May 9, 2011
Sally Kern Is Sorry
Filed by Anthony Carter | May 09, 2011 7:00 PM |"We have a high percentage of blacks in prison, and that's tragic, but are they in prison just because they are black or because they don't want to study as hard in school? I've taught school, and I saw a...Read More
Poor, Oppressed Corporations
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 09, 2011 6:00 PM |Maybe universities should start offering classes to study the oppression of corporations and create safe spaces for them on campus. They've only been people since 1886, and they've been maligned ever since. All they want to do is make a...Read More
Supposedly Progressive Christian Sojourners Rejects LGBT Ad
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 09, 2011 4:00 PM |Perhaps you've seen Rev. Jim Wallis on TV - he's a self-described Christian "public theologian." But he's also an influential one as a best-selling author and the president and CEO of what heretofore has been considered the progressive Sojourners Social...Read More
War Porn: What We Don't Need to See
Filed by Terrance Heath | May 09, 2011 3:00 PM |Warning: Graphic images below the fold. NSFW. Strong trigger warning re: graphic depictions of violence, abuse, etc. Here, we go again. Why does it seem, lately, that a significant portion of the country sounds a lot like our three-year-old every...Read More
UCLA Study of California: Gay, Bisexual Men Have More Cancer
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 09, 2011 2:00 PM |The UCLA's California Health Interview Study (CHIS) shows that gay and bisexual men are twice as likely as straight men to have been diagnosed with cancer: The research, from California, found that gay men were almost twice as likely as...Read More
The Handsome Homo: Rep Schock's Ablicious Magazine Cover
Filed by Bil Browning | May 09, 2011 1:00 PM |Look who's adorning the cover of this month's Men's Health magazine? Why, it's closet case Illinois Republican Representative Aaron Schock. Best known for his fashion taste and abliciousness, the single totally gay Congressman posed for the soft core erotica fitness...Read More
The Normal Heart
Filed by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer | May 09, 2011 12:00 PM |My boyfriend is not rich. He happens to have a good job at a fancy law firm, which means he makes a good salary, but it also means he has a lot of college loans to pay off. (I was...Read More
ACLU Finds Schools Intentionally Block LGBT Websites
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 09, 2011 11:00 AM |The ACLU, in putting out a call for students to check to see if LGBT websites are blocked by their schools, found a lot more violations of free speech and equal access than one would think. And they didn't just...Read More
Words Matter
Filed by Bil Browning | May 09, 2011 10:00 AM |Friend of the site, Kim Pearson, posted this short video to her Facebook wall on Saturday morning. While only a couple of minutes long it, the lesson it teaches should be remembered for a lifetime. Thanks for giving this blogger,...Read More
Freethinking 1940s: Queer Studies
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 09, 2011 9:30 AM |A fascinating eBay find, these three pamphlets (known as "blue books") from E. Haldeman-Julius, a socialist reformer and atheist who published several radical works on sexuality by freethinkers in the 1940s....Read More
Florida: Awake the State Again on May 10
Filed by Michael Emanuel Rajner | May 09, 2011 8:30 AM |This past March 8th, at the onset of our Florida's legislative session, thousands of Floridians rallied on street corners throughout the state, in 31 cities, to send Florida's state legislature a strong message. It was a warning to lawmakers that...Read More
Lady Gaga Killed Osama!
Filed by Michael Buckley | May 09, 2011 8:00 AM |Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon's new twins! The Royal Wedding and the whorish hats! Osama Bin Ladin is dead. Lady Gaga tweet timing is a little off on promoting Judas and I do a dance to RuPaul's "Superstar" dedicated...Read More
The Church Got Peter Vidmar Involved
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 09, 2011 7:30 AM |"The Church wanted to take a stand on the issue, and they invited their members to take a stand. I chose to be involved." --Olympic gold medalist and Mormon Peter Vidmar, who stepped down as head of the US Olympic...Read More
Raja Does 'Diamonds Are Forever'
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 09, 2011 7:00 AM |Drag queen Raja performs "Diamonds Are Forever."...Read More
