July 13, 2009
The big gay legal turf war
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 13, 2009 6:00 PM |It'd be hard to say that the Boies and Olson case got more strange last week with their cold response to several LGBT legal groups' motion to intervene, but there really isn't anything new about these sorts of turf wars...Read More
Judge Sotomayor for the Supreme Court
Filed by Kate Kendell | July 13, 2009 4:30 PM |As a legal organization litigating cases in federal and state courts, we are keenly focused on the current Senate confirmation process for Judge Sotomayor. For the future of this country on so many essential issues that mark our times and...Read More
Survey results
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 13, 2009 4:00 PM |Here are the results for the poll on LGBT priority legislation I put up last week: ENDA44% DOMA repeal18% DADT repeal17% Hate crimes legislation8% Everything else got 3% or less. Well, those are the bills that get talked about the...Read More
Young Republicans elect racist middle-aged woman President
Filed by Bil Browning | July 13, 2009 3:00 PM |And, no, it's not Sarah Palin. The Young Republican convention held this weekend in Indianapolis wasn't without controversy. While no one was arrested for giving sleeping men blowjobs, this year's flap was over incoming President Audra Shay's election. The Lousiana...Read More
NBC's The Listener: Taking on Trans Youth
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 13, 2009 2:30 PM |I've been watching a show on NBC that I haven't heard too much buzz about. The Listener is about a paramedic who can read people's thoughts and uses it to help others. Think "Heroes" without the giant cast and a...Read More
Updates on the swimming campers in Philadelphia
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 13, 2009 1:30 PM |The day campers that got kicked out of a private pool in Philadelphia because they were black are now swimming at a local private boarding school's pool. Ironically enough, Girard College was a school for white orphans set up by...Read More
Tidbits: Racist porn, Voodoo rituals and Big Brother's Jessie Godderz naked pics (again)
Filed by Bil Browning | July 13, 2009 1:00 PM |Every Monday morning I open my e-mail and see all of the messages from Projectors wanting me to look at this or that article, link their latest post, or write about some subject or another. Every week I save the...Read More
Bigger is better at Bilerico-Florida as we welcome Tom Brown!
Filed by Father Tony | July 13, 2009 12:30 PM |Please welcome Tom Brown of Daytona Beach, the newest member of our happily expanding Bilerico-Florida family. Tom is a self-described "unrehabilitated relic of the 60s" who spent 38 years in mainstream media. Early in his journalism career, he was a...Read More
David Brooks got the bad touch from a Republican Senator
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 13, 2009 12:00 PM |I can't beat all the "point to where the Senator touched you on the doll, David" jokes out there, but can I just point out how weird this admission from David Brooks is?...Read More
What's Sarah Palin Up To?
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | July 13, 2009 10:30 AM |Everybody in the world is jumping on the Palin prediction bandwagon. This is not surprising. Ever since she popped onto the national scene during the 2008 Presidential campaign, predicting whether Palin would win or self-destruct has become a national sport....Read More
Where is the Senate on ENDA?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | July 13, 2009 9:30 AM |It's close. But we can do it. As I am sure you remember from Schoolhouse Rock, it's hard to make a Bill into a Law. In order for a Bill to be presented to the President for signature, it must...Read More
Kerry Disses DOMA
Filed by Ed Team | July 13, 2009 7:30 AM |"DOMA should never have passed and should never have become the law of the land. Unconstitutional and fundamentally unfair, today the human cost is especially clear and compelling. Denying same sex couples the same rights and protections under the law...Read More
Hitler finds out Sarah Palin is resigning
Filed by Bil Browning | July 13, 2009 7:00 AM |I know, I know, Sarah Palin is soooo yesterday, but Projector John sent this video in last week and I forgot to feature it when it was totally "current." Anyone else think that Sarah Palin would turn Hitler over...Read More
