Living: February 2011
Turn Off the Social Networking and Really Interact
Filed by Anthony Carter | February 28, 2011 6:00 PM |I hereby declare a moratorium on technological advances. In the sometimes witty and always stylized series Sex and the City, Carrie gets dumped via a Post-It note. I found this both hysterical and troubling at the same time. This is...Read More
Texas School Shuts Down All Clubs to Avoid GSA
Filed by Bil Browning | February 28, 2011 1:00 PM |Are you ready to award the douchebag of the week prize so early on a Monday? I think we've got a clear winner already! Corpus Cristi, Texas's Flour Bluff Intermediate School District Superintendent, Julie Carbajal, has decreed that all extracurricular...Read More
Mademoiselle Beeson: Slack-Wire Dancer
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 28, 2011 9:30 AM |The poster: The back-story: Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, ND), July 18, 1929, p. 6. "Chicago.--(AP)--Dainty, skirted Herberta Beeson, hailed as "the world's greatest slack-wire dancer," is a man! The story of his rise from grocery clerk to featured performer of the...Read More
How Biblical Literalism Took Root... Literally!
Filed by Terrance Heath | February 27, 2011 2:30 PM |Stephen Tomkins over at the Guardian answers a question I’ve long pondered, and blogged about: How biblical literalism took hold. The Bible is the word of God, Christians believe, but why should the fact it’s God’s mean it has to...Read More
Destiny: Your Future Husband
Filed by Bil Browning | February 27, 2011 1:00 PM |I don't know about you, but when I start wondering what my future husband will look like I start averaging the global demographics and... Well, okay. I don't. But the PostNational Monitor did and here's what they say the average...Read More
A Thank You Card for 7-Year-Old Malcolm
Filed by Karen Ocamb | February 26, 2011 10:00 AM |Remember that heart-warming story from two weeks ago when we reported how the LA Gay & Lesbian Center received on Monday, Feb. 7 what CEO Lorri Jean described as a "remarkable gift" from a 7 year old stranger? "What we...Read More
Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist's Sites
Filed by Bil Browning | February 25, 2011 4:00 PM |There's nothing that Westboro Baptist fundies like better than seeing their names in lights. Eariler, the fake church put out a fake statement claiming that the hacker consortium "Anonymous" had threatened to take down their websites. Anonymous responded by saying...Read More
EQCA History Part 2: MECLA, Alice and the DNC
Filed by Karen Ocamb | February 25, 2011 2:00 PM |It may be hard to understand now, but until the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, most LGBT people didn't identify as "a people," a "minority" or even as "a community" with a shared history, dreams and common problems. There had...Read More
Should Cruising Be Considered an Unacceptable Risk?
Filed by Anthony Carter | February 25, 2011 11:00 AM |I was 36 the first time I had sex in public. I had no idea this was an option. I kept hearing Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong in my head, "How long has this been going on". I truly thought...Read More
As She Was: Mystery Celebrity Photos
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 25, 2011 10:30 AM |When an icon releases private family photos...well, how could I resist? See if you can guess who this adorable tot is: Maybe this photo of her in her teens will help:...Read More
Educate Me
Filed by D Gregory Smith | February 23, 2011 6:00 PM |I love my life. It sometimes seems that I'm a magnet for fascinating people; I know so many whose stories and attitudes have shaped my life for the better- some of you are reading this right now, and believe me,...Read More
The Midlife Calm of Gregory Kabel
Filed by Father Tony | February 23, 2011 5:00 PM |The quality and sound of a man's laughter often disclose more about him than do the words he offers. Some men laugh only on cue but probably never when alone. Some laugh hysterically at a world they define as beyond...Read More
Who Will Take Home an Oscar this Sunday?
