August 4, 2009
Angie Zapata's Murderer Has A MySpace Page
Filed by Guest Blogger | August 04, 2009 | 7:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Autumn Sandeen is a transgender activist living in San Diego. She is a regular barista at Pam's House Blend where she covered the Angie Zapata trial at length. Tomorrow would be Angie Zapata's 20th birthday. I'm...Read More
Indiana Black Pride is this weekend!
Filed by Bil Browning | August 04, 2009 | 6:00 PM |You are going to Indiana Black Pride, right? It doesn't matter what skin color you are, you know you should be there to support the community. This is the 5th anniversary of Black Pride; I haven't missed one yet and...Read More
Obama's classy birthday
Filed by Bil Browning | August 04, 2009 | 6:00 PM |Happy Birthday to President Obama. The leader of the free world took a moment today to also honor veteran journalist Helen Thomas as well. What a class act. Aren't you glad to have a President who's willing to honor a...Read More
Lu's Womyn-Born-Womyn-Only Policy: The Ongoing Discussions
Filed by Mercedes Allen | August 04, 2009 | 5:00 PM |On July 6th, I noted the story of Lu's: A Pharmacy for Women, operated by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC) , and noted how the Vancouver pharmacy's policy to serve only "women who were born as women and live...Read More
LGBT Challenges: True Leadership
Filed by Phil Reese | August 04, 2009 | 4:00 PM |Recent leadership gaffes in California have reminded me of the challenge of leadership in general--specifically LGBT leadership. What is it about our movement that seduces us to keep picking leaders that we are inevitably unhappy with? In her July 28,...Read More
¡Tenemos un nuevo contribuyente!
Filed by Bil Browning | August 04, 2009 | 3:00 PM |I have a very special new contributor to announce today. Pedro Julio Serrano isn't just a friend of mine, he's also a communications powerhouse. You might remember him from my post "Pura Política entrevista pareja gay" where he and his...Read More
If You Work for a Private Employer in DC, You Want to Know This
Filed by Nancy Polikoff | August 04, 2009 | 3:00 PM |If you are a District of Columbia government employee, you have been able to get health insurance for your registered domestic partner for many years. If you are a federal government employee - well, you are out of luck unless...Read More
Who cares about health care? It's just your life on the line.
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 04, 2009 | 2:00 PM |It just seems like there's so much opposition to what should be a basic right in the richest country in the world, a program that would help a country morally, economically, on a visceral level, that should have been enacted...Read More
DINKS with Drinks?
Filed by Father Tony | August 04, 2009 | 1:00 PM |Jeremy Hobson has delivered a report on NPR's Marketplace that is simply shoddy and rather offensive to at least this half of a DINK (Dual Income No Kids) couple. It begins by questioning whether or not DINKS (of any orientation)...Read More
This just in: transgender acceptance in its "trendy," "chic" phase
Filed by Austen Crowder | August 04, 2009 | 12:00 PM |That's right, folks. If we're lucky, knowing a trans person may finally edge out that tired old "I'm not bigoted because have a gay friend" excuse people sometimes march out in the name of tolerance. Chaz Bono's transition announcement tipped...Read More
Death, Dishonesty & The GOP
Filed by Terrance Heath | August 04, 2009 | 11:00 AM |In an effort to defeat universal health care, conservatives are engaging in a campaign of lies that will ultimately cause more families to suffer needlessly at a most painful time. As someone who worked for years with end-of-life care issues,...Read More
Bart Stupak of MI: U.S. Legislator of the Day
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 04, 2009 | 10:30 AM |Today's LEGISLATOR OF THE DAY * * * drum roll * * * Bart Stupak (MI-D-01) Rep. Stupak is in a very conservative District, which he wrested from the Republicans in 1992. He is one of several pro-life Democrats, but...Read More
A Supremely Ridiculous Argument
Filed by Dana Rudolph | August 04, 2009 | 9:30 AM |Sometimes I read something that is just so mind-blowingly irrational I don't know where to begin. Robert P. George, in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece titled, "Gay Marriage, Democracy, and the Courts," begins by stating that it would be...Read More
What Family Really Means
Filed by Ed Team | August 04, 2009 | 7:30 AM |"I have two moms because they love each other and wanted to have a family. My sister and I were born in China. We're not blood related and all that, but we love each other and are one family brought...Read More
New MIKA video: We Are Golden
Filed by Bil Browning | August 04, 2009 | 7:00 AM |Watch it before YouTube takes it down... The video for MIKA's new song "We Are Golden" is out and it's awesome. I love me some MIKA, but MIKA running around in his boxers is always better....Read More
