 05, 2007 | 3:04 PM |Larry Craig has announced today that he will only resign if he can't beat the misdemeanor charge in Minnesota. Also, his lawyers sent a letter to the Senate ethics committee asking them not to investigate the whole matter. From the...Read More
Doug Giles has Restless Fist Syndrome
Filed by Alex Blaze | September 05, 2007 | 12:49 PM |One of the most popular conservative hate sites on the internet just posted a column by Doug Giles, a Christian minister and author, where he talks about just what he'd do in response to being cruised: If someone tried to...Read More
Pondering Larry Craig
Filed by Ellen Andersen | September 05, 2007 | 12:20 PM |This just in: Sen. Larry Craig of bathroom-bust fame is now reconsidering his decision to resign from the U.S. Senate. He's hired Stanley Brand, a prominent ethics lawyer, to handle the ethics investigation under way in the Senate. And he's...Read More
A brief look at gay history
Filed by Bil Browning | September 05, 2007 | 7:23 AM |Too many of us don't know our own history, but it's not as if they teach that in schools, eh? At least not until college......Read More
Homotextual: Jerry Lewis
Filed by Ed Team | September 05, 2007 | 7:13 AM |"I apologize to anyone who was offended. I obviously made a bad choice of words. Everyone who knows me understands that I hold no prejudices in this regard. In the family atmosphere of the telethon, I forget that not everyone...Read More
On the subject of hypocrisy....
Filed by Alex Blaze | September 05, 2007 | 6:46 AM |Here's an interesting phenomenon, similar to men who have sex with men and moralize against homosexuality, or second ladies to anti-gay presidents who write lesbian themed literature: anti-choice women who get abortions. This article's a bit old, but it adds...Read More
