Gay Icons and History: September 2011
Will Unheard Voices Be Heard in Schools?
Filed by Dana Rudolph | September 30, 2011 | 2:00 PM |There's a great new resource for teaching LGBT history in middle and high schools - and it might even teach us adults something.Read More
Uncovering America's LGBT History
Filed by Mark Segal | September 29, 2011 | 6:30 PM |Next week's Philadelphia Gay News, along with 30 newspapers across the country and The Bilerico Project, will begin to celebrate October as Gay History Month. This is the largest LGBT history project of any type, anywhere ever.Read More
Sir's Special Night Out: Gender Fluid Gem
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | September 27, 2011 | 4:30 PM |A rare, beautiful, turn-of-the-20th century image of a delighted maid watching the lovely transformation of her Sir to her Ma'am.Read More
Southwest Boots L Word Actress Off Plane
Filed by Bil Browning | September 27, 2011 | 12:30 PM |Southwest Airlines kicked L Word actress Leisha Hailey and her girlfriend off a flight to Los Angeles after the two kissed. A flight attendant told them that Southwest is "a family airline" and then ejected them from the plane.Read More
Gaga's Multi-Pronged Tribute to Jamey Rodermeyer
Filed by Bil Browning | September 26, 2011 | 11:45 AM |Lady Gaga's newest LGBT cause is teen bullying after Buffalo, New York teenager Jamey Rodermeyer died of suicide earlier this month after enduring months of anti-gay bullying.Read More
John Lauritsen's Shelley
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | September 26, 2011 | 8:00 AM |In 2007, John Lauritsen published The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein, in which he argued that it was Perry Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), and not his second wife Mary, who wrote that great novel.Read More
Gay Activist Alliance Co-Founder Arthur Evans Dies
Filed by Karen Ocamb | September 15, 2011 | 11:00 AM |Arthur Evans, born in York, Pennsylvania on October 12, 1942, died in San Francisco over the weekend. Evans co-founded the Gay Activists Alliance months after the Stonewall riots.Read More
Soapbox, the Feminist Speakers' Bureau, Is 'Bi'-Operated
Filed by Amy Andre | September 14, 2011 | 12:00 PM |Jennifer Baumgardner, the co-founder of Soapbox, the Feminist Speakers' Bureau, speaks with The Bilerico Project about feminism's relationship with the LGBT movement, biphobia, and her new book.Read More
Comment of the Week: Jesse Monteagudo on Top 20 Queer Things
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | September 11, 2011 | 7:00 PM |Did we create the monster that wishes to destroy us?Read More
Who The Bleep Did She Marry? Maybe She Already Knew
Filed by Terrance Heath | September 09, 2011 | 4:00 PM |"Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?" is a favorite in our house. And last night we watched the Dina Matos-Jim McGreevey story. The show left out something about the McGreevey marriage - the three-ways with the driver, before he became governor.Read More
Top 20 Things That Owe Their Existence to Queers
Filed by Guest Blogger | September 09, 2011 | 8:00 AM |After reading the Bilerico Project's list of the Top 20 Most Important LGBT Figures in History by Adam Polaski, guest blogger Jeremy Redlien thought that it would be a good idea to create an entirely different sort of list.Read More
And Three Times As Mysterious: Vintage Pulp
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | September 08, 2011 | 12:00 PM |I have no idea what that means but I bet it would make for a really awesome bar contest. "I bet I'm twice as gay as you!" Read More
The Saint of 9/11
Filed by Father Tony | September 07, 2011 | 6:00 PM |Let's take a moment to remember the gay priest who was the first 9/11 victim.Read More
The World of the Homosexual: Vintage Pulp
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | September 07, 2011 | 2:00 PM |Although this book purports to be a serious study, the back cover reads more like an anti-gay propaganda tract, laden with some nasty myths and misconceptions.Read More
The Governor Who Wore a Dress
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | September 01, 2011 | 12:00 PM |One of the remarkable characters I discovered while doing some transgender history research for my book was Lord Cornbury. He was the British Governor of New York and New Jersey in the colonial era.Read More
