Media: August 2008
Sunday Funnies: MSNBC Calls Crist OUT- Literally
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 31, 2008 | 9:00 AM |MSNBC's Chuck Todd says what we are all thinking about Amendment 2 supporting, newly engaged, possible VP pick, "confirmed bachelor" Governor Charlie Crist during a discussion called "The other glass ceiling: Will the country elect a single person?" Andrea Mitchell:...Read More
In the Year 2055
Filed by Robert Ganshorn | August 30, 2008 | 11:00 AM |First, I feel I should introduce myself. My name is Wilfred R. Garbo and I am chief historian of the Barack Obama Presidential Library. As is the habit with presidential papers, certain items are held from public review at the...Read More
Massachusetts Equality Opponents At It Again
Filed by Sara Whitman | August 28, 2008 | 1:00 PM |Seems the folks in Massachusetts that are against equality- you know, the ones who think marriage is only for them, not everyone, the laws and systems cannot be shared equality without having them get cooties- have successfully petitioned the Attorney...Read More
Restoring a name, March on Washington 45 years later
Filed by H. Alexander Robinson | August 28, 2008 | 11:00 AM |Who was the man who put Brother Martin on stage and organized the gathering of "the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation"? Who was the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest...Read More
HRC Rock To Win concert
Filed by Bil Browning | August 27, 2008 | 8:00 PM |Yesterday when I was waiting the press area of the LGBT delegate luncheon, Jed Hastings approached me to tell me how much he enjoyed reading the blog. Jed is Joe Solmonese's partner and Joe walked over shortly after. We chatted...Read More
Why Does Elaine Donnelly Hate God's Rainbows?
Filed by Steve Ralls | August 27, 2008 | 5:00 PM |"Rainbows... only idiots chase them." - Larry Kersten Why does Elaine Donnelly hate God's rainbows? In a recent post at the National Review Online, Mrs. D. lashes out at the colorful creations in the sky, insinuating - in addition to...Read More
Straight-washing Matthew Mitcham, straight-washing the Olympics
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 27, 2008 | 3:30 PM |Over this past week the gay media has been abuzz over out Australian diver Matthew Mitcham's gold medal upset in Beijing. After faltering early on in the competition, he made it to the finals and got the gold. I don't...Read More
The Wrap (With Two Gay Guys): Did George Lucas Have a Brain Aneurysm?
Filed by Brent Hartinger | August 27, 2008 | 12:00 PM |This week, we take on homophobia in the new animated Star Wars movie and the U.K. series Skins, and we also review Another Gay Sequel. (Warning: we're in sort of a cranky mood!) It's all after the jump!...Read More
Way to give faith-based programming a good name
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 26, 2008 | 12:00 PM |The Kentucky arm of Teen Challenge, a faith-based rehab program aimed at adolescents, has "given up" its $50,000 federal grant. They obviously should never have been receiving it in the first place: Teen Challenge, Americans United pointed out, requires participants...Read More
Was Michelle Obama Enough?
