October 20, 2009
High School Hand Holding as Punishment... with a Dash of Internalized Homophobia
Filed by Waymon Hudson | October 20, 2009 7:30 PM |The Advocate has a brief story up on a Colorado high school football coach who made two players hold hands and run together as punishment during a recent practice: Officials from the Aurora Public Schools say they are investigating the...Read More
Chuck Bass Outed, A Million Teenage Girls Weep, while Slash Fangirls Squee!
Filed by Jason Tseng | October 20, 2009 6:30 PM |I admit it. I watch Gossip Girl. It's a terribly cheesy, melodramatic, poorly written soap opera. But it's so pretty! That, and the show's tone is so borderline camp it's hard to look away. It's my guilty pleasure, but I...Read More
Serious Shortage at Home
Filed by Sara Whitman | October 20, 2009 5:30 PM |Big drama today in the house. We are down to our last two rolls of toilet paper. Years ago, a columnist for the Boston Globe, Diane White, wrote a fabulous piece on what families tended to hoard. Back in the...Read More
Why is uber-homophobe Tom Coburn writing for the Advocate?
Filed by Alex Blaze | October 20, 2009 4:30 PM |Sen. Tom Coburn has a column up in The Advocate about health care. His argument is asinine (the private health care system is great for people with HIV, particularly the individual market, that we should further empower it), but that's...Read More
Whatever, Mary
Filed by Terrance Heath | October 20, 2009 3:30 PM |I saw this on Friday and -- as is typical in my life -- didn’t get around to writing something about it until today. Since then, of course, bigger bloggers than me -- with bigger media megaphones -- have covered...Read More
Indiana Word stumbles over media discovers journalism
Filed by Bil Browning | October 20, 2009 3:00 PM |It must be hell to be the publisher of an advertising circular masquerading as a community newspaper these days. With all the competition from bloggers and social media, the days of the Indiana Word are probably numbered. One of the...Read More
BPFL's Michael Emanuel Rajner featured in POZ Magazine
Filed by Waymon Hudson | October 20, 2009 2:30 PM |We've got out very own coverboy, Projectors! Bilerico Florida's own Michael Emanuel Rajner is featured in this month's POZ Magazine as one of the inspirational people living with HIV who make the establishment sit up and take notice. I've had...Read More
Sexy and queer religious imagery
Filed by Alex Blaze | October 20, 2009 1:30 PM |Andrés Duque highlighted a fundraising campaign in Spain for the LGTB Collective of Madrid this weekend: they're selling calendars with photographs of queer reinterpretations of famous religious paintings that feature trans women as the Virgin Mary. Some of my favorites...Read More
8 - The Mormon Proposition
Filed by Bil Browning | October 20, 2009 12:30 PM |There's a new documentary coming out that was just submitted to Sundance and other festivals. Reed Cowan and Bruce Bastion are the executive directors and Cowan wrote, directed and produced the movie. Steven Greenstreet covered Prop 8 as a journalist...Read More
Stop the GOP From Taking Virginia Backwards
Filed by Michael Hamar | October 20, 2009 12:30 PM |The title of this post sums up the basic message that the Falls Church News Press makes in an editorial that looks at the prospect of a GOP victory in the upcoming state wide elections in Virginia. Virginia's GLBT citizens...Read More
Sen. Robert Byrd of WV: Legislator of the Day
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | October 20, 2009 11:30 AM |Senator Robert Byrd is the oldest and longest-serving member of the Senate. While some feel that his recent fragile health means that he cannot be counted on for a vote, he has been quite active in the past few weeks...Read More
Martinis With Fred Phelps
Filed by Peter Monn and Alex Paredes | October 20, 2009 11:00 AM |Tonight, I was reading back over some of the Bilerico articles when I came across Bil's article about the kids at North Central putting on "The Laramie Project" and the intentions of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church to...Read More
Unfiltered homophobia in the New York Times
Filed by Alex Blaze | October 20, 2009 10:30 AM |We started in the "exploratory outrage" phase back in June. By late September, it turned into a full-blown hissy fit, with everyone on the right jumping up and down, stomping their feet, and demanding their demands be met without really...Read More
GLBT History Month Icons: Joan Nestle
Filed by Waymon Hudson | October 20, 2009 10:00 AM |The 31 GLBT History Month Icons, living or dead, are selected for their achievements in their field of endeavor, their status as a national hero, or their significant contribution to GLBT civil rights. Today's Icon is Joan Nestle. Joan Nestle...Read More
LA Police Commission to Consider Ending Ties with Boy Scouts
Filed by Guest Blogger | October 20, 2009 9:30 AM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Robert Olivarez is Los Angeles area Latino gay grass roots activist. He loves his community and works to do his part to make sure that Latinos and the LGBTQ community work together and for each other...Read More
Norfolk Country Club Bars Same-Sex Family Membership in Vote
Filed by Michael Hamar | October 20, 2009 9:30 AM |This article from the Virginian Pilot involves two friends of mine and their family. In fact, Shannon was one of the co-founders of HRBOR with me and is one of this year's co-chair for the Equality Virginia Legends event on...Read More
A Teachable Moment
Filed by Ed Team | October 20, 2009 7:30 AM |"As for education, children are already being raised by gay couples. Those children attend our schools, and have for decades. If Sally's two dads come to an elementary school awards night, or if Billy's two moms come to the school...Read More
Don't ask don't tell in Sparta
Filed by Alex Blaze | October 20, 2009 7:00 AM |SNL takes on gays in the Spartan military....Read More
