November 15, 2010
Me, my Tea Party friend, and gay marriage
Filed by Drew Cordes | November 15, 2010 | 7:00 PM |I am close friends with a Tea Party-attending libertarian. (I'll pause to allow gasps of shock.) Our friendship is sustained by the usual things -- common interests and hobbies, sense of humor, etc. We're both passionate about current events and...Read More
Oklahoma school won't let lesbian couple back in?
Filed by Bil Browning | November 15, 2010 | 6:00 PM |Two Oklahoma teens are raising a clamor because they claim their school district won't let them graduate after finding out that they're a couple. The Advocate has a story up currently, but it's a little unclear how the story relates...Read More
Positive vs. Negative: The Truce is Broken
Filed by Mark S. King | November 15, 2010 | 5:00 PM |The wary truce between HIV positive and HIV negative gay men is crumbling. We resent one another more than ever before, it appears.Read More
Gates Orders Probe Into Leak of DADT Survey
Filed by Karen Ocamb | November 15, 2010 | 4:00 PM |Defense Sec. Robert Gates is not happy that findings from the Pentagon's survey on the impact of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal were leaked and has ordered an investigation to find the source, according to the American Forces Press Service....Read More
A giant thanks: My 100th Bilerico post
Filed by Phil Reese | November 15, 2010 | 3:00 PM |I'm ready for syndication. Maybe I'll hit WGN or maybe a late night slot on the new Oprah Winfrey Network. With this post I hit the magic number: 100. This is my 100th post at Bilerico Project. Two years ago,...Read More
CNN: Jeff Sheng on DADT photos
Filed by Bil Browning | November 15, 2010 | 2:00 PM |Contributor Jeff Sheng's photography exhibit for his "Don't Ask Don't Tell" series not only opened in Washington DC last week, but it also landed him a plum interview with CNN: You've seen many of Jeff's photos on the site -...Read More
Can We Collectively Refuse to Grandstand? There's Repealing to Get Done
Filed by Jarrod Chlapowski | November 15, 2010 | 1:00 PM |Jesus. So Friday afternoon HRC put out a press release demanding the Pentagon release its study. NOW. In all caps, in case you didn't pick up on HRC's anger. This is the same day Tony Perkins freaked out over leaks...Read More
Jocks are Sexy, Straps are Silly
Filed by Mark S. King | November 15, 2010 | 12:00 PM |I'm at my locker, powdering my feet and cursing the gym for not having a blow dryer, when I notice a forty-something hottie undressing for his workout. He peels off his Calvins and reveals... a red jockstrap. Now let's be...Read More
Reader E-mail: We're right wing bloggers
Filed by Bil Browning | November 15, 2010 | 11:00 AM |From the inbox in reference to Alex's post last week about Susan Sarandon's defense of the word "tranny": From: Carol Message: Wake up boys and girls. Political correctness is censorship and not at all a liberal position. Please acknowledge that...Read More
Lame Duck Congress: Fulfill Your Promise On DADT Repeal
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | November 15, 2010 | 10:00 AM |Today is the first day of the "lame-duck" session of Congress, referring to the last Congressional session held before the newly-elected Congress is seated in January. It's expected to last about two weeks. Now is the last chance to see...Read More
Laurel & Hardy Slash Fiction: 1940s Tijuana Bible
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | November 15, 2010 | 9:30 AM |"Tijuana Bible" is the slang name for the clumsy porn pamphlets produced in the 1940s for horny WWII-era servicemen in need of masturbatory aids. Women of easy virtue, group sex, and rampant fornication were usually the main themes but, just...Read More
The Critic's Foyer
Filed by Mark S. King | November 15, 2010 | 8:30 AM |It's an honor to be "the new Alex" this week, filling in for our friend and posting three times a day. Now let's have some fun. I'm a freak for movies. Horror, obscure foreign, musicals... bring it on, baby (I...Read More
Unexpected
Filed by Alex Blaze | November 15, 2010 | 7:30 AM |"I have fallen in love with a wonderful woman and it was just so unexpected." --New Zealand TV personality Alison Mau coming out as bisexual...Read More
Street performance to Bjork
Filed by Alex Blaze | November 15, 2010 | 7:00 AM |This video's old, but it's still cool. A street performance to "Oh So Quiet," performed here by Bjork....Read More
