December 30, 2009
Top 10 LGBT Stories of 2009
Filed by Bil Browning | December 30, 2009 7:00 PM |2009 was a year of momentum for the LGBT community. For the first time, federal legislation was passed that included sexual orientation and gender identity, over 250,000+ LGBT people and allies marched on Washington for civil rights, same-sex marriage was...Read More
Gay professor killed, murderer claims he was sexually assaulted
Filed by Alex Blaze | December 30, 2009 5:30 PM |An Indiana University English professor was found stabbed to death in his home. The professor was African American and gay, wrote for The Advocate and Newsweek, wrote a novel, and edited an anthology of essays on black masculinity. A suspect...Read More
Ohio Senate Removes LGBT Protections From Teen Dating-Violence Prevention Law
Filed by Guest Blogger | December 30, 2009 4:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Chris Geidner is a lawyer in Washington, D.C., who blogs at Law Dork, is a regular contributor to Metro Weekly and has written for The Atlantic Online, Advocate.com and elsewhere. You also can follow him on...Read More
Reprinted by request: My First Time
Filed by Bil Browning | December 30, 2009 2:30 PM |Note: I've had several requests over the past few months to re-run this post so newer Projectors can read it and start a fresh comment thread. This post originally ran in February of 2008. I still haven't found Steve to...Read More
Kissing Cousins - As Long as They Are Straight
Filed by Jerame Davis | December 30, 2009 1:12 PM |I always knew there was something special about living in Indiana. I never knew it was that we are so backwards that we allow first cousins to marry - but only if they're of opposite sex, of course. We don't...Read More
Ushuaia is just as good as Buenos Aires
Filed by Alex Blaze | December 30, 2009 1:00 PM |About a month ago a Buenos Aires judge ruled that the city couldn't ban same-sex marriage, and activists Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex Freyre set their wedding date for December first, World AIDS Day. Later that week, a federal...Read More
First Openly Gay Superhero to be Written and Drawn by Gay Comic Artist
Filed by Jason Tseng | December 30, 2009 11:30 AM |Northstar. For queer comic fans he is the longest running joke in Marvel. Since his groundbreaking coming out in 1992 (after a series of unfortunate events including a short stint as a fairy and adopting an AIDS baby who then...Read More
WTF? Deep fried fish eaten alive
Filed by Bil Browning | December 30, 2009 10:30 AM |WARNING: Graphically disturbing! I have never seen anything like this before in my life. According to the Huffington Post, Chinese chefs have found a way to keep a fish alive while deep frying it so it can gasp for air...Read More
Gays and lesbians left at the border in immigration reform bill
Filed by Joe Mirabella | December 30, 2009 9:30 AM |The LGBT community has been working for immigration reform for years. Our families are regularly split apart because we can not sponsor our foreign born loved ones for citizenship like married heterosexual couples can. Americans are forced to split up...Read More
Mark Feehily on Stephen Gately
Filed by Ed Team | December 30, 2009 7:30 AM |"Stephen was extremely brave. He was the first member of a boyband to come out, and, in hindsight, it helped me and probably lots of other gay lads to understand their sexuality and come out. Every time a celebrity who...Read More
Gay kiss scene from Dorian Gray
Filed by Alex Blaze | December 30, 2009 7:00 AM |For your viewing pleasure, here's the gay kiss scene from Dorian Gray. Happy New Year!...Read More
