Gay Icons and History: June 2008
What the Main Stream Media Missed at Bruce Cohen's Wedding
Filed by Karen Ocamb | June 27, 2008 10:00 AM |I am always fascinated by how my mainstream journalism colleagues and I can cover the exact same story and even select the same quotes and yet wind up reporting the story with significant shades of difference. Here's an example: On...Read More
Burning Obama -- and His Family -- at the Stake
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | June 25, 2008 11:30 AM |As the U.S. heads into the last frenzied months of Presidential campaigning, attacks on the belief history of Obama's family grow ever fiercer. Right-wing commentators aren't content to question Obama's positioning on his former pastor and former church. They keep...Read More
Marriage Equality and the Memory of Tammy Faye
Filed by Paige Schilt | June 19, 2008 9:00 AM |Yesterday my partner, Katy, and I were legally married by our friend Jay Bakker, the Pastor of Revolution NYC. During the ceremony, Jay spoke of his late mother, Tammy Faye Messner, and how happy she would have been to see...Read More
Watching History
Filed by Waymon Hudson | June 17, 2008 2:00 PM |Although I live about as far away from California as a person can be (in South Florida), watching the news coverage last night of couples getting married made me feel like I was right beside them. My partner and I...Read More
An open letter to today's happy newlyweds
Filed by Guest Blogger | June 16, 2008 1:00 PM |Editor's Note: Lena Dahlstrom is a crossdresser from the San Francisco Bay area who also performs as a drag queen under the stage name "Joie de Vivre." She always gets teary-eyed at weddings. First let me offer my congratulations on...Read More
Pride '08 - who is standing on whose shoulders?
Filed by Cathy Renna | June 16, 2008 12:00 PM |Rosemary took in her first Pride parade in Washington DC this weekend (if she comes to me as a teenager and says "hey, I went to NY Pride when I was in the baby Bjorn at six months," I'll be...Read More
Enduring Love
Filed by Kate Kendell | June 16, 2008 11:00 AM |This morning, I woke up with such a full heart and an amazing sense of déjà vu. Today I am going to San Francisco City Hall, to the mayor's office, and will witness history. I will be surrounded by familiar...Read More
A Stonewall Riot Video Game?
Filed by Waymon Hudson | June 15, 2008 1:00 PM |I'm really not sure what to make of this, Projectors. Under the title "Celebrate Pride with 'Stonewall Brawl'," Gaygamer.net reports: Gay cartoonist Eric Orner (The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green) and Jay Laird of Metaversal Studios will be...Read More
Congratulations to Bishop Gene Robinson!
Filed by Waymon Hudson | June 09, 2008 1:00 PM |Bishop Gene Robinson, the openly gay Episcopal Bishop, entered into a civil union with his long time partner, Mark Andrews, this Saturday! According to PageOneQ: About 120 guests gathered at St. Paul's Church in New Hampshire for Saturday's ceremony for...Read More
The Campus Crusade of Antichrists
Filed by Robert Ganshorn | June 07, 2008 10:30 AM |Editor's Note: Robert Ganshorn was a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front at Purdue University before creating one of the first Public Television documentaries on gay lifestyles broadcast during his graduate studies at Indiana University. Failing to become the...Read More
