June 8, 2009
What a riot!
Filed by Kate Clinton | June 08, 2009 9:30 PM |Pride month is this month as we remember the Stonewall riots. In honor of the birth of the modern LGBT rights movement, let's have a riot!...Read More
Universal health care's back
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 08, 2009 6:00 PM |The push for health care reform started this week, and now there's a cacophony of voices speaking on the topic. It's all well and good for me, since I get off on that sort of thing, but it also means...Read More
Poisonous Parenting: Making Babies vs. Raising Children
Filed by Terrance Heath | June 08, 2009 5:30 PM |This series is overdue for an update. I’ve been meaning to get to it for a while now. But every time a relevant news story reminds me of it, there’s always something more pressing. The entire time the “Octomom” saga...Read More
That's some constitution you have there, California
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 08, 2009 3:30 PM |Herndon Davis posted yesterday about some of the major budget problems California is facing right now. Obviously, I'm not the best source on this topic, but can I just throw out there that of course no one wants to increase...Read More
10 reasons why a march on Washington is a bad idea
Filed by Bil Browning | June 08, 2009 2:00 PM |Chalk this up as one of the worst ideas ever. Speaking at Utah Pride yesterday, Cleve Jones announced plans for a march on Washington on October 11th. Of course, the focus will be on marriage equality. Witness the headline: "March...Read More
The cost of defamation: Rob, Arnie & Dawn show pays dear cost
Filed by Austen Crowder | June 08, 2009 1:00 PM |I think its important to point out victories on the GLBT front wherever they arrive. Thanks to action taken by GLAAD and well-meaning activists, the Rob, Arnie & Dawn show has been taken to task on defamatory remarks made on...Read More
How Many Letters Does It Take to Kill A Movement?
Filed by Guest Blogger | June 08, 2009 1:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Stampp Corbin is a successful entrepreneur and LGBT activist. He was the Co-Chair of the Obama LGBT Leadership Council during the presidential campaign and is a former Board of Director for the Human Rights Campaign. Many...Read More
Bruno: are we in on the joke or the butt of it?
Filed by Cathy Renna | June 08, 2009 12:00 PM |The upcoming release of "Bruno" on July 10, starring Sacha Baron Cohen as a "flamboyantly gay fashion reporter" is prompting a lot of discussion and an MTV stunt involving Eminem and Bruno that needs to be seen to be believed....Read More
Say it ain't so, Gordon Ramsay
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 08, 2009 11:00 AM |I think I've only posted once on here before about how I'm a huge fan of Hell's Kitchen. I've watched several seasons of it on the teevee over the past few years and plan to watch this past season on...Read More
Affirming Our Books Too
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | June 08, 2009 9:30 AM |To help celebrate Pride Month, many bookstores around the nation are doing special displays of LGBT books and authors. I found news mention of this fact as far afield as the U.S. Consulate in Chennai, India! Mainstream organizations like the...Read More
Jesse's Journal: A Day at the (Nude) Beach
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | June 08, 2009 9:00 AM |Summer is the time of year when peoples of all races, genders and sexualities shed their clothes and inhibitions and head to the beach. Clothing-optional beaches are more popular now than ever before, and not just among gay men. They...Read More
The Power of Language
Filed by Ed Team | June 08, 2009 7:30 AM |"Each of us is here now because in one way or another we share a commitment to language and to the power of language, and to the reclaiming of that language which has been made to work against us. In...Read More
Neil Patrick Harris on Letterman
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 08, 2009 7:00 AM |Neil Patrick Harris does a Tony's-related Top 10 on Letterman....Read More
