April 15, 2010
White Noise and Queer Families
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 15, 2010 7:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Susan Raffo lives in Minneapolis where she writes, is a bodyworker, parents, lives in communal housing, organizes and, when the weather permits, gardens. She is planning on going to Detroit for the US Social Forum. She'll...Read More
Head start
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 15, 2010 6:00 PM |I teach English in elementary school, going around to several schools here in Paris and doing games and vocab flashcards and songs. It's to get the kids ahead for junior high, when they're really supposed to learn English. France is...Read More
The Catholic Church Needs Its Gay Priests
Filed by Rev Irene Monroe | April 15, 2010 5:00 PM |The Catholic Church is in damage control. Pope Benedict XVI won't resign and he can't be defrocked. And Catholics worldwide are enraged. The Church now needs a quick out, an easy solution and a fall guy to tamp down our...Read More
The Other Shoe: Child Molesting by Non-Catholic Clergy
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | April 15, 2010 4:00 PM |The other day, a CNN headline read "Preacher Killed Wife, Stuffed Body In Freezer, Police Say." Other publications headlined more simply, on the order of "Preacher Kills Wife." Not till you get a paragraph or two into the story do...Read More
Portrayals Of LGBT People in Media
Filed by Antonia D'orsay | April 15, 2010 3:00 PM |I thought for today's column I would key into the overt issues that are involved in several discussions around a more covert one that I expect to tackle fairly soon head on, and with all the vigor I can manage....Read More
More internal Bilerico changes: Editorial Advisory Board
Filed by Bil Browning | April 15, 2010 2:00 PM |When I announced Dr. Jillian Weiss' promotion to the Bilerico Project Editorial Team last week, I also hinted that there were more upcoming changes in the works. Today I'm proud to announce the latest tweak to our operations. After the...Read More
University of Pennsylvania will cover gender confirmation
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 15, 2010 1:00 PM |The University of Pennsylvania's insurer will start to cover GRS related costs: In the next academic year, the Penn Student Insurance Plan will begin offering a new benefit for transgender students -- it will cover the cost of the gender...Read More
GLEE: Go Call Your Congressman
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | April 15, 2010 12:00 PM |Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury: I stand in the dock accused of defamation, of discrimination, by maligning the good intentions of GLEE, that favorite television show of the gays, by that most savage means and instrumentality of slander --...Read More
Vintage Male Wrestlers [Maybe NSFW]
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | April 15, 2010 11:30 AM |This vintage male wrestlers photo may be safe or not safe, depending on where you work, of course. Presumably an image from a gay wrestling mag of the 50s or 60s, but I'd be more than happy to be corrected...Read More
Are You Sex-Positive? Sexual? Sexy? None Of The Above?
Filed by Father Tony | April 15, 2010 10:30 AM |There has been so much bloggular chatter lately about which ads and what kind of content an LGBT site like Bilerico ought to feature. In order to decide where you stand on this rather fundamental issue, you need to look...Read More
We're Paying Our Dues- So When Do We Get The Privileges Of Membership In American Society?
Filed by Monica Roberts | April 15, 2010 9:30 AM |Today is April 15 as many of you perusing this post are aware of. With the midnight deadline looming to get that check mailed off to the IRS, depending on whether you owe Uncle Sam or are waiting for a...Read More
Doc and Raider: a (somewhat) brief history
Filed by Sean Martin | April 15, 2010 8:30 AM |A few people whose introduction to my boys comes from either here or the blogsite (docandraider.blogspot.com) have been asking "Who are these two?" "How did they get together?" "How many t-shirts do they own, anyway?" So I thought for the...Read More
It's so hard to tell who's in and who's out these days
Filed by Ed Team | April 15, 2010 7:30 AM |"He's gay! He's a member of the community. We should support him." --Jimmie Woods Gray, at a Stonewall Democratic Club, accidentally outing Assemblymember Mike Davis...Read More
GOProud's political ad
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 15, 2010 7:00 AM |GOProud has produced a political ad. There are gay tea baggers, dammit!...Read More
