September 3, 2009
Cleve Jones interview: The non-March questions
Filed by Bil Browning | September 03, 2009 8:00 PM |This segment from our interview with Cleve Jones focuses mostly on the questions submitted that weren't about the National Equality March. Readers and social networking followers sent in the questions and I'm reading them off the iPhone as they're coming...Read More
Homosexuality as a Weapon of Torture
Filed by Karen Ocamb | September 03, 2009 7:00 PM |Update:Both CNN and ABC News reported Friday morning that 8 ArmorGroup contact guards identified in the pictures by a US State Department investigator have been fired. Two others have resigned; other guards are still under investigation. We await word to...Read More
You Made the Bed, Now Sleep In it (Alone)?
Filed by Guest Blogger | September 03, 2009 6:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Adam Bink is the Online Strategy Manager at Progressive Strategies, LLC, and manages design and advertising at OpenLeft.com, a blog covering national progressive politics. He is a Dupont Circle resident and enjoys cooking, cycling, ultimate frisbee,...Read More
Dan Savage, Chill With Your Race Baiting
Filed by Monica Roberts | September 03, 2009 5:00 PM |Dan Savage just won't give up pimping that thoroughly discredited meme about the Prop 8 loss in Ca-lee-forn-ia. "I do know this, though: I'm done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there--and they're out there, and...Read More
NGLTF endorses National Equality March
Filed by Bil Browning | September 03, 2009 4:30 PM |NGLTF has officially endorsed the National Equality March as I predicted last week. From the official press release: "For the past 30 years, LGBT people and our allies have come together in Washington to be inspired, to engage in political...Read More
Gay bar bombed in Rome
Filed by Alex Blaze | September 03, 2009 4:00 PM |Two small bombs were thrown from motorcycles at a bar in a gayborhood in Rome last night. Several people were injured, fortunately no one died. While several European countries recognize same-sex marriage, and the European Union's Court has occasionally recognized...Read More
An unexpected honor
Filed by Bil Browning | September 03, 2009 3:00 PM |The good folks at the Indiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have decided to give me the "Two Paws Up Award" for blogging about animal abuse. The award will be given during the group's annual honors meeting...Read More
"One Fight, Not Fifty" Sets Us Up for Failure
Filed by Diane Silver | September 03, 2009 3:00 PM |I hate to be grumpy, but I am horrified by the latest rallying cry for the National Equality March. It's the grassroots slogan: "One Fight, Not Fifty." Just to be clear... I'm not attacking the march. What's got me gritting...Read More
Maine's Marriage Equality Repeal Makes Ballot: An Overview of the Fight
Filed by Waymon Hudson | September 03, 2009 2:00 PM |As expected, equality opponents Stand for Marriage Maine managed to get enough signatures to place Question 1, a repeal of Maine's newly passed Marriage Equality bill, on the November ballot. The drive to put the "People's Veto" on the ballot...Read More
Servicemembers United & HRC Bring Tour to Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" to Florida
Filed by Waymon Hudson | September 03, 2009 1:00 PM |Servicemembers United and the Human Rights Campaign are bringing their National Tour to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" to Florida. LGBT and straight service members will highlight "Voices of Honor: A Generation Under 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'" in Miami, Orlando,...Read More
This week's flotsam and jetsam
Filed by Bil Browning | September 03, 2009 12:00 PM |It's Thursday, so it's time for another roundup of tidbits from around the web that we didn't get the time to cover in depth. After Lil Mama's offensive comments to a transgender competitor on "America's Best Dance Crew," the judge...Read More
Things looking up in Washington's domestic partnership battle
Filed by Alex Blaze | September 03, 2009 12:00 PM |This is some good polling to enter a ballot initiative campaign with (from Washington state, where they'll have an initiative to overturn a law that made domestic partnerships marriage in everything but the name): But by 2008, 66 percent of...Read More
Arkansas's Senator Mark Pryor: Legislator of the Day
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | September 03, 2009 11:30 AM |Arkansas has two key Senate votes in the fight for ENDA: Senators Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln. There is a poignant back story on Sen. Pryor and the failure of ENDA in 1996 by a single vote. Please call them...Read More
Michelangelo Signorile vs NOM's Brian Brown
Filed by Michael Crawford | September 03, 2009 11:00 AM |Grab the popcorn kids cause this is good stuff! Yesterday Michelangelo Signorile had Brian Brown, Executive Director of the National Organization for Marriage, on his radio show. The interview was nothing like the puff piece published in the Washington Post...Read More
Openly-Gay Candidate Steve Kornell Dominates St. Pete Primary for City Council
Filed by Nadine Smith | September 03, 2009 10:30 AM |Now He Needs Your Help in the General Election! Tuesday, Steve Kornell took a huge step toward making history in Florida as St. Pete's first openly-LGBT city council member by overwhelmingly winning a three-way Primary Election with 49% of the...Read More
Two Oddly Related Letters
Filed by Father Tony | September 03, 2009 10:30 AM |Dear Father Tony, I am 22, Columbian and athletic. My English is very good, but sometimes I miss signals and make mistakes. At the gym an old guy was cruising me in the locker room. He followed me everywhere....Read More
Yeah, iPhone users it's all your fault
Filed by Michael Crawford | September 03, 2009 9:30 AM |Reading the New York Times, I came across a story that featured AT&T executives and analysts whining about iPhone users actually using the devices that they've purchased. It's a data guzzler. Owners use them like minicomputers, which they are, and...Read More
Wanna see Levi Johnston's Johnson?
Filed by Bil Browning | September 03, 2009 9:30 AM |Fresh off the heels of Levi Johnston's popular Vanity Fair photoshoot, he's now been offered a Playgirl spread. And he's accepted - because he thinks it's a magazine "where a dude poses for women." Oh, Levi. You're so pretty. Notice...Read More
Get Bilerico in your (in)box every night!
Filed by Bil Browning | September 03, 2009 8:30 AM |A lot of Projectors write and ask what we send to our e-mail list. Each night at midnight, we round up all of the day's posts and send them out to subscribers. We only include the front page portion of...Read More
The K8 Word
Filed by Kate Clinton | September 03, 2009 8:00 AM |Women athletes on the cover of the New York Times? Great! Oh, it says women in tennis can't serve? Oy. At least this Dykus Maximum can look forward to the return of the new L Word reality show!...Read More
A Lot to Say
Filed by Ed Team | September 03, 2009 7:30 AM |"There are just so many stereotypes about us that we have to be these silent cool types that don't talk or only are about how we look. And we have a lot to say. "We just don't really ever get...Read More
I Miss the Kids
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | September 03, 2009 7:00 AM |Since these actors grew up and split up, they've gotten kind of stodgy. Here they were in their gloriously politically incorrect days. One of my favorite skits....Read More
