February 23, 2010
DADT, isolation, and sadness
Filed by Guest Blogger | February 23, 2010 7:00 PM |Editors' note: Gina King comes from a family with a strong tradition of military service is a veteran of the US Navy. She identifies as intersexed and trans identified. Currently she works within the military industrial complex as a vital...Read More
Indiana should be polled on the ENDA
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 23, 2010 6:00 PM |Dear media outlets considering polling in Indiana, Please consider asking about the ENDA, or, more generally, banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. I'm sure some of you are finally interested in Indiana again, interested enough to fund...Read More
Jesse's Journal: Gay Resistance, the Lessons of History
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | February 23, 2010 5:00 PM |Resistance takes many forms. For some of us, it means staging a demonstration or starting a political action group. For others, it means being defiantly different in a society that hates difference. As John Rechy and Charley Shively noted more...Read More
Get hitched or get ditched!
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | February 23, 2010 4:30 PM |The Skinny in Edinburgh asked me to write a short piece on marriage (no, my dear, you're not the only one), and here's how it starts: My mother, a straight white woman in her early sixties, recently moved to a...Read More
Jamie Gillis RIP
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 23, 2010 4:00 PM |If you've watched enough 70s and 80s porn, you've probably seen at least one film starring the infamously omnisexual porn actor Jamie Gillis, who died this past Friday. Find out much more about this legendary sexual radical in a (NSFW!)...Read More
LBL: Land Based Lesbian
Filed by Kate Clinton | February 23, 2010 3:00 PM |Just washed ashore from the RSVP cruise, and should have my land legs back any day now. I need a Dramamine to go to the Duane Reade. I met up with my 2,200 mateys on the Eurodam in Curacao last...Read More
DADT: It's Showtime
Filed by Sara Whitman | February 23, 2010 2:00 PM |Not such a great start to the week yesterday. I hurt my back. I never hurt my back. As my sister said to me, you getting OLD. OLD. Yes, I am. All that happened was I was horsing around with...Read More
Kai (2)
Filed by Sean Martin | February 23, 2010 1:00 PM |The risks we take to serve our country arent always on the battlefield. Click here for a larger version....Read More
Uganda's Porn Peddling Pastor Ssempa Responds to Critics
Filed by Waymon Hudson | February 23, 2010 12:00 PM |Pastor Martin Ssempa, one of the biggest proponents of Uganda's "Kill the Gays" Bill and a favorite contact for American Evangelicals like Rick Warren, has apparently been googling his name and doesn't like what he's been reading. After numerous scatological...Read More
Canada is still prosecuting people under its sodomy law
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 23, 2010 11:00 AM |A former chaplain's been charged with buggery, the equivalent of sodomy, in Canada: Now the retired chaplain faces a basket of charges, including sexual assault. Bazin was also charged with buggery, a now-abolished law, a fact that has alarmed gay...Read More
Brad Ellsworth: A Disaster Waiting to Happen
Filed by Bil Browning | February 23, 2010 10:00 AM |Rep. Brad Ellsworth announced on Friday he would seek the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Evan Bayh. I touched on Ellsworth's history of throwing LGBT people under the bus in a post last week for Huffington Post. Today I...Read More
Vintage drag: Boyz will be Can-Can Girlz
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 23, 2010 9:30 AM |Love this merry 1930s cabinet card. Shall we dance?...Read More
Not living in fear
Filed by Ed Team | February 23, 2010 7:30 AM |"We want people to know that its not ok to do this and we're taking a stand because we don't want people to live in fear." --Anti-gay hate crime victim Emmanuel Winston, who was attacked while wearing a gay softball...Read More
Housing discrimination isn't illegal in West Virginia
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 23, 2010 7:00 AM |A lesbian couple in West Virginia says they were denied housing because they were lesbian. Also, the media coverage was surprisingly good, stressing the fact that they have no legal recourse for this discrimination....Read More
