Media: July 2007
The media’s problem with black lesbians
Filed by Rev Irene Monroe | July 31, 2007 | 3:13 PM |Issues of race, gender identity, and sexual orientation trigger a particular type of news broadcasting on the major networks. With their objective to provide viewers with “infotainment,” rather than fair and balanced reporting, discerning television viewers - straight and gay...Read More
Mexican People Are The New Gay
Filed by Marti Abernathey | July 31, 2007 | 3:10 PM |Bill O'Reilly on "Mexican people:" "But, you know, look, I think most Americans, despite the heated rhetoric on this issue, most people watching us right now, Mr. Bermudez, don't want to hurt any poor Mexican people. They don't want to...Read More
Lame headline of the day
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 26, 2007 | 6:43 PM |From the Daily Mail: Charity forced to turn away children by Labour's new gay law It's referring to the new inclusion of sexual orientation into the UK's non-discrimination law and how a Catholic adoption agency decided to close down instead...Read More
The madness of Mayor Naugle's supporters
Filed by Pam Spaulding | July 26, 2007 | 4:19 AM |Bil blogged yesterday about Matt Foreman's speech at the Flush Naugle rally, but I thought I'd pass on this bit of fun. Janet Folger, head of Faith2Action, wrote a completely unhinged column at WorldNetDaily in support of the madness of...Read More
The Return of Men as Art
Filed by Steve Ralls | July 24, 2007 | 8:41 AM |Earlier this year, a friend and I decided to finally take the plunge and do something we had wanted to do for a long while: get a tattoo. And when I started to contemplate just what image or symbol I...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
If the NAACP Can Bury the N-Word, Could the F-Word be Too Far behind?
Filed by H. Alexander Robinson | July 23, 2007 | 2:00 PM |For the third year in a row, the National Black Justice Coalition proudly and pro-actively participated in the NAACP annual convention. Once again NBJC hosted a prominent tradeshow booth where staff members spoke to hundreds of people and distributed many...Read More
Notes from Outfest
Filed by Jessica Hoffmann | July 22, 2007 | 1:21 AM |Seen so far: half of a beautiful Barbara Hammer tribute, a whole bunch of shorts, a rad radical-queer program curated by Homotopia's Eric Stanley and Chris Vargas, and Sunny and Share Love You. (And tonight, before Hilary Goldberg's lovely black-and-white...Read More
Gays and the CNN/YouTube Debate
Filed by Michael Crawford | July 21, 2007 | 8:55 AM |I am pretty excited about the upcoming CNN/YouTube debate that will be on Monday night. No, its not because there will be a chance to see Steve Grove, the cute head of News and Politics for YouTube. I saw him...Read More
FlavaWorks is trying to shut down Black LGBT bloggers with a lawsuit
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 18, 2007 | 4:16 PM |This news comes from Jasmyne Cannick: A couple of weeks ago I was notified by mail that Flavaworks owner Phillip Bleicher was suing mwah for libel to the tune of $250,000. Good luck. I have a hard time getting $2.50...Read More
Kenn's site is down
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 18, 2007 | 3:00 PM |Yesterday I responded to one of Kenn Gividen's homophobic rants on his blog. He responded to my post later that night, and I copied it to the comments section of that same post here at TBP. Well, I just went...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
AOL sucks
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 17, 2007 | 3:07 PM |Dinesh D'Souza has never been able to stand the gays, but I don't think that his assumption that gays are the proper recipients of violence was ever as apparent as in this post at AOL's NewsBloggers: Putting on my Clausewitz...Read More
Easy way to rile up Kenn Gividen: Take him off your blogroll
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 17, 2007 | 2:34 PM |Well, TBP is really hitting the big time. We now have the American Taliban out there writing entire blog posts responding to our site in general. Several months ago, we found out that the illustrious godhatesfags.com linked us, but they...Read More
Peter LaBarbera uses young man's death for cheap political points
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 16, 2007 | 10:16 PM |Peter LaBarbera has really hit rock-bottom here. I'm not going to link to his latest tantrum because it'll just improve his Google rank, and fortunately Jim Burroway has put it all together on his blog. From Jim: Peter LaBarbera is...Read More
GLAAD ACTION ALERT: Transadvocate.com Is Worse than Randi Rhodes and Michael Savage Combined!
