April 20, 2011
Coming Soon: An All New Bilerico Project
Filed by Bil Browning | April 20, 2011 7:00 PM |It's looking like we'll be launching our new design in the next couple of weeks. As things are firming up, we're starting to schedule a lot of contests, special content, and guest bloggers for the relaunch. If you're a publicist...Read More
Former College Freshman Indicted in Suicide of Tyler Clementi
Filed by Karen Ocamb | April 20, 2011 6:00 PM |Former Rutgers University freshman Dharun Ravi received a 15-count indictment on Wednesday, April 20, from a Middlesex County grand jury for "invasion of privacy, witness and evidence tampering, and other charges stemming from the suicide of 18-year-old Tyler Clementi in...Read More
Most Americans Favor Same-Sex Marriage
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 20, 2011 5:00 PM |CNN has a new poll that shows a slight majority of Americans support same-sex marriage, making it the third of recent marriage polls to show that: OutletWhenFavorOppose APAugust, 20105246 Wash. Post/ABCMarch, 20115344 CNNApril, 20115147 The wording of the question varies...Read More
What to Tell Your Kids About Gay Sex
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 20, 2011 4:00 PM |Editors' note: Steve Publicover is a former DC resident who lives in southwestern Virginia. One of the arguments we often hear from the whiny homophobes who fight tooth and nail to restrict our rights is that if the homo-sekshuls become...Read More
New Condom Makes Your Wang Bigger & Harder?
Filed by Bil Browning | April 20, 2011 3:00 PM |It sounds like the subject line of a spam e-mail, but a new condom is supposed to make your penis bigger and harder when you wear it. The rubber will be distributed by Durex. CSD500, our Condom Safety Device is...Read More
Homophobia Can Be Good for the Bottom Line
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 20, 2011 2:00 PM |I don't know how many nonprofit press releases I've read recently that used some permutation of the expression "Equality is good for the bottom line." Whether they're talking about how legalizing same-sex marriage can be good for a local economy,...Read More
OC Republican Official Apologizes for Racist Email, Won't Resign
Filed by Karen Ocamb | April 20, 2011 1:00 PM |Orange County Republican official Marilyn Davenport, a Tea Party activist, publicly apologized Monday night for emailing friends a photo depicting President Barack Obama as a chimpanzee with the caption: "Now you know why No birth certificate!" After an immediate uproar,...Read More
King & Spalding Breaks Non-Discrimination Pledge with DOMA Case
Filed by Michael Hamar | April 20, 2011 12:00 PM |Having been in the legal profession for well over 30 years, I am never surprised by the hypocrisy that seems to be the hallmark of many law firms. They claim, with wink and a nod and fingers crossed behind their...Read More
Donald Trump and Mainstream Political Discourse
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 20, 2011 11:00 AM |I have a modest proposition for people who like politics. The next time you come across a policy idea and your first instinct, no matter what the merits of the idea, is to deride it as radical, when this new...Read More
Alysia Harris & Aysha El Shamayleh: Hir
Filed by Bil Browning | April 20, 2011 10:00 AM |I have no idea what TV show this is from, but I'd love to know. Watch as Alysia Harris and Aysha El Shamayleh perform the poem, "Hir." I'll admit that I'm not a big poetry lover (okay, poetry usually bores...Read More
Tornado? That's Not in the Constitution
Filed by Don Davis | April 20, 2011 9:00 AM |There are lots of big tough words coming out of our friends in the Tea Party these days, especially when it comes to the permissible functions of the federal government. "If it's not specifically enumerated in the Constitution," they say,...Read More
Ladies in White: 1940s Erotic Photo (NSFW)
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | April 20, 2011 8:30 AM |From a private collection of 1940s photos found on eBay, this tender and enigmatic menage a trois . From the graininess and splotches, I'm assuming the photos were shot and developed by amateurs. NSFW and after the jump....Read More
Taylor Swift Gets Naked for No One
Filed by Michael Buckley | April 20, 2011 8:00 AM |Last post for a couple days, my twin sister is having a baby!...Read More
Act Straight
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 20, 2011 7:30 AM |"I've got to let my students know [about the attack], so when they're out and about in Rock Hill they act straight." --Kelly James, professor of sociology and criminology at Winthrop University and LGBT student group advisor, in the town...Read More
Tucker Carlson Is Against Gay History
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 20, 2011 7:00 AM |Tucker Carlson is against the California bill to teach gay history in schools because it's "propaganda." He's also shocked by the idea that anyone would want to exclude gay people from history books....Read More
