July 8, 2010
You've Got (Hate) Mail: 'When Tea Baggers Attack' Edition
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 08, 2010 8:00 PM |I sometimes judge the impact I'm having on the world by the amount of hate mail or threats I get. It's a way of making something that could be disturbing into something positive. Plus, they make for a great scrapbook....Read More
The Most Powerful Man on Earth! (Part 2)
Filed by Sean Martin | July 08, 2010 7:00 PM |And when the Most Powerful Man on Earth does an in-depth investigation, you never know what he's going to find....Read More
We Won! Two big marriage victories today
Filed by Bil Browning | July 08, 2010 6:00 PM |Big news on the marriage front today. Marriage equality advocates won two court battles challenging the Defense of Marriage Act in federal court. Judge Joseph Tauro of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts handed down decisions in...Read More
Learning not to share: Feeding homeless people bothers the family values crowd
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 08, 2010 5:00 PM |I post often enough here about gay sex stings in parks, so much so that I've gotten accused of being a bathroom-trolling queer (which is funny, because my sex life is boring and the most public sex I've ever had...Read More
ADAP Stories from the Hill - Arick Buckles
Filed by Michael Emanuel Rajner | July 08, 2010 4:00 PM |As activists walked the halls of Congress on Wednesday to speak with Hill staffers about the AIDS Drug Assistance Program crisis, the problem was no longer limited to just numbers of people on a wait list with no end in...Read More
Military starts surveying troops on DADT
Filed by Bil Browning | July 08, 2010 3:00 PM |Please circle one: Do you find queers to be icky? a) Yes b) No What ridiculous bullshit. The military started sending out surveys to servicemembers yesterday to find out their feelings about ending the discriminatory "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy....Read More
Marriage won't fix your relationship
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 08, 2010 2:00 PM |Marriage doesn't make relationships more stable, a group of social scientists in the UK found: Parents who are cohabiting when their child is born are three times more likely to split up by the time their child is five than...Read More
Coming Out to Iowa
Filed by Joe Mirabella | July 08, 2010 1:00 PM |I'm heading home to Iowa with my partner next week. We have two big events drawing us back to our roots, my class reunion and his family reunion. You know, a nice relaxing vacation. I reconnected with many of my...Read More
Glenn v. Brumby: Judge Story Makes Hamburger Out Of Perfectly Good Steak
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | July 08, 2010 12:00 PM |As I discussed yesterday, the Glenn v. Brumby lawsuit is premised on the Equal Protection clause of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment (No state shall deny to any person the equal protection of the laws), rather than the federal civil...Read More
Trans men & women together: Vintage photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 08, 2010 11:30 AM |Turn of the century (ca. 1905-1910) photo of some nonconformists either clowning around or expressing their real identities, and probably both. Sweet!...Read More
"Don't Do Anything Stupid."
Filed by Father Tony | July 08, 2010 10:30 AM |When I got married, I changed my name. I had no idea that the promulgation of this adjustment - simple for straight couples - would be so outrageously difficult for me. In strange Florida, where gay adoption is illegal and...Read More
AIDS Activists plead with Congress for action
Filed by Michael Emanuel Rajner | July 08, 2010 9:30 AM |On the final day of the AIDS Drug Assistance Program Crisis Summit, AIDS activists from several states took to the Hill and visited with Congressional staffers to urge their Members of Congress to take action and save ADAP....Read More
Our Lesbian Brokeback
Filed by Guest Blogger | July 08, 2010 8:30 AM |Editors' note: Kathy Wolfe founded Wolfe, an exclusive distributor of LGBT movies, 25 years ago and is the current CEO. People often ask my perspective on which movies I think are the most significant lesbian films ever released. As the...Read More
Linda Lingle = George Wallace?
Filed by Bil Browning | July 08, 2010 7:30 AM |"Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle has aligned herself with another Governor, George Wallace, who also believed discrimination can and should be perpetrated under the law. Our Constitution guarantees equal protection under the law to every American, and our courts exist to...Read More
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid at Pride Toronto
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 08, 2010 7:00 AM |Canada's LGBT mag put together a report on QAIA's participation in Toronto Pride....Read More
