March 4, 2010
Help Wanted: Clinical Psychologist - No Experience Necessary
Filed by Keri Renault | March 04, 2010 7:00 PM |Lobby Day arrived in Maryland on the 22nd of February. It's fitting this blog is posted two weeks late. The Blizzard of 2010 postponed the annual advocacy by 14 days. But on this lobby day of days, neither sleet nor...Read More
Think Pink
Filed by Paige Schilt | March 04, 2010 6:00 PM |Katy's mother, Donna Koonce, wanted a baby girl. The year was 1962. Donna and her husband, a small-town Texas football coach called Big Phil, already had two strapping young sons. But Donna yearned for a soul mate, a confidante, a...Read More
I Quit: Palinitus Strikes 3 Times
Filed by Bil Browning | March 04, 2010 5:00 PM |There's been an epidemic of Palinitus sweeping the nation this week. Conservatives and politicians are dropping like flies. First, Representative Eric Massa (D-NY) announced he wouldn't seek re-election after allegations of sexually harassing a male staffer surfaced. Then anti-gay Republican...Read More
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force kicks off annual Winter Party in Miami Beach
Filed by Father Tony | March 04, 2010 4:00 PM |Pooliside at the Surfcomber Hotel last night, reading the proclamation honoring the Task Force for the tremendous support they generate for local service organizations, are Michael Góngora, Commissioner, City of Miami Beach, Kiehl's Chad Richter, Chair of the Winter Party...Read More
Making Trouble: Follow Ups - 2
Filed by Antonia D'orsay | March 04, 2010 3:00 PM |And even more trouble! I'm learning a lot though. In two earlier columns, I asked 10 simple questions. I laid down some basic rules, and while some folks chose not to follow those basic rules, I got some answers, and...Read More
Scholarships Available: ENDA Lobby Day in DC March 16
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 04, 2010 2:00 PM |On Tuesday, March 16, there will be a lobby day specifically for ENDA in Washington, D.C.. LGBT people and allies from around the country who support ENDA will be there. I will be there. Will you? It is particularly important...Read More
Blogger Jon Swift dies unexpectedly
Filed by Bil Browning | March 04, 2010 1:30 PM |A great light has gone out in the blogosphere. Blogger Jon Swift has passed away. Jon was an anonymous blogger (even Melissa McEwan of Shakesville - where Jon was a contributor - didn't know his real name), but his mother...Read More
Eight pages!
Filed by Sean Martin | March 04, 2010 1:00 PM |Well, it's a smaller country... Click here for a larger version....Read More
Attack Of The Heretic Over-The-Hill Spice Girl Anti-Christ
Filed by Father Tony | March 04, 2010 12:00 PM |In the fearful, homophobic, panicky and reactionary world of Roman Catholic traditionalists and the neurotic camp-followers of B16, there was a dust-up over my Bilerico article about the fledgling "Catholics for Equality" organization. The article contained some errors, one of...Read More
Cool Black Camp: vintage Jet magazine
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 04, 2010 11:30 AM |A bittersweet flashback to torpedo bras and the struggle for equality. Most amazing to me is that, overall, the public face of Black community seemed more tolerant of sexual diversity in the 1950s than it seems today. Maybe the realities...Read More
Photos: DADT discharges still happening
Filed by Jeff Sheng | March 04, 2010 10:30 AM |While all of the photographs published in my first photobook "Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Volume 1" are of closeted service members currently serving, I was recently approached by a cadet who is now facing discharge for coming out, and I...Read More
Virtual Lobby Day: Tell Congress to Repeal DADT NOW
Filed by Michael Crawford | March 04, 2010 10:00 AM |Today hundreds of volunteers with the Human Rights Campaign are on Capitol Hill meeting with members of Congress on an array of LGBT issues including ENDA and repeal of DADT. You can join the action no matter where you're located...Read More
Students stand up to abstinence-only education
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 04, 2010 9:30 AM |Two students at Parma High School in Ohio couldn't take the fact that they were being subjected to Operation Keepsake, a standard-issue "just say no" abstinence-only program, so they took their concerns to the school board. "Operation Keepsake has made...Read More
Not Running: Rep Eric Massa gropes a male staffer?
Filed by Ed Team | March 04, 2010 7:30 AM |"The week of February 8th, a member of Rep. Massa's staff brought to the attention of Mr. Hoyer's staff allegations of misconduct that had been made against Mr. Massa. Mr. Hoyer's staff immediately informed him of what they had been...Read More
Portraits of Discrimination
Filed by Bil Browning | March 04, 2010 7:00 AM |In the past decade alone, America's same-sex couple have been deprived of more than $2 billion dollars of Social Security Benefits. Check out Rock for Equality for more info on how you can get involved....Read More
