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Your Handy Guide to Cell Phone Etiquette
Filed by Bil Browning | May 19, 2013 3:00 PM |To help folks realize what is and isn't okay about using your phone in public, I thought I'd post a helpful infographic. No need to thank me. It's a public service really.Read More
I Am Your Daughter: Making Peace Before Pop Dies
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 19, 2013 12:30 PM |Inner peace was unknown to me until these past four years after I had finally come out as a transgender lesbian woman. Now I'm driving to a hospital so my father can meet me, the real me, Pamela, in person, before he dies.Read More
Tybee Island Georgia Has Its First Gay Days
Filed by Father Tony | May 19, 2013 10:30 AM |Is Tybee Island, Georgia, gay? That is the wrong question. Tybee might be the perfect example of the post-post-Stonewall well-integrated gay/straight community in which LGBT visibility, and a sense of fellowship overriding the bigotry of which southern states are usually suspected.Read More
What You Need To Know This Week (5/12 - 5/18)
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | May 18, 2013 3:00 PM |Priests lead a violent attack on gay protesters, a Eurovision kiss scares Turkey, the DoD recognizes a trans* veteran's gender, Texas "morality" tears apart a family, and more stories from the past week. Read More
Is This Okay?
Filed by Bil Browning | May 16, 2013 12:00 PM |I despise folks who have a quick yack at the top of their lungs about Aunt Betty's varicose veins on a crowded bus or how to properly file a Form SB82734-E(9) for consideration by the Department of Nobody Gives A Shit while seated in a crowded theater.Read More
Wedding Cake Wars: Oregon Edition
Filed by John M. Becker | May 15, 2013 5:00 PM |Yet another small business owner is going to the barricades and claiming that her private religious beliefs grant her the "liberty" to illegally discriminate against same-sex couples in the public marketplace. Sorry, but they don't.Read More
Marriage Equality Coming to Brazil?
Filed by John M. Becker | May 15, 2013 3:30 PM |If yesterday's ruling holds, equal marriage rights will be extended to same-sex couples nationwide and Brazil will become the fifteenth country where gays and lesbians can legally marry.Read More
Fitch the Homeless: A Helpful Protest
Filed by Bil Browning | May 15, 2013 2:00 PM |An interview Abercrombie and Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries did with Salon back in 2006 has found new life on the intertubes mememobile over the past couple of weeks. Unfortunately for Jeffries, honesty is not a virtue when it comes to brand marketing.Read More
Historic Catch One Disco Celebrates 40th Anniversary
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 15, 2013 12:30 PM |Forty years ago, Jewel Thais-Williams bought a bar that wouldn't allow black people to enter even though she wasn't legally allowed to tend bar. She's still going strong thanks to an old redneck from Texas.Read More
Let Alan Turing's Conviction For Homosexuality Stand
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | May 14, 2013 10:00 AM |As distasteful as we may find Alan Turing's trial, conviction, and chemical castration, his treatment is a vital part, not only of his history, but of the history of the struggle for LGBT equality. Read More
The Next Step for a Christian Ally
Filed by Betty Greene Salwak | May 13, 2013 10:00 AM |Anti-gay sentiment that is promulgated by religious conservatives of all Abrahamic faiths does not, in fact, originate in the Bible/Koran/Torah. The roots go much deeper and further back to a cultural bias of misogyny.Read More
Mother's Day: The Sun Shines Out of His Behind
Filed by Paige Schilt | May 12, 2013 3:30 PM |When I was eight months pregnant, I watched a documentary about a lesbian couple whose baby was born without an anus.Read More
What You Need To Know This Week (5/5 - 5/11)
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | May 11, 2013 3:00 PM |More awesome marriage equality news, plus a slandered gay student wins big university election anyway, Congress issues the first same-sex spousal ID, a new campaign raises trans* awareness in China, and lots more. Read More
"Progressive" Jim Wallis Throws LGBTs Under the Bus in Immigration Reform
Filed by John M. Becker | May 09, 2013 4:00 PM |Self-proclaimed prophet and so-called Christian progressive Jim Wallis chose to throw binational LGBT families under the bus on immigration reform. Shame on him.Read More
The Need for LGBT-Friendly Senior Housing
Filed by Mark Segal | May 09, 2013 12:00 PM |Why is LGBT-friendly senior housing important? Put simply, the need is there.Read More
