Media: October 2008
Web exclusive footage with NAACP Chair Julian Bond
Filed by IN THE LIFE | October 29, 2008 8:00 PM |iPhone users: Click to watch In this exclusive footage, NAACP Chair Julian Bond and Washington Post writer Jonathan Capehart discuss the common ties of The Civil Rights and LGBT Civil Rights movements. Bond speaks of the divisive tactics used in...Read More
Reg Riedel -- Pioneering Wildlife Worker
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | October 27, 2008 5:30 PM |Conservation work, especially with animals, may look glamorous in TV and movies, but it's hard on those who commit to it. There is the 24/7 grind of animal care, the struggle to find funding, and the terrible heartbreak when things...Read More
The economic collapse is a feature, not a bug, in American democracy
Filed by Alex Blaze | October 27, 2008 1:30 PM |I'm writing this after just watching the blowhards on This Week discuss the Republican ticket and the economy, and Sam Donaldson actually showed some ability to hold a substantive policy position and started blustering in the general direction of George...Read More
Transition Regret - Some Thoughts
Filed by Donna Rose | October 27, 2008 11:00 AM |Last week news became public that Christine Daniel's very public transition as a sportswriter at the Los Angeles Times had come to an end. She quietly returned to work as Michael Penner. The pressures and high visibility of her transition...Read More
A maverick and a mouse: A tale of two newspapers
Filed by Bil Browning | October 27, 2008 10:00 AM |Two large newspapers printed their presidential endorsements this weekend. The Indianapolis Star and The Anchorage Daily News are both the newspapers of record for their respective states and have the largest circulation numbers. That, however, is where the similarities end....Read More
21 Florida Newspapers- Vote NO on Amendment 2
Filed by Waymon Hudson | October 26, 2008 12:00 PM |Twenty-one newspapers from around the state have come hard against Florida's Amendment 2, the so-called "Marriage Protection" Amendment. These papers all realize the danger of the amendment's vague language and far-reaching impacts. Many also cite the needless enshrining of discrimination...Read More
Theatre review: "Ballerina Who Loves B-Boy"
Filed by Jason Tseng | October 25, 2008 4:30 PM |Uptight, classically-trained ballerina falls for a street dancin', wise-crackin', B-Boy. The ballerina dips down into the culture of break-dance and hip hop; gets her boy and some rad new moves in the process. Love conquers all! Even dance forms! While...Read More
Palin's $150,000 wardrobe vs. Edwards's $400 haircut
Filed by Alex Blaze | October 24, 2008 11:30 AM |The Jed Report put together this mash-up of Fox News's response to both fashion faux-pas: iPhone users: Click to watch No matter how much the right-wing wrapped the haircut in the language of populism (it shows he doesn't understand Joe...Read More
Google: Profit before people
Filed by Bil Browning | October 23, 2008 11:00 PM |Several readers wrote in when ProtectMarriage.com ads started showing up for our California readers. The pro-Prop 8 graphic was arriving via Google ads. Since none of the Editorial Team is in California, we had no idea they were popping up....Read More
The Play About Henry
Filed by Eric Leven | October 21, 2008 6:00 PM |On the morning of February 25, 2000 a young man named Henry Stuart Matis drove to the Mormon Ward House in Los Altos, CA, placed a gun to his head and ended his life. This is his story. iPhone users:...Read More
Marriage Amendment Copycat Ads: The idea well is running dry...
