July 26, 2011
My Night As Ricky Martin
Filed by Adam Polaski | July 26, 2011 7:00 PM |Wait, did my cruise ship impersonation of the openly gay Latino superstar contribute to the erasure of his gay identity?Read More
Outliving My Father
Filed by Mark S. King | July 26, 2011 6:00 PM |We began words and abandoned them, floating silently in a moment I hoped could delay the inevitable. I thanked God for a gift that, in the distorted world of AIDS, I had wanted so badly over the years. I would outlive my father.Read More
Action Alert: Support HIV/AIDS Programs
Filed by Michael Emanuel Rajner | July 26, 2011 5:00 PM |Tell your Senators and Representative that cutting programs vital to people with HIV/AIDS is no way to reduce the deficit - we need a fair and balanced approach now!Read More
Hitler Holds News Conference, Blames Balanced Budget for US Loss
Filed by Don Davis | July 26, 2011 4:00 PM |America's new Führer announced today that his official war history would acknowledge that one of the biggest contributing factors to the defeat of the Allies was the insistence of the former United States of America on sticking to its balanced budget amendment.Read More
'She's Not There': An Essential Book in My LGBT Education
Filed by Adam Polaski | July 26, 2011 3:00 PM |Almost exactly eight years after Jennifer Finney Boylan published her story of transition, She's Not There, her book is helping this young writer work toward greater understanding of the full spectrum of the LGBT community.Read More
After Ex-Gay Question, Bachmann Snubs Iowa News Station
Filed by Andrew Belonsky | July 26, 2011 2:00 PM |Michele Bachmann and her presidential campaign received scores of press earlier this month when it was revealed that her husband, Marcus Bachmann, runs an "ex-gay therapy" clinic. And as the scandal unfolded, Rae Chelle, a reporter from Iowa-based ABC affiliate...Read More
Dept. of HHS Considers Revisiting Gay Blood Ban
Filed by Adam Polaski | July 26, 2011 1:00 PM |Today the Department of Health and Human Services detailed what steps would need to be taken in order for the country's current ban on blood donations from gay men to be reviewed again. Read More
Alexander Hamilton: 'Little Lion' of the Revolution
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | July 26, 2011 12:00 PM |Conservative American historians reserve a closet that's deeper and darker than usual, for any "founding father" who wasn't a Bible-quoting Protestant heterosexual. And some odd boys can definitely be glimpsed through the cannon smoke of our Revolution. Among them was soldier and statesman Alexander Hamilton.Read More
Reverse Sexism: Call On Me
Filed by Bil Browning | July 26, 2011 11:30 AM |Leave it to the gays to take the sexism of Call On Me and turn it on its head. Or something like that...Read More
The Limits of Tolerance: Anti-faith Voices in Our Community
Filed by Rev. Emily C. Heath | July 26, 2011 10:30 AM |It is always ironic to me how much anti-gay Christians and the rabid anti-faith folks have in common. The narrowness of world views, the inability to tolerate beliefs different than their own, the stereotyping: they are all fundamentalists.Read More
Gays Still Dominate Comic Con
Filed by Adam Polaski | July 26, 2011 9:30 AM |Comic Con 2011 in San Diego was chock full of LGBT-focused pop culture and entertainment news - Glee and True Blood news, gay comic book scoop, and a response from John Barrowman on a Torchwood gay sex scandal. Read More
Broadway Loves Gay Marriages
Filed by Ed Team | July 26, 2011 8:00 AM |The Great White Way is totally loving marriage equality in New York. On Sunday, the homo Avenue Q puppets tied the knot and proved there was life outside their apartment. Yesterday, the finale of a performance of Hair was...Read More
Prosecutor in Larry King Murder Invokes "Gay Panic" Law
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | July 26, 2011 8:00 AM |The killer of 15 year-old Larry King argues he was provoked into shooting him in the head at school because King was "flirtatious."Read More
NY Senator Diaz Says Sunday Same-Sex Marriages Are Illegal
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | July 26, 2011 7:30 AM |"When a couple registers for a marriage license they are supposed wait 24 hours before actually getting married. This is illegal and criminal." --New York anti-gay Senator Ruben Diaz, complaining about the same-sex marriages performed on Sunday in New York...Read More