Filed by Robert Ganshorn | August 26, 2008 | 10:00 AM |As I watched the convention coverage it occurred to me that I have been watching Democratic Party conventions with interest since 1964. As it began at 6:00 AM here I drank my coffee and tried to understand what I was...Read More
AFA's at it again, this time with Hallmark
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 24, 2008 | 4:30 PM |The AFA is asking for a boycott of Hallmark because they're publishing bland same-sex marriage congratulations cards: Ask them to stop promoting a lifestyle that is not only unhealthy, but is also illegal in 48 states. Hallmark Greeting Cards has...Read More
Theatre Review: "Thoroughly Stupid Things (or the Continuous Importance of Being Earnest)"
Filed by Jason Tseng | August 24, 2008 | 12:00 PM |The moment I saw the title to Montserrat Mendez's play, Thoroughly Stupid Things (or the Continuous Importance of being Earnest), I immediately knew I had to see it. A sequel to Oscar Wilde's infamous comedy of errors, which captures the...Read More
Public sex sting in Alabama and media irresponsibility
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 23, 2008 | 5:00 PM |There was a massive public gay sex sting in Alabama this past week that's resulted in warrants for the arrest of 24 men. I don't know why they weren't arrested on the spot if they were caught having sex, but...Read More
Tune In, Bear Out
Filed by Eric Leven | August 20, 2008 | 6:00 PM |JMG just peeped that one of my all-time favorite Bears, The Infomercial World's Billy Mays, has just landed his own reality TV Show. Back off bitches! I loved him first....Read More
Theatre Review: "China: The Whole Enchilada"
Filed by Jason Tseng | August 20, 2008 | 4:00 PM |"We're three Caucasians with a fascination of the new sensation called the Chinese nation!" So starts the irreverently funny and not-so-politically-correct new musical, China: The Whole Enchilada, one of the many productions showing at the New York International Fringe Festival,...Read More
Jesus Christ! Kathleen Parker and I agree on a socio-political issue
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 20, 2008 | 1:00 PM |Yesterday I posted about the presidential forum that was held in Rick Warren's Saddleback Church. My three big problems with it were that it imposed a religion test on the presidential candidates, that Obama did not use very supportive language...Read More
Good move, MSNBC!!!
Filed by Brynn Craffey | August 20, 2008 | 10:00 AM |Here's the best reason to watch MSNBC. Just in time for the closing rush of the presidential election, MSNBC is shaking up its prime-time programming lineup, removing the long-time host -- and one-time general manager of the network -- Dan...Read More
Yikes
Filed by Tyrion Lannister | August 19, 2008 | 6:30 PM |Over in the comments section of another Indiana focused blog, I notice that Indianapolis based anti-tax activist Melyssa Donaghy is defending herself from accusations of anti-semitism. At the root of the controversy, Melyssa posted a link to a cartoon on...Read More
Vital Nerd Update, Part 3
Filed by Tyrion Lannister | August 19, 2008 | 4:30 PM |What with all the excitement generated by The Dark Knight and anticipation of The Watchmen, I think it prudent to mention that one of my favorite current comic series, Y: The Last Man, recently issued its final paperback trade, making...Read More
Bill Donohue takes on Towleroad
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 19, 2008 | 11:00 AM |Bill Donohue of the Catholic League (that one dude typing away, all alone with his delusion that he represents anyone in the Catholic community) is picking on Towleroad and Bitch PhD. because they got DNC credentials. He called them all...Read More
Yellow Peril: A Chinese American's Olympic Struggle
Filed by Jason Tseng | August 19, 2008 | 10:00 AM |In case you haven't noticed, I'm Chinese. I'm also American. I won't go into a whole Amy Tan-esque lament of intercultural limbo, as I think (or at least hope) the difficulties of Chinese-Americans to find cultural solace in a country...Read More
BlogIndiana conference: All good things must come to an end
Filed by Bil Browning | August 18, 2008 | 2:00 PM |I really enjoyed myself at the BlogIndiana conference. Shawn Plew and Noah Coffey are to be commended for organizing an informational and fun weekend. If you didn't get a chance to attend this year, make room on your schedule for...Read More
The Killer, Not The Killed
Filed by Sara Whitman | August 17, 2008 | 4:30 PM |Once again, Lawrence King is in the news. His parents have filed a lawsuit against the school for "not enforcing the dress code." I think I'm going to scream. Lawrence King wore feminine attire to school. He wore what all...Read More
Fox News Smears Next Top Model Transgender Contestant
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 16, 2008 | 4:30 PM |A transgender woman will be one of the 14 women who will compete on the new season of America's Next Top Model on The CW (returning September 3). 22 year-old Isis, a former non-profit worker who identifies herself as "a...Read More
The Diamond's Jubilee
Filed by Steve Ralls | August 16, 2008 | 3:00 PM |Now I can tell you about success, about fame About the rise and the fall of all the stars in the sky Don't it make you smile? Today we stop, dance and give thanks. Yes, that seminal moment in popular...Read More
Blame Manhunt
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 15, 2008 | 1:00 PM |I just read that Out magazine article that's going around about Manhunt, and I'm trying to think of something to say about it other than the too-easy observation that a certain sort of urban (and let's just be open about...Read More
Republican Manhunt Chairman canned
Filed by Bil Browning | August 15, 2008 | 11:30 AM |Towleroad has confirmed that Jonathan Crutchley, the Republican co-founder of Manhunt, the nation's largest gay hookup site, has been asked to resign by the board. The resulting brouhaha over his contribution to the John McCain campaign - the maximum allowed...Read More
The Wrap (with Two Gay Guys): New Media, Kathy Griffin, and the Top 50 Gay Movies!
