October 18, 2010
Advancing Equality in the 112th Congress
Filed by Guest Blogger | October 18, 2010 6:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger David Cicilline is the openly gay Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island. He is running for Congress and could use your support. Mayor Cicilline is one of the pro-equality candidates picked by National Stonewall Democrats to support...Read More
Advertise on Bilerico!
Filed by Bil Browning | October 18, 2010 5:00 PM |Advertising on the Bilerico Project is easy and affordable. We have many options available to help you get the biggest bang out of your buck. If you'd advertised last month, your ad would have been seen over 500,000 times! With...Read More
George Rekers' fellow witness still seen as credible
Filed by Alex Blaze | October 18, 2010 4:00 PM |Does it really take a degree in a scientific field to discuss scientific studies with an iota of credulity? To ask basic questions instead assuming that the guy with a big white beard and a "Dr." in front of his...Read More
A one-question interview with Sassafras Lowrey
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | October 18, 2010 3:00 PM |Mattilda: You recently edited Kicked Out, an anthology of stories by current and formerly homeless queer youth (including yourself) -- one of the dominant themes in the book involves the chosen families that youth create in order to challenge, undo,...Read More
Justin Bieber gets bullied with homophobic taunts
Filed by Bil Browning | October 18, 2010 2:00 PM |Teen pop star Justin Bieber was on the receiving end of some anti-gay bullying over the weekend. While playing laser tag in a Canadian arcade, Bieber was repeatedly "shot" by a twelve year old kid who kept calling the singer...Read More
Trans and Mental Health: "But It Shouldn't Matter If I Was."
Filed by Mercedes Allen | October 18, 2010 1:00 PM |A guest post by Static Nonsense at Questioning Transphobia entitled Intersections of Disability and Transgenderism raises some important points that apply to the campaigns to remove GID from the DSM and ICD that govern mental health issues: But it sometimes...Read More
Gay bathhouse raided, police find gay sex, police arrest 11
Filed by Alex Blaze | October 18, 2010 12:00 PM |Eleven men were arrested in a gay bathhouse raid in Dallas on public lewdness and indecent exposure charges last week. It turns out that, in the same state where it's illegal to drink alcohol in a bar (a law that's...Read More
Robbie Williams + Gary Barlow + "Brokeback Mountain" = "Shame"
Filed by Prince Gomolvilas | October 18, 2010 11:00 AM |Even though he's (probably) straight, UK music superstar Robbie Williams loves to mess around with the media when it comes to his sexuality. He says suggestive, gay-ish things in print and in song, part of an elaborate public ruse--to what...Read More
Graffiti on the George Washington Bridge
Filed by Bil Browning | October 18, 2010 10:00 AM |Projector Chris sends in this snapshot of graffiti on the George Washington Bridge left after college student Tyler Clementi jumped to his death. Clementi was distraught after his roommate and another student broadcast his intimate moment with another male student...Read More
Women Manning the Homefront: WWI era postcard
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | October 18, 2010 9:30 AM |Humorous World War I postcard, which more than suggests that women made do quite nicely while the men were gone....Read More
Halliburton Gets $2 Billion Contract For Florida "Cardboard Condos"
Filed by Don Davis | October 18, 2010 8:30 AM |Miami, Florida, September 13, 2018 (FNS)—Facing pressure from voters to “do something” following the disaster caused by the privatization of Social Security, the White House today announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is awarding a $2 billion contract...Read More
Legally uncertain environment
Filed by Alex Blaze | October 18, 2010 7:30 AM |"We note for service members that altering their personal conduct in this legally uncertain environment may have adverse consequences for themselves or others should the court's decision be reversed." --Clifford Stanley, undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness...Read More
NOM ad for Tom Emmer
Filed by Alex Blaze | October 18, 2010 7:00 AM |NOM ad running in Minnesota for Tom Emmer, who was at the center of the Target/MN Forward controversy earlier this summer. NOM wants Minnesotans to believe that a candidate who will take money away from schools is good for...Read More
