Media: March 2008
Remembering Alan Rogers
Filed by Steve Ralls | March 30, 2008 3:00 PM |Alan Rogers wasn't particularly fond of silence. In fact, the Alan Rogers I knew absolutely deplored it, and knew all too well the pain and isolation that silence could create. Rogers, a stellar Army Major who recently became the first...Read More
Oklahoma paper publishes unhinged Kern letter to the editor
Filed by Pam Spaulding | March 30, 2008 10:18 AM |Note to readers: Oklahomans for Equality and Cimarron Alliance are on the frontlines as Wildmon's American Family Association, the Family Resource Council, the Thomas More Law Center and the rest of the professional "Christian" set are backing Kern. A "Christian...Read More
Pissed Off Gays Show Jay Leno Their "Gayest Looks"
Filed by Michael Crawford | March 29, 2008 10:32 AM |Waymon Hudson wrote a few days ago about Jay "Gays Are a Joke" Leno and his recent ridiculous request that Ryan Phillippe show him his "gayest look." Writer Jeff Whitty rightly took offense and launched the smartest responses to Leno's...Read More
Two Gay Guys: When Gays Attack!
Filed by Brent Hartinger | March 28, 2008 6:33 PM |Our latest vlog, on the controversy over the lack of same-sex kissing on As the World Turns, and on the effectiveness of certain kinds of "attack" political activism. Get Embed Code...Read More
Tonight On The Rebecca Juro Show: Alex Blaze
Filed by Rebecca Juro | March 27, 2008 5:46 PM |Tonight we're taking on the hot LGBT topics of the day with the Bilerico Project's Managing Editor Alex Blaze! ENDA! Hillary! Barack! Barney! Pregnant Men! Plus lots more! It's the "Rebecca Juro Show, tonight at 7pm eastern, 4pm pacific! Don't...Read More
Indiana Censorship Law: an attack dog in sheep's clothing
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | March 27, 2008 4:54 PM |Indiana HB 1042, which requires anyone selling "sexually explicit" material to pay a licensing fee to the state, has a lot of Hoosiers hopping mad -- but it's not a new idea. It's an attack dog in sheep's clothing that...Read More
Pregnant Man the Tip of a Much Deeper Iceberg
Filed by Donna Rose | March 27, 2008 12:20 AM |The media frenzy begins.... It was only a matter of time. Thomas Beatie, the Oregon trans-man who has publicly come out as pregnant in the current edition of The Advocate represents all the reasons that trans-people have a difficult time...Read More
Leno thinks gays are a joke
Filed by Waymon Hudson | March 26, 2008 4:15 PM |Towleroad has been doing some great coverage of late night hack Jay Leno continuing on his path of homophobic jokes. The latest shining example of his "gay=joke" mentality came when Ryan Phillippe appeared on his show last week. Phillippe was...Read More
Just me, or is Chuck Norris kinda dim?
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 26, 2008 1:30 PM |Chuck Norris's column this week is rather funny if you share in my sick sense of humor. He lays out three items, one on each guns, God, and gays, and asks how crazy we've become because we aren't doing what...Read More
Madonna Saves the World
Filed by Steve Ralls | March 25, 2008 8:00 PM |"Tick, tock . . . tick, tock . . . " The high holy days are fast approaching for those of us who give thanks at the altar of her Madge-sty. Yes, it's true. On April 29th, the universe will...Read More
The "new Religious Right" frame gets more ridiculous
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 25, 2008 2:36 PM |This is just getting silly. I know that after 2006 it's fashionable for these people to say that they're part of a revitalization of the evangelical movement - not so focused on gay marriage and abortion; more so on poverty,...Read More
Made in Secret: the story of the East Van porn collective, and me
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | March 25, 2008 8:45 AM |The first time I did porn I was 19 and I needed the money, it was awful and traumatizing really because they didn't tell me what they were going to do ahead of time, just: will you bottom? Then spray-painted...Read More
Exceptionalism
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 24, 2008 10:40 PM |I posted last week about Jeremiah Wright's comments that got played and replayed in the news, particularly those that criticized America ("God damn America..."). They were generally assumed to be offensive, even if no one really explained why a US...Read More
Beck To Work
Filed by Rebecca Juro | March 22, 2008 10:26 PM |You may have been wondering why you haven't seen much in the way of postings from me in the last several weeks (or not). The truth is that I've been looking for a new job during this time, and about...Read More
The invisible queer woman
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 21, 2008 3:07 PM |[Editor's note:] This guest post is by [f]embody, one of the many fabulous bloggers at Below the Belt, a fresh, hip, and fun gender and sexuality theory blog that's definitely worth checking out if you haven't. Recently, I got out...Read More
The Daily Show, the Blue Dress, and frustration
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 21, 2008 2:07 PM |More after the jump...Read More
Jamie Kirchick ADVOCATES for McCain
Filed by Waymon Hudson | March 21, 2008 1:00 PM |It is another example of why the Advocate no longer represents or advocates for the LGBT community. The magazine ran a ridiculous article in the latest issue by Jamie Kirchick, an editor at the New Republic, stating that the LGBT...Read More
Tonight On The Rebecca Juro Show: Marti Abernathey and Rye Seronie
Filed by Rebecca Juro | March 20, 2008 5:52 PM |The team is back in full swing as Marti and Rye join me tonight for good fun and good conversation! Plus, your phone calls! Barney Frank: First he's against inclusive workplace legislation, then he's for it, then he's against it,...Read More
More on "that" being "so gay"
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 19, 2008 1:04 PM |A study by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers found that the top insult in UK schools is "gay," with 83% of teachers reporting hearing it. The others were Bitch (59%), Slag (45%), Poof (29%), Batty boy (29%), Slut (26%),...Read More
The Marriage Narratives
Filed by Andrea Hildebran | March 18, 2008 9:24 AM |Have you seen David Patterson, brand-spanking new governor of New York admit to an extra-marital affair during his marriage? I love the candor - and even more I love what a different picture he's painted about marriage than what the...Read More
Castigate, complicate, litigate
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 17, 2008 7:53 PM |An English soccer player is suing two magazines claiming libel for insinuating that he's gay: The Arsenal and England left-back, Ashley Cole, is planning a landmark court action over claims that two anonymous top flight footballers were involved in a...Read More
Do you have your American flag underwear on right now?