Filed by Brent Hartinger | August 15, 2008 | 9:00 AM |In this edition of "The Wrap", Michael and I discuss "new media" (it's not as boring as it sounds!), whether Kathy Griffin has finally gone too far, and the top fifty gay movies of all time! Watch the video fun...Read More
Vital Nerd Update, Part 2
Filed by Tyrion Lannister | August 13, 2008 | 5:30 PM |Documenting the continuing self-cannibalization of collegiate debate, wait for the brown eye from Dr. Shanahan at the 0:37 mark: iPhone users: Click to watch I'm not going to try to explain the context here, but basically it involves charges of...Read More
I Kissed a Girl... and other observations
Filed by Jason Tseng | August 13, 2008 | 3:00 PM |Katy Perry's obnoxiously catchy chart-topping new tune, I Kissed a Girl about lesbian posturing and heteroflexible experimentation has the Entertainment biz buzzing with newfound love for our sometimes Sapphic sisters. Perry is far from the first or the only sultry...Read More
Gayest city in America
Filed by Eric Leven | August 13, 2008 | 1:00 PM |Eric, the Roommate, is obsessed with numbers, statistics and city populations. He is always looking something up and he is an expert on cities around the world and their populations. Although he's straight he always has his eyes out for...Read More
Hot, Hot Hump
Filed by Tyrion Lannister | August 13, 2008 | 12:30 PM |First things first: DJ Educated foot has dropped another edition of his hump day mix. And it's free. And it's awesome. What are you waiting for? Need a taste? The new mix features the XXXChange remix of Santogold's "L.E.S. Artistes":...Read More
The Wrap (With Two Gay Guys) #2
Filed by Brent Hartinger | August 13, 2008 | 10:00 AM |Vampires suck as a gay metaphor! Or so say the Two Gay Guys in this week's installment of The Wrap. The guys spread some love for Mamma Mia and the criminally underappreciated Christine Baranski, debate Weeds' big gay reveal of...Read More
The Majesty of His Loins
Filed by Tyrion Lannister | August 12, 2008 | 4:30 PM |Over at The Bilerico Project, Alex Blaze has an interesting piece which is something of a counter-point to yesterday's post on the Edwards-Hunter curfuffle. Alex's main point is that extramarital affairs are pretty human, that we don't know enough about...Read More
Olympic Junkie
Filed by Monica Roberts | August 12, 2008 | 3:00 PM |One of the things that hasn't changed about me since transition is that I'm a huge sports fan. While it's not at the same intensity level now that I've been an estrogen-based lifeform for the last 10+ years, whether it's...Read More
The Politics of Fear- Subtle Racism is still Racism
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 12, 2008 | 1:00 PM |I remember the uproar that occurred over the Scott Howell attack ad against Harold Ford Jr., the former black Congressman from Tennessee. The slimy video featured a somewhat ditzy-sounding blonde telling the then-candidate Ford to "call me," which sent a...Read More
John Edwards sex scandal!
