July 20, 2010
LGBT group gets consultative status at UN
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 20, 2010 8:00 PM |The IGLHRC finally got into the UN, with the US voting in favor of their consultative status: On July 19, 2010, the full United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) voted in favor of a US-led resolution to grant the...Read More
Caption This: Yes, he's from Indiana
Filed by Bil Browning | July 20, 2010 7:00 PM |Oh hell, I'm not even going to offer up a caption for this one. The picture almost speaks for itself. And, yes, someone took this picture in an Indiana Wal-Mart. Surprise. So let's hear 'em, Projectors. What's the best caption...Read More
Conspiracies!
Filed by Sean Martin | July 20, 2010 6:00 PM |You just never ever really know, do you.......Read More
Vodka Shooting: A Tale of Fluid Gay Hate
Filed by Andrew Belonsky | July 20, 2010 5:00 PM |By now we're all too familiar with hate crime reports: an attacker hates gays or imagines a gay advance and takes it out on an LGBT person or persons. Anti-gay attacks, however, are much more malleable, less rigid; just consider...Read More
Tampax on the Brain: vintage ad
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 20, 2010 4:30 PM |Click to read the text, but this Tampax ad's visuals clue you in to the message: if you use Tampax, you can devote the rest of your mental energies to floating in a pool and dressing up like a bride....Read More
Fringe Candidate to Protest "Homosexual Agenda" in South Florida
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 20, 2010 3:30 PM |Every so often, a crazy fringe candidate comes along that seems so far down the rabbit hole that you assume they must be joking. From Sue "Chickens for Healthcare" Lowden to Sharron "Make Rape Lemons into Lemonade" Angle, there will...Read More
Kathy Griffin, LGBT advocate extraordinaire
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 20, 2010 2:30 PM |Remember how HRC wants Kathy Griffin to be the face of the movement? Well, who would have seen any problem with putting a straight woman who's built an entire career off insulting others because she's constitutionally incapable of going five...Read More
Cry, Gays, Cry!: "Saving Marriage" on DVD
Filed by Prince Gomolvilas | July 20, 2010 1:30 PM |Saving Marriage - a stirring, illuminating, suspenseful, and inspirational documentary by Mike Roth and John Henning - has just been released on DVD, and it's required viewing. (Well, if you were in a class I taught, I'd make you watch...Read More
Father Tony Needs Your Help To Become A Guru
Filed by Father Tony | July 20, 2010 12:30 PM |Hey projectors, with Bil's endorsement, I'm asking for your help with something. I've made it to Round Two in this competition, and this is where I need your help! If you'll take a moment to vote for me, I'll be...Read More
Transphobia in the Gay Community
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | July 20, 2010 11:30 AM |Note: I'm travelling to Netroots Nation, so I thought I'd put up a timeless post from the wayback machine. This was originally published last year, but the issue hasn't gone away. Wondering if you have a different take on my...Read More
America's False Promises
Filed by Michael Hamar | July 20, 2010 10:30 AM |I often note on my personal blog the vast difference between what the USA claims to stand for - especially in terms of religious freedom - versus the sad reality of what citizens actually experience. Indeed, I wonder at times...Read More
Grow Up: Sharing is for babies
Filed by Guest Blogger | July 20, 2010 9:30 AM |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 working, collectively, on a book of practical approaches to sharing for...Read More
Waymon Hudson is this week's Bilerico
Filed by Bil Browning | July 20, 2010 8:30 AM |Thank God for Waymon! Jill, Jerame and I are all flying out today for the Netroots Nation conference in Las Vegas and Alex is on vacation in Avignon. Even former editors Michael Crawford and Father Tony are off to Vegas...Read More
IGLHRC Accredited at the United Nations
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | July 20, 2010 7:30 AM |"I welcome this important step forward for human rights, as the International Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Commission (ILGHRC) will take its rightful seat at the table of the United Nations. The UN was founded on the premise that only...Read More
The Prop 8 Trial In 2 Minutes
Filed by Bil Browning | July 20, 2010 7:00 AM |Need to catch up on how the Prop 8 trial went before the verdict is released soon? Rob Tsinai gives us the quick two minute roundup of the trial from the religious right's point of view. (Hat tip to...Read More
