July 7, 2009
Is the Queen of the UK homophobic?
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 07, 2009 7:00 PM |It's a question I never really thought of before, even though she is one of the most powerful women in the world. She's the queen regnant of 16 independent nations and the Supreme Governor of the central Church in the...Read More
Indiana Equality, Lambda Consulting, The Word and my work history
Filed by Bil Browning | July 07, 2009 6:00 PM |I was dismayed to read Alex's post yesterday about The Indiana Word's scurrilous references to me in three different columns of this month's issue. Especially disturbing was the official editorial from publisher Ted Fleischaker. While two-thirds of the editorial was...Read More
Powell: the GOP still has a race problem
Filed by Pam Spaulding | July 07, 2009 5:30 PM |And he's putting the blame on bigots like Rush Limbaugh, who fanned the flames all during the campaign....Read More
Fallen Idol: Why I won't automatically vote Obama in 2012
Filed by Guest Blogger | July 07, 2009 4:30 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Phil Reese began his career of LGBT advocacy in central Michigan and now resides in Champaign, IL where he teaches Middle School and attends graduate school at the University of Illinois. Phil is passionate about news,...Read More
Raising Money on the Backs of Crumbling Marriages: Stay Classy, John Stemberger
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 07, 2009 3:00 PM |He's back and ready to raise some cash to "protect marriage." John Stemberger, the raging homophobe who brought us Florida's Amendment 2 (the state's far reaching marriage equality and civil union ban) and the head of the state chapter of...Read More
Batwoman for DC's First Lesbian Mayor
Filed by Michael Crawford | July 07, 2009 2:00 PM |Yesterday Batwoman announced her candidacy to become the first lesbian mayor of Washington, DC. Batwoman aims to unseat current Mayor Adrian Fenty. If elected, Batwoman would not only become the first openly lesbian mayor of DC, but she would also...Read More
For Michael Jackson
Filed by Terrance Heath | July 07, 2009 1:00 PM |Editors' Note: We're republishing Terrance's post about Michael Jackson's death in honor of Jackson's memorial service today. Feel free to use it as your open thread to remember the King of Pop. We all have a few of them. Those...Read More
Arranging the Homosexual Agenda
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 07, 2009 12:00 PM |For reasons I'll explain after the jump, I was thinking last night that someone should ask this question in a poll. Why can't that someone be me here on TBP? It isn't scientific, but I don't think any legit polling...Read More
An "insignificant" truth about common LGBT suicide
Filed by Austen Crowder | July 07, 2009 12:00 PM |A trans person committed suicide in June. Nobody reported it, and her death went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. The death did not end in a sensational court case, or in some bloody mess that news cameras...Read More
Finding Space Again
Filed by Sara Whitman | July 07, 2009 11:00 AM |I've been a little remiss in posting and I'm sorry. I've been adjusting to having my sister here, full time and not well, adding in three boys on vacation with no camp, a new dog, and way too much rain...Read More
White House photo: Frank Kameny
Filed by Bil Browning | July 07, 2009 10:30 AM |The White House sent over this picture of Frank Kameny being honored at the gala reception commemorating Stonewall held last week. I imagine Kameny as thinking, "It was nothing being the first LGBT community organizer, Mr. President. Just doing my...Read More
Jesse's Journal - Obama and the GLBT Community
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | July 07, 2009 10:00 AM |Last year, after the election of Barack Obama (whom I supported), I predicted that Obama "is likely to disappoint us the way that Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton did before." This was not meant as an indictment of Obama but...Read More
Same-Sex Marriage Law Goes into Effect in Washington, D.C.
Filed by John Shields | July 07, 2009 9:30 AM |At 12:01 a.m. today, our nation's capital began recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states. Issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the District of Columbia, however, remains illegal. The D.C. City Council overwhelmingly approved the new ordinance in a...Read More
Michael Jackson Memorial Polio!
Filed by Michael Buckley | July 07, 2009 8:00 AM |Comment Questions of The Day: 1. What is your favorite wacky Michael Jackson moment? What is the silliest thing you have heard a "star" say about him since he passed? (polio?) 2. Will you watch the Memorial for Michael...Read More
Advice to Take to Heart
Filed by Ed Team | July 07, 2009 7:30 AM |"As long as some Americans still must struggle, none of us can be fully content." --President Barack Obama, in an e-mail message on July 4...Read More
Gang of youths taunt and pelt gay man with stones
Filed by Bil Browning | July 07, 2009 7:00 AM |The Minnesota Independent is reporting a gang of Somali youths taunted a gay guy after he left the local gay pride festival and threw rocks at him. You can clearly hear them say things like "F--k gay people!" and...Read More
