February 15, 2012
Who Will Be the Next Leader of HRC?
Filed by Bil Browning | February 15, 2012 | 6:15 PM |The Advocate recently put out a list of folks they think "might succeed Joe Solmonese" as the head of the Human Rights Campaign, but let's take a deeper look at who insiders are actually speculating will end up with the job.Read More
Erotica, Valentine's Day, & the Missouri River
Filed by James Holmes | February 15, 2012 | 5:00 PM |Last night for Valentine's Day, my partner and I decided to go for a less traditional approach. Rather than going out for dinner and a movie we accepted an invitation to an erotic book reading.Read More
Oklahoma's New Gay State Senator Is an Old Friend
Filed by Bil Browning | February 15, 2012 | 4:00 PM |Oklahoma state representative Al McAffrey may be the state's newest openly gay state senator now, but for those of us who follow politics, he's an old friend.Read More
Tell Log Cabin: No Anti-LGBT Candidates!
Filed by Jerame Davis | February 15, 2012 | 2:30 PM |No candidate should get the support of any LGBT organization if they have pledged to deny equality to our community. Some gay conservatives seem to think otherwise and they need to hear from us loud and clear: no anti-LGBT candidates allowed!Read More
HIV Criminalization Face-Off: A Poz Man & His Accuser
Filed by Mark S. King | February 15, 2012 | 1:30 PM |What if you could witness a face-to-face confrontation between a man living with HIV and the sex partner accusing him of not revealing his status? Wouldn't you like to be a fly on that wall?Read More
RuPaul's Drag Race Season 4, Episode 3 Glamazons vs. Champions
Filed by James Holmes | February 15, 2012 | 12:30 PM |The girls discover the world of the infomercial. They are ordered to create a commercial for RuPaul's two albums, Champion and Glamazon. Yay for self promotion. Read More
Pelosi Endorses Marriage Equality Plank for Dem Party
Filed by Bil Browning | February 15, 2012 | 11:00 AM |Freedom to Marry launched an ingenious campaign Monday to prod the Democratic Party into including a plank in the party platform that endorses marriage equality. The push got a large endorsement today from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi when she announced her support for the initiative. Read More
Log Cabin Republican Pioneer Thomas Hunter Russell Dies
Filed by Karen Ocamb | February 15, 2012 | 10:00 AM |On Monday, longtime activist Jeanne Barney sent me an email telling me that Thomas Hunter Russell died peacefully at his home last Wednesday, on Feb. 8. He was 71.Read More
Matt Taibi Savages HRC for Goldman Sachs Honors
Filed by Bil Browning | February 15, 2012 | 9:30 AM |"This is an extremely unfortunate error by the HRC, which in making [Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd] Blankfein a spokesman for this important political campaign has allowed one of the most relentless enemies of the poor and the disadvantaged to use...Read More
The Coolest Thing You'll See Today
Filed by Bil Browning | February 15, 2012 | 9:25 AM |Check out this video from Walk off the Earth of the five band members playing one guitar while performing "Somebody That I Used to Know." It sounds really hokey, but it's damn cool. I've had the song stuck in...Read More
