August 18, 2008
We're almost there...
Filed by Bil Browning | August 18, 2008 6:00 PM |I wanted to thank everyone that's donated to our fund to send three Bilerico bloggers to the DNCC convention. We've raised $2020 so far - we're 2/3 of the way there! Three of us are going from Indianapolis - Jerame...Read More
FYI: Obama supports hate crime legislation and McCain doesn't
Filed by Karen Ocamb | August 18, 2008 5:00 PM |If this is what you call turning up the heat in the presidential race - I'm still simmering. Today's conference call held by the Obama Campaign on the need for federal hate crimes legislation turned up no new information and...Read More
Q & A with Kathy Gilleran
Filed by Steve Ralls | August 18, 2008 4:00 PM |Our reporting on Kathy Gilleran's search for her son, who disappeared in Austria in 2007, has moved many of our readers. PFLAG has received numerous emails, messages of support for Kathy, and many questions about the story, how you can...Read More
Ellen DeGeneres ties the Knot
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 18, 2008 3:00 PM |Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi have gotten married! According to their spokesperson, they married in a private, intimate ceremony at their $29 million mansion in Beverly Hills on Saturday night. The small ceremony was attended by just 19 guests,...Read More
Rich Fulcher Rocks!
Filed by Abigail Hannon | August 18, 2008 2:30 PM |iPhone users: Click to watch Rich Fulcher plays Uncle Agaton, Abigail's creepy uncle who's out-creeped by her new look. Head to www.abigailsxratedteendiary.com for more!...Read More
BlogIndiana conference: All good things must come to an end
Filed by Bil Browning | August 18, 2008 2:00 PM |I really enjoyed myself at the BlogIndiana conference. Shawn Plew and Noah Coffey are to be commended for organizing an informational and fun weekend. If you didn't get a chance to attend this year, make room on your schedule for...Read More
That Marathon Woman in Beijing
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | August 18, 2008 1:00 PM |Constantina Tomescu's dominating win in the marathon got me remembering how far this women's event has come in just 38 years. As recently as 1970, only a few hundred women were running this distance worldwide...and doing it unofficially. They were...Read More
Gay Lifestyles: Is it Hip to be Square?
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | August 18, 2008 1:00 PM |In his New York Times (April 27, 2008) feature story "Young Gay Rites," the delightfully-named Benoit Denizen-Lewis wrote about the "normal" world of young, white, married gay men in Massachusetts, till recently the only American state that allowed same-sex marriage....Read More
Question of the day
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 18, 2008 12:00 PM |I'm on the last leg of my two-week vacation in Germany, and I'm spending my last full day here at Dachau, a concentration camp. I haven't ever visited one of those before, but I have a feeling I won't be...Read More
Equality For All
Filed by Sara Whitman | August 18, 2008 11:00 AM |Do you know what does not discriminate between gay and straight? What doesn't care if you are transgender or questioning? That gives not a damn if you are bisexual, pansexual or asexual? Lice. Zachary came home with a head full...Read More
The Rodney Dangerfield of Nations
Filed by Kate Clinton | August 18, 2008 10:00 AM |George has enough accumulated sick days to go on vacation, call the home office from the ranch and say he is not coming back. But no. Now he has a big conflict with his old "I looked him in the...Read More
Miami-Dade Domestic Partnerships Begin Today!
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 18, 2008 10:00 AM |Miami-Dade - Florida's largest county - begins its domestic partnership registry today, starting at 10am. The registry entitles domestic partners to visitation rights at healthcare, correctional and juvenile facilities, and extends health insurance and employee benefits to the domestic partners...Read More
Has is really only been 10 weeks? I've learned so much!
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 18, 2008 9:00 AM |It's exactly 10 weeks since the Log Cabin Republicans said this: We understand the general election starts today and Log Cabin will do its part to educate gay and lesbian voters about Sen. McCain in the weeks ahead. Contrary to...Read More
Oscar Wilde quotation
Filed by Ed Team | August 18, 2008 7:30 AM |"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace." --Oscar Wilde...Read More
A Rovian Obama ad
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 18, 2008 7:00 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch Here's what a Republican campaign's ad for Obama would look like....Read More
