November 30, 2011
There Is No Closet: Learning about Queer Sexuality from 'Straight' Porn
Filed by Amy Andre | November 30, 2011 5:00 PM |Straight-identified men watching male-female porn aren't "secretly" bi. There is no secret. There is no closet. There is only the language we use to describe ourselves to ourselves and others, to create a sense of sexual intelligibility.Read More
Et Cum Spirit Two Two Oh
Filed by Kate Clinton | November 30, 2011 4:00 PM |Last Saturday night, the smell of overheating lamination machines wafted from Catholic Church basements. The next morning, parishioners lucky enough to attend churches not downsized by pedophilia payouts, consulted freshly plasticized pew cards for the new wording of their Mass.Read More
Call for LGBTs to March in Solidarity with Occupy LA
Filed by Karen Ocamb | November 30, 2011 3:00 PM |An LGBT march in solidarity with the Occupy movement is planned for Saturday, Dec. 3 in Los Angeles after city officials evicted the encampment late last night.Read More
South Korea: Hooters for Women
Filed by Bil Browning | November 30, 2011 2:00 PM |I'm still shocked that no one in the United States thought of this business model. A new restaurant in South Korea is turning the Hooters "sex sells" theme on its head by offering female customers a bevy of hot "construction worker" waiters.Read More
Gotcha Journalism Criminalizes Teacher's Gay Porn Past
Filed by Adam Polaski | November 30, 2011 1:00 PM |A Boston affiliate of Fox is working this week to villify a new English teacher at Mystic Valley Regional Charter School. Fox discovered that the teacher has performed in a number of gay adult films. This is "gotcha" journalism at its worst. Read More
Marine General Amos Now OK with DADT Repeal
Filed by Karen Ocamb | November 30, 2011 12:00 PM |In an interview with the Associated Press, Marine Commandant General Amos shocked those who remembered his staunch opposition to lifting the ban on gays in the military when he called the repeal "a non-event."Read More
Soul Kisses of Ancient Sisters: Vintage Photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | November 30, 2011 11:00 AM |This photo was probably very special to someone, as they pasted it on black paper and wrote "The Soul Kiss" in chalk beneath. From the clothes and hair, I'm guessing it was 1900-1910.Read More
UPDATED: TN Tea Party Tweets Anti-Gay Slur at Barney Frank
Filed by Bil Browning | November 30, 2011 10:00 AM |So much for that whole meme that "The Tea Party doesn't care about social issues. It's all about the money!" Seems the Tennessee Tea Party didn't get the memo.Read More
Parting Glances: VIP Q Movie Pick for World AIDS Day
Filed by Jenni Olson | November 30, 2011 9:00 AM |As World AIDS Day approaches on December 1st it's a fitting moment to share the half-dozen VIP Q Movie Pickers who have named Bill Sherwood's legendary 1986 HIV/AIDS drama, Parting Glances as their number one favorite LGBT film.Read More
Don't Hold Them Responsible
Filed by Bil Browning | November 30, 2011 8:30 AM |"Methamphetamine is an insidious drug that causes enormous collateral damage. If Mr. Wallace is no longer in business he has perhaps become part of that collateral damage, for it was not a result of DEA regulations, but rather the selfish...Read More
Wait. What? Oh, Rick Perry!
Filed by Bil Browning | November 30, 2011 8:00 AM |Good Lord this guy is an idiot. You only have to be 18 to vote - not 21. Election Day is November 6th - not the 12th. Oh, Rick Perry. You're a hoot! That's what you are. A hoot....Read More
