February 24, 2010
IN marriage amendment dies in committee
Filed by Bil Browning | February 24, 2010 | 7:00 PM |Now that the Indiana legislature is wrapping up their business for the year, Indiana Equality is claiming victory in this years' marriage amendment skirmish. From an e-blast: Senate Joint Resolution 13, the Marriage Discrimination Amendment, has died in the Indiana...Read More
Ads that don't work: French smoking ad and the Tim Tebow anti-choice ad revisited
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 24, 2010 | 6:00 PM |Just because an ad says something doesn't mean that it's message is going to get through. Take this French ad that's supposed to be anti-smoking, even though all I see at first glance is a hot guy getting some action,...Read More
Making Trouble: Why
Filed by Antonia D'orsay | February 24, 2010 | 5:00 PM |So in my last column, a few statements were made by various commenters that raise issues that go well beyond the scope of just a single comment on one thread. All of them raised issues with the specter that's haunting...Read More
It's Not God Saying Gays Should Be Put to Death, It's YOU
Filed by Waymon Hudson | February 24, 2010 | 4:00 PM |Alright. Let's get one thing straight, fundie homophobes- you don't get a pass when you "quote" the Leviticus Bible verse saying: If man lies with a man as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an...Read More
LGBT health care provisions hanging even more tenuously now
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 24, 2010 | 3:00 PM |With all the hub-bub in the straight media this week over Obama's health care proposal cutting the public option (I guess the White House isn't even going to pretend to support a popular cost-cutting measure anymore if it displeases the...Read More
Maryland Attorney General Recognizes Same-Sex Marriage
Filed by Keri Renault | February 24, 2010 | 2:00 PM |Attorney General Doug Gansler has released a long-awaited opinion in favor of recognizing out-of-state, same-sex marriages in Maryland. Senator Rich Madeleno (D-Montgomery) requested the Attorney General's opinion in May of 2009. The opinion concludes the State of Maryland may recognize...Read More
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Filed by Sean Martin | February 24, 2010 | 1:00 PM |Decisions: how do you decide what's more important? Click here for a larger version....Read More
Bilerico goes to SXSW: Provides free booze
Filed by Bil Browning | February 24, 2010 | 12:00 PM |The annual South By South West conference and festival in Austin, Texas, is one of the most popular festivals in the nation. It combines film, music and the internet into a sort of interactive geek fest, film festival and rock...Read More
In CPAC's Conservative Circus, Are Gays The High-Wire Act?
Filed by David Badash | February 24, 2010 | 11:00 AM |Last week was the perfect storm of Conservative carnival cacophony. "Ladies and Gentlemen, Children of All Ages...." should have been the rallying cry, starting on Valentine's Day, when homophobe Tucker Carlson did a spot with Clayton Morris of "Fox And...Read More
Natural Male Affection: Vintage Photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 24, 2010 | 10:30 AM |One of the most disturbing aspects of post-modern homophobia is that it has placed so many restrictions on how men are supposed to interact. I love coming across photos from my parents' and grandparents' generations, when men could still openly...Read More
Vancouver: TV Ratings R Us
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | February 24, 2010 | 9:30 AM |The Winter Games are made to order for TV ratings. Day before yesterday, two luscious and photogenic young couples, Canada and U.S.A., duked it out for the gold, while U.S.A. and Russia slugged over the bronze. Re the win, judging...Read More
Cheryl Cole Dumps A-hole Husband!!! - Eastenders! - RuPaul's Drag Race
Filed by Michael Buckley | February 24, 2010 | 8:00 AM |Comment Questions of the Day: 1. Do you think Cheryl is going to be on Dancing with the Stars! Leave a HELL YAY comment of support that she left her husband!! 2. Did you tune in to the Eastenders...Read More
Ophelia's sassy gay friend
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 24, 2010 | 7:30 AM |Another take on the asexual gay best friend....Read More
Same old, same old
Filed by Ed Team | February 24, 2010 | 7:30 AM |"It's the same old song. Some people don't have enough to do creating jobs and moving this economy forward, so they think up divisive things." -- Indiana State Speaker of the House Pat Bauer in late January when asked by...Read More
