July 31, 2009
Queer music Friday - Patrick Wolf
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 31, 2009 5:00 PM |Here's Patrick Wolf's new video, "Hard Times": A great acoustic performance of "The Magic Position" is after the jump....Read More
Teach What You Learn: The Straight Guy's Primer on Gender Identity
Filed by Don Davis | July 31, 2009 4:00 PM |For today's story, we will travel far afield from the typical domains of politics or science or law that have so often provoked our thinking into an often overlooked area of human relations: To which gender do you belong? It's...Read More
Devastating D.C. Center Budget Cuts Jeopardize Safer Sex Campaign
Filed by Dan O'Neill | July 31, 2009 3:30 PM |My good friend, Terry Gerace, and I began a new HIV prevention campaign in June of this year to help combat the epidemic rate of HIV infection in Washington, D.C. After 8 years of "abstinence-only policies" and steadily rising rates...Read More
The "Gay Agenda" includes Medals of Freedom
Filed by Kate Kendell | July 31, 2009 3:00 PM |Yesterday, the White House announced the recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor. The list of 16 exemplary individuals includes Harvey Milk, awarded the medal posthumously, and tennis legend and gender equity champion Billie Jean...Read More
Out of the Minneapolis airport and into the Mainstream Media
Filed by Don Sherfick | July 31, 2009 2:30 PM |The flap over the arrest of a black Harvard professor by a Cambridge police sergeant, leading to the two sharing a beer or two on the White House lawn makes me wonder if another arrest, this one at the Minneapolis...Read More
Zack and the Black Cat
Filed by John Shields | July 31, 2009 2:30 PM |Want a queer way to make your way into the dog days of August? It is July 31st after all... If so, then head to the Black Cat tonight, as Zack is a spinning Transformer. And he promises to pump...Read More
GOP Sexual Hypocrite quote of the day - David Vitter
Filed by Pam Spaulding | July 31, 2009 2:00 PM |And the winner is...Senator Diaper David Vitter, who suggested that the fix for the Republican Party's malaise is to return to its -- ahem -- conservative values....Read More
Muslim state lawmaker supports gay marriage
Filed by Bil Browning | July 31, 2009 1:00 PM |A Muslim Maryland state legislator voiced his support of same-sex marriage in a local newspaper. My stance on this issue isn't politically expedient. I am the first Muslim in the legislature. Homosexuality is strictly forbidden in Islam. As such I...Read More
HRC Launches New Grassroots Campaign Targeting Congress
Filed by Michael Crawford | July 31, 2009 12:00 PM |We have to push harder and smarter if we want to see change in Congress. And, there's no better time to do it than the upcoming August congressional recess. As David Badash wrote in an earlier post, if we don't...Read More
Can we say the police acted stupidly here?
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 31, 2009 11:00 AM |We already knew expressing your opinion was an arrestable offense. I just thought the police would be a little less blatant about it, but I guess the fact that the media has fully turned them into "the troops" this past...Read More
Dutch Ruppersberger: U.S. Legislator of the Day
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | July 31, 2009 10:30 AM |Today's LEGISLATOR OF THE DAY * * * drum roll * * * C. A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger (MD-D-02) Rep. Ruppersberger is from a heavily Democratic district, and has run substantially without opposition. While he abstained on hate crimes bills in...Read More
Here Come the Eye-Rollers: Milk, King Honored by Obama
Filed by Dustin Kight | July 31, 2009 9:30 AM |I'm probably not the first to say that the LGBT community sounds (and acts) like a broken record sometimes. Ever since the President didn't wave a magic wand on Inauguration Day, we've largely been reacting to anything the Administration does...Read More
Shane Dawson - Mr Gay YouTube???
Filed by Michael Buckley | July 31, 2009 8:30 AM |Today's video is a promo for my new Minisode Maniac featuring Christmas in July! I talk about popular videos on YouTube and Shane Dawson shows up and demands the results of Mr. YouTube!! I decide to interview him and...Read More
A Scorcha
Filed by Kate Clinton | July 31, 2009 8:00 AM |What is this, a summer seminar on race? Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Lou Dobbs, and the cop, the professor and the President have a beer - what a conversation the nation is having!...Read More
A Standard to Which We Should All Strive
Filed by Ed Team | July 31, 2009 7:30 AM |"These outstanding men and women represent an incredible diversity of backgrounds. Their tremendous accomplishments span fields from science to sports, from fine arts to foreign affairs. Yet they share one overarching trait: Each has been an agent of change. Each...Read More
Surveillance tape of Mormon Church kissers
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 31, 2009 7:00 AM |Not that great of quality, but here's the video surveillance tape of the two men arrested for trespassing when they kissed several weeks ago on LDS Church property....Read More
