March 3, 2011
This Will Break Your Heart
Filed by Bil Browning | March 03, 2011 | 7:00 PM |Meet Derence Kernek and Ed Watson, a California couple who have been together for 40 years. They want the 9th Circuit federal court to lift the stay against same-sex marriage is California so they can get hitched. Why? Ed, who...Read More
Social Security: If You Can't Kill the Program, Screw the People
Filed by Don Davis | March 03, 2011 | 6:00 PM |There are a lot of ways to be petty and cheap and stupid. There are also a lot of ways to stick it to a program, and by extension, the clients of that program, that you don't like. This week...Read More
Megyn Kelly Is a Lawyer?
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 03, 2011 | 5:00 PM |This video of Megyn Kelly basically calling Bill O'Reilly a liar (she says "misleading" and "making facts up") is making the rounds. They're talking about the Snyder case against the WBC, whose $5 million ruling against the WBC the Supreme...Read More
Happy First Anniversary Washington, DC
Filed by Cathy Renna | March 03, 2011 | 4:00 PM |A year ago today, the District of Columbia became the first jurisdiction south of the Mason-Dixon line to legally marry same-sex couples. As I write "Happy First Anniversary" emails to the three couples I had the honor and pleasure of...Read More
Popping His (Black Party) Cherry
Filed by Bil Browning | March 03, 2011 | 3:00 PM |The Black Party is coming up at the end of March and leather lovers everywhere are girding themselves up in preparation. Rob, a Daddyhunt.com blogger, is a Black Party virgin and needs the proper getup for the big event. I'd...Read More
In Defense of Nikolai Alexseev
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 03, 2011 | 2:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger John R. Selig is a gay dad, writer, photographer, podcaster and activist living in Dallas, Texas. Selig produces his "John Selig Outspoken" podcast to provide role models to gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. I am...Read More
Gay Marriage Stole Your Job
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 03, 2011 | 1:00 PM |NOM has been blanketing the district of Maryland senator Jim Brochin with mailers because he announced his support for same-sex marriage. Here's part of the mailer, which seems to be saying that same-sex marriage is as bad as unemployment, or...Read More
Christians Preserve Right to Bully Suicidal Kids
Filed by Bil Browning | March 03, 2011 | 12:00 PM |Check out this bit of "pro-family" crowing from the Indiana Family Institute's newsletter listing all of their accomplishments in the Indiana legislature this session: Anti-Free Speech homosexual "bullying" bill dies in Senate committee. The homosexual lobby was pushing SB 538,...Read More
LIFE swim: Vintage Hunks in Trunks
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 03, 2011 | 11:30 AM |What ever happened to candid photography? Vintage Life Magazine, ca. 1930s, did not fear the naked human body - at least not when athletes wore wildly revealing bathing suits like these. Yum....Read More
It Gets Better... at Gay Polo Tournaments
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | March 03, 2011 | 10:30 AM |Yes, it does get better, and one better place in the sports world is where the Gay Polo League makes a deep hoof-print on narrow homophobic sensibilities. On February 20, in Los Angeles, the League hosted its first annual west-coast...Read More
IRS to Require Income Splitting for Same-Sex Couples
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 03, 2011 | 9:30 AM |The IRS has instructed same-sex couples that are DP'd, CU'd, or married in community property states (Washington, California, Nevada), to start income-splitting, i.e. averaging the incomes while filing separately. The Sacramento Bee reports that this will increase some people's tax...Read More
Rev. Peter Gomes: Accidental Gay Advocate
Filed by Rev Irene Monroe | March 03, 2011 | 8:30 AM |If during your tenure as a student at Harvard you did not encounter the Reverend Peter J. Gomes, you have not had the quintessential Harvard experience. For undergraduates, if they were paying attention, Gomes bookended their four-year experience at Harvard...Read More
LGBT Formal Equality in Barney Frank's Lifetime
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 03, 2011 | 7:30 AM |"I can foresee now an end to legal inequality based on sexual orientation and gender equality some time in my lifetime." --Barney Frank, who's 70...Read More
Sassy Gay Friend - Great Expectations
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 03, 2011 | 7:00 AM |Sassy Gay Friend is back with Great Expectations and some product placement....Read More
