May 19, 2011
Bilerico Badger Grad 2011
Filed by Jake Weinraub | May 19, 2011 7:00 PM |Hey Projectors! I wanted you to know that on Sunday I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a J.B.A. in Strategic Communications and certificates in African Studies, LGBT Studies, and Gender and Women's Studies (check out the extra rainbow...Read More
China: Distributing HIV/AIDS Drugs Reduces AIDS Deaths
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 19, 2011 6:00 PM |China has released numbers showing that AIDS deaths go down - a lot - when HIV/AIDS drugs are given out for free: China has slashed AIDS mortality by nearly two-thirds since it began distributing free antiretroviral drugs in 2002, Chinese...Read More
Lady Gaga Talks About Being Bullied as a Girl
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 19, 2011 5:00 PM |In this clip (via Mediaite) from a documentary to be aired on MTV on May 26, Lady Gaga - who just placed Number 1 on the famed Forbes Celebrity 100 list - talks about how hearing stories from her fans...Read More
Scarlet Betch Episode 46: Messy X-Men Storylines
Filed by Jason Tseng | May 19, 2011 4:00 PM |Hey Betches! We continue on our marathon of coverage this week with discussions on the conclusion and fall out of the Age of X storyline, the denouement of the latest New Mutants arc (and some awesome OTP Yuri pairings!), Astonishing...Read More
Action Against Corrective Rape in South Africa
Filed by Jake Weinraub | May 19, 2011 3:00 PM |Protesters gathered outside of Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa on Sunday to put pressure on the South African government to directly address lesbian "corrective rape" - the idea that rape will 'fix' a woman's lesbianism, or 'show her what...Read More
The Rapture Is this Weekend
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 19, 2011 2:00 PM |The rapture is coming this weekend, according to Family Radio president Harold Camping. He and his followers are preparing for a May 21 rapture, during which around 200 million Christians will be swept into heaven. Non-Christians and the other 1.9...Read More
Do and Don't Get Excited About AIDS 'Cure'
Filed by Andrew Belonsky | May 19, 2011 1:00 PM |Timothy Ray Brown is being hailed as a medical marvel. The 45-year-old man tested positive for HIV back in 1995 and, as he fought the retrovirus, also found out that he had Leukemia, a disease doctors hoped to fight with...Read More
The GOP's Own Private 'Mediscare'
Filed by Terrance Heath | May 19, 2011 12:00 PM |It’s almost enough to make you feel sorry for Republicans. Almost. The mess the GOP finds itself in, after appointing itself to Medicare’s “death panel,” would be laughable if it weren’t also so pathetic. Especially since it’s a mess...Read More
Everyone Should Leave with a Musical Number, Lambchops
Filed by Bil Browning | May 19, 2011 10:30 AM |I'm running out the door to take off for NYC and then on to Indianapolis, so you guys will have to play nice with the other contributors while I'm gone. Since I'm running out of time, I'll leave you with...Read More
Kye Allums to Leave College Basketball
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 19, 2011 9:30 AM |Kye Allums, the trans man who made headlines last year when he announced his transition but decided to put off physical transition and continue playing college women's basketball to keep his scholarship, has quit the basketball team his senior year:...Read More
ACLU Files Suit On Illinois Refusal To Correct Birth Certificates
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 19, 2011 8:30 AM |The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the Illinois Department of Public Health for refusing to correct birth certificates of transgender and transsexual people, requiring proof they have undergone a series of sex-reassignment surgeries before they can change the...Read More
Ted Nugent Has Gay Friends
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 19, 2011 7:30 AM |"I'm repulsed at the concept of man-on-man sex, I think it's against nature. I think it's strange as hell, but if that's what you are I love ya... I'm not going to judge another's morals. I say live and let...Read More
Bryan Fischer Calls Gays Muslim/Catholic Nazis
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 19, 2011 7:00 AM |Via RightWingWatch, here's the AFA's Bryan Fischer saying that gays are Nazis, just like Muslims and the Catholic Church during the Inquisition. Television stations still call on him to discuss homosexuality, since clearly he's an expert....Read More