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 17, 2008 1:48 PM |Here's Jasmyne Cannick and Hermine Hartman's appearance on Bill O'Reilly's show to discuss Rev. Jeremiah Wright. I think this shows that the ways we talk about and understand identity, politics, patriotism, and history are entrenched in race, whether we like...Read More
Wife of N.C. state Senator pens hate-filled op-ed
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 17, 2008 12:45 PM |[EDITOR'S NOTE:] This guest post was written by Matt Comer who blogs at Interstate-Q. Matt is the editor of Q-Notes, the paper of record for the Carolinas. The wife of a conservative North Carolina state senator sponsoring an anti-gay, anti-family...Read More
Out Magazine's Transgender Issue
Filed by Bruce Parker | March 17, 2008 9:30 AM |I am much more likely to read Time or Newsweek instead of Out. I tend to enjoy political news and the current obsessive presidential campaign coverage more than white gay male focused pop culture articles. However, I heard that the...Read More
Apology Accepted?
Filed by Terrance Heath | March 16, 2008 3:58 PM |I don't know if this counts as a trend or not, but I didn't expect to see something like this so soon after the previous post. This time is the Lutheran Church, which still opposes marriage equality but expresses regret...Read More
Gays Pay More Taxes Than Churches -- Good Point
Filed by Dustin Kight | March 14, 2008 3:34 PM |Tulsa World has an interesting article up about the response to Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern's hateful comments about gays. Since Kern claims that gays are a worse threat to this nation than Islam and the terrorists (I'm paraphrasing here),...Read More
MoveOn: Obama in 30 Seconds
Filed by Michael Crawford | March 14, 2008 7:14 AM |Check out this cool contest that MoveOn is sponsoring to help elect Barack Obama the next president of the United States. Dear MoveOn member, Your mission, should you choose to accept it: make a 30-second TV ad that tells the...Read More
IYG Art Show, Sale & Auction - This Weekend
Filed by Jerame Davis | March 13, 2008 9:57 PM |Indiana Youth Group (IYG) will hold its annual Youth Art Auction on Friday, March 14, 2008 from 7:00-10:00 p.m. at the Stutz Business Center #2. There will be Youth Art on display, with some items for sale by Silent Auctions/Sale...Read More
Ellen mocks Sally Kern
Filed by Waymon Hudson | March 13, 2008 12:30 PM |Ellen DeGeneres is on a roll! First, she comes out against the murder of Lawrence King on her day-time talk show. Now she's taking on Sally Kern, the hate-spewing Oklahoma Legislator. Here's the video: iPhone users: Click to watch...Read More
Did DNC Lawyers Try to Intimidate Gay Media?
Filed by Michael Crawford | March 13, 2008 12:23 PM |Just when you thought the anti-gay discrimination lawsuit against the DNC couldn't get any messier, it is. On Friday Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff will publish a scathing editorial in which he says that lawyers for DNC chief of staff...Read More
Emperors without clothes
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 12, 2008 7:08 PM |The AFA is calling off their boycott of Ford and claiming victory because there's been a cut-back in donations to LGBT organizations. Pam says: Of course a retreat in overall marketing and targeting to all consumers would be in line...Read More
Living in Obamaland and hoping for a reality check
Filed by Jerame Davis | March 11, 2008 2:46 PM |Does anyone besides me wonder what the Obama supporters have been smoking lately? I find it fascinating that if Hillary's people say Obama is not ready, she's a witch and will do anything to win, but Obama's supporters give his...Read More
Chicken Wings & Moral Choices
Filed by Terrance Heath | March 10, 2008 11:44 AM |Kip has posed an interesting question, and since he noted me as one of two vegetarians among his readership, I thought ought to join the discussion. So I was sitting in my undisclosed location a few days ago, cleaning out...Read More
Waiting for the flames to emerge
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | March 10, 2008 11:30 AM |It seems that everyone from current politicians to friends and lovers of Harvey Milk is clambering to serve as a spokesperson for the new Milk movie. Cleve Jones, one of the founders of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the...Read More
Has it really been a decade since Matt Shepard was killed?