Filed by Waymon Hudson | October 21, 2008 2:00 PM |Kudos to Mark Kerr of the Tucson Observer! In a blog post in the Observer, Mark points to the nearly identical commercials being run by the backers of Florida's Amendment 2 and Arizona's Proposition 102. The same scenes, scripts and...Read More
Suze Orman Says No To Florida's Amendment 2
Filed by Waymon Hudson | October 19, 2008 10:00 AM |Financial expert (and out lesbian) Suze Orman, named by Time magazine earlier this year as one of The World's 100 Most Influential People, is urging Florida voters to vote no on Amendment 2, the so-called "Marriage Protection" Amendment: My life's...Read More
Remembering Philip Labhart, Pioneer Ad Producer
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | October 16, 2008 9:00 PM |Gay film history should have a category for ads and infomercials -- and Los Angeles producer Philip Labhart should be one of the first stars to be installed on that sidewalk of fame. Ads and infomercials may be despised by...Read More
Interview Sessions: Alfredo
Filed by Eric Leven | October 15, 2008 1:00 PM |I met Alfredo at The Hanger one Sunday afternoon while sipping on a Bloody Mary. Alfredo is a 51 year old Black Cuban living with HIV. This is what he has to say: iPhone users: Click to watch...Read More
Sluts Still Get to Say No
Filed by Gina de Vries | October 14, 2008 5:00 PM |I got another one of those gross MySpace messages this morning. You know, the "hey baby, nice tits, I want u 2 suck my dick" kind? I get sexually harassed on the internet -- and on the street -- a...Read More
Time to Call the FBI: Stoking the Fires of Hate
Filed by Waymon Hudson | October 13, 2008 5:00 PM |We've talked a lot here on Bilerico about the disgusting negative attacks coming from the McCain campaign and the right. Our community knows better than most how using inflammatory rhetoric that plays into bias and hate can cause very real...Read More
Never using religion, nor biology, to argue against same-sex marriage
Filed by Alex Blaze | October 13, 2008 2:00 PM |If there was proof that people who actually follow LGBT issues should be writing about them for even traditional media sources, this article could be it. An article about two activists who are working against same-sex marriage in Connecticut yesterday...Read More
A Conversation With... Jonathan Capehart and Julian Bond
Filed by IN THE LIFE | October 13, 2008 8:00 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch Julian Bond, Chairman of the NAACP, is a giant in the movement for black civil rights who has been on the front line for equal rights in America for four decades. He is also an...Read More
Why I won't Come Out on National Coming Out Day
Filed by Yasmin Nair | October 11, 2008 10:30 AM |Public discussions around sexuality evoke simplistic narratives about gays versus conservatives. We automatically assume that anything gay is part of a leftist or progressive agenda. In this context, National Coming Out Day takes on the aura of a sacred rite...Read More
FEMME SHARKS, FEMME SHARKS!!!
Filed by Gina de Vries | October 11, 2008 8:00 AM |There is no bigger pleasure than hearing Leah, Zuleikha, and myself screaming chants on FemmeCast. Check out Episode 5 to hear some of my best & brilliant friends shark-sharking it up. (I also make a tiny little cameo as an...Read More
Fox News Meltdown
Filed by Waymon Hudson | October 10, 2008 2:00 PM |It seems the arm of the McCain Campaign known as Fox News is in full "oh crap" mode. The Daily Show says it best: Now that's some fair and balanced reporting....Read More
AFA says McDonald's caved
Filed by Alex Blaze | October 10, 2008 11:00 AM |The American Family Association's saying that McDonald's caved to their demands after another one of their lame boycotts. They started the boycott back in July because McDonald's gave $20K to the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, had a...Read More
Two videos to fight "That's so gay"
Filed by Alex Blaze | October 08, 2008 5:00 PM |Via Queerty, here are two videos, put together by GLSEN, to educate about the phrase "That's so gay." iPhone users: Click to watch The PSA's also come with a website to create responses to the gay phrase. Hillary Duff PSA...Read More
LGBT Hate Crimes Timeline
Filed by Terrance Heath | October 07, 2008 6:00 PM |Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of Matthew Shepard's murder. I didn't get chance to blog about it (or much else) yesterday. Ten years ago yesterday, I was in a hotel in Albuquerque, NM -- helping to facilitate an HIV/AIDS prevention...Read More
The Wrap (with Two Gay Guys): Full Frontal Nudity Edition!
