May 31, 2011
An Open Letter to Employers
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 31, 2011 9:00 PM |Guest blogger Jessica Bussert, the mother of Betsie Gallardo, has experienced incredible barriers to employment in Indiana. Here, she pleads for employers to give her - and other transgender people - a chance. Read More
Who Takes the Blame for Sexting Embarrassment
Filed by Jake Weinraub | May 31, 2011 8:15 PM |Check out this well-put rebuttal to an Australian anti-sexting campaign, taking a look at the multiple actors complicit in cyber bullying and harassment.Read More
The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger
Filed by Prince Gomolvilas | May 31, 2011 8:00 PM |For those of you who are tired of "Sassy Gay Friend," "Randall's Wild Wild World of Animals" should keep you sufficiently occupied and laughing.Read More
Out On Assignment: Queering the Media
Filed by Bil Browning | May 31, 2011 7:00 PM |If you're in the DC area, you'll want to check out this Pride-related gathering hosted by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. I'd love to see some Projectors in the audience at the Chaselton Ballroom tomorrow night.Read More
Rep Weiner Caught in Twitter Bulge Pic Scandal
Filed by Jake Weinraub | May 31, 2011 6:30 PM |The "Weinergate" controversy surrounding NY Representative Anthony Weiner is a muddled internet mess of accusations by rightwing "journalists."Read More
Eddie Long Punks Out
Filed by Terrance Heath | May 31, 2011 6:00 PM |Last September, megachurch preacher Bishop Eddie Long stood before his congregation a week after gay sex allegations surfaced between him and four teenage boys and told members he was innocent, but Long chose not to fight in court.Read More
School Elects LGBT Prom Royalty
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 31, 2011 5:00 PM |If the 90's was the decade of the LGBT teens in school, then the 2000's were the decade where the idea that teenagers had minds, identities, and sexualities of their own was normalized.Read More
Yesteryear's Military Fantasy: Vintage Postcard
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 31, 2011 4:00 PM |This fantasy could have been found at certain private military fetish parties yesterday.Read More
(Un)heard: Transmasculine People of Color Speak
Filed by Jason Tseng | May 31, 2011 3:30 PM |Black, trans, and living in rural Ohio is not what you usually think of when you think of the LGBT movement. Read More
Pawlenty Spoof of Savage's Google Chrome Commercial
Filed by Bil Browning | May 31, 2011 2:30 PM |Of course this isn't really a Tim Pawlenty campaign ad, but the synchronicity between the feel-good commercial for Dan Savage and the fake campaign spot is amazingly well done.Read More
An Extraordinary LGBT Community Possible
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 31, 2011 1:30 PM |What if the LGBT community stood for the context of a world of love and respect for all? Read More
Ku Klux Klan Protests the Westboro Baptist Church
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 31, 2011 12:30 PM |Hating the WBC no longer means anything at all any more. They are plainly the most generally despised people in the country.Read More
The Asian Pride Project Needs Your Help
Filed by Jason Tseng | May 31, 2011 11:30 AM |The prevailing discourse in the media regarding people of color & queer issues is that people of color are more homophobic or that parents are more likely to have a negative reaction to their children coming out.Read More
Moscow Pride Revitalizes Talk of Community Alliances
Filed by Adam Polaski | May 31, 2011 11:00 AM |A new editorial in The Moscow News suggests mismanagement of the LGBT movement by gay rights leaders in the country.Read More
AIDS at 30: Birthdays & Dead Friends
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 31, 2011 10:15 AM |Birthdays are so spiritually exhausting: sometimes a constant heartache is too much to bear. But then AIDS is everywhere I am by choice. Because I want to remember. My dead friends remind me how much I have loved.Read More
The Boogey Man Hasn't Gone Away
Filed by Anthony Carter | May 31, 2011 8:00 AM |After ten years of grief, the American public feels vindicated. The big bad evil one, the devil incarnate, has been made to pay the price for f--king the world's saviors - the country that rights the wrongs of evildoers.Read More
DC Methodists Vote to Bless Marriage Equality
Filed by Ed Team | May 31, 2011 7:30 AM |"We believe that more and more Christians are examining the issue and realizing that it is truly a civil rights issue and that members of our denomination are just as deserving of support of their church communities and their commitments...Read More
Why Family Research Council Was Designated a Hate Group
Filed by Bil Browning | May 31, 2011 7:00 AM |Ever wonder whether or not the Southern Poverty Law Center was justified in naming the Family Research Council a hate group? Yeah. They were. (Hat tip to JMG)...Read More