Filed by Cathy Renna | March 10, 2008 10:15 AM |For me, it feels like yesterday, although I said the same thing at the 5 year mark in a piece published in the LGBT media. Matt has been gone for ten years. This photo was taken at a press conference...Read More
Two Gay Guys: Men's Underwear!
Filed by Brent Hartinger | March 09, 2008 10:55 PM |This week we take a look at something that's the subject of much interest among gay and bi men: men's undies! Embed...Read More
Alexis Meade Is More Important Than You Think
Filed by Monica Roberts | March 09, 2008 3:00 PM |Back in 1967 an African-American actress contemplated leaving the network television show she was on and going back to Broadway. She was the only African-American in the integrated cast of this show and was upset that she wasn't getting to...Read More
The Art of Claude Cahun
Filed by Serena Freewomyn | March 09, 2008 12:37 PM |When I discovered the work of photographer Claude Cahun, I was intrigued. When I read more about hir life, I was drawn in even more. Claude Cahun was a surrealist artist who focused on the subject of gender. Born Lucy...Read More
Jaded young queen
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 08, 2008 10:53 AM |Earlier this week, I posted about an article in FOTF's Breakaway magazine that attempted to turn the Q(uestioning) boys straight, or at least self-hating, in a convenient myth/fact format. I wrote in parentheses: Myth #3: Gays are capable of love...Read More
A Farewell to Cussing?
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | March 07, 2008 11:09 AM |"No Cussing Week" just ended in South Pasadena. No, I'm not making this up. Mayor Michael Caccioitti of the staid California foothill community proclaimed the first week of March, now and hereafter, as a time when citizens will hopefully refrain...Read More
Is FOTF using homosexual urges for its own personal gain?
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 06, 2008 7:20 PM |Like, duh, yeah, but here's another example. There's an article in Breakaway magazine (FOTF's teen boy mag that uses in-touch-with-the-youth slang like "dudes," "lame," and "indeed") about the myths of the homosexual lifestyle (Myth #3: Gays are capable of love)...Read More
Tonight On The Rebecca Juro Show: Donna Rose
Filed by Rebecca Juro | March 06, 2008 4:06 PM |Tonight, my guest will be former Human Rights Campaign Executive Board Member, blogger, and Bilerico Project contributor Donna Rose. Donna Rose served as HRC's first and only transgender Executive Board member until late last year when she resigned in protest...Read More
Can we handle a gay American Idol?
Filed by Bil Browning | March 06, 2008 2:30 PM |I watch too much reality TV. It's a weakness. Not only do I watch Big Brother, we record Survivor and American Idol too. We should put our Netflix account on hold through reality TV season; we rarely have time to...Read More
Jesus Doesn't Matter
Filed by Terrance Heath | March 05, 2008 2:37 PM |Sweet Jesus, but I am sick and tired of hearing about Jesus. Let me be clear. When a presidential candidate is asked the following question — or any similar question — about his/her opponent, it shouldn't be answered. If said...Read More
Dear Hollywood Writers
Filed by Monica Roberts | March 04, 2008 3:49 PM |Dear Hollywood Writers, Now that the strike is over and you are back at work writing scripts for either what's left of the television season or in preparation for next fall, I have a request....Read More
Chicago 10
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | March 04, 2008 7:33 AM |I wasn't expecting to like Chicago 10 so much -- I thought it would be cheesy and overwrought, but the best part was the actual footage of the famous protests at the 1968 Democratic convention. The protests felt so messy...Read More
Jasmyne's Not Racist
Filed by Monica Roberts | March 03, 2008 11:50 PM |One thing I've noted in our ongoing struggle in the United States to overcome our negative past in terms of race relations is we aren't speaking the same language. Yes, we all speak our version of English here in the...Read More
Women's History Month: The Latest Femicide
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | March 03, 2008 4:09 PM |Amid our celebration of important women through the ages, we must keep our eyes on the staggering task still ahead. Violence against women is a huge global problem -- and it is growing. Indeed, as the world becomes ever more...Read More
The story behind the reporting
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 03, 2008 12:01 PM |[EDITOR'S NOTE:] This guest post comes to us from Eric Resnick. Eric is a reporter for the Gay People's Chronicle, Ohio's LGBT newspaper of record. Eric recently interviewed Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Occasionally, the stories behind what went into reporting...Read More
Ellen DeGeneres: We Must Change the Message
Filed by Michael Crawford | March 01, 2008 11:21 AM |I posted Ellen DeGeneres commentary on Lawrence King, the openly gay 15 year old who was murdered by a 14 year old classmate, under the You Gotta See This section in the middle column. But, I want to make sure...Read More