Filed by Mark S. King | February 23, 2011 8:30 AM |Exact science? Hardly. But I do have a knack for predicting Oscar trophies (and cleaning up in the Oscar pool) when I set aside my personal preferences and use common sense. Get out your cheat sheets and get ready for...Read More
Video: Coming Out in the 1950's
Filed by Bil Browning | February 22, 2011 6:00 PM |What a fantastic project! The newly formed Pye/Harris Project was founded by 94-year old Edgar Pye, whose sixty-year life partner Robert Harris died in 2006. In Mr. Harris' honor, Pye created the project to show young gay people that a...Read More
I Thought They Shot Horses, Not Women
Filed by Anthony Carter | February 22, 2011 5:00 PM |Recently, our brilliant Republican friends, with Dan Burton (R-IN) leading the way, have decided to cut major funding for Planned Parenthood. He also submitted legislation that would provide contraceptives for wild horses and burros to control the size of wild...Read More
The Truth About George Washington
Filed by Karen Ocamb | February 22, 2011 3:30 PM |I was reading Family Research Council President Tony Perkin's newsletter this President's Day in which he and FRC's "resident historian" Bob Morrison wax poetic about George Washington: "[O]ur first president, the Father of our Country. George Washington has been described...Read More
I Love Laughing
Filed by Anthony Carter | February 22, 2011 12:30 PM |I have been laughing my ass off for weeks now. I am currently doing research for a series of screwball comedies that I plan to write, shoot and direct. My research includes one episode of "I Love Lucy" a day....Read More
Leviticus 19:28
Filed by Bil Browning | February 22, 2011 11:30 AM |From the too-stupid-to-survive files... While Leviticus 18:22 condemns homosexuality as an abomination, Leviticus 19:28 forbids tattoos....Read More
Teaching: Hatred and Stupidity for the Masses
Filed by Anthony Carter | February 22, 2011 9:30 AM |Seth Stambaugh was fired for being honest. This is the lesson we are teaching young people. Be honest until it's inconvenient. As a gay teacher of color, my contributions to the lives of young people are often looked on as...Read More
Increasing Awesome, Decreasing Suck
Filed by Austen Crowder | February 22, 2011 8:30 AM |I think the activist community has a problem with optimism. Between all the marriage battles, the commercialization of the "It Gets Better" campaign, the continued assault on our visibility as valid and acceptable members of society, and the neverending victim...Read More
Video: Trans Judge Vicky Kolakowski's Speech at the EQCA Equality Awards
Filed by Karen Ocamb | February 21, 2011 3:00 PM |Please excuse the somewhat shaky video - but what a joy to hear Alameda County Superior Court Judge Victoria Kolakowski at the 2011 San Francisco Equality Awards talk so movingly about her marriage to BAR News Editor Cynthia Laird -...Read More
Bullying: Don't Ask, Do Tell
Filed by Anthony Carter | February 21, 2011 2:00 PM |"Didn't need no welfare states, everybody pulled his weight, you knew who you were then, gurls were gurls and men were men. Those were the days". In the brilliant and way-ahead-of-its-time show, All in the Family, a bigot, is forced...Read More
Knowing Uncle Calvin for What He Is
Filed by Anthony Carter | February 21, 2011 11:00 AM |When I was a little boy, my father's best friend was a pimp. Uncle Calvin was dapper, charming and always sported the latest fashions. I had no idea what this man did for a living. The only thing I knew...Read More
Form and Substance: Vintage Muscleman
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 21, 2011 9:30 AM |I'm guessing this bodybuilder was photographed between 1900-1920. He seems to be in amazing condition and the photographer captures every morsel of his muscularity in this deceptively simple shot....Read More
Is HIV Conversation on the Menu?
Filed by Michael Emanuel Rajner | February 21, 2011 8:30 AM |Over the past 30 years, a tremendous amount of effort has been made to transform HIV/AIDS into a chronic disease, provided that an individual has access to care, treatment and support programs. Despite these advances, people living with HIV/AIDS continue...Read More
A Vet and An Activist Walk Into the VA
Filed by Jarrod Chlapowski | February 20, 2011 5:30 PM |I feel sheepish walking into a VA hospital for an appointment. I feel especially guilty taking the elevator to my appointment. It's on the fourth floor, but when I'm surrounded by three folks in wheelchairs and another struggling to hold...Read More
Why We Should Cancel Pride Celebrations
Filed by Anthony Carter | February 20, 2011 1:00 PM |Pride festivals for all of 2011 and beyond should be canceled. More important than hunky guys, displays of camp, and the all consuming focus on gay marriage, our young people need all of our time and access to resources. It...Read More
Blog Hearts, Flowers & Handcuffs: Sitting-Down For Equality on Valentine's Day
Filed by Davina Kotulski | February 20, 2011 11:30 AM |On Valentine's Day we went to San Francisco City Hall and asked for a marriage license. Well, more like we said, "We want you to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples again." It was the 10th time since 2001 that...Read More
Screen Test
Filed by Kate Clinton | February 20, 2011 8:30 AM |Silence can speak volumes....Read More
Better is Now
Filed by Anthony Carter | February 19, 2011 2:00 PM |Although I love the concept of the "It gets Better" campaign, I'm not sure that this is enough. While it is far more than the young gays of my generation received in terms of self esteem and a severe blow...Read More
Video: Forward, Not Backward!