Filed by Brent Hartinger | October 07, 2008 11:00 AM |This week, Michael saw Equus, so we discuss--what else? Full-frontal male nudity!...Read More
Homophobia: The other conservative solution to the financial crisis
Filed by Alex Blaze | October 06, 2008 6:00 PM |Last week I wrote about conservative efforts to deflect attention away from the real causes of the current financial meltdown, deregulation, corporate greed, and the failure of conservative ideology, and pin it instead on scary minorities. Now Fox News has...Read More
Russian Officials Attempt (But Fail) to Squelch the Nation's 1st LGBT Film Fest
Filed by Paige Schilt | October 06, 2008 2:00 PM |Last Thursday, the St. Petersburg fire department shut down both venues for Side by Side, Russia's first LGBT film festival, which was due to open that evening with a screening of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Alexey Bulokhov, a Russian...Read More
Barney Frank on the air with a completely unhinged Bill O'Reilly
Filed by Pam Spaulding | October 05, 2008 12:00 PM |O'Reilly looks like he's about to have an aneurysm as he tries to pin the mortgage meltdown on Barney Frank. A snippet of the insanity: iPhone users: Click to watch O'REILLY: You said it's not the best right now, but...Read More
News from "The Bangkok Post"
Filed by Robert Ganshorn | October 04, 2008 9:00 AM |What are people on the other side of the world reading? If this proves to be something of interest - and it should be - I will try to do it more often. I won't include every article, but as...Read More
The War on Intellectualism
Filed by Waymon Hudson | October 03, 2008 3:00 PM |It seems there is a new threat to our country- an insidious danger that is seeping into our homes and everyday lives that must be stopped at any cost. That threat is intellectualism. We have heard some of the buzzwords...Read More
'Gay does not mean paedophile' and other memos for the right-wing press
Filed by Guest Blogger | October 03, 2008 12:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Milly Shaw is a freelance writer and Editor of 'the web's tastiest lesbian magazine' Lesbilicious.co.uk. When she's not writing about queer issues she's up to her elbows in feminism, which is why she's also a contributor...Read More
Mad Men's Bryan Bratt on Gay Roles
Filed by Eric Leven | October 02, 2008 3:00 PM |Bryan Bratt of AMC's Mad Men, which in my opinion, is quickly becoming the best.show.ever. talks to CNN about the need for more positive gay role models in Hollywood cinema. CNN: What would you like to see Hollywood do? Batt:...Read More
Civil Rites & Civil Rights: Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon
Filed by IN THE LIFE | October 02, 2008 12:00 PM |iPhone users: Click to watch We're very pleased to open our 17th season with a new 30 minute format. This month's episode concludes with Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco presiding at the nuptials of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon,...Read More
How Real Is Our Commitment to "History"?
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | October 02, 2008 10:00 AM |For starters, the feminists got it wrong. In the word "history," "his-" does not refer to men. The American Heritage Dictionary index of root words shows us that "his-" probably comes from hyster, the Greek word for womb. Why womb?...Read More
Celebrities team up for new Get Out The Vote PSAs
Filed by Bil Browning | October 01, 2008 4:00 PM |Q: What do Amy Adams, Tatyana Ali, will.i.am, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon, Maria Bello, Halle Berry, Selma Blair, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Connolly, Courteney Cox, Ellen DeGeneres, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jaime Foxx, Jonah Hill, Djimon Hounsou, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Kiedis, Ashton Kutcher,...Read More
Fox Affiliate cancels Anchors' appearance at Orlando Pride
Filed by Waymon Hudson | October 01, 2008 10:00 AM |Fox affiliate WOFL-TV in Orlando will not allow their news anchors Mike Dunston and Amy Kaufeldt to attend the Orlando Pride event "Come Out With Pride." The organizers of the October 12th event have been left trying to find new...Read More
