Media: February 2009
Rea Carey at The Winter Party
Filed by Father Tony | February 28, 2009 | 12:30 PM |The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force hosted a media reception last night at Van Dyke on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. Executive Director of the Task Force, Rea Carey, spoke about the priorities of and the challenges faced by...Read More
James Dobson resigns as chairman of Focus on the Family board
Filed by Bil Browning | February 27, 2009 | 4:00 PM |Oh happy day! James Dobson has stepped down as chairman of the board for Focus on the Family. Conservative evangelical leader James Dobson has resigned as chairman of Focus on the Family but will continue to play a prominent role...Read More
Compromise doesn't happen 5 miles before the finish line if you're serious
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 27, 2009 | 12:00 PM |Laurie Higgins, of the Illinois Family Institute, responded to one of my particularly colorful posts here at Bilerico and called it "deeply troubling." Similar to what my fifth-grade teacher said about me.... Actually, one thing I love about the rightwing...Read More
Delonas Controversy Is A Symptom Of A Larger Problem At The Post
Filed by Guest Blogger | February 25, 2009 | 2:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Justin Cole is the Director of Digital and Online Media for GLAAD - The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Last week, the controversy surrounding a cartoon by Sean Delonas, the New York Post editorial cartoonist,...Read More
A real Savior-based economy
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 25, 2009 | 1:00 PM |South Carolina's governor, Mark Sanford (R), recently rejected stimulus money for his state's unemployment insurance fund. The funds are meant to alleviate the burden of state unemployment funds (since most states can't deficit spend), increase the amount of free money...Read More
Censorship Deprives Millions of Hearing Oscar Night Equality Messages
Filed by Waymon Hudson | February 25, 2009 | 11:00 AM |By now we've all heard the great pro-equality speeches by Sean Penn and Dustin Lance Black from the Oscar telecast. Sean Penn, not surprisingly, took on anti-gay political sentiment (and Westboro Baptist Church), while Black delivered a tear-jerking message to...Read More
Holding "Ex-Gay" Programs Legally Liable For Harm
Filed by Michael Hamar | February 23, 2009 | 12:00 PM |Truth Wins Out and Lambda Legal have teamed up to produce a booklet, Ex-Gay & The Law, that looks at the possible harmful effects of reparative therapy utilized by "ex-gay ministries" - which is condemned by the American Psychiatric Association,...Read More
Classic War Photograph?
Filed by Terrance Heath | February 22, 2009 | 6:00 PM |Well, no. But the image was recently named World Press Photo 2008, and the judges framed it in a war context. A picture of an armed sheriff moving through an American home after an eviction due to a mortgage foreclosure...Read More
GLAAD: Get on Track and Fight Back!
Filed by Cathy Renna | February 20, 2009 | 3:30 PM |This week, we saw something unprecedented happen in the media. The New York Post apologized (sort of, which for them is saying a lot) for a nasty editorial cartoon by Sean Delonas, a longtime fixture on the editorial page of...Read More
Who's History? My Curious Encounter with the Radical Faeries
Filed by Karen Ocamb | February 20, 2009 | 11:00 AM |I don't do gossip, which is kind of unfortunate because I hear a lot of good stuff. And I actually do strive to keep my personal opinions out of my reporting - an old ethic, to be sure, but a...Read More
Black History Month: Looking for More Lives to Celebrate
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | February 20, 2009 | 10:00 AM |With Black History Month in its third week, I got the idea to google around the Web for half an hour and see how many vivid article profiles of black LGBT pioneers were easily findable in that time. Below is...Read More
The Christianist Propaganda Blue Print
Filed by Michael Hamar | February 20, 2009 | 10:00 AM |Having followed the tactics and propaganda methods of a number "family values" Christian organizations for nearly ten (10) years, one thing has always struck me. Namely, that their tactics and their propaganda campaigns against gays draw heavily on the Nazi...Read More
It came from the bog... it's OCTO-MOM!!!!!
