February 13, 2008
R.I.P.
Filed by Brynn Craffey | February 13, 2008 11:40 PM |Lawrence King, the eighth-grade boy was shot and wounded by a classmate at E.O. Green School in Oxnard Tuesday, has been pronounced brain dead, authorities said this afternoon. Oxnard police released a statement this afternoon saying King had died....Read More
Big Brother 9 Neil Garcia shows his ass (literally)
Filed by Bil Browning | February 13, 2008 8:46 PM |Did you watch the first episode of Big Brother 9: 'Til Death Do You Part? (Or as I like to call it: Big Brother: Winter Break 2008) This time around they're pairing participants into duos to duke it out including...Read More
Happy Valentine's Day!
Filed by Abigail Hannon | February 13, 2008 8:23 PM |iPhone users: Click to watch happy valentine's day everyone!!! lets love not hurt :)...Read More
Creating Change giveaway
Filed by Bil Browning | February 13, 2008 6:26 PM |Okay - you know me. There's nothing I like better than giving away free stuff. The kind folks at Creating Change decided to load me down with swag and I thought I'd pass it along to our readers. I'll be...Read More
A Call to "Universal Marriage"
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | February 13, 2008 5:27 PM |As I said in my recent post "Gender, Gay Marriage and Galileo" -- we have to get past the mental obstacle that marriage is for specifed categories of people. We have to stop tying it to notions of gender or...Read More
Deadly Anti-Gay Attack in Jamaica Spurs Protests
Filed by Waymon Hudson | February 13, 2008 4:06 PM |Another deadly anti-gay attack has occurred in Jamaica. The Jan. 29th attack left one man dead and two men seriously injured with machete wounds. The surviving men have said that a group of men came to their house in Mandeville,...Read More
Gay Student Shot at CA Junior High School
Filed by Michael Crawford | February 13, 2008 3:12 PM |[UPDATED] A fifteen year old gay boy was shot by a fellow student at an Oxnard, CA junior high school. The victim was reportedly openly gay and was regularly harassed by other students. A student at an Oxnard junior high...Read More
Reasons why I don't like "marriage equality"
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 13, 2008 2:16 PM |Evan Wolfson has a letter up about this year's Freedom to Marry Week and Freedom to Marry Day telling everyone, for the love of Christ, stop saying "gay marriage." It's interesting that this is often the big message of the...Read More
Quarterback Brady Quinn Drops the F-Bomb
Filed by Waymon Hudson | February 13, 2008 1:22 PM |Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn was apparently part of a group of men shouting insults at gays outside an Ohio bar New Year's Day, according to a 911 call made to police. The caller told the operator, "I just walked...Read More
Florida’s Broward County Passes Trans Protections
Filed by Waymon Hudson | February 13, 2008 12:15 PM |Transgender and gender-non-conforming residents of Broward County, Florida, are now protected from discrimination in the workplace, housing, and public venues, such as restaurants and hospitals. Broward, home of Fort Lauderdale, becomes the largest Florida community to outlaw transgender discrimination and...Read More
"This Buttars gone bad" caption this
Filed by Bil Browning | February 13, 2008 12:05 PM |Utah State Senator Chris Buttars scowls while lesbian Christy Gleave testifies how she was denied hospital visitation when her partner was injured. Buttars has sponsored a bill to repeal Salt Lake City's domestic partner registry. Your mission, should you...Read More
Arizona bigots seek another marriage amendment vote
Filed by Pam Spaulding | February 13, 2008 11:16 AM |"I believe that the institution of marriage should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman, said Sen. McCain. The Protect Marriage Arizona Amendment would allow the people of Arizona to decide on the definition of...Read More
Feminists 1, Biblethumpers 0
Filed by Storm Bear | February 13, 2008 10:14 AM |click to enlarge When I was growing up in an evangelical family, there was a lot of bullshit in terms of what I had to believe. These days, the BS evangelicals must swallow is a lot higher, wider and...Read More
Black LGBT History Day 13: Marcellas Reynolds
Filed by H. Alexander Robinson | February 13, 2008 8:42 AM |TV host and celebrity fashion stylist Marcellas Reynolds first appeared on TV screens as the quick-witted, hilariously outspoken house guest on CBS' summer sensation, Big Brother. Marcellas' one-liners and surprising comments won the hearts of millions of viewers. Marcellas has...Read More
James McDonough
Filed by Ed Team | February 13, 2008 7:55 AM |"Corruption had gone to an extreme. They seemed to be drunk half the time and had orgies the other half, when they weren't taking money and beating each other up." --Former Florida prison secretary James McDonough on the state's prison...Read More
Amy Winehouse SMOKES Grammys NOT CRACK!
Filed by Michael Buckley | February 13, 2008 7:47 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch Did you enjoy the Grammy's!? What was your fave moment? And isn't Natalie Cole a bitch?! And doesn't FERGIE'S new name work better? And FIEST is a girl not a BAND- got it! And I...Read More
"Yes we can" McCain remix
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 13, 2008 7:09 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch The other side of Obama's "Yes We Can" video....Read More
Lonely Valentine
Filed by Michele O'Mara | February 13, 2008 7:03 AM |I'm single and depressed about the thought of Valentine's Day fast approaching. Any suggestions? ~ Lonely Heart If single is your current status, embrace it whole-heartedly. You are where you are because that's where you need to be. The...Read More
