December 18, 2008
Make Your Voice Heard About Rick Warren
Filed by Scott Kaiser | December 18, 2008 8:00 PM |As a gay American who supported, campaigned, and voted for Barack Obama, I cannot even begin to tell you how disappointed and hurt I feel by the choice of anti-gay Pastor Rick Warren to lead the inaugural invocation. Although I...Read More
Another assault on women's choice
Filed by Alex Blaze | December 18, 2008 6:30 PM |Women's reproductive choice suffered a legal blow this week, with the Bush administration issuing a new rule that allows medical staff who have moral objections to women's autonomy to refuse treatment: The controversial rule empowers federal health officials to cut...Read More
The More Things "Change", the More They Stay the Same...
Filed by Waymon Hudson | December 18, 2008 5:30 PM |With the crushing defeats at the ballot box for our community this past November, the one bright spot, the glimmer of hope, that I held on to was Obama's election. While I may not always have agreed with all his...Read More
Being an Atheist in the Queer Community
Filed by Guest Blogger | December 18, 2008 4:00 PM |Editors' note: Greta Christina blogs at Greta Christina's Blog. I want to talk about being an atheist in the queer community. This is going to be hard to talk about. But it's been on my mind a lot lately, and...Read More
Responding to Obama: We can disagree without being disagreeable, but Rick Warren cannot
Filed by Alex Blaze | December 18, 2008 3:00 PM |The Obama team has come out with its official talking points on the Warren invocation, and there's nothing there that's all too surprising. They want the celebrity power at their ceremony but they don't want to take responsibility for picking...Read More
About that Obama transition team meeting with the LGBTs
Filed by Nancy Polikoff | December 18, 2008 2:30 PM |Until this post on the National Youth Advocacy Coalition (NYAC) blog, I hadn't seen a list of all those in attendance at last Wednesday's (Dec 10) LGBT meeting with the Obama transition team. Thanks to Greg Varnum for also posting...Read More
DC community outraged at mayor's silence after gay man murdered
Filed by Michael Crawford | December 18, 2008 1:30 PM |The DC LGBT community is outraged over the latest murdered of a gay person and the absolute silence coming from the DC's mayor Adrian Fenty over the increasing level of violence affecting LGBT people. Durval V. Martins A 35-year-old gay...Read More
Obama's Vision - He Doesn't See Us
Filed by Karen Ocamb | December 18, 2008 12:00 PM |There's a saying in the 12 Step programs about being sick and tired of being sick and tired. It's at this point - generally your own personal version of rock bottom - that you surrender and admit something has been...Read More
His man goes south for the winter
Filed by Father Tony | December 18, 2008 11:00 AM |Dear Father Tony, You won't print this, I know, but maybe you can email me your opinion. I met a guy I like but there is a problem. He told me before we met that he was really into...Read More
Yawn: Obama is Time's Person of the Year
Filed by Bil Browning | December 18, 2008 10:00 AM |Duh. I mean, who else were they going to name Person of the Year? Sarah Palin? She was runner-up. Seriously. Don't get me wrong. I'm all in favor of the nod to Obama; it's great. Super. Fantastic. He deserves it....Read More
Gay Geeks: What is this RSS thing anyway?
Filed by Jerame Davis | December 18, 2008 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: This has been bumped back up to the top by the Ed Team. We have ten times more traffic now than when it was first published, so it's a good time to remind Projectors of the easiest way...Read More
George Bush wants to write a book
Filed by Ed Team | December 18, 2008 7:30 AM |"It's hard to tell, hard to imagine what it's like to go from 100 miles an hour to 5. I'm going to want to build a policy institute at Southern Methodist, probably write a book. And beyond that, I'm open...Read More
Now he's a happy bell ringer!
Filed by Bil Browning | December 18, 2008 7:00 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch While I still won't toss any money into the Salvation Army buckets (not gay friendly!), this guy is definitely a hard working bell ringer. And he's so damned happy about it too!...Read More
