November 16, 2011
Examples: Boycott Koch Products
Filed by Bil Browning | November 16, 2011 6:00 PM |Tired of dealing with the teabagger and general rightwing bullshit that's being financed by the extremist Koch brothers? Were you aware of all the companies that Koch Industries owns and the products you could be buying every day?Read More
VIDEO: Neil Patrick Harris & David Burtka Accept LA Gay & Lesbian Center Award
Filed by Karen Ocamb | November 16, 2011 5:00 PM |NPH was funny: "It's hard to believe that it's been 40 years since the Center first invented gays and lesbians. But David and I were so happy that they did."Read More
Indy PFLAG Needs Help from LGBT Hoosiers
Filed by Annette Gross | November 16, 2011 4:00 PM |Indy PFLAG is asking LGBT Hoosiers to send us your personal stories that we can send to the Indiana State Medical Association describing how you and your families had been impacted by discrimination.Read More
Herman Cain: Real Men Eat Sausage
Filed by Alex Blaze | November 16, 2011 3:00 PM |There's nothing more manly than longing for a mouthful of nice, hard sausage.Read More
Putting a Face & Voice to Student Debt Statistics
Filed by Adam Polaski | November 16, 2011 2:00 PM |Despite staggeringly high numbers of U.S. student loan debt, we rarely talk about the crisis. If we talk about it at all, we discuss it as a large, overarching problem or a faceless statistic, one that encourages us to lose perspective.Read More
VIDEO: Chaz Bono Accepts LA Gay & Lesbian Center Award
Filed by Karen Ocamb | November 16, 2011 1:00 PM |Scream star David Arquette appeared to not be reading off the teleprompter but looking at his friend and fellow Dancing With the Stars co-star Chaz Bono as he presented Chaz with the LA Gay & Lesbian Center's Board of Directors Award Saturday night.Read More
HUD Secretary Donovan Makes LGBT History
Filed by Bil Browning | November 16, 2011 12:00 PM |At the National Center for Transgender Equality gala awards banquet last night, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan made history.Read More
Catholic Charities Ends Illinois Anti-Gay Adoption Lawsuit
Filed by Waymon Hudson | November 16, 2011 11:00 AM |The legal battle between Catholic Charities and the state of Illinois over the organization's state-funded adoption and foster care contracts, and their refusal to grant those services to same-sex couples in civil unions, is finally over.Read More
'Homosexuality as Gateway Drug' and Queer Studies
Filed by Adam Polaski | November 16, 2011 10:00 AM |Last week, an image surfaced that showed a unique course listing over at Baylor University: "Homosexuality as Gateway Drug."Read More
Michigan Bullying Bill Won't Have Religious Loopholes
Filed by Bil Browning | November 16, 2011 9:00 AM |We were due for some good news and here it is. Michigan's proposed bullying bill will not include loopholes to allow religious bullies to intimidate LGBT students or those from other religions.Read More
Probably Auto-Penned Too
Filed by Bil Browning | November 16, 2011 8:30 AM |"Considering that she was a member of Congress and he [Speaker John Boehner] was the highest-ranking member, we thought he'd ask to visit Gabby or at least give a call to see how she was doing. Our only contact with...Read More
Your Fly's Open, Faggot
Filed by Bil Browning | November 16, 2011 8:00 AM |Watch as a security guard employed by Brookfield Properties (the owner of Zuccotti Park in NYC) calls military veteran Joey Boots a "faggot" when Boots tries to find out more information about who they work for. The man's supervisor...Read More
