January 13, 2011
The Ex-Gay Jesus-Fix-It Perpetual Emotion Machine
Filed by Mercedes Allen | January 13, 2011 7:00 PM |(The following is not meant to absolve folks like Alan Downing, but to just show what it's like. Because the religious right would have everyone believe that it's all so simple: just pray, believe, and it will all go away....Read More
Employees Don't Want to Be Asked about Sexual Orientation
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 13, 2011 6:00 PM |As part of the Equality Act passed in the UK last year, government agencies are required to monitor their workforce to see if discrimination is occurring. This means that agencies with over 150 people have been required to ask their...Read More
It's Not Just Inflammatory Rhetoric
Filed by Terrance Heath | January 13, 2011 5:00 PM |In the aftermath of the tragic Tucson, AZ, shooting that left six dead, and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D, AZ-8) hospitalized, much has been said and written about the degree to which incendiary rhetoric motivated the shooter. However, caustic rhetoric...Read More
Name Changes and Official Documents: A Kafkaesque Story
Filed by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer | January 13, 2011 4:00 PM |Today I set about recreating my identity from scratch. Or, I should say (knowing full well there's no such thing as any sort of fixed identity), my official identity. Somewhere, somehow, in my move from Austin to New York last...Read More
Marriage Equality Hero Gavin Newsom Sworn-In as California Lt. Governor
Filed by Karen Ocamb | January 13, 2011 3:00 PM |Applause interrupted openly gay Speaker of the Assembly John A. Perez during his remarks before former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom was officially sworn in as California's Lt. Governor on Monday. In 2004, "his bold leadership ushered in a...Read More
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
Filed by Bil Browning | January 13, 2011 2:00 PM |Here's a flick you probably won't catch at the local theater in Hoboken, but Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same has been picked up to be part of the Sundance Film Festival this year. Who's buying their tickets now? One...Read More
Gay Graffiti at Islamic Center in Missouri
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 13, 2011 1:00 PM |A lot of hay has been made about how Jared Lee Loughner would have been already shipped off to Guantanamo if he were Muslim and the right wouldn't be arguing as forcefully as possible that he was "insane" and therefore...Read More
Huckleberry Finn's N-word: Artistic Integrity or Ethnic Property Rights?
Filed by Rev Irene Monroe | January 13, 2011 12:00 PM |As Americans we have a hard time talking about race in this country when the n-word is not involved. And when this epithet is, predictably, we behave schizophrenically. And much of the kerfuffle is about who's staking a claim on...Read More
Love Between Men: Vintage Photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | January 13, 2011 11:30 AM |I don't know if they were best friends, brothers, cousins, or lovers, but I do know they loved each other. Their happy faces. The way they lean in together. The way they touch each other so familiarly and clasp hands....Read More
Buy the House from Ferris Bueller!
Filed by Bil Browning | January 13, 2011 10:30 AM |If you live in the Chicago area (or would like to!), you can purchase the house from Ferris Bueller's Day Off for the low, low price of $1.65 million. The home is in Highland Park. Before I knew I was...Read More
Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing"'s Faggots Censored in Canada
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 13, 2011 9:30 AM |The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has upheld a complaint against the Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" without censoring the three faggots in the song. The song was a hit, one of the Dire Straits' most popular songs, and won the...Read More
Interview with Christine Macdonald: We Talk Equality and What it Means to Be a Straight Ally
Filed by Leone Kraus | January 13, 2011 8:30 AM |I noted in a previous post that the active and involved participation of straight allies is critical to winning LGBT equal rights. People have found it through search terms such as; "straight ally," "how to be involved straight ally," "how...Read More
The Rebecca Juro Show Returns Thursday, January 13th at 7pm Eastern with Guest Autumn Sandeen
Filed by Rebecca Juro | January 13, 2011 8:00 AM |UPDATE: Becky's producer, Michael Ferguson, tells us in the comment section that the show has been canceled tonight due to a serious case of the stomach flu. See the thread for details. -Bil Yes, at long last it's the return...Read More
Yoga instructor's anti-gay email
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 13, 2011 7:30 AM |"Greetings! I know it sounds gay, but we are definitely less gay across the bored (sic) when compared to CMS, BOA, etc, etc. Closing completely because of some white stuff is being uber gay![...] Y2 Yoga is in full support...Read More
Obama's speech at the Tuscon memorial
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 13, 2011 7:00 AM |Obama's speech at the Tuscon memorial....Read More
