April 5, 2011
Gauguin Painting Attacked for 'Homosexual' Theme
Filed by Bil Browning | April 05, 2011 7:00 PM |Last Friday, a visitor attacked a Paul Gauguin painting at the National Museum of Art. The artwork, "Two Tahitian Women," shows two women with breasts exposed. The attacker cited the nudity as her reason for going unhinged and said the...Read More
GetEqual Claims an Online Petition Made the Military Bureaucracy Nervous
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 05, 2011 6:00 PM |Last week a gay sailor, Derek Morado, was told he was going to face discharge under DADT because the law is still in effect. GetEqual and Americablog set up an online petition for him. He had a hearing in front...Read More
QNotes: Marriage Equality or Bust?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | April 05, 2011 5:00 PM |Robbi Cohn, a strong advocate for the trans community, has written an important piece in QNotes. ...this will probably be deemed contentious and recalcitrant. I know how important the issue of marriage equality is to many within the gay and...Read More
What Are Your Lips For?: Vintage Album Cover
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | April 05, 2011 4:30 PM |Svetlana answers the musical question in this unfortunately hilarious vintage album-cover....Read More
A 'Supernatural Spell Being Cast in Public Schools'
Filed by Bil Browning | April 05, 2011 3:30 PM |Get a load of this crap. Dr. Michael Brown is promoting his new book, A Queer Thing Happened to America, and the banter between Brown and the host will make you lose your lunch. After all, since the host says...Read More
Equality California to Hold Town Halls on Whether to Repeal Prop 8 in 2012
Filed by Karen Ocamb | April 05, 2011 2:30 PM |As soon as the California Supreme Court said it would take up the standing question asked by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in the American Foundation for Equal Rights Perry v. Brown case (formerly Perry v Schwarzenegger), on the...Read More
San Francisco Gay Bookstore Closing
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 05, 2011 1:30 PM |Another gay bookstore is closing: The Castro's A Different Light Bookstore, one of the few remaining LGBT bookstores in the United States, is apparently closing. This comes on the heels of the closure of the Mission's Modern Times, another independent...Read More
Woodhull: Stepping Up & Speaking Out with a Brand New Name!
Filed by Ricci Levy | April 05, 2011 12:30 PM |Today is a big day for Woodhull as we put aside the name we've had since 2003 and adopt our new name - a name that better reflects who and what we are at Woodhull and the work that we...Read More
Holocaust Exhibit Details Nazi Persecution of Gays
Filed by Michael Hamar | April 05, 2011 11:30 AM |I've noted before on my personal blog the deliberate attempts by some in the Christian Right to tie gays to those responsible for the Nazi horrors of the "Final Solution" and World War II - even as they themselves utilize...Read More
How to Make Love to a Trans Person
Filed by Bil Browning | April 05, 2011 10:30 AM |I stumbled across this poem when Projector Ed tipped me to it. We don't usually post poetry or fiction or Bilerico Project, but I thought our readers would really enjoy this one. It will resonate with quite a few Projectors....Read More
Millionaires Ask to Be Taxed More as New York Tries to Cut Social Services
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 05, 2011 9:30 AM |Some millionaires in New York put out a video and a statement last week asking the governor not to cut their taxes in the next budget: Keep in mind that's not all of the millionaires of New York, probably not...Read More
Why Black Fear Matters
Filed by Anthony Carter | April 05, 2011 8:30 AM |I write this essay as a direct response to all of the drama surrounding the belief, statistically factually proven or not, that the black folks in our great state of California overwhelmingly voted for Prop 8. While there is much...Read More
It's Gotten Worse for Gay Teens
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 05, 2011 7:30 AM |"I think it's gotten worse for gay teenagers. One of the advantages I enjoyed at school 30 years ago that you could fly under the radar. I was a weird kid with no interest in girls, I liked musicals and...Read More
Marriage Protest in Manhattan
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 05, 2011 7:00 AM |Video from a Queer Rising protest in Manhattan yesterday for marriage....Read More
