February 22, 2011
'They Should Have Shot Them All' - 30 Years of Radical Righters Who Incite Murder
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | February 22, 2011 7:00 PM |On January 28, with the world in a flurry over whether the UK would deport Ugandan refugee Brenda Namigadde back to certain death in Uganda, few reasonable people were doubting the criminal culpability of extremist religious righters who preach death...Read More
Video: Coming Out in the 1950's
Filed by Bil Browning | February 22, 2011 6:00 PM |What a fantastic project! The newly formed Pye/Harris Project was founded by 94-year old Edgar Pye, whose sixty-year life partner Robert Harris died in 2006. In Mr. Harris' honor, Pye created the project to show young gay people that a...Read More
I Thought They Shot Horses, Not Women
Filed by Anthony Carter | February 22, 2011 5:00 PM |Recently, our brilliant Republican friends, with Dan Burton (R-IN) leading the way, have decided to cut major funding for Planned Parenthood. He also submitted legislation that would provide contraceptives for wild horses and burros to control the size of wild...Read More
Dancing in Panties
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 22, 2011 4:30 PM |Nothing wrong with two 1950s women dancing around in their panties, is there? Of course not. In fact, they look pretty darn cute together....Read More
The Truth About George Washington
Filed by Karen Ocamb | February 22, 2011 3:30 PM |I was reading Family Research Council President Tony Perkin's newsletter this President's Day in which he and FRC's "resident historian" Bob Morrison wax poetic about George Washington: "[O]ur first president, the Father of our Country. George Washington has been described...Read More
VIDEO: Florida Congressmembers Advance AIDS Drugs Funding
Filed by Michael Emanuel Rajner | February 22, 2011 2:30 PM |Over the weekend I posted on the successful efforts of Congressman Alcee Hastings to increase funding for our nation's crippled AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAP) by $42 million. Below is a video of last Friday's discussion where Hastings' amendment was...Read More
Understanding the Significance of Wisconsin's Unions & Why We Should Stand in Solidarity
Filed by Joe Mirabella | February 22, 2011 1:30 PM |The unions have a strong history with the LGBT communities. They were one of our first allies that understood the connection between LGBT rights and worker's rights. If LGBTs were discriminated against in the work place, anyone could be discriminated...Read More
I Love Laughing
Filed by Anthony Carter | February 22, 2011 12:30 PM |I have been laughing my ass off for weeks now. I am currently doing research for a series of screwball comedies that I plan to write, shoot and direct. My research includes one episode of "I Love Lucy" a day....Read More
Leviticus 19:28
Filed by Bil Browning | February 22, 2011 11:30 AM |From the too-stupid-to-survive files... While Leviticus 18:22 condemns homosexuality as an abomination, Leviticus 19:28 forbids tattoos....Read More
Libyan Demonstrators: Stop the Killing Now
Filed by Joe Mirabella | February 22, 2011 10:30 AM |Libyan demonstrators filled a crowded downtown Seattle shopping center with calls for support on President's Day. "Stop the killing now" and "Down Down with Gaddafi" they chanted while waiving Libyan flags and signs that read, "Where's obama now?" The demonstrators...Read More
Teaching: Hatred and Stupidity for the Masses
Filed by Anthony Carter | February 22, 2011 9:30 AM |Seth Stambaugh was fired for being honest. This is the lesson we are teaching young people. Be honest until it's inconvenient. As a gay teacher of color, my contributions to the lives of young people are often looked on as...Read More
Increasing Awesome, Decreasing Suck
Filed by Austen Crowder | February 22, 2011 8:30 AM |I think the activist community has a problem with optimism. Between all the marriage battles, the commercialization of the "It Gets Better" campaign, the continued assault on our visibility as valid and acceptable members of society, and the neverending victim...Read More
Thinking Things Through
Filed by Bil Browning | February 22, 2011 7:30 AM |"We are caught up in the winds that blow every which way. And in the hullabaloo the thinking man is driven to ponder where he is being blown and to long desperately for some quiet place where he can reason...Read More
Judith Light's It Gets Better video
Filed by Bil Browning | February 22, 2011 7:00 AM |Fresh to the It Gets Better site is this video from actress Judith Light....Read More
