December 16, 2009
Help a friend of the Project: #helpahomowin
Filed by Bil Browning | December 16, 2009 7:30 PM |I realize that I'm constantly asking readers to vote for TBP in some contest or another, but today I'm asking that you vote for someone else. Air America has been running a contest for one progressive blogger to win a...Read More
In Sickness and in Health
Filed by David Castillo | December 16, 2009 6:30 PM |I've never been prouder to live in Washington, D.C. than this week when the DC Council voted to recognize same-sex marriages. Come next spring, D.C. will be this country's only major city in which marriage equality is the law, Congress'...Read More
Bush's African Baby Boom
Filed by Terrance Heath | December 16, 2009 5:30 PM |Time and again, I’ve written about how the disastrous consequences of the Bush administration’s HIV/AIDS policy agenda in Africa. Yes, Bush increased aid to Africa. Yes, the Bush administration’s global AIDS policy has been cited as a redeeming positive...Read More
Delightfully topical vintage French postcard
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | December 16, 2009 5:00 PM |Titled "woman of the future," early 1900s French anti-suffrage propaganda. From a series of "humor" cards, intended to demonstrate how ridiculous women would look in positions of authority. This one mocks the idea of a woman mayor. I think she...Read More
Paper and pencil RPG helped me "get" social conservatism
Filed by Austen Crowder | December 16, 2009 4:00 PM |As a self-proclaimed gamer girl, I get asked for recommendations all the time. Any genre, any game type, I have a favorite that's not usually on the radar; however, my absolute, all-time favorite recommendation is the paper-and-pencil RPG "Dogs in...Read More
GOProud vs. AFTAH: The straight right responds to the gay right
Filed by Alex Blaze | December 16, 2009 3:00 PM |GOProud, the wingnutty cousin to the Goldwater conservatives at Log Cabin, announced last week that they'd be co-sponsoring the CPAC (big, annual conservative conference famous for homophobia). A few people pointed out that they'd be cosponsoring with folks like NOM...Read More
MVA: Driving Trans to a Dead End
Filed by Keri Renault | December 16, 2009 3:00 PM |Pre-operative transgender individuals can change their driver's license gender marker in Maryland without genital surgery. It was a pleasant discovery for me shortly after relocating to the east coast in 2008. The department of motor vehicles requires supporting letters from...Read More
In a bad mood? This will cure it!
Filed by Bil Browning | December 16, 2009 2:00 PM |Thanks to Bamboo Nation and Louise on the Left, I bring you today's cure for a bad mood. What could be cuter than a 5 year old Japanese kid rocking out on a ukulele? Here he is with a Jason...Read More
The Advocate: "Beau Bridges on Sex Changes, High Heels"
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | December 16, 2009 1:00 PM |The Advocate on Monday published an article on an interview with actor Beau Bridges, who portrays a transgender detective on TNT's TV show, "The Closer." The article is written by "Advocate.com Editors," who appear not to have read the GLAAD...Read More
Continued Homophobia in the Legal Profession
Filed by Michael Hamar | December 16, 2009 12:30 PM |ENDA appears to be going nowhere this year and as a result LGBT employees in a majority of states - including ever backwards Virginia - will continue to have no employment non-discrimination protections. That includes LGBT attorneys and paralegals who...Read More
Gay peace activist killed in Honduras
Filed by Alex Blaze | December 16, 2009 12:00 PM |Jessica Hoffmann posted a few weeks ago about LGBT folks getting treated worse as a result of the coup in Honduras. Now a prominent gay activist has been found dead. He was already targeted by police for speaking out against...Read More
Expression, Role, and Identity: Gender
Filed by Antonia D'orsay | December 16, 2009 11:00 AM |As promised, I will now tackle the concept of gender. Previously, I talked about What is Trans. Then I talked about What is Sex - between the legs it was, and now we come to the between the ears part....Read More
Catholic Gibberish from Communications Director Susan Gibbs
Filed by Father Tony | December 16, 2009 10:00 AM |I can only imagine that Susan Gibbs must have laughed till she cried while writing this. Then she went home, poured herself a double scotch, and reminded herself that even though she hates being a tool for a bunch of...Read More
Where the Mannequins Are (vintage lobby card)
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | December 16, 2009 9:30 AM |This is wrong on so many levels....Read More
NOM promises to overturn DC marriage
Filed by Ed Team | December 16, 2009 7:30 AM |"The people of D.C. have a right, guaranteed by the charter, which is D.C.'s constitution, to vote to protect marriage. Politicians on the city council are acting as if they have the right through legislation to deprive citizens of D.C....Read More
Oral Roberts on lesbians, gays, penises, and vaginas
Filed by Alex Blaze | December 16, 2009 7:00 AM |Uber-successful Evangelist Oral Roberts died yesterday. He was, like many of the people in his profession, a homophobe. Listen to him go on about the vagina and penis and how they come together....Read More
