November 19, 2007
HIV and Surviving Retirement
Filed by Nina Smith | November 19, 2007 7:10 PM |“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” – Douglas Adams A few weeks ago, Ann Marsh at the Los Angeles Times profiled a gay man in the Money Makeover column entitled: AIDS survivor now needs a retirement plan....Read More
Just A Couple More Things...
Filed by Rebecca Juro | November 19, 2007 6:58 PM |I promised myself that the next thing I wrote wouldn't have anything to do with ENDA or the Human Rights Campaign. Really I did. I'm about to sort of keep half of that promise, even as I fail miserably to...Read More
The angel/whore dichotomy, sexual regulation, and Bob Allen's Florida
Filed by Alex Blaze | November 19, 2007 3:08 PM |Florida Republican state rep. Bob Allen was sentenced Friday for his bathroom sex solicitation: Friday he was sentenced to serve six months of probation. He must pay a $250 fine, court costs and $245 restitution to Titusville Police Department. Allen...Read More
Smile, You’re Having Sex on Camera!
Filed by Waymon Hudson | November 19, 2007 1:36 PM |In what can only be described as more of Florida’s obsession with gay sex, officials in Martin County are looking into putting motion-activated cameras on beaches to deter “men soliciting men for sex”. The cameras sense motion and flash a...Read More
AOL sucks: QueerSighted edition
Filed by Alex Blaze | November 19, 2007 12:47 PM |AOL killed QueerSighted, their queer group blog. Says former contributor Richard Rothstein: And so QueerSighted was born, a diverse community of queer writers that would evolve and grow and within six short months draw more than 3.5 million page views...Read More
Blood Diamonds and Pearls
Filed by Storm Bear | November 19, 2007 10:06 AM |click to enlarge This past weekend I had the opportunity to watch the Grist.org Presidential Forum on the Environment and enjoyed every minute (buffering 18%) despite the con-(buffering 98%)-stant problems with the stream. When I ask myself why I...Read More
Just so you know...
Filed by Bil Browning | November 19, 2007 8:30 AM |Mike Huckabee is "Chuck Norris approved." Next week the Edwards camp will be touting the former Senator's endorsement by Kyan Douglas....Read More
Monday morning open question
Filed by Alex Blaze | November 19, 2007 7:36 AM |I haven't done one of these in a while.... I was talking with an old college friend of mine the other day and was reminded of a conversation we once had. He's been in a relationship with another man for...Read More
Homotextual: Court case decision
Filed by Ed Team | November 19, 2007 7:30 AM |"Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition; they have only a communal existence; and not only does the meaning of each interpenetrate the other, but all in their aggregate take their purport from the setting in which they are used."...Read More
YGST: Fox News Porn
Filed by Bil Browning | November 19, 2007 7:20 AM |For all the hand wringing and morality policing that Fox News likes to do, whodathunk that they were the smuttiest TV news station. Oh. Wait. FOX. News. Nevermind....Read More