Filed by Jake Weinraub | February 19, 2011 12:00 PM |Editors' Note: Intern Jake works behind the scenes here at Bilerico Project. He's a student at the University of Wisconsin and has been at the recent demonstrations at the Statehouse all week. He sent in this video from the capital...Read More
The Importance of Straight Allies Speaking Out
Filed by Michael Hamar | February 19, 2011 10:00 AM |The 2011 "Out in the Park" pride celebration in Hampton Roads is finally moving to a premier venue - Norfolk's Town Point Park on the downtown Norfolk waterfront - after years of being relegated to the off the beaten path...Read More
Prostitution Conviction Not Sex Offense
Filed by Guest Blogger | February 18, 2011 9:30 AM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Andrea J. Ritchie is a police misconduct attorney and organizer in New York City. She is one of the co-authors, with Joey L. Mogul and Kay Whitlock, of Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in...Read More
Target Changes Corporate Donations Policy
Filed by Bil Browning | February 18, 2011 8:30 AM |From the Washington Blade comes news that Target is changing their corporate giving policies. They set up a "policy committee" to advise the CEO on which political activities to fund. They did not say they'd stop meddling in politics thanks...Read More
You Are Beautiful: Pass It On
Filed by Bil Browning | February 17, 2011 6:00 PM |I've had to deal with so much muck and nastiness today as I sort through all the gossip about the Indiana legislature, that I feel we need to end the day's posts on a high note. You're beautiful. Pass it...Read More
Video: The Egyptian Revolution on Twitter
Filed by Bil Browning | February 17, 2011 4:00 PM |This is a fascinating video that's an animated visual of tweets surrounding former Egyptian President Mubarak's resignation. It's an amazing look at the power of social media and how news spreads virally now. (Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan)...Read More
Don't Wear an American Eagle Shirt for Your Yearbook Photo
Filed by Bil Browning | February 17, 2011 2:00 PM |Why shouldn't you wear an American Eagle shirt for your yearbook photo? I'm sure it's obvious to this kid now... (Hat tip to Queerty)...Read More
ACLU Wants You... to See if Your School Blocks LGBT Websites
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 17, 2011 1:00 PM |The ACLU is calling on all high school students to see if their schools are illegally blocking LGBT websites. The ACLU got LGBT sites past Tennessee school filters last year suing, and now a Virginia high school student sent them...Read More
Month of Fever
Filed by Sara Whitman | February 16, 2011 6:00 PM |February, the month of the fever. It is the time of year when those of us in the cold parts of the world start to go nuts. Stir crazy, cabin fever; whatever you want to call it, we are aching...Read More
Colleges Discriminate, but Will Be Subsidized by Federal Government
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 16, 2011 10:30 AM |I read a story this morning about something we don't hear much about: homosexuality bans on college campuses. Westmont College in California apparently has a ban, and alumni and faculty are speaking out against it: "I was terrified that I'd...Read More
Female Condoms Distributed in San Francisco
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 15, 2011 6:00 PM |Female condoms started being distributed and will be marketed to gay men in San Francisco. Local news was on the scene (text here): Was there any reason to go to a Catholic teacher to get the "gay sex is bad"...Read More
Peruvian Police In Riot Gear Attack Queer Kiss-In
Filed by Bil Browning | February 15, 2011 12:30 PM |Another reminder that American queers aren't the most oppressed in the world... Blabbeando brings us this video of Peruvian police in riot gear attacking kiss-in participants in Lima. You can see how blatantly the officers abuse the individuals - literally...Read More
Friendship in the Time of Love
Filed by Yasmin Nair | February 14, 2011 7:00 PM |This was originally posted on The Bilerico Project three years ago on Valentine's Day. You can see the older post and comments here. We know by now that Valentine's Day, like the concept of romantic love as the highest form...Read More
Celebrating Love for All LGBTQ People
Filed by Guest Blogger | February 14, 2011 3:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Sharon Stapel is the Executive Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project which serves NY's LGBTQ and HIV-affected communities. We deserve a loving and respectful Valentine's Day. Our communities have been subjected to increasingly public...Read More
Un-Licensed To Kill?