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 11, 2008 | 3:00 PM |I just got back to regular internet access, and I find out the oh-so important piece of information that John Edwards couldn't keep his rocket in his pocket. Oh my. I can't even begin to imagine why the 24 hours...Read More
Maher at the Murat
Filed by Tyrion Lannister | August 11, 2008 | 2:31 PM |In case you hadn't noticed, Bill Maher is coming to the Murat this weekend. Now, I suppose, in some corners, Bill Maher causes quite a bit of excitement. As America's preeminent libertine comedian, this is quite understandable. And, I'll admit,...Read More
What If There Were Only Two Possible Sexual Orientations?
Filed by Jessica Hoffmann | August 11, 2008 | 12:00 PM |You know, homosexual and heterosexual, gay and straight. What if bisexuality (let alone pansexuality and other forms of queerness) just didn't exist? What if we were totally sure there are only two genders, and there was no such thing as...Read More
August 2008 In The Life segment with Richard Kim
Filed by IN THE LIFE | August 11, 2008 | 8:00 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch Richard Kim, Associate Editor of The Nation, discusses LGBT politics and queer media with Michael Billy in this segment from the August 2008 episode of In The Life. The Bilerico Project is mentioned in this...Read More
A Public Service Announcement From Wanda Sykes
Filed by Jeremy Bishop | August 09, 2008 | 10:30 AM |Can "No On 8" make this a PSA? Pretty Please? See more funny videos at Funny or Die...Read More
Orangina furry porn
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 06, 2008 | 1:00 PM |This has been in my list of things to post for a while, and I've finally worked up the courage to do so. I often tell Americans that French people are weird, but I don't think Americans know just how...Read More
When the Sunday funnies aren't so funny.....
Filed by Cathy Renna | August 05, 2008 | 6:00 PM |Recently, my daughter and I revived a tradition of mine from when I was little - reading the Sunday comics together. As a child, I would crawl into my Dad's lap - or into my parents' bed if they were...Read More
Westboro Baptist Church caught fire this weekend
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 04, 2008 | 1:00 PM |No one was hurt, so we can joke around: A fence and garage at Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church became engulfed in flames early Saturday, according to the Topeka Capitol-Journal Web site. The fire did not spread to the church...Read More
The Phenomenology of Body
Filed by Jessica Hoffmann | August 03, 2008 | 12:00 PM |A big hat tip to CureThis. In which the Hon. Daphne Suzannah Diana Joan Guinness, a socialite of Irish descent and an heiress of the Guinness family, aims to deconstruct the political power of fashion by personally slow-spinning in iconic...Read More
Songs for Sunday- The McCain Edition
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 03, 2008 | 10:30 AM |Editor's Note: Here are the rules for Songs for Sunday: one of our contributors will post the last ten songs from their iPod or on a certain topic, then you share yours in the comments so we can compare! Let's...Read More
Antonio Sabato Jr.- Gay or Stupid??
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 02, 2008 | 4:30 PM |On an episode of E's late-night comedy show, Chelsea Lately, Antonio Sabato Jr. was there to promo his new gig on General Hospital: Night Shift. The show ran a clip in which Antonio Sabato Jr wore only a towel and...Read More
NBJC Action Fund Endorsement of Keisha Waites
Filed by H. Alexander Robinson | August 02, 2008 | 10:30 AM |NBJC ACTION Fund Endorses Keisha Waites for Georgia State Assembly (GA-61). Georgia resident Keisha Waites seeks to be first African American openly gay woman legislator in the state. On Tuesday, August 5, 2008 the residents of Georgia's 61st Assembly District...Read More
Held Suspect
Filed by Terrance Heath | August 01, 2008 | 4:00 PM |I don't remember how old I was the first time it happened. I couldn't have been more than ten years old. We were in Philadelphia -- my mother, my younger sister, and I -- visiting my great grandfather on my...Read More
Murderer of Young Transwoman Says He Killed "It"
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 01, 2008 | 11:00 AM |The rage and tragedy continue over the murder of Angie Zapata, a 21 year-old transgender woman in Denver. The alleged killer, Allen Ray Andrade, has admitted to bludgeoning Zapata to death with his fist and a fire extinguisher when he...Read More
