October 6, 2011
13 Years: Happy Anniversary to Jerame & Me
Filed by Bil Browning | October 06, 2011 7:00 PM |Today is Jerame and my 13th anniversary. The fact that we ever went on a first date is practically miraculous. I spent months trying to shake Jerame and his advances; I actively discouraged him, in fact. I wanted nothing to do with him.Read More
Barney Frank on Republicans, Reagan & Obama's Jobs Act
Filed by Karen Ocamb | October 06, 2011 6:00 PM |Openly gay Rep. Barney Frank, the Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee who helped pass the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act last year, spoke with MSNBC's Al Sharpton Tuesday about the ideology of the Republican Right, Ronald Reagan on taxing millionaires and President Obama's campaign to pass the American Jobs Act.Read More
Girls Just Want to Have Tongue
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | October 06, 2011 5:00 PM |Nothing like catching a spontaneous moment in a strip club, where one patron got more of a show than she was expecting!Read More
What's Next for the Progressive Movement?
Filed by Terrance Heath | October 06, 2011 4:00 PM |As the last full day of the Take Back the American Dream conference ended, the “Building the Progressive Movement: What Should We Do Next?” action strategy session posed the question that was probably on the minds of many attendees: What should we do next?Read More
Spice Up Your Love Life: Question #1
Filed by Jeff Lutes | October 06, 2011 3:00 PM |One playful yet helpful way to think about the true meaning of intimacy is to break the word down into the syllables IN-TO-ME-SEE. Healthy long-term relationships depend on allowing another to see us as we really are; yet this kind of authenticity and vulnerability can be unsettling, even terrifying. Read More
Lesbian Couple on NY Town Clerk Who Won't Issue Marriage Licenses
Filed by Bil Browning | October 06, 2011 2:00 PM |Katie Carmichael and Deirdre Dibiaggio talked with MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts - who's openly gay - about Ledyard, New York town clerk Rose Belforti who is refusing to give any same-sex couple a marriage license.Read More
Is My Generation Destroying Gay Subculture?
Filed by Adam Polaski | October 06, 2011 1:00 PM |Rachel Maddow's interview in The Hollywood Reporter makes me question: How important is "gay subculture"? And what does that even mean? Perhaps my inability to pinpoint the subculture is exactly the issue that she's talking about...Read More
I Am Sad: Insanely So
Filed by Jerame Davis | October 06, 2011 12:00 PM |Steve Jobs was my Elvis, JFK and moon landing all wrapped into one. What he created - the company, the products, the way of thinking - profoundly and undeniably changed my life. I am who I am today because Steve Jobs thought differently.Read More
Westboro Announces Jobs Funeral Picket Via iPhone
Filed by Bil Browning | October 06, 2011 11:00 AM |Westboro Baptist loons have announced they'll be picketing outside of Steve Jobs' funeral - and they did it on an iPhone. As Gawker says, "We can only speculate that WBC is targeting Jobs because he actually did something productive with his life, and they're envious."Read More
Equality California Says No to Prop. 8 Repeal Ballot in 2012
Filed by Karen Ocamb | October 06, 2011 10:00 AM |Buried in a note to supporters of Equality California on what Executive Director Roland Palencia describes as a new "breakthrough" project is the announcement that EQCA will not be participating in any return to the ballot in 2012 to overturn Prop. 8.Read More
God Doesn't Want a Lot of Things
Filed by Bil Browning | October 06, 2011 9:15 AM |"New York law protects my right to hold both my job and my beliefs. I'm not supposed to have to leave my beliefs at the door at my government job. For me to participate in the same-sex marriage application process...Read More
The Crazy Ones
Filed by Bil Browning | October 06, 2011 9:08 AM |Apple Founder Steve Jobs narrates the first Think Different commercial "Here's to the Crazy Ones". It never aired. Jobs died yesterday at the age of 56 after a lifetime spent becoming a "crazy one."...Read More
William Rufus King: First Gay U.S. Vice President?
Filed by Guest Blogger | October 06, 2011 9:00 AM |Some historians have speculated that William Rufus King holds a significant distinction as likely being the first gay U.S. vice president, and possibly one of the first gay members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.Read More
