August 3, 2010
Road Trip II
Filed by Sean Martin | August 03, 2010 6:00 PM |Ah, vacations. When life is supposed to be stress-free....Read More
Man kills 17-month-old boy for acting like a girl
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 03, 2010 5:00 PM |This seems less like an attempt to kill the child and more like excessive violence that ended up killing someone, gender policing gone too far. And now a kid is dead. Transcript at the local news site....Read More
People of the Margins: Sideshow memorabilia
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | August 03, 2010 4:30 PM |Someone recently called me "eclectic." I guess that's better than "mad as a hatter." Hm. Anyway, among my multitudinous quirks, I've lately developed a fascination with images from the sideshows and circuses of old, and particularly with the people who...Read More
Black church stages fight to test white cop
Filed by Bil Browning | August 03, 2010 3:30 PM |Indianapolis has seen a rise in racial tensions this summer. First an African-American teenager accused police of brutality for wrestling him to the ground after he intervened in his brother's arrest for breaking and entering. The teen also tried to...Read More
DNC Chair Responds to Me and Others About LGBT Issues
Filed by Jerame Davis | August 03, 2010 2:30 PM |This past weekend, I was in Washington, DC to represent Indiana for the National Stonewall Democrats Convention. It was a memorable weekend overall with a great mixture of speeches, tours and learning opportunities. During one of the plenary sessions, the...Read More
Queers Read This
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 03, 2010 1:30 PM |Bash Back pointed out on their blog that it's been 20 years since "Queers Read This" was first published and distributed. I was going to try to say something interesting on this, but rereading it now and understanding it in...Read More
How To 'Think' Like Bill O'Reilly
Filed by Terrance Heath | August 03, 2010 12:30 PM |Steven D, at Booman, notes that Bill O’Reilly is still attacking Shirley Sherrod. Bill O’Reilly, the first entertainer propagandist news analyst on Fox News to run the edited, out of context Breitbart clip of Shirley Sherrod, walked back his intense...Read More
Interview with NOM's Brian Brown
Filed by Bil Browning | August 03, 2010 11:30 AM |The NOMTourTracker folks caught up with National Organization for Marriage Executive Director Brian Brown and took the opportunity to ask him some questions about his stance on marriage equality. The interviewer asked Brown the same questions Judge Vaughn Walker asked...Read More
Think of the children and vote
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 03, 2010 10:30 AM |It's not at all surprising to me that the recent study of Prop 8 campaigns found that the "gay marriage will be taught to your children" argument was effective. There's just something about kids and gay people, usually men, that...Read More
A Breakthrough Study of the Prop 8 Campaign
Filed by Guest Blogger | August 03, 2010 9:30 AM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Kenneth Sherrill is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Hunter College, CUNY. A specialist in public opinion, voting, and elections, he has been studying the LGBT rights movement since 1972. Classic studies of electoral behavior...Read More
Why I'm In Love With the Ali Forney Center
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 03, 2010 8:30 AM |"You're all family now," said the devilishly handsome Bill Torres, Director of Community Resources at the Ali Forney Center for homeless LGBT youth in NYC, where I went last week to a training for volunteers. He was telling us how...Read More
Smoking banned outside
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 03, 2010 7:30 AM |"Sadly, smoking is widespread in the LGBT community. As a leader in LGBT health, the Center feels strongly that we should set an example within our community." --Susan Cohen, director of the Health Education & Prevention department at the Los...Read More
Manchester Grand Hyatt protested
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 03, 2010 7:00 AM |LGBT activists protested the Manchester Grand Hyatt as GOProud is holding a convention there....Read More
