April 28, 2011
An Open Letter to My Genitals in Advance of Surgery
Filed by Drew Cordes | April 28, 2011 | 7:00 PM |Well, here we are, coming to the end of our time together. In a month you'll be gone, and things will be different. I don't know the ways in which they'll be different, and that's a bit intimidating in the...Read More
Ohio County Tries to Write Lesbians Out of Constitution
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 28, 2011 | 6:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Tico Almeida is a civil rights litigator at Sanford Wittels & Heisler LLP, which was recently named by Law360 as the only plaintiff-side law firm on the 2010 list of the Top Five employment law practices...Read More
ABC News: Christian Network Involved in Lisa Miller Kidnapping
Filed by Michael Hamar | April 28, 2011 | 5:00 PM |As more details emerge, it is increasingly obvious that Lisa Miller's flight from the USA in defiance of court orders was orchestrated and facilitated by a network of far right Christians, many with ties to Lynchburg, Virginia, or nearby Waynesboro....Read More
3 Printers Refuse to Publish LGBT College Group's Magazine
Filed by Bil Browning | April 28, 2011 | 4:00 PM |Three printers have refused to publish Fusion, Kent State University's LGBT magazine. The award winning publication is sponsored by Campus Progress. A fourth printing company has agreed to do the production run, but because of time constraints the magazine's costs...Read More
Pro-Gay Billboard Causes Stir
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 28, 2011 | 3:00 PM |Another pro-gay billboard in New York state is making people mad, including a state senator who says it's a political message to support same-sex marriage even though it doesn't mention marriage at all (text version at link): This is why...Read More
Father Claims Atlanta Braves Coach Hurled Homophobic Slurs
Filed by Karen Ocamb | April 28, 2011 | 2:00 PM |Justin Quinn, 33, of Fresno, California claimed Atlanta pitching coach Roger McDowell used homophobic slurs, made sexual gestures, and threatened him with a baseball bat during practice before the April 23 game against the San Francisco Giants. On Wednesday, Quinn...Read More
Poet, Mother (and Lesbian) to Write Poem for Royal Wedding
Filed by Dana Rudolph | April 28, 2011 | 1:00 PM |I wasn't going to write about the royal wedding at all. Despite having lived in the U.K. for a couple of years, I find the monarchy interesting only as an example of the persistence of older traditions of European leadership....Read More
Birther Blues: Obama's Birth Certificate
Filed by Terrance Heath | April 28, 2011 | 12:00 PM |OK. I think I understand why he did it. At first I didn't think Obama's release of his long form birth certificate would do him much good. But now I'm beginning to think the president knows exactly what he's doing,...Read More
Simple Title, Powerful Statement: Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | April 28, 2011 | 11:30 AM |The title was so obvious at first I smiled, but then I stopped and thought about what a strong political act it is to state simply and without apology, "I Am A Lesbian." No "twilight hunger" or "perverse passions," just...Read More
Glee Open Thread
Filed by Bil Browning | April 28, 2011 | 10:30 AM |I'm running behind this morning, so I'm gonna throw up an open thread. The floor is yours, Projectors. Who's your favorite character on Glee? Me? Why, thanks for asking! I'd pick Brittany; she gets all the best lines. (Glee wallpaper...Read More
Iowa GOP's Homophobia: Fire Kevin Jennings, Ban Trans Folk from Marrying
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 28, 2011 | 9:30 AM |To follow-up on Joe's post on the Iowa Republican Party's platform, there's a lot of anti-gay and anti-trans ideology in there. While I'd love to go through and post on all the crazy (the platform actually says it opposes "The...Read More
Iowa Republican Party Wants to Re-establish Slavery
Filed by Joe Mirabella | April 28, 2011 | 8:30 AM |The Iowa Republican party platforms calls for a constitutional change that could theoretically result in a turn in slavery. With the Republican Iowa Caucuses campaigns underway, it is important to understand the kind of Republicans these candidates are going to...Read More
Religious Beliefs Come After Orders
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 28, 2011 | 7:30 AM |"You remain obligated to follow orders that involve interaction with others who are gay or lesbian, even if an unwillingness to do so is based on strong, sincerely held moral or religious beliefs." --US Marine Corps training material on DADT...Read More
Trump Claims Victory for Birthers
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 28, 2011 | 7:00 AM |Donald Trump says his birtherism shows what a great person he is and then tries to start another conspiracy theory, that Obama was let into Harvard Law even though he had terrible grades, which is totally not based on...Read More
