September 26, 2011
Indy Star Examines Gay City Council Candidates: Misses Big Story
Filed by Bil Browning | September 26, 2011 8:30 PM |While I touted the historical significance of the three openly gay City-County Council candidates in a July post, the Indianapolis Star has an article today highlighting how little attention the candidate's sexual orientation has garnered while glossing over one few important fact.Read More
Unreal: The Haggards on Reality TV
Filed by Leslie Robinson | September 26, 2011 6:00 PM |I have to think Gayle Haggard had major qualms about participating. I can just hear her praying over the subject...Read More
Spiritual Rage
Filed by Guest Blogger | September 26, 2011 5:00 PM |Guest blogger Chris Glaser reminds us that media preoccupation with clergy sexual abuse scandals and cover-ups overlook the far more pervasive spiritual abuse that virtually all LGBT people have endured.Read More
House Dems to Boehner: What's Up with DOMA?
Filed by Bil Browning | September 26, 2011 4:00 PM |A handful of House Democrats have sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner requesting a briefing on the Republican-led defense of DOMA. What's their next move? Read More
Beautiful Friendship: Vintage Photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | September 26, 2011 3:15 PM |Such an improbable duo, and lap-sitting in photos is rare for the period, but it's still impossible to draw any conclusions about these guys.Read More
The Message: Time To Pay It Forward
Filed by Terrance Heath | September 26, 2011 2:00 PM |Elizabeth Warren recently answered conservatives' cries of "class warfare" regarding President Obama's new jobs agenda. What she said encapsulated precisely the message that every candidate appealing for Main Street votes needs to repeat from now until November 5, 2012.Read More
Photo Essay: New WeHo Library Invites Cultural Renaissance
Filed by Karen Ocamb | September 26, 2011 1:00 PM |I am a child of what conservatives in the dark and conformist 1950s called the Countercultural movement. Born of the outlaw and beatnik Howl against societal oppression, the 1960s flourished with color and celebration of individual creativity and artistic expression.Read More
Gaga's Multi-Pronged Tribute to Jamey Rodermeyer
Filed by Bil Browning | September 26, 2011 11:45 AM |Lady Gaga's newest LGBT cause is teen bullying after Buffalo, New York teenager Jamey Rodermeyer died of suicide earlier this month after enduring months of anti-gay bullying.Read More
My Conservative Girlfriend
Filed by Ed Team | September 26, 2011 10:42 AM |Joe.My.God. tips us to Roy Zimmerman's latest funny song, "My Conservative Girlfriend." Zimmerman is the same guy that wrote "Ted Haggard Is Completely Heterosexual."...Read More
New Standards of Care for the Health of Trans People
Filed by Kelley Winters | September 26, 2011 10:15 AM |Yesterday, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) released it's 7th version of Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People (SOC) in Atlanta.Read More
Comment of (Last) Week: Don Sherfick on Pacifism
Filed by Bil Browning | September 26, 2011 9:15 AM |What are your thoughts, Projectors? Is war justified? Now that LGB people are allowed to serve openly, should they?Read More
John Lauritsen's Shelley
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | September 26, 2011 8:00 AM |In 2007, John Lauritsen published The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein, in which he argued that it was Perry Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), and not his second wife Mary, who wrote that great novel.Read More
Sen. Kay Hagan Announces Support for ENDA
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | September 26, 2011 7:30 AM |"I'm announcing today that I will be signing on as a cosponsor to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). Discrimination must never be tolerated, and I believe that all Americans deserve an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential. No one -...Read More
