January 21, 2011
Queer Music Friday - Big Freedia
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 21, 2011 5:00 PM |Big Freedia is the only musician up for a GLAAD Media Award this year that I haven't already posted about on the site. She makes bounce music, which sounds a lot like crunk to me. Since separating her music from...Read More
You Are the Most Loathsome Person of 2010
Filed by Bil Browning | January 21, 2011 4:00 PM |You are the most loathsome person of 2010. Well, not our international readers - just the Americans. The Beast has released their list of the 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2010, but you're number one. Your brain's been cobbled together...Read More
GAO Releases Numbers on Cost and Class Impact of DADT
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 21, 2011 3:00 PM |I know everyone's pointing to the GOA report on DADT, gasping that a government that says that it can't afford a decent health care system (never mind that single-payer would cost less than what we have now) would spend $193.3...Read More
New HUD Housing Regulations: Even Martians
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | January 21, 2011 2:00 PM |The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced proposed new regulations to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in programs sponsored by or financed by HUD. Alex discussed them in a post this morning....Read More
When Hickeys Go Wrong
Filed by Bil Browning | January 21, 2011 1:00 PM |An unidentified woman from New Zealand is proof that not only are hickeys uncouth, but they can be dangerous to your health. The woman was sitting in a chair watching television after having sex when her left arm became paralyzed....Read More
Courage Campaign Launches 'Issa Watch'
Filed by Karen Ocamb | January 21, 2011 12:00 PM |Even before the Republicans officially took over the House in the new Congress, Southern California conservative Republican Rep. Darrell Issa was gleefully rubbing his hands in anticipation of all the investigative hearings he could hold as chair of the House...Read More
The Ballad of Sarah Palin
Filed by Bil Browning | January 21, 2011 11:00 AM |Earlier this week brought us the Battle Hymn of Sarah Palin, but Lady Bunny has now joined the fray with The Ballad of Sarah Palin. If you thought watching two old people warble out the praises of the Half Guv...Read More
A Girl Named Butch: Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | January 21, 2011 10:30 AM |Found these two books, ca.1950s/1960s, by different authors, so I am assuming they are different characters and not part of a series (please correct me if you know more). Now, why a butch would be getting a spanking from a...Read More
New HUD Rules Released on Housing Discrimination
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 21, 2011 9:30 AM |Great new rules, if for anything they're setting the tone when it comes to housing: Most notably, the rules would prohibit lenders from using sexual orientation or gender identity as a basis to determine a borrower's eligibility for Federal Housing...Read More
The Freedom of Monogamy
Filed by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer | January 21, 2011 8:30 AM |I've been reluctant to write much about this new relationship I think partly out of some vague, superstitious fear of jinxing it, but, I think, too, because I want to hold it close, keep it to myself, protect it. It...Read More
Rick Santorum Is Still a Homophobe
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 21, 2011 7:30 AM |"But what I can say is that the state is not doing a service to the child and to society by not putting that child in a home where there is a mother and a father. This is common sense....Read More
Robert Gibbs on ENDA
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 21, 2011 7:00 AM |So, no, I'm guessing Obama isn't expecting ENDA to pass any time soon, according to this Q&A with Robert Gibbs....Read More
