Living: July 2007
Obsessed with The Unavailable
Filed by Michele O'Mara | July 31, 2007 9:18 AM |I have this friend that has been straight, and then, just this past year, she really started to like this girl. She knows that there's no chance with her, but she can't keep her mind off her and can't...Read More
Absence of conservative passion for free speech
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 30, 2007 8:25 PM |When I read Serena's news item several weeks ago about how Ward Churchill had been fired from his tenured position at University of Colorado, I thought, well, this would be a perfect way for those "academic freedom" organizations to show...Read More
Monday question
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 30, 2007 9:21 AM |Sony's starting a new TV judge show on September 10 - Judge David Young, TV's second gay judge. Check out the link for a trailer (sound starts right when you load up the page). The advertising material presents him as...Read More
We Are The Beast
Filed by Marti Abernathey | July 28, 2007 2:23 PM |This kind of display dispels the notion by some in the civil rights community that GLBT people aren't being dehumanized. This is a screen shot from a video by Max Blumenthal that was taken at the Christians United for Israel's...Read More
50 greatest gays open thread
Filed by Bil Browning | July 27, 2007 9:02 AM |I'm working on a side project for the blog - a piece on the 50 LGBT people who have contributed the most to society. We know that our community has done a lot to help shape the world - usually...Read More
Wednesday question
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 25, 2007 12:52 PM |Gawker's reporting that a freelance photographer at the NY Times is saying that the editor of photography called him a faggot. The editor denies it, of course, and an investigation by the Times (you'd think they'd be good at that...Read More
R We Family?
Filed by Marti Abernathey | July 24, 2007 7:43 PM |I've been home a little over a week from my vacation on the R Family Vacation summer cruise to the Bahamas. I've had a week to sit back and reflect on the trip. For those that don't know, R Family...Read More
Enough is Enough
Filed by Michele O'Mara | July 24, 2007 9:22 AM |How do I know when the relationship is more work than it's worth?...Read More
Something for all of our families
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | July 24, 2007 6:30 AM |Gay consumerism reaches a whole new level with the opening of a Whole Foods Market in the glittering new $20 million Chicago LGBT Center. A recent article in the Chicago Tribune (echoed by articles in the Advocate/Gay.com/Planet Out and Queerty)...Read More
Where 3 or more are gathered in the name of bilerico...
Filed by Bil Browning | July 23, 2007 9:52 AM |The connections life can throw your way are amazing. Between blogging and gay rights activism, I meet some incredible people. Yesterday I met contributor Mara Keisling for the first time face-to-face and, truly, have you ever really met someone just...Read More
Tammy Faye goes to heaven
Filed by Bil Browning | July 21, 2007 9:59 PM |Little did we know, but by the time I posted Tammy Faye's interview with Larry King on Friday afternoon, she had already passed on. She did the interview on Thursday night and died early Friday. Tammy Faye was known for...Read More
President Cheney open thread
Filed by Bil Browning | July 20, 2007 1:47 PM |President Bush temporarily will transfer power to Vice President Dick Cheney while Bush has a colonoscopy Saturday. Actual breaking news headline from CNN... So what do you think he'll do as soon as he's grabbed ahold of power? Feel...Read More
Windy City Times investigates Aaron Hall murder
Filed by Bil Browning | July 19, 2007 5:16 PM |The Chicago Windy City Times is investigating the Aaron Hall murder case from Crothersville, Indiana. Hall was brutally beaten by two young men who've now attempted to use "gay panic" as their defense. Fellow Bilerico Project contributor Ellen Andersen and...Read More
A proud announcement
Filed by Bil Browning | July 19, 2007 2:21 PM |As many of you know, I'm a proud founder of the Indiana Action Network, Indiana's only direct action LGBT organization. Whether we were disrupting Eric Miller's KKK-style rallies, distributing "WANTED" posters of anti-gay politicians, protesting Brian Bosma's fundraiser or working...Read More
Don't Call Me A Lesbian
Filed by Marti Abernathey | July 19, 2007 1:01 PM |A question recent posted on Lesbian Life at About.com asked "Question: I am at the very early stages of being a transsexual, and I want to be a woman. I also love women. Could I consider myself a lesbian?" I've...Read More
On belonging here: move over, Sheila!
