January 28, 2008
LGBT Democratic Response to the State of the Union Address
Filed by Guest Blogger | January 28, 2008 10:05 PM |[EDITOR'S NOTE:] This guest post is from Jon Hoadley, Executive Director of the National Stonewall Democrats. Jon is responding to this evening's State of the Union address by President Bush. For eight years, we’ve heard President Bush report on the...Read More
Indiana's SJR7: The "Marriage Protection Amendment" really ISN'T over until it's over AND WHY!
Filed by Don Sherfick | January 28, 2008 5:10 PM |Today Representative Eric Turner, ranking Republican on the Indiana House Rules and Legislative Policy Committee, filed a amendment to House Joint Resolution No. 1 (HJR1) a proposed constitutional amendment concerning property taxes. While I have not examined every detail, it...Read More
The Color Line Is a GLBT Issue, Too
Filed by Monica Roberts | January 28, 2008 3:50 PM |A century ago W.E.B. Du Bois once stated 'that the problem of the twentieth century will be the problem of the color line'. He was not only dead on target with his assessment, but eight years into the twenty-first century...Read More
Identity Pluralism, Pt. 2
Filed by Terrance Heath | January 28, 2008 3:11 PM |When I started writing this series, I knew that some time would pass between posts and that—given the nature of the blogosphere—what I'm writing about here might not be news anymore and that people would have moved on. Especially after...Read More
Don't expect health care reform in 2009
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 28, 2008 3:07 PM |For all the talk of health care this time around, the New England Journal of Medicine is warning us that American health care isn't in crisis in any way that would translate into substantive reform. The argument responds to the...Read More
Ladies, gentlemen, and others, I present to you: The BIG MO' Candy Bar!
Filed by Gina de Vries | January 28, 2008 2:40 PM |Looking at this, you'd think that queers made it, right? Nope. This is courtesy of our good friends over at that bastion of macho posturing and repressed homosexual longing, NASCAR. A breeze through the Palmer Company's Press Release makes...Read More
Out for justice: Politics be damned
Filed by Kate Kendell | January 28, 2008 12:45 PM |Late last week, former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore posted a video on Current TV, where he very matter-of-factly said, “The loyalty and love that two people feel for one another when they fall in love ought to...Read More
Sak vide pas kanpe
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 28, 2008 11:39 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch video in YouTube App Several weeks ago Waymon and I got into a comments discussion about the origins of homophobia. It's a big question and one I hope our community activist and media folks, as...Read More
I Marry My Dog! Kids Hate Clowns! Tisdale's New Nose & MORE!
Filed by Michael Buckley | January 28, 2008 10:43 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch video in YouTube App Eddie Murphy - damn that was fast! GOOD FOR HIM! Ashley Tisdale's new nose! She looks the same, right?! LOL Matthew M is a gonna be a daddy (STOKED) Oh and...Read More
The last SJR7 hearing: some unreal remarks at a "non-event"
Filed by Don Sherfick | January 28, 2008 9:49 AM |Whether or not I testified at a non-event last Thursday morning before the Indiana Senate Judiciary Committee against SJR-7 (the so-called "Indiana Marriage Protection Amendment") may be a valid point of debate, I guess. Gary Welsh of Advance Indiana would...Read More
John Edwards will gain once Hillary drives off the road.
Filed by Storm Bear | January 28, 2008 8:52 AM |click to enlarge As we all know by now, the outcome of the South Carolina democratic primary was an earthquake and the fault line went right through the Clinton campaign. Race was a factor in this campaign and was...Read More
For He is the Glory Hole & the Light
Filed by Bil Browning | January 28, 2008 8:45 AM |It's time for another episode of "Caption This!" This pic comes to us via Pandagon, from whom I have stolen my spectacularly awesome headline. *grins* Even better? The name of the file is: "Turn Jesus On." Seriously. Don't you just...Read More
Ray Jencar: The Turtle
Filed by Ed Team | January 28, 2008 7:32 AM |There once was a man who carried his house on his back. He carried it with him everywhere he went. He hated to leave anything behind and besides there were many things that wouldn't fit inside his pockets. So every...Read More
Because they're such good dancers
Filed by Bil Browning | January 28, 2008 7:09 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch video in YouTube App How dare you insinuate I like this video for pervy reasons. I love the, uh, movement of the dance. Yeah, yeah! That's the ticket! That's why I keep watching this. Yeah!...Read More
