September 29, 2011
Uncovering America's LGBT History
Filed by Mark Segal | September 29, 2011 6:30 PM |Next week's Philadelphia Gay News, along with 30 newspapers across the country and The Bilerico Project, will begin to celebrate October as Gay History Month. This is the largest LGBT history project of any type, anywhere ever.Read More
Russian State Outlaws Gay Activism
Filed by Bil Browning | September 29, 2011 5:30 PM |A Russian province has decided to make "the public promotion of homosexuality" illegal after religious leaders clambered for the law.Read More
David Badash: The Fate of Gay News Sites & Blogs
Filed by Karen Ocamb | September 29, 2011 4:00 PM |The truth of the matter is that most of us in the LGBT media work our hearts out for love, not money. This is our contribution to the LGBT movement for liberation, justice and equal rights.Read More
Canadian Paper Runs Anti-Trans Advertisement
Filed by Bil Browning | September 29, 2011 3:00 PM |With California gearing up for the fight over the FAIR Education Act, how long do you think it'll be before the religious right starts trying to copy the campaign in California newspapers?Read More
Why I Care About the LA Dodger's 'It Gets Better' Video
Filed by Karen Ocamb | September 29, 2011 2:00 PM |I was happy to see via Huffington Post that I wasn't the only one initially suspicious of the motives behind the LA Dodgers' contribution to the It Gets Better Project against LGBT teen bullying and suicide.Read More
Shark Attack: Another Obnoxious PETA Ad
Filed by Bil Browning | September 29, 2011 1:00 PM |I know, shocker. Right?!? Surely PETA wouldn't put out an ad campaign mocking a tragedy and vaguely linking it to animal rights?Read More
Voter ID Laws May Disenfranchise Trans Community
Filed by Adam Polaski | September 29, 2011 12:00 PM |"Voter ID" laws - which require citizens to present a valid form of photo identification in order to vote in elections - have been passed in several states, disenfranchising communities with legitimate reasons for not having those forms of ID - including trans people.Read More
Happy Trails to Them
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | September 29, 2011 11:00 AM |Sweet little find home photo of two well-tanned guys having fun in the sun together. The boots are purrrfect.Read More
How to Make an American Fundie's Head Explode
Filed by Bil Browning | September 29, 2011 10:00 AM |For all the American religious right calls to "Think of the children!", it seems that England actually is.Read More
The Brady Bears
Filed by Ed Team | September 29, 2011 9:49 AM |Hat tip to AJ for this parody of the Brady Bunch featuring a big bunch of bears!...Read More
His Brain Dried Up
Filed by Ed Team | September 29, 2011 9:42 AM |"In short, our gentleman became so immersed in his reading that he spent whole nights from sundown to sunup and his days from dawn to dusk in poring over his books, until, finally, from so little sleeping and so much...Read More
US Catholic Bishops Threaten Obama Over DOMA
Filed by Father Tony | September 29, 2011 8:00 AM |In the context of this letter, the suddenly thunderous saber-rattling of the US Catholic bishops appears to be rooted in the prospect of lost funding rather than in the imaginary moral outrage of its flock.Read More
