April 19, 2011
NH Teabaggers: Who Cares About Gay Marriage?
Filed by Bil Browning | April 19, 2011 7:00 PM |Great video from Wonk Room's Igor Volsky today. Igor attended one of the Tea Party's Tax Day rallies in New Hampshire and while the House Republicans have decided to spend a half a million dollars to "defend" section three of...Read More
Injustice at Every Turn: Video Story of Two Transgender Women
Filed by Karen Ocamb | April 19, 2011 6:00 PM |In The Life Media produced an insightful video about two transgender women, Ja'briel and Michelle (a Native American from Los Angeles), that illustrates the findings from a comprehensive transgender discrimination study completed by the National Center for Transgender Equality and...Read More
Hungarian Parliament Approves Constitutional Ban on Same-Sex Marriage
Filed by Bil Browning | April 19, 2011 5:00 PM |The Hungarian Parliament approved a new constitution on Monday that includes a ban on same-sex marriages. Lawmakers passed the legislation with an overwhelming majority - 262 to 44. Edge has the report: "We've just participated in a historical moment," Parliamentary...Read More
A Couple of Sailors Hanging Around: Vintage Photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | April 19, 2011 4:30 PM |Ca. 1940s, a rare vintage gay cheesecake photo of a couple of incredibly handsome and dreamy-eyed sailors tied to riggings....Read More
Anti-Gay Marriage Campaigners Know They're Lying
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 19, 2011 3:30 PM |A new documentary on Question 1 in Maine (the ballot initiative to stop same-sex marriage there in 2009) is due out this summer. It contains footage from strategy meetings on both sides, including this bit where Yes on 1 campaign...Read More
Video: French Bulldog & Cute Boy in Boxers Dancing
Filed by Bil Browning | April 19, 2011 2:30 PM |I knew that title would grab your attention! Watch as this cute boy sitting around the house in his boxers starts "dancing" with his French Bulldog, Pinga. Simply adorable. The dog is cute too....Read More
Republican Official Sends Racist Image of Obama
Filed by Sara Whitman | April 19, 2011 1:30 PM |Marilyn Davenport, a CA GOP official, sends out a picture of two chimps and Obama's face pasted on the "baby" chimp and states, "Now you know why there is no birth certificate." Stunning. I mean, there have been a lot...Read More
Affirmative Action for Straight Marriage
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 19, 2011 12:30 PM |Arizona just passed a law saying that married couples (same-sex marriage isn't recognized in the state) should have "priority" over other potential parents in adoptions. The rule applies to public and private adoption agencies: Married couples will have preference when...Read More
Passover: The Orange on the Seder Plate
Filed by Bil Browning | April 19, 2011 11:30 AM |While Jewish people celebrate Passover this week, there's an LGBT angle to the feasting. Maybe progressive Jews include an orange on the seder plate. During the meal, several items are laid out on a plate to symbolize various aspects of...Read More
Toronto Pride: The 2011 Chapter
Filed by Mercedes Allen | April 19, 2011 10:30 AM |Once again, Toronto Pride funding is under fire. Once again, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid is the excuse being given. This time, though, QuAIA has voluntarily withdrawn from the event, and Mayor Rob Ford still seems poised to withhold funding, at...Read More
Will Prop 8 Tapes Be Available for Everyone?
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 19, 2011 9:30 AM |After Vaughn Walker made a presentation on cameras in the courtroom at the University of Arizona involving a two-minute clip from the Prop 8 trial, which C-SPAN broadcasted, Prop 8 supporters filed to recuperate those tapes. Now the AP and...Read More
House of Wind, Sir
Filed by Kate Clinton | April 19, 2011 8:30 AM |The King's Speech was the royal carpet-bombing to get subjects in the mood for the big same-old-sex nuptials between the prince and a commoner. A very wealthy commoner, but common nonetheless. The movie didn't do that for me, but my...Read More
Day of Silence
Filed by Kate Clinton | April 19, 2011 8:00 AM |Day of Silence, and where is our tax money going?...Read More
Accomplice of Sexual Suppression
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 19, 2011 7:30 AM |"I don't want to answer his question and I most certainly won't do it. If I answer him I will become an accomplice of sexual suppression." --Tsai Ing-Wen, Democratic Progressive presidential candidate in Taiwan on being asked if she was...Read More
True Blood Season Four Sneak Peak
Filed by Jake Weinraub | April 19, 2011 7:00 AM |Sneak peak of True Blood Season 4, building on the show's social justice metaphor....Read More
