April 15, 2009
Maintaining a Unified Front
Filed by Kate Kendell | April 15, 2009 6:00 PM |In light of the recent good news out of Vermont, Iowa, Washington D.C., Washington state, and the city of Gainesville, Florida, I've been reflecting about the values of our community and the goals of our movement. As a progressive, feminist...Read More
Womanizer sign language interpreter "speaks"
Filed by Bil Browning | April 15, 2009 5:00 PM |Have you seen the hot, hot, hot videos by sign language interpreter Michael DiMartino? The YouTube sensation has taken the net by storm with his sexy music videos that not only has great dance moves, but also interprets the entire...Read More
Tearing Families Apart, When We Should Be Uniting Them
Filed by Steve Ralls | April 15, 2009 4:00 PM |Shirley Tan and Jay Mercado are, by all accounts, a picture-perfect family. The two have been together - happily - for more than two decades. They have adorable 12-year-old twins. They married in 2004. And they are hard-working, productive members...Read More
JFLAG releases another statement against Boycott Jamaica
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 15, 2009 2:30 PM |Dear Friends and Supporters: We thank our international allies for their continued interest in the state of LGBT affairs in Jamaica. Your support over the years has strengthened our voice and made it possible for us to make progress...Read More
Hate crimes against homeless people -- is there a solution?
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | April 15, 2009 1:30 PM |Recently the LA County Board of Supervisors made the decision to start tracking and reporting attacks against homeless people as hate crimes. Bias-related violent crime against homeless people for no other reason than their vulnerable status is rampant -- during...Read More
Do'in The Math on Tax Day
Filed by John Shields | April 15, 2009 1:00 PM |It's April 15th again. You know what that means? I'm gay, I can't get married to my husband (in the eyes of Uncle Sam), and I'm getting taxed without any representation because I live in "The District." What the frik'?...Read More
Father and Son go Teabagging
Filed by Storm Bear | April 15, 2009 12:30 PM |click to enlarge My day job is in advertising - coming up with new ideas to promote brands and save businesses. From a marketing communication POV, the whole teabagging meme from the GOP is a laughing stock of guilty...Read More
Get paid to get involved!
Filed by Jerame Davis | April 15, 2009 12:30 PM |I was just contacted by Bo Shuff. Most of you probably remember Bo as the guy from HRC before Stu Rosenberg. Bo helped us pass the Indy HRO and he's a Bilerico Project blogger. Oh - and he is a...Read More
Lesbian behaving badly
Filed by Ellen Andersen | April 15, 2009 12:00 PM |Last Thursday, an appellate court in NY ruled--in a unanimous, unsigned opinion--that Vermont civil unions don't count in determining who is and who isn't a parent for purposes of custody. More specifically, the court ruled that a NY woman whose...Read More
And the winner is...
Filed by Bil Browning | April 15, 2009 11:00 AM |Early next month I'm off to Washington DC to attend the NGLTF DC Leadership Awards. Jerame had so much fun at the NYC Leadership Awards that we knew we needed to cover the DC awards too. This time the honorees...Read More
Tax day open thread
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 15, 2009 10:30 AM |Two protests going on today for tax day. First, the famous tea baggers, told by their corporate sponsors to protest a tax increase on the wealthy (as well as jobs creation), will be having tea parties all over the country....Read More
Groundbreaking Anthology on Asian-Americans in Comic Books Needs Our Help!
Filed by Jason Tseng | April 15, 2009 9:30 AM |I was introduced to Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology at New York ComicCon, where editor-in-chief Jeff Yang led a spirited discussion on diversity in comic books. As a self-professed comic book geek and an Asian American, Secret Identities...Read More
Can't visit Bilerico every day? We're here to help.
Filed by Bil Browning | April 15, 2009 8:30 AM |Several of you write in weekly asking about our RSS feeds and e-mail digests. One of the most common questions asked is what we send out to our e-mail list. Each night at midnight, we round up all of the...Read More
Hannah Montana DIES In Movie?!!! (SPOILER! HM in 7 Min!)
Filed by Michael Buckley | April 15, 2009 8:00 AM |If you are not a Hannah Montana fan- do you have any interest in going to see the movie? If you ARE a Hannah fan and went- did it change your opinion or was it what you expected?? Would...Read More
A Workplace Reminder
Filed by Ed Team | April 15, 2009 7:30 AM |"For every company that scores a 100 on the HRC Corporate Equality Index, we should acknowledge that the largest employer in the United States openly discriminates against LGBT people." --Ben Finzel, FH Out Front blog...Read More
The Fine Art of Teabagging
Filed by Bil Browning | April 15, 2009 7:00 AM |While FOX News, militia members, conservatives and Libertarians have been proclaiming themselves "teabaggers" lately, I just can't help giggling each and every time I hear it. To help them with the whole teabag thing today, I present, "The Fine...Read More
