September 1, 2010
Why The TBLG Community Can't Sit Out The 2010 Midterms
Filed by Monica Roberts | September 01, 2010 | 7:00 PM |I'm noting the volcanic level anger within elements of the GLBT community at the Democrats over the pace of the community's political agenda. While I'm angry at the Dems for different reasons and some of y'all within the GLBT community...Read More
Moving On!
Filed by Sean Martin | September 01, 2010 | 6:00 PM |Now that the dust-up in Iraq is over, it's time we turned our attention to another, just-as-vital issue....Read More
More Than a Linguist: SU Web Ad 3
Filed by Jarrod Chlapowski | September 01, 2010 | 5:00 PM |So we have our first active duty web ad. The fact that we're using someone still in is compelling - as it's meant to be - but only as a means to gain attention. The deeper talking point here is...Read More
Transgender Law Institute at Lavender Law
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | September 01, 2010 | 4:00 PM |We held our first Transgender Law Institute at the National LGBT Bar Association's Lavender Law Conference last Thursday. We had about 75 people in attendance, from all over the country. It was an amazing gathering of talent, and I felt...Read More
Gay, Muslim, roll-back, and demonization
Filed by Alex Blaze | September 01, 2010 | 3:00 PM |I won't name names, but I've been reading enough mainstream and gaystream media for the past couple weeks to have come across the "Homophobia is over" thesis a few times. Ken Mehlman came out, AFER won their case against Prop...Read More
"Power to Be Strong"
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | September 01, 2010 | 2:30 PM |Since the 1980s, well over a hundred pop songs about HIV/AIDS were released -- mostly in the West. In my current A & U column, I write about an Eastern newcomer to the list -- "The Power To Be Strong,"...Read More
An open letter to a Wabash alum
Filed by Austen Crowder | September 01, 2010 | 1:30 PM |Sometimes the best way to stay in the closet is to stand in the shadows of those who came out. Least, that's how it worked for you while attending an all-male college. You lived with the theater group, worked with...Read More
Scorecard of Mehlman mentions: Fox News 2, HRC & NGLTF 0
Filed by Guest Blogger | September 01, 2010 | 12:30 PM |Editors' Note: From San Francisco, Guest blogger and advocate Michael Petrelis reports stories the mainstream media choose to ignore. Michael has appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, CNN, ABC News, and National Public Radio. He has been quoted by The New...Read More
California sued to appeal Prop 8 ruling
Filed by Alex Blaze | September 01, 2010 | 11:30 AM |Karen Ocamb has a great post on her site about the Pacific Justice Institute's attempt to sue the state of California into appealing Prop 8. Two weeks ago I wrote, "[I]s the next step for them to sue the state...Read More
New Gay Street Beat Podcast (Featuring Me!) Talks the New Documentary "Bullied", LGBT Youth, Media, & More
Filed by Waymon Hudson | September 01, 2010 | 10:30 AM |I was back on the new LGBT podcast "Gay Street Beat" this week for their latest edition and wanted to share it with all of you! Be sure to download it free on iTunes or listen to it on the...Read More
Watch: Male pole dancers
Filed by Bil Browning | September 01, 2010 | 9:30 AM |Relax fellas, this isn't the kind of pole dancing you've imagined. Yes, there's skimpy briefs. Yes, they don't have their shirts on. But one's covered in body hair and another is definitely still in his teens. Oh, wait. That does...Read More
The Fierce Urgency of Now: Queers Must Challenge Islamaphobia
Filed by Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz | September 01, 2010 | 8:30 AM |My great-grandfather was one of the founders of the mosque in Quincy, Massachusetts. My grandfather, his son, was also a practicing Muslim. Although I was raised as a Jew, I have not forgotten the fact that many members of my...Read More
George Rekers is still an expert
Filed by Alex Blaze | September 01, 2010 | 7:30 AM |"According to the medical and psychological experts writing in the Handbook of Child and Adolescent Sexual Problems, "The consequences of choices made with the advantage of developmental maturity are preferable to those consequences resulting from decisions made impulsively, in the...Read More
Parody of sexism in the media
Filed by Alex Blaze | September 01, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Is it really a parody if they just hired actors to say what gets said all the time? Still funny to watch this take on how female politicians are treated by the media....Read More
