June 22, 2010
300,000 to 400,000 LGBT Youth Facing Homelessness Each Year
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | June 22, 2010 | 7:00 PM |The Center for American Progress released a report yesterday on LGBT youth homelessness and the federal response to it. It is not a pretty picture. According to the report, there are approximately 1.6 million to 2.8 million homeless young people...Read More
Thoughts on The Owls
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | June 22, 2010 | 6:00 PM |I'm always kind of stunned by the demographics of Frameline audiences. As I'm walking up to the Castro Theatre, almost every single person in line is a lesbian. Hundreds and hundreds of lesbians, mostly middle-aged, and of course this is...Read More
What Hospital Visitation Rights Heroine Janice Langbehn Won't Tell Obama Tonight - She's in Pain and Financial Trouble
Filed by Karen Ocamb | June 22, 2010 | 5:00 PM |Janice Langbehn, the accidental activist most responsible for securing hospital visitation rights for LGBT families, will be a guest at the White House Pride event, which begins one hour from now. The White House is expected to webcast the reception...Read More
Sanka or Spanka? Vintage ad
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | June 22, 2010 | 4:30 PM |I'd hate to see what kind of punishment she'd give if she was on caffeine. (OK, I confess, I'd love to see it.)...Read More
Open Letter to The Advocate
Filed by Tobi Hill-Meyer | June 22, 2010 | 3:30 PM |Yesterday I received an apology from Christopher Harrity, Manager of Online Production, apologizing for misidentifying my photo as Briana Freeman. It's quite clear that it was not malicious, but simply a matter of not paying close enough attention while google...Read More
A wise ex-gay woman, the richness of her experiences, etc.
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 22, 2010 | 2:30 PM |Nan Hunter's right; Elena Kagan is like a Rorschach. That is, what people see when they look at her says more about them than it does about her. We want her to be a lesbian, the right wants her to...Read More
Your guide to San Francisco wildlife
Filed by Bil Browning | June 22, 2010 | 1:30 PM |Via Joe.My.God. comes this Field Guide to Bears. You can buy the poster too....Read More
U.S. Supreme Court: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | June 22, 2010 | 12:30 PM |The U.S. Supreme Court is making less and less sense to me these days, particularly when it comes to speech. There have been thousands of U.S. Supreme Court decisions about speech, the freedom of speech, and its various forms and...Read More
Yes, Virginia, Rahm Emanuel Isn't Quitting
Filed by Bil Browning | June 22, 2010 | 11:30 AM |Yesterday I said that the news Rahm Emanuel might be stepping down as White House Chief of Staff after the midterm elections was like being told what your birthday present will be early. Today comes news that's much more like...Read More
An Elephant Doesn't Fit in a Closet
Filed by Guest Blogger | June 22, 2010 | 10:30 AM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Matt R. Salmon is an ASU Graduate with a Bachelor's in Psychology. He works in clinical research and is the chairman of the Arizona Log Cabin Republicans. In newspapers and blogs, on television and the Internet...Read More
Health insurance industry shuts down pioneering HIV/AIDS practice
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 22, 2010 | 9:30 AM |Dr. Marcus Conant, one of the first doctors to identify Karposi's Sarcoma and to receive the first grants to study HIV. Now he's shutting down his San Francisco practice because the insurance industry's paperwork requirements are getting out of hand:...Read More
At Black Tie Ceremony, Feith Passes Torch To Barton
Filed by Don Davis | June 22, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Honestly, I am absolutely sick of commercial air travel these days. Just dealing with security is bad enough, but then there's the airlines, and, hey, all you really need to know here is that there has to be a pretty...Read More
Objective-driven arguments
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 22, 2010 | 7:31 AM |"One of the things Ted made very clear was that they had one theory at the time of the ballot, they had another theory after the ballot passed, they had another theory when they started the trial, they've got another...Read More
"We're here, we're not queer, get used to it"
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 22, 2010 | 7:30 AM |Maggie Gallagher makes a funny. Wasn't that chant created in response to the HIV epidemic in the early 90's to call attention to how a disease associated with gay people was treated worse than it would have been had...Read More
