November 2, 2007
Vote Bilerico
Filed by Alex Blaze | November 02, 2007 11:55 PM |As Bil posted yesterday, we're a finalist for the 2007 Weblog Award for the Best LGBT Blog category. This is pretty big for us! Now it's time to win this thing! You can vote for us here. You can vote...Read More
Queer music Friday - Bessie Smith
Filed by Alex Blaze | November 02, 2007 5:00 PM |Famously bisexual Broadway star Bessie Smith singing the "Saint Louis Blues": And in her own words in Chris Albertson's biography of her: I got twelve women on this show and I can have one every night if I want it....Read More
Will love win out? How about friendship instead?
Filed by Bil Browning | November 02, 2007 4:20 PM |This is a post that's taken a while to write... I recently attended a viewing of Inlaws & Outlaws with Ryan McCann, Public Policy Director for the Indiana Family Institute. Ryan challenged me to attend Love Won Out, the ex-gay...Read More
New contributor Monday
Filed by Alex Blaze | November 02, 2007 3:38 PM |Starting Monday, Eric Marcus will be joining us here at the Bilerico Project. Eric is an NYC based nonfiction writer who's written some great books, like Greg Louganis's biography, Breaking the Surface, Is it a Choice, and, my personal favorite...Read More
I'll Take Some Happiness, Please
Filed by Michele O'Mara | November 02, 2007 2:50 PM |Are you happy? For some the question is irrelevant because happiness is not a goal. If it is your goal to be happy, then consider these thoughts on happiness. 1. Happiness is possible. Somewhere along the way we have come...Read More
Effective?
Filed by Eric Leven | November 02, 2007 2:49 PM |I think so. I found this image on the net.This is right up my alley. In my opinion and experience, all it takes is an image like this to remind sexually active gays and straights to simply put on condom...Read More
Castagna on Dan Abrams and Curtis the Prodigal Child
Filed by Alex Blaze | November 02, 2007 1:51 PM |Here's a video commenter Lucrece pointed us to on my post yesterday about Washington State rep. Dick Curtis's shenanigans. It's Cody Castagna, the prostitute and would-be blackmailer, being interviewed on Dan Abrams's Show along with Pat Buchanan and Laura Flanders:...Read More
Do Feminists Have Better Sex?
Filed by Serena Freewomyn | November 02, 2007 1:24 PM |A new study shows that feminists have healthier, more egalitarian (hetero)sexual relationships. The study, which was conducted by Rutgers University professors Laurie Rudman and Julie Phelan, attempts to debunk the stereotype that feminists are sexually unattractive and that successful womyn...Read More
Hey Teenagers: What is a "Virgin"?
Filed by Eric Leven | November 02, 2007 12:51 PM |This New York Post Article is just another example of why Sex Ed & Sex Communication classes are needed now: November 2, 2007 -- Is your teenager a virgin? That depends on your teen's definition of "is" - as well...Read More
"The State of the Movement," or, "A Red Sox Fan-Becoming"
Filed by Dustin Kight | November 02, 2007 12:10 PM |I never liked sports growing up. I only pretended to be a fan of traditional "turns-boy-into-man sports," like baseball, when I had to be, to fit in with the other kids, when I slept over at my friends' houses and...Read More
WTB: Buck is the new Wiggle?!
Filed by Michael Buckley | November 02, 2007 11:24 AM |Buck is the new Wiggle?!...Read More
The Adventures of Testiculo, Starring Dennis Kucinich
Filed by Storm Bear | November 02, 2007 11:19 AM |click to enlarge In Town Called Dobson, I have been referring to Dennis Kucinich as Ultra K but Ultra may be too small a word for Dennis. On October 23rd, Dennis Kucinich announced he would introduce to the House...Read More
Apathetic Activists!
Filed by Fannie Fierce | November 02, 2007 11:08 AM |Dear Fannie, I'm a twenty-something living in Boston. As recently as spring 2007, I was a part of the movement to protect gay marriage in Massachusetts. Now that that battle seems to be won, I'm kind of at a loss...Read More
HRC's Bait and Switch
Filed by Marti Abernathey | November 02, 2007 10:04 AM |From HRC's website: In 31 states, it's still legal to fire someone because they're gay; in 39 states it is legal to fire someone for being transgender. Thousands of hardworking GLBT Americans have lost their livelihoods simply because of who...Read More
YGST: Max Blumenthal
Filed by Alex Blaze | November 02, 2007 7:55 AM |Blogger Max Blumenthal hits the Value Voters Summit and finds out that Star Parker wants gays thrown in concentration camps, Mike Huckabee doesn't know much about the macroeconomics of aborted fetuses, and that Lou Sheldon thinks he has any...Read More
Homotextual: Hunter
Filed by Ed Team | November 02, 2007 7:50 AM |"Somewhere between Lincoln-Douglas, Kennedy-Nixon, and the current Brady Bunch incarnations of the form, I cannot help but feel we have lost substance. Perhaps I am merely getting old; perhaps future presidential elections will be based on a singing competition, after...Read More
