July 8, 2009
Manfriend, Mania and the Dead Puppy
Filed by Sara Whitman | July 08, 2009 7:00 PM |I'm not sure where to begin... this is a story you won't believe. I will tell it as plainly as I can but still... you won't believe it. I wouldn't if I hadn't lived it. Wednesday, the 17th, my sister...Read More
Someone stepped over your grave
Filed by Bil Browning | July 08, 2009 6:30 PM |You know that feeling you get down your spine that makes you tingle and shake? My mom used to say that "Someone just stepped over your grave." Mitch Daniels for President. Yeah, that's the feeling all right. Did you get...Read More
This is 2009, this is the north, this is America, and this is what it looks like
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 08, 2009 6:30 PM |A private pool in Philadelphia apparently didn't like the idea of black children swimming in their pool, even though these campers had already paid the enormous fee to use the pool. More than 60 campers from Northeast Philadelphia were turned...Read More
Massachusetts sues the Feds to overturn DOMA
Filed by Bil Browning | July 08, 2009 5:30 PM |Well this certainly ratchets up the discussion, eh? Massachusetts's federal lawsuit to overturn DOMA relies on a federalist argument while GLAD's case is based on equal protection claims. The lawsuit questions the constitutionality of Section 3 of the law, which...Read More
Ice Age 3: Can a Queer Utopia Be Built on Prehistoric Gender Roles?
Filed by Paige Schilt | July 08, 2009 4:00 PM |Last week, Zac Hart at Bilerico-Indiana wrote about walking out of Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. Zac's catalogue of summer blockbuster racism and homophobia got me thinking about the other movie at the top of the box office charts,...Read More
Star Parker chastises blacks who support that homosexualist, Christian teaching-abandoning Obama
Filed by Pam Spaulding | July 08, 2009 3:00 PM |If you want another good laugh at the delusional anti-gay mindset, click over and read Star Parker's "When color trumps Christianity" over at Clown Hall. It's another case of Bizarro World, where the God-fearing American culture is going to hell...Read More
Massachusetts State Senator Comes Out on Independence Day
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 08, 2009 2:00 PM |Massachusetts State Senator Stan Rosenberg, a Democrat, came out to his constituents in a recent Independence Day op-ed in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, identifying himself as: a foster child who grew up as a ward of the state, as a...Read More
Healthcare Reform for LGBT Americans
Filed by Dan O'Neill | July 08, 2009 2:00 PM |The healthcare reform debate has become so fluid and has moved so quickly as of late, that trying to follow along is akin to taking a proverbial drink from a fire-hose of health policy. Currently, there are five committees in...Read More
What's really scary is the deductible
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 08, 2009 1:00 PM |There are so many layers of possible, subtle, and overt homophobia, misogyny, racism, sodomy anxiety, Nixonian resentment, and sexophobia cynically in use to turn conservatives off to health care reform in the new National Review cover that it isn't possible...Read More
Hiding Pills in Brownies; or: Combating Homophobia in California's Heartland (Finally)
Filed by Prince Gomolvilas | July 08, 2009 12:00 PM |When the New Conservatory Theatre Center's YouthAware Educational Theatre program began touring Ed Roy's The Other Side of the Closet in 2000, the play - with its gritty and direct handling of homophobia and youth violence - was welcomed by...Read More
What cat? I'm not hiding anything!
Filed by Bil Browning | July 08, 2009 11:30 AM |What's your best caption for this photo? You guys always have the funniest one-liners so I can't wait to see what you come up with for this one. (Hat tip to Projector Dawn for sending in the photo.) I love...Read More
The Queerness of Michael Jackson
Filed by Rev Irene Monroe | July 08, 2009 10:30 AM |At Michael Jackson's memorial service the Rev. Al Sharpton gave a rousing speech that had the congregation at the Staples Center rise to their feet at times with shouts of "Amen!" Sharpton made one particular statement in his speech to...Read More
The Lady Bunny Gets Angry
Filed by Father Tony | July 08, 2009 10:30 AM |The Lady Bunny, New York's reigning drag queen, takes a moment from her otherwise filthy and endearing performance at Wilton Manors bar Georgie's Alibi on Monday July 6, 2009, to remind the crowd that there is work to be done....Read More
OK, Just Please Don't Rap
Filed by Terrance Heath | July 08, 2009 9:30 AM |Aw, man. First K-Fed and now this? Levi Johnston is now officially an aspiring actor and model. And according to his new manager Tank Jones, he is getting closer to a clinching a deal that will help him support...Read More
Trans and Visible
Filed by Guest Blogger | July 08, 2009 9:00 AM |Editor's Note: Today's Guest Contributor is the Reverend Donna Tara Lee, a Gainesville Florida out and proud M2F transgender activist. Back in 1978 the message of Harvey Milk was that if we were out, the public would know us and...Read More
Experience and Stature
Filed by Ed Team | July 08, 2009 7:30 AM |"The guy's been trying to make schools safe for kids for more than two decades. But in the short-term, Jennings' experience may be less valuable to the administration than his stature as a gay leader. . . . Jennings might...Read More
I was a Prop 8 volunteer
Filed by Bil Browning | July 08, 2009 7:00 AM |Comedian Marga Gomez's standup routine is always hilarious, but she really hits it out of the park with this segment, "I was a Prop 8 volunteer."...Read More
