November 24, 2009

Diane Silver

The Horrible Truth About Gay Marriage

Filed by Diane Silver | November 24, 2009 7:00 PM | comments

The minute voters ripped the right to marry away from same-sex couples in Maine, the call rang out across LGBTQ America: Let's give up on marriage. The defeat in Maine was horrible in itself, but it was even more galling...Read More

Bil Browning

Don't be a turkey & Christmas stamps

Filed by Bil Browning | November 24, 2009 6:30 PM | comments

Sign this Thanksgiving Day card for Democrats who have been true allies to the LGBT community. As an aside: I saw that Madonna and Child is this year's Christmas stamp. I was sorely disappointed when I clicked through to see...Read More

Alex Blaze

Hate crimes up in 2008

Filed by Alex Blaze | November 24, 2009 5:30 PM | comments

It's not really surprising that the FBI is reporting that hate crimes based on sexual orientation went up in 2008. The trend has already been remarked in New York and in California. It's almost as if demonization of LGBTQ people...Read More

Gloria Brame, Ph.D.

Campy Theater Lobby Card: Queen of Outer Space

Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | November 24, 2009 5:00 PM | comments

Before there was GaGa there was Zsa Zsa!...Read More

Guest Blogger

"I'm getting married!" A New Way of Coming Out?

Filed by Guest Blogger | November 24, 2009 4:00 PM | comments

Editors' note: Alan Schwartz, M.D., a member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, is also Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health. He is a psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute and...Read More

Patricia Nell Warren

Victory Garden: Celery and Season's Greetings

Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | November 24, 2009 3:00 PM | comments

With Thanksgiving is almost upon us, not to mention Christmas and New Year's, it's time for the final racking of brains over which stuffing recipe to choose. Every LGBT person I know in L.A. is planning on forgetting the economic...Read More

Alex Blaze

Why I wouldn't expect the Catholic Church to become more gay-friendly

Filed by Alex Blaze | November 24, 2009 2:00 PM | comments

Church-outing might be happening with the right motives and might change minds of people who don't work for the Church, but don't expect it to change Church policy on gay clergy any time soon. This is a direct and obvious...Read More

Bil Browning

18 Naughty Things You Can Only Say On Thanksgiving

Filed by Bil Browning | November 24, 2009 1:00 PM | comments

Note: I ran this list last year and Projectors had so much fun coming up with an extra two naughty things to say on Turkey Day that I thought I'd post it again this year. Let's see what y'all come...Read More

Gloria Brame, Ph.D.

FOUND: Strangest beauty contest ever

Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | November 24, 2009 12:30 PM | comments

"Miss KKK 1945?" WTF? Your captions welcome....Read More

Terrance Heath

Talk the Talk, Walk the Walk

Filed by Terrance Heath | November 24, 2009 11:30 AM | comments

I just have one thing to say about this. Forget WWJD. The new question is apparently What Would MLK Do? A coalition of politically and theologically conservative Christian leaders, including nine Roman Catholic bishops, who have just signed a...Read More

Dr. Jillian T. Weiss

Let's Tell Chairman George Miller to Move ENDA

Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | November 24, 2009 10:30 AM | comments

Representative George Miller is the chair of the House Committee on Education and Labor. His Committee was supposed to markup the Employment Non-Discrimination Act last Wednesday and move it to the House floor for a vote. Instead, he has decided...Read More

Prince Gomolvilas

One Queer Man and One Straight Woman on a Big Gay Bus

Filed by Prince Gomolvilas | November 24, 2009 9:30 AM | comments

Bilerico guest blogger Louise Larsen, who also writes at Louise on the Left, joined me this past Sunday for a ride on a big gay bus. You see, Out & About Tours recently launched Los Angeles' first and only gay...Read More

Ed Team

Going to the Source

Filed by Ed Team | November 24, 2009 7:30 AM | comments

"I remember the first preacher I heard preach an anti-gay sermon, when I was 16. So as opposed to swallowing this nasty pill from this preacher, I went to the source." --Kevin E. Taylor, now pastor of Unity Fellowship Church...Read More

Alex Blaze

More Betty Bowers

Filed by Alex Blaze | November 24, 2009 7:00 AM | comments

Did not know that Glenn Beck was Mormon.......Read More

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