July 28, 2010
NOM: Love requires expensive lawyers
Filed by Bil Browning | July 28, 2010 8:00 PM |When the National Organization for Marriage's summer bus tour rolled into Indianapolis, I grabbed the chance to chat one-on-one with Maggie Gallagher, NOM's President. After all, I'd already sat down with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, and Ryan McCann,...Read More
Get equally screwed over
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 28, 2010 7:00 PM |Here's a story out of Minnesota that makes identity look pitifully ridiculous as a means of politically organizing. As I've written about a few times before, identity can be a useful tool to get people to recognize certain problems, but,...Read More
Ninety-nine cents per app...
Filed by Sean Martin | July 28, 2010 6:00 PM |And a 10% kickback... yeah, it adds up....Read More
The Honorary 'Bilerican'
Filed by Guest Blogger | July 28, 2010 5:00 PM |Editors' Note: Ryan Biava is a Ph.D. Candidate in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, focusing on the comparative politics of privacy in liberal democratic countries. He holds a B.A. from the University of Washington -- where he was...Read More
Interview: The Boys of Jeffery and Cole Casserole talk Logo TV, Nancy Grace, Underwear, & More
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 28, 2010 4:00 PM |After much stalking on Twitter and Facebook, I finally got the chance to sit down with Jeffery Self and Cole Escola, the comic geniuses behind the cult youtube hit Jeffery and Cole Casserole, which is now in its second season...Read More
Washington Post Picks Up UVA Study Upholding Gay Parenting
Filed by Michael Hamar | July 28, 2010 3:00 PM |I previously looked at a study conducted by the University of Virginia that found that children of gay parents thrive and succeed just as well as those raised in heterosexual headed families. The story I quoted was from a newspaper...Read More
Man's HIV status disclosed, photo released by police calling him "sexual predator"
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 28, 2010 2:00 PM |I know, as always, that I'm the oddball on this issue, but I just don't think the long arm of the law is the best way to deal with HIV as a public health problem. It only increases stigma, puts...Read More
Paddles the Clown: vintage theatre photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 28, 2010 1:30 PM |I'm assuming this was a shot of two early 20th century actors, but please correct me if you have a better idea. If it is theatrical, does anyone have an idea what play this may be from? I just love...Read More
When Your Politics Is Greek Tragedy: Genderqueer Antigone on the New York Stage This Week
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | July 28, 2010 12:30 PM |Our LGBT politics today resembles Greek Tragedy. There are the heros, striving to do the right thing, the villains, indulging their desire for power at the expense of others, the gods sitting above running their own little game on petty...Read More
NOM's new logo
Filed by Bil Browning | July 28, 2010 11:30 AM |Based off the "lynch gays" sign we captured at NOM's Indianapolis anti-gay rally, Projector Rob made up a new logo for the hate group. I think you'll like it as much as I do. It seems entirely appropriate....Read More
US wants to deport gay man who's been here 20 years to Iran
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 28, 2010 10:30 AM |Here's a case that highlights a few of the many ways America's immigration system is completely broken. This man has been in the country without papers since he was three-years-old and the US is trying to deport him: Abdollahi, a...Read More
The Kids are So-So
Filed by Kate Clinton | July 28, 2010 9:30 AM |On Sunday night, my galpal and I joined a sold-out crowd of moviegoers to see the much-anticipated The Kids Are Alright at the tiny Ptown Theater. The a.c. was a bonus. The crowd at the early show was mostly Well...Read More
School Boards Essential to Gay Progress
Filed by Andrew Belonsky | July 28, 2010 8:30 AM |Netroots Nation wasn't just socialization and Dan Choi's promise ring. There was also some serious strategizing on how to move our cause forward. Yes, people suggested lobbying legislators, joining progressive campaigns and reaching out to other groups, like Greenpeace or...Read More
Elizabeth Hasselbeck finally understands lesbianism
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 28, 2010 7:30 AM |"You know what's happening? It's that older men are going for younger women and leaving the older women with no one." --Elizabeth Hasselbeck on why some women come out later in life...Read More
The next country superstar
Filed by Bil Browning | July 28, 2010 7:00 AM |Larry Pierce is the next country superstar. He might have to clean up the lyrics for the radio though... But if he doesn't make it to your neck of the woods, you can always go see him playing in...Read More
