February 15, 2009
Coalition to Stop the Arrests Protest
Filed by Father Tony | February 15, 2009 7:00 PM |The otherwise engaged Eric Leven has asked me to post his video of a protest held on Valentine's Day, at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 79th Street (near Mayor Bloomberg's front door). Watch it after the jump....Read More
How to destroy online discourse and how to improve it
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 15, 2009 5:30 PM |Columnist Mark Morford gripes in the San Francisco Chronicle about the lack of civility on the internet. Did you know that sometimes people on the internet are mean? He blames it on anonymous commenting. Because, you see, there was a...Read More
What about the freedom NOT to marry?
Filed by Nancy Polikoff | February 15, 2009 4:00 PM |Freedom to Marry week garnered more attention than usual this year, no doubt a result of all the attention to California's Prop 8 and the litigation challenging it. Most Freedom to Marry activists say they want same-sex couples to have...Read More
Join the Impact? What impact?
Filed by Guest Blogger | February 15, 2009 2:30 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Elián Maricón is a PhD candidate at a university in an undisclosed location. He lives in an undisclosed location with his life partner and their two chihuahuas (Dick Cheney is fortunately nowhere in sight). Before returning...Read More
Slavery and Semantics
Filed by Terrance Heath | February 15, 2009 1:00 PM |Living in D.C. means that there are lots of historical sites and I can visit if I want. Living here for almost 15 years means that I've either visited them already or don't really think about visiting them anymore, because...Read More
Slavery and Semantics
Filed by Terrance Heath | February 15, 2009 1:00 PM |Living in D.C. means that there are lots of historical sites and I can visit if I want. Living here for almost 15 years means that I've either visited them already or don't really think about visiting them anymore, because...Read More
HRC Throws Trans Health Equity Under the Bus - Again
Filed by Kelley Winters | February 15, 2009 11:30 AM |This week, the Human Rights Campaign released its 2009 State of the Workplace report and Corporate Equality Index (CEI) ratings of large US employers for GLBT inclusive policies and practices.[1] Perfect 100% ratings were awarded to a record 260 major...Read More
One Guilty, Three to Go, in South African Murder Trial
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | February 15, 2009 10:00 AM |In a packed courtroom yesterday, Thato Mphithi, 24, one of the three men accused of murdering lesbian soccer player Eudy Simelane, was sentenced to 31 years in prison. He had plead guilty. The other three men are pleading not guilty,...Read More
Spencer Duhm doesn't want to sound gay
Filed by Ed Team | February 15, 2009 7:00 AM |"I don't like come across like most of the gay guys but I am, so I'll probably be like--but then again, JP was gay and nobody knew that on the show; he was about the straightest I've ever seen. ......Read More
What if the Church marketed like Starbucks?
Filed by Bil Browning | February 15, 2009 7:00 AM |This is absolutely hilarious - but probably not for the reasons the right wing would like....Read More