Filed by Terrance Heath | February 14, 2011 12:00 PM |Via Digby comes this latest bit of insanity from my home state: a Georgia state representative wants to do away with driver’s licenses. A state lawmaker from Marietta is sponsoring a bill that seeks to do away with Georgia driver’s...Read More
Gay Cruise: The High Seas
Filed by Bil Browning | February 14, 2011 11:00 AM |Talk about the high seas... I'll admit that I've never been on a cruise ship, but I'm not really shocked that one passenger (out of 5400) was selling drugs. I think the question I have is why is it worthy...Read More
LGBT Fiction Fest: Five Fabulous Days of Pulp
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 14, 2011 9:30 AM |I've collected so many cover images of vintage LGBT novels that it's time to do a full-scale show: five days in a row of fabulous queer pulp! I will start with these two vintage tomes. I love the campy art...Read More
Let Me Count the Ways I Love My Dude
Filed by Joe Mirabella | February 14, 2011 8:30 AM |I love Joe Brokken more and more every day. I love that he is the chipper one in the morning. I grumble my way through the dawn, stumbling for coffee. Not him. He's always happy in the morning. I love...Read More
CPAC: Ex-gay Leader Supports Gay Relationships?
Filed by Bil Browning | February 12, 2011 10:00 AM |Going to CPAC was like dropping down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. I stopped by the PFOX booth to talk to ex-gay leader Elaine Berg from Jonah International. Before we could do the interview, Elaine made me promise that I...Read More
CPAC: White Supremacists Okay with Gays?
Filed by Bil Browning | February 11, 2011 11:00 PM |After catching a video of a white supremacist group exhibiting at CPAC this year, Lt. Dan Choi and I knew we had to go ask them a few questions. We talked with Devin Saucier, the Vice President of Youth for...Read More
When Rape Crisis Support Staff Attack
Filed by Tobi Hill-Meyer | February 11, 2011 4:00 PM |Does that headline strike you as absurd? That's how I feel about it. But nonetheless it's the one statistic that sticks with me the most after reading the recent comprehensive study on discrimination against trans people, Injustice At Every Turn....Read More
Dan Choi's New CPAC Drag
Filed by Bil Browning | February 11, 2011 11:00 AM |When you're going to CPAC, you gotta look the part. Here's the t-shirt that came in Dan Choi's shwag bag. I'm headed over to the conservative conference with Dan today. Should be interesting....Read More
Vintage Fetish Fashion: 1960s Leatherwear for Men
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 11, 2011 10:30 AM |Two-page spread from a 1960 fetish (latex, leather, and lingerie) catalogue, showing some of the hot leather garments that men could order. The leather bathing suits are amazing but what happened when they got wet? Yikes. It's after the jump....Read More
Strong Stuff
Filed by Anthony Carter | February 10, 2011 7:00 PM |When I was ten, Tanya Nelson repeatedly tortured me by jabbing me with a compass. She sat behind me and constantly tormented me along with others for being a sissy. I took the abuse. I learned to tolerate it and...Read More
Haitian Vodou and the Acceptance of LGBTQ Identities
Filed by Rev Irene Monroe | February 10, 2011 4:00 PM |In celebrating Black History Month is year, I want to lift up our West African ancestral religious contributions. One of them for me as a lesbian, is the contribution of Vodou. As one of the religions brought to the New...Read More
The Good Die
Filed by Sara Whitman | February 10, 2011 3:00 PM |The good die and the assholes live, a colleague said to me yesterday. So painfully true. I think about my sister every day. She is in my thoughts, always. In my dreams, she is smiling and happy. I can't shake...Read More
Very Naughty Girls: Lesbian BDSM in the 1920's
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 10, 2011 11:30 AM |For those of you who think BDSM was invented sometime in the 1990s... this lesbian gem from the libertine days of 1920's Paris....Read More
Rancho Bilerico: The Latest Houseguest
Filed by Bil Browning | February 10, 2011 10:30 AM |Since we've moved to DC, Rancho Bilerico has become quite the popular place. While we had a few regular friends that would swing through Indianapolis and crash in the spare bedroom, it's nothing compared to the action our couch is...Read More
San Francisco to Advertise Female Condom to Gay Men
