March 18, 2010
Wrap Up: Online/Offline Distinction Blurs As Bloggers Generate Both Light And Heat
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 18, 2010 7:30 PM |Today began with dozens of blogs and media sites participating in a blogswarm, directed at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, asking that she move the long-stalled Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). A full list can be found after the jump. The major...Read More
Why The Transgender Community Had To Take Out Susan Stanton
Filed by Rebecca Juro | March 18, 2010 6:00 PM |It's something you hope you'll never have to do, but you do it when you have to. I watched "Her Name Was Steven" on CNN Saturday night, and it's taken me until now to decide how I want to discuss...Read More
Sit-in in SF for ENDA; Dan Choi arrested protesting DADT
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 18, 2010 5:00 PM |This is breaking - GetEqual (Kip Williams who helped organize the National Equality March) is staging a sit-in in Nancy Pelosi's office to get the ENDA moving forward. This is part of the big blog swarm that Jillian Weiss set...Read More
Push for same-sex marriage on again in New York State
Filed by Donna Pandori | March 18, 2010 4:00 PM |Reuters reports: A group called Fight Back New York, created with money from software entrepreneur and openly gay philanthropist Tim Gill, is pledging to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to get pro-gay marriage candidates elected to the state Senate...Read More
Family Research Institute deemed obscene and insufficiently patriotic
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 18, 2010 3:00 PM |Hahahahahahahahaha...Read More
Interview with Ugly Betty's Michael Urie
Filed by Jason Tseng | March 18, 2010 2:00 PM |I got to catch up with Michael Urie at the GLAAD Media Awards when I was covering the red carpet. I had gotten to see his off-broadway play The Tempermentals, about pre-Stonewall gay activist group, The Mattachine Society, earlier this...Read More
The queer blogosphere at SXSW
Filed by Bil Browning | March 18, 2010 1:00 PM |Last weekend, I was a panelist at the South By SouthWest conference. I sat on the first specifically queer session at the major interactive, music and film gathering and the feedback was amazing. Engaging The Queer Community featured Fausto Fernos...Read More
Shock schlock: Vintage lesbian B movie
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 18, 2010 12:30 PM |A deliciously tacky and noxious 1965 sexploitation feature, listed on IMDB as Chained Girls aka "Caged Girls." Filmed in Greenwich Village!...Read More
Equality Virginia Keeps Up the Pressure on McDonnell
Filed by Michael Hamar | March 18, 2010 11:30 AM |Equality Virginia is continuing to keep the pressure on Virginia GOP Governor Bob McDonnell and the gay haters in the Virginia General Assembly by urging the leaders of Virginia's colleges and universities to lobby for the amendment of the state's...Read More
We Can Forgive, But Can We Forget?
Filed by Father Tony | March 18, 2010 10:30 AM |In the video included in this New York Times report, listen to the voices of the pope promising a pastoral letter about pedophilia to be issued tomorrow and that of the Irish cardinal apologizing for what he did wrong. In...Read More
Blogswarm: Demand LGBT Employment Rights Today
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 18, 2010 9:30 AM |Note from Bil: The Bilerico Project is participating in a blogswarm today with Daily Kos, Open Left, Americablog, Towleroad, Pam's House Blend, Joe My God, Michelangelo Signorile, David Mixner, Daily Gotham, Culture Kitchen, Taylor Marsh, PageOneQ, Dan Savage, GoodAsYou, and...Read More
Eating their own
Filed by Sean Martin | March 18, 2010 8:30 AM |Perhaps better served with a nice red whine? Click here for a larger version....Read More
CBS President promises more LGBT characters again
Filed by Ed Team | March 18, 2010 7:30 AM |"Any show can have gay characters. We're conscious of that as well. This year one of our pilots, "Quinn-tuplets," has gay characters. Any series can. This year we made a concerted effort to suggest to producers, if not in pilot,...Read More
Sigourney Weaver: You're reading Bilerico Project
Filed by Jason Tseng | March 18, 2010 7:00 AM |In case you've forgotten, Sigourney Weaver wants you to know you're reading Bilerico Project....Read More
