June 15, 2011
New York Marriage Equality May Face Vote This Week
Filed by Adam Polaski | June 15, 2011 | 7:30 PM |In the New York state senate and assembly, the marriage equality bill, submitted by Gov. Cuomo on Tuesday, was debated and its future - whether it would be put to a vote - was considered. Read More
United/Continental Sends Gay Travelers a Foul Message
Filed by Michael Hamar | June 15, 2011 | 6:00 PM |Employees at United/Continental Airlines at Houston Intercontinental Airport sent two gay travelers returning from a luxury trip to Costa Rica a very disturbing message by vandalizing their luggage. Read More
Remember the Gay Musical Monster Movies Of Our Youth?
Filed by Ed Kennedy | June 15, 2011 | 5:00 PM |You may remember beach movies and monster movies at the drive-in, but do you remember the one in which the boy got the boy? Neither did Tim Sullivan, so he made it himself with Brent Corrigan.Read More
Have You Entered Yet? Be a VIP at NYC Pride!
Filed by Ed Team | June 15, 2011 | 4:00 PM |Don't forget that you can win one of four big prize packages courtesy of MasterCard! You could be in the parade or sit in the VIP section with Bil to judge the floats!Read More
The Anteater & the Mushroom: Debating Circumcision
Filed by Guest Blogger | June 15, 2011 | 3:00 PM |Guest blogger Alaric DeArment steps into the circumcision debate and the San Francisco ballot initiative to ban the archaic practice.Read More
Thoughts and Updates from Netroots Nation
Filed by Jake Weinraub | June 15, 2011 | 2:15 PM |I am most excited to engage in conversations about race/class/cis privilege with other privileged LGB folks.Read More
Tomorrow's Man, Yesterday's Hunks: Vintage Magazines
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | June 15, 2011 | 2:00 PM |Two beautiful vintage issues of bodybuilding magazines featuring hunks in trunks who undoubtedly made a lot of hearts throb back in the 1950s.Read More
This Morning at Netroots Nation LGBT Connect: Missing Issues
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | June 15, 2011 | 1:00 PM |A dizzying variety of people showed up this morning at Netroots Nation LGBT Connect. Who are these people?Read More
'Lez Get Real' Successors Clarify Time with 'Paula Brooks'
Filed by Adam Polaski | June 15, 2011 | 12:30 PM |Bridgette LaVictoire and Linda Carbonell, who will take over Lez Get Real this month, speak with The Bilerico Project about the true, male identity of the site's founder and how it's different from the Damascus hoax. Read More
For the Love of Christ: Disabled Gay Men Tossed from KY Pool
Filed by Bil Browning | June 15, 2011 | 11:30 AM |Workers at The Pavillion, a government-funded recreational facility in Hazard, Kentucky, threw two gay men with developmental and intellectual disabilities out of the public pool citing the Bible as the reason.Read More
Hiding from the 'AIDS at 30' Media Storm
Filed by Mark S. King | June 15, 2011 | 11:00 AM |Examining the best of the "AIDS at 30" journalism and why I needed to warm up to the media blitz taking over my beat. Read More
Queering Up the Family Vacation
Filed by Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz | June 15, 2011 | 10:00 AM |Queerness is an intimate and real part of my nieces' lives. It's something they knew even before they could articulate it in words. It was also something that came up - along with race, class, and sovereignty - on our family vacation to Arizona.Read More
I'm Here At Netroots Nation LGBT Connect
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | June 15, 2011 | 9:00 AM |It's time for the annual Netroots Nation conference again, the conference for progressive bloggersRead More
AIDS at 30: 1996 Being Alive Video
Filed by Karen Ocamb | June 15, 2011 | 8:00 AM |This video about Being Alive, the organization for and run by people with HIV/AIDS, was produced in 1996, after the new AIDS drugs became available - but not for everyone, including some of these PWAs meeting in Silverlake.Read More
Old Navy: A Complete Rebellion Against God
Filed by Ed Team | June 15, 2011 | 7:30 AM |"Old Navy is promoting a lifestyle that is in complete rebellion against God. Rather than just focusing on giving good products to their customers, they want to use their products now to advocate for a very controversial topic, much less...Read More
Fake Bloggers Get Taiwanese Animation Treatment
Filed by Bil Browning | June 15, 2011 | 7:00 AM |This animation about the two fake lesbian bloggers turning out to be white straight men has to be one of the funniest yet....Read More