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 10, 2011 9:30 AM |The ads themselves haven't been released yet, but the Bay Area Reporter is reporting that the city of San Francisco will start a campaign for the female condom (also known as the Reality condom) for men who have sex with...Read More
Engaging 'The Enemy'
Filed by Bil Browning | February 09, 2011 7:00 PM |Blogger Zack Ford is having an interesting Twitter exchange with well-known anti-gay activist Peter LaBarbera and has documented quite a bit of it on his site. He raises an interesting question that I'm sure will cause quite the bit of...Read More
When Cupid Is Stupid: 10 Ways To Avoid Falling In Love With A Jerk On Valentine's Day
Filed by Jeff Lutes | February 09, 2011 5:00 PM |Cupid - the icon of desire and attraction - will undoubtedly fire his arrows through the hearts of many this Valentine season. Countless lovers will swap confectionery and flowers, and according to the Greeting Card Association over 140 million greeting...Read More
Man Tango: Photo by Wangenheim
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 09, 2011 4:30 PM |Exquisitely erotic dance photo, ca. 1970s, shot by fashion photographer extraordinaire, Chris Von Wangenheim...Read More
Catholic Know Nothings Freak Out Over Anne Rice Interview
Filed by Michael Hamar | February 09, 2011 3:30 PM |Over the weekend I wrote on my personal blog about and posted video clips of Christopher Rice's interview with his mother, author Anne Rice. Personally, I thought the interview was well done and directly on point in terms of citing...Read More
Marriage Would Be Great If It Weren't for those F***in' Humans
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 08, 2011 7:00 PM |It annoys me to no end that there are LGBT people who see no connection between sexual freedom and LGBT rights. Jeremy Hooper put up a video from the Ruth Institute (funded by NOM, video is after the jump) explaining...Read More
Flashmob Kiss-In: She'll Do Anything to Get Your Heart
Filed by Bil Browning | February 08, 2011 6:00 PM |Very cute Valentine's Day-themed video of a handful of couples surprising shoppers in a Toronto market with an impromptu kiss-in that ends up drawing in several of the bystanders. It's fun to watch as the shoppers first look surprised, then...Read More
Controversy Erupts Over WeHo Tom of Finland Exhibit
Filed by Karen Ocamb | February 08, 2011 5:00 PM |This legislative session, Equality California and Sen. Mark Leno will strongly advocate for the FAIR Education Act, a natural extension of last year's historic Harvey Milk Day. The bill requires that LGBT history and contributions be taught in the California...Read More
Really, It Didn't Make It Better...
Filed by Bil Browning | February 08, 2011 4:00 PM |I keep saying it and keep saying it.... The It Gets Better campaign has turned into a commercial enterprise now. Need more proof? How about some cranberry and pomegranate flavored "It Gets Better" chapstick? The worst part? I still got...Read More
The End of the Internet
Filed by Terrance Heath | February 08, 2011 3:00 PM |It's finally happened. We have reached the end of the internet. Well, sorta. On Thursday, the internet as we know it ran out of space. The nonprofit group that assigns addresses to service providers announced that, on Thursday morning, it...Read More
5 Tips to Get Him From iPad to Your Pad This Valentine's Day
Filed by Guest Blogger | February 08, 2011 1:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Phil Henricks is Gaydar's Head Of North American market. An appropriate bit of trivia: Did you know Gaydar invented the online personals profile format, now standard webwide? True. Want a date this Valentine's Day? Whether seeking...Read More
When You Take Protein Powder to Creating Change
Filed by Phil Reese | February 08, 2011 11:00 AM |When you take a canister of protein powder with you to Creating Change, and come back with a packed suitcase with far more in it than when you began your voyage, this is basically what happens to your apartment when...Read More
Haircut: Vintage Military Photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 08, 2011 9:30 AM |A quiet photo of two soldiers in a makeshift barber station somewhere in the Pacific (or possibly in South Korea), ca. late 1940s - early 1950s. Sometimes the simplest images convey the sweetest eroticism, even (or perhaps especially) when the...Read More
The Real Life GLEE Kids!