Filed by Don Sherfick | July 19, 2007 8:54 AM |Sheila Kennedy,belonging,Wal-Mart,LGBT,ageing gay seniors,left of center,right of centerRead More
The Threat of GLBT Debt
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | July 19, 2007 8:37 AM |For the last few months, gay media have been buzzing that the big PlanetOut merger venture is in trouble. Just a year-and-a-half ago, PNO became the first gay-owned stock traded on the NASDAQ. As its price soared to $10 a...Read More
Late night Wednesday question
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 18, 2007 11:59 PM |Or a Thursday morning question, depending on when you visit the site. We tried this one a while ago and I got some good ideas, so we'll try again with a somewhat new crowd: What's your favorite mixed drink? Recipes...Read More
Phelps and the new monument
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 18, 2007 1:12 PM |Fred Phelps is trying to get a monument built to Matthew Shepard's death in Casper, WY: In response to Casper's new historical monument plaza, an anti-gay pastor in Kansas has renewed his request to have his own monument in town....Read More
Black Community’s Throw-away Kids
Filed by Rev Irene Monroe | July 17, 2007 12:37 PM |We have a crisis in the African American community: an epidemic of homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth. And they need our help. And like the AIDS epidemic ravaging the African American community, my folks are not...Read More
How can I save my relationship?
Filed by Michele O'Mara | July 17, 2007 10:18 AM |"How can I save my relationship with my girlfriend? This is my first gay relationship, and I love her so much!"...Read More
Liberating Gender and Sexuality: Audio from the USSF
Filed by Jessica Hoffmann | July 16, 2007 9:16 AM |Audio from the "Liberating Gender and Sexuality" plenary at last month's U.S. Social Forum is available here. Moderator: Suzanne Pharr Speakers: Andrea Smith, Mia Mingus, Loretta Ross, Imani Henry, and Betita Martinez (The plenary begins after a pre-show by participants...Read More
Violence Against African Lesbians, Now
Filed by Jessica Hoffmann | July 16, 2007 8:31 AM |Go now: Read the discussions on violence against African lesbians and international queer solidarity in the wake of the murders of two South African lesbians last weekend at Black Looks and Women of Color Blog. Why are the international LGBT...Read More
Violence Against African Lesbians, Now
Filed by Jessica Hoffmann | July 16, 2007 8:31 AM |Go now: Read the discussions on violence against African lesbians and international queer solidarity in the wake of the murders of two South African lesbians last weekend at Black Looks and Women of Color Blog. Why are the international LGBT...Read More
Do I Belong?
Filed by Sheila S. Kennedy | July 15, 2007 1:19 PM |I am one of the "stable" of bloggers that Bil brought along when he turned Bilerico.com into the Bilerico Project. This will be my first post on this new, broader platform, and it seems only appropriate to make some disclosures,...Read More
A Father’s Appeal: Choose to Act
Filed by Guest Blogger | July 14, 2007 8:35 AM |[EDITOR'S NOTE:] The following is a guest post by Dennis Shepard. Dennis is the co-founder of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, named after his son who killed in a homophobic hate crime that stunned the nation nearly nine years ago. Next...Read More
Soon to come
Filed by Yasmin Nair | July 12, 2007 9:31 AM |Hi everyone, Thanks to everyone at The Bilerico Project for inviting me to take part. I'll post more later, but I wanted to stop in and say hello to the readers. I'm very much looking forward to being a regular...Read More
Wednesday question
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 11, 2007 2:52 PM |In order to provide you all with some much needed and very literal Podenfreude, here's a question that only one of the most vocally spoiled people in country could ask regarding the HRC sponsored presidential debate: L is Lesbian. G...Read More
Hormone Blockers for Transgender Kids?