Filed by Marti Abernathey | July 16, 2007 | 5:59 PM |I'm waiting for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) to put out an action alert calling for a ban on Transadvocate.com. Why? Because I've asked them to advocate for the "T" in their mission statement with the same...Read More
Watch out for the group marriage menace!
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 16, 2007 | 1:55 PM |Just in case you didn't have enough to worry about, Elizabeth Marquardt gives you one more: GROUP MARRIAGE! Yes, as fewer and fewer people are getting married and are forming new living arrangements outside the bounds of Holy Matrimony, Marquardt...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
The end of Pride
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | July 16, 2007 | 8:01 AM |Joel Rozen called me the other day to interview me for a story he's writing for Creative Loafing in Sarasota, Florida about the fact that this year’s PrideFest was canceled by the organizers due to fears that it was becoming...Read More
Hate crime fundie follies
Filed by Pam Spaulding | July 14, 2007 | 9:02 PM |Here's a fun video of homobigoted pastors rallying on Capitol Hill against hate crimes legislation on Wednesday. Lies upon lies. Rusty Lee Thomas, who's mentioned in an earlier post, is seen bleating this winner: "Yes, I dare state that...Read More
A word from our sponsors...
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | July 13, 2007 | 4:55 AM |Real Jock: Gay Fitness Community -- if that isn't a nightmare of assimilation, I don't know what is! Can we say that again? Gay fitness community. Gay fitness community. Gay fitness COMMUNITY! I'm sure you've seen the inspiring image, but...Read More
Racist, homophobic liar tries to get out of jury duty
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 11, 2007 | 1:26 PM |From MSNBC: A Cape Cod man who claimed he was homophobic, racist and a habitual liar to avoid jury duty earned an angry rebuke from a judge on Monday, who referred the case to prosecutors for possible charges. "In 32...Read More
Quick Takes: Dahlia Season, Film-Fest Season
Filed by Jessica Hoffmann | July 10, 2007 | 11:59 AM |Queer/Chicana/goth writer Myriam Gurba is on tour now with her first book of fiction, Dahlia Season. (Keep an eye out for a new story by her in make/shift no. 2, which goes to layout tomorrow!) And LA's Outfest film festival...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
World Net Daily takes on Big Sodomy
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 09, 2007 | 11:22 AM |After last week's ex-gaying of Michael Glatze, which happened with a yawn as the cycle of ex-gays being pornographically paraded around right-wing news sources just continued as it always does, Donald Hank thinks he's stumbled on a way to end...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
This is not a criticism of gay male culture
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 06, 2007 | 6:06 PM |Want to know something funny? I didn't even know that Fire Island existed until I was 20. I never heard of Provincetown until I saw The Daily Show's piece on it two years ago. West Hollywood is Los Angeles's gayborhood?...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
Shirley Phelps-Roper charged
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 06, 2007 | 1:24 PM |Shirley Phelps-Roper, daughter of Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church, was formally charged today. From the Wichita Eagle: Shirley Phelps-Roper, 49, of Topeka, was charged with negligent child abuse, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, flag mutilation and...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
Shirtless Jesus Superhero!
Filed by Marti Abernathey | July 02, 2007 | 7:21 PM |In my search for the latest in transgender news, sometimes I come across an unexpected gem. Yesterday I came across this post entitled "We Must Reclaim American Values!" In the post was a photograph of a young man with...Read More
Bishop says gays cause flooding
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 02, 2007 | 5:57 PM |It looks like the roast beefs have their own version of Fred Phelps: The floods that have devastated swathes of the country are God's judgment on the immorality and greed of modern society, according to senior Church of England bishops....Read More
What makes a good marriage?
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 02, 2007 | 2:22 PM |The Pew Research Center has come out with a new study on what Americans think is important to a "successful" marriage. The number one and two items, fidelity and a good sexual relationship respectively, haven't changed much since 1990. The...Read More