Filed by Mark S. King | February 07, 2011 6:30 PM |Why does amateur video of kids singing in a community concert give me such a lump in my throat? The NYC Youth Pride Chorus (a LGBT/straight alliance) in this clip is simply singing, and yet I'm overcome with such pride...Read More
Ronald Reagan's Real Legacy: Death, Heartache, and Silence Over AIDS
Filed by Karen Ocamb | February 07, 2011 5:30 PM |America is gushing Sunday over former President Ronald Reagan in recognition of what would have been his 100th birthday. Produced by Reagan groupies, the long-weekend celebrations at the newly primped Reagan Library and Museum in Simi Valley are glitzy and...Read More
Creating Change over Lunar New Year Forces Tough Choices for Queer Asians
Filed by Guest Blogger | February 07, 2011 4:30 PM |Editors' note: This speech was presented for Creating Change by Ben de Guzman, Co-director of Programs at NQAPIA and others from the Planning Committee of the Asian American Pacific Islander Institute. We're glad for the opportunity to speak before you...Read More
Made in China?
Filed by Bil Browning | February 07, 2011 2:30 PM |Color me shocked to get this message inside my fortune cookie. According to the wrapper, it was made in China....Read More
Recipe: Eggplant Caviar
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 05, 2011 10:00 AM |In France, "caviar" doesn't just refer fish eggs. French Wikipedia says that apparently there's a law that defines caviar as only sturgeon eggs, and while it's true that the eggs of other fish as sold as such ("oeufs de lompe,"...Read More
Buy Two Wigs and Call Me in the Morning
Filed by Mark S. King | February 04, 2011 4:00 PM |A French father of two is suing GlaxoSmithKline, claiming a drug he was prescribed caused impulsive behavior that included gambling, illicit drugs, and cross-dressing. If he wins his lawsuit, you can bet I'm calling Gloria Allred faster than you can...Read More
100 Days of School, 100 Days of Bullying
Filed by Phil Reese | February 04, 2011 3:00 PM |Today is the 100th day of school for most school districts, and will be marked with celebrations and activities marking 100 days of science, math, reading, social studies and the arts in elementary and middle schools throughout the country. Likewise,...Read More
Lesbian Lunch: Why Annette Bening Will Take Home the Oscar
Filed by Mark S. King | February 04, 2011 12:30 PM |Several of the blog topics that have occurred to me lately have a lesbian angle, don't ask me why. I must have lesbian on the brain. I'm posting these gay gal items at noon for the next few days, so...Read More
Church Threatens to Deny Communion to Gay-Supportive Mother
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 04, 2011 12:00 PM |Remember the mom who defended her son's right to dress as Daphne from Scooby-Doo last November? Turns out her pastor got mad and had several meetings with her: For an hour and a half he spoke to me as if...Read More
York County, Virginia Schools Won't Stopping Bullying despite Suicide
Filed by Michael Hamar | February 04, 2011 11:00 AM |I have written about the ongoing bullying problem in the nearby York County, Virginia, school division in the aftermath of the Memorial Day weekend suicide of 16-year-old Christian Taylor last year both here on Bilerico and on my personal blog...Read More
TransSEXUAL: Early 20th Century Genderplay [NSFW!]