Filed by Bruce Parker | July 11, 2007 8:07 AM |When I was growing up from the ages of four until seven Skipper, Barbie's younger sister, was my favorite toy. When the kids who lived in the same hollow as I did in Eastern Kentucky played house, I was more...Read More
Terrance ties the knot
Filed by Bil Browning | July 10, 2007 6:28 PM |A big congratulations to Bilerico Project member Terrance Heath and his husband. The two tied the knot on Sunday afternoon aboard the R Families cruise. They had a private ceremony with the couple's child "mostly rearranging the chairs in the...Read More
Round these parts
Filed by Bil Browning | July 10, 2007 4:32 PM |Living in middle America gives a few of our contributors a unique experience and voice. Those of us out here in flyover country see things a little differently sometimes than those who are on the coasts. We have challenges that...Read More
Dude, You're a Fag
Filed by Guest Blogger | July 10, 2007 10:00 AM |[EDITOR'S NOTE:] The following is a guest post by Michael Crawford. Michael is an African-American LGBT activist and blogger based in D.C. He has worked to advance LGBT civil rights at the national and state levels as a former staff...Read More
Sex and Love: Related ,Yet Not the Same
Filed by Michele O'Mara | July 10, 2007 8:38 AM |My sex partner has started putting limits where there were no limits before. Specifically, oral sex. When we first started, he was ok with it. Now he does not want to give but has no problem receiving. I feel...Read More
Rosie Cruise
Filed by Marti Abernathey | July 09, 2007 2:12 PM |You might be wondering why I've not been blogging at all this week. I'm on a cruise ship with Rosie O'Donnell! Well, me and approximately 2500 other GLBT people. The R family cruise is the brain child of Rosie's partner,...Read More
Question of the Monday
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 09, 2007 10:01 AM |With introductions going on all around, tell me, what do you like to be called? What don't you like to be called? I'm Alex, but my mother calls me "Alejo" (short for Alejandro, she's Argentine), and my grandmother calls me...Read More
UK Minister takes on "That's so gay"
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 09, 2007 9:10 AM |From the Telegraph: Children who call classmates "gay" or "queer" should be treated the same as racists, the new children's minister said yesterday. Kevin Brennan, a former teacher, said new guidelines would be issued to schools telling them that anti-gay...Read More
Rape and pleasure
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | July 09, 2007 8:01 AM |In Sean's post from last Thursday, "Why 'sodomize' and not 'rape'?," he writes: Every time the media or law enforcement uses the term "sodomize" they are really talking about rape. The more we allow that term to be used and...Read More
Kitchen Table Talk
Filed by Bruce Parker | July 09, 2007 7:45 AM |As a Southerner, I often start out a lot of my writing by telling a story. My master's degree advisor never really got on board with this habit. Thankfully the only person grading me on my blogging is our gifted...Read More
Real estate speculation in so many forms
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | July 07, 2007 3:10 AM |I was going to sit on my favorite newspaper box to get some sun, but some bar has decided to have a smoky barbecue right on the sidewalk so I keep walking, past Van Ness even and then the strange...Read More
Reparative Therapy for Racism?
Filed by Terrance Heath | July 06, 2007 4:07 PM |I don't know if there is such a thing as "reparative therapy" for racism, but if there is then "ex-gay" spokesman Stephen Bennett may want to sign up after his latest slip. Good As You has the skinny, including an...Read More
We are "The Other Side"
Filed by Bil Browning | July 05, 2007 6:42 PM |Those darn fundies! They like to spread the love around, don't they? Today's bit o' humor comes courtesy of the Indiana Family Institute's new blog Veritas Rex. The far right hate group's new site has the obligatory blogroll, but then...Read More
Happy 4th of July!
Filed by Bil Browning | July 04, 2007 5:04 AM |Since today is a holiday, there probably won't be much activity on the blog today. You'll have to amuse yourselves. But in the spirit of Independence Day, I thought I'd leave you with an open thread question: "What does...Read More
On our 231st birthday
Filed by Jen Jorczak | July 03, 2007 6:35 PM |Inspired by Bil's recent post, Michael Moore's movie Sicko, and the fact that tomorrow is Independence Day, I thought I'd say a few words about the state of our 231-year-old democracy....Read More
Prayer good; compassion bad
Filed by Jen Jorczak | July 03, 2007 2:00 PM |Today, the Indianapolis Star writes about Jeanne Atkins, devout Catholic, cheesecake producer, and mother of gay stroke victim Patrick Atkins. Except that the Star left out that last bit. The entire article is about a (blessedly, optional) prayer group she's...Read More
Prayer good; compassion bad
Filed by Jen Jorczak | July 03, 2007 2:00 PM |Today, the Indianapolis Star writes about Jeanne Atkins, devout Catholic, cheesecake producer, and mother of gay stroke victim Patrick Atkins. Except that the Star left out that last bit. The entire article is about a (blessedly, optional) prayer group she's...Read More
Michael Glatze, ex-gay
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 03, 2007 11:49 AM |What's with editors of queer magazines nowadays? Just after we found out that Venus magazine editor-in-chief Charlene Cothran ex-gayed herself (not resulting in attraction to men, mind you, but a self-described celibacy), WorldNetDaily says it has the inside scoop on...Read More
Loving and Losing
Filed by Michele O'Mara | July 03, 2007 10:10 AM |How do you know when enough is enough? I'm in love with a man who honestly disappoints me consistently with his lack of follow through and honesty. When reciprocity is gone, is there any real hope? -- loving and...Read More
The other side of the vertical blinds: thoughts on incest, insomnia, chronic pain and the writing process
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | July 02, 2007 7:48 PM |I can see the light streaming in through the edges of my eye mask it's some impossible time in the morning I'm trying every trick I know to get back into that dark softness -- humming on exhale to enlarge...Read More
Question of the Monday
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 02, 2007 10:49 AM |Do you have any plans for this year's Wednesday July Fourth?...Read More