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 04, 2011 10:30 AM |OK, everyone: close your eyes if you're never seen a penis before (ha!). I'm guessing this was shot sometime around the 1920s, possibly earlier judging by the setting and style of the photo - a very amazing find (and a...Read More
100 Days of Bullying
Filed by Guest Blogger | February 04, 2011 9:30 AM |Editors' note: Laura Matanah is the publisher and executive director of Rainbow Rumpus, an online magazine for kids and teens with LGBT parents. She is also a former elementary school teacher. If you're at the Creating Change conference today, you...Read More
Hitting the Gym with HIV Fitness Stud Nelson Vergel
Filed by Mark S. King | February 04, 2011 8:30 AM |Clearly I'm insane, wearing a tank top next to HIV fitness expert Nelson Vergel. There I am, all doughy and smiling, thirty pounds heavier after a year without a cigarette (how long do I get to legitimately use that reasoning?)....Read More
The Hilarious Idiocy of Anonymous Gay Sex
Filed by Mark S. King | February 03, 2011 4:30 PM |These horny robots are about to get it on after hooking up through a gay chat site. Except the horned up bareback bottom forgot to ask about the top's HIV status. Hilarious stupidity follows. Now allow me to share some...Read More
Jane's Story: One of Challenge and Resilience
Filed by Cathy Renna | February 03, 2011 3:30 PM |As I hit the road for this year's annual Creating Change conference, I go with no plans for moderating a panel or doing a training. Instead, Renna Communications has an even greater responsibility and challenge. We will be helping with...Read More
Mubarek's Bloody AIDS Legacy
Filed by Mark S. King | February 03, 2011 1:00 PM |If you need further reasons to feel queasy about U.S. support for Egypt's "he wasn't all that bad" dictator, Housing Works has posted a heartbreaking article about the treatment of people living with HIV. The piece describes a country with...Read More
Beautiful in Love: Vintage Lesbian Erotica
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 03, 2011 11:30 AM |Simple, sweet, and incredibly sensual: these two beautiful, beautiful women sharing a romantic hug, ca. 1920s-1930s....Read More
The Miami Fashion Week Kickoff Event
Filed by Mark S. King | February 03, 2011 9:30 AM |Father Tony and I were set loose with a video camera at the exclusive kick-off party for Miami International Fashion Week, and for two guys who don't know much about fashion, we had a blast. We told models they looked...Read More
Why We Fought our High School (With Pictures)
Filed by Guest Blogger | February 02, 2011 7:00 PM |Editors' note: Desiree Shelton is an out lesbian and a senior at Champlin Park High School, in Minnesota's Anoka-Hennepin School District. She and her girlfriend, Sarah Lindstrom, were elected to the school's Snow Days royalty court for the winter formal...Read More
My Muscles, My Disease: Portrait of a Gay Drug Addict
Filed by Mark S. King | February 02, 2011 4:00 PM |There is a folder, tucked within a folder, buried deep in my computer files. I shouldn't be looking at its contents, yet I can't bring myself to delete it altogether. It is labeled MARCUS, and inside the folder is my...Read More
Gay Campus Advocacy Has Changed Over the Years
Filed by Guest Blogger | February 02, 2011 11:30 AM |Editors' note: John D'Emilio teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A pioneer in the field of gay and lesbian history and author or editor of half a dozen books, he was also the founding director of the Policy...Read More
Full Interview With POZ's Sean Strub
Filed by D Gregory Smith | February 02, 2011 10:30 AM |There was so much to talk about, that we didn't have time to put it all on Same Sex Sunday! The full interview with Sean Strub, founder and editor of POZ Magazine and Senior Advisor to the Positive Justice Project...Read More
Behind the scenes at the Emergency ADAP Summit
Filed by Mark S. King | February 02, 2011 8:30 AM |Step behind the curtains of the 2011 Emergency ADAP Summit last weekend for a revealing look at activists trying to address the growing AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) crisis. In this video episode of My Fabulous Disease, you'll learn about...Read More
Tenderness Times Ten: 1920s Lesbian Photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 01, 2011 4:30 PM |Interracial lesbian relationships in 1920s France? Mais oui! This photo was captured with a brilliant eye that understood everything about passion, tenderness, and the natural beauty of the female body. I dug up this charming quote to go with it.:...Read More
I Want My Girlhood Back
Filed by Drew Cordes | February 01, 2011 3:30 PM |In the years I've identified as transgender, I've encountered many of the drawbacks and advantages that I assume many other trans people also face. There are a few benefits I really like (no menstruation!) and some other aspects that are...Read More
Florida Cuts Off 6500 People from HIV Meds; Nonprofits and For-Profits Step In
Filed by Guest Blogger | February 01, 2011 10:30 AM |Editors' note: Tim Horn is president and editor-in-chief of AIDSmeds.com. He has been working with AIDSmeds.com since the website was launched in 1999. He is also a senior editor at Smart + Strong, AIDSmeds.com's parent company, where he oversees the...Read More