Filed by Jason Tseng | February 19, 2009 | 10:00 AM |To say that the media blitz surrounding Nadya Suleman and the recent birth of her eight children (of fourteen) has been monumentous would be an understatement. Accusations of everything from an unhealthy obsession with motherhood and clinical insanity to criminal...Read More
Facebook Got Me Elected: How the New Media Helped Make Me the the First Openly-Gay Official in South Carolina
Filed by Guest Blogger | February 18, 2009 | 10:00 AM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Nick Shalosky is Secretary of the South Carolina Stonewall Democrats. He is the first openly-gay elected official in South Carolina. At the age of 21, Shalosky was elected with 22 votes to the Charleston County District...Read More
Will Gay Media Get the "Obama Effect" Memo?
Filed by Michael Crawford | February 17, 2009 | 5:00 PM |Editor's Note: I wrote this post for the upcoming Bilerico-DC and want to share it here as well. There's an interesting article in the New York Times about how the "Obama Effect" has opened the eyes of fashion designers to...Read More
Rebranding the crazy right
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 17, 2009 | 4:00 PM |The Religious Right doesn't like being called that anymore, so they're trying out new words. It seems that people don't like what they hear when they hear "Religious Right" (via Juan Cole): Jerry Falwell, cofounder of the Moral Majority, self-applied...Read More
Pity party for Jonah Goldberg
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 17, 2009 | 2:00 PM |Jonah Goldberg, wingnutty conservative columnist extraordinaire, is on his anti-PC hobby horse again in the LA Times: And yet, I've met innumerable writers and editors who are scared, even terrified, of one or more of these groups: gays, blacks, Latinos,...Read More
Quoting current climate change research FAIL
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 17, 2009 | 11:00 AM |From the actual University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, here comes a blog post showing that George Will knows as much about global warming as he does about the Prop 8 lawsuits or the Great Depression or independent voters...Read More
Outrageous anti-gay Don't Ask, Don't Tell commentary up at MSNBC.com
Filed by Pam Spaulding | February 16, 2009 | 12:30 PM |I don't know who the "F" Merrill R. Darby is, but this guy has one of the most homophobic commentaries I've ever seen, easily eclipsing some of the best of Elaine Donnelly of The Center for Military Readiness re: DADT....Read More
Beer Pong, the Sequel: An Update on Agnes Scott's Filming Policies
Filed by Guest Blogger | February 16, 2009 | 11:00 AM |Editors' Note: Louisa Hill is a senior at Agnes Scott College where she studies theatre, French, and women's studies. She last guest blogged on The Bilerico Project in December, when she informed us of the filming of Road Trip II:...Read More
Will Gay Media Get the "Obama Effect" Memo?
Filed by Michael Crawford | February 16, 2009 | 10:00 AM |There's an interesting article in the New York Times about how the "Obama Effect" has opened the eyes of fashion designers to the beauty of male models of color. "Some casting sheets actually said 'No Blacks,"' the 19-year-old model Shawn...Read More
How to destroy online discourse and how to improve it
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 15, 2009 | 5:30 PM |Columnist Mark Morford gripes in the San Francisco Chronicle about the lack of civility on the internet. Did you know that sometimes people on the internet are mean? He blames it on anonymous commenting. Because, you see, there was a...Read More
He Said the Principal Banned Rent; She Said "Did Not!"
Filed by Prince Gomolvilas | February 14, 2009 | 1:00 PM |When I saw Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist on DVD last night, I finally realized why it deservedly received a nomination for Outstanding Film by the 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards - a nomination that I didn't quite understand when...Read More
Heroes Old and New
Filed by Cathy Renna | February 12, 2009 | 5:00 PM |January 9 was one of those indescribable days where it not only felt good to be alive but a privilege to be working in the LGBT community. The best part is that much of it was unexpected. I started the...Read More
The Indianapolis mating game
Filed by Bil Browning | February 12, 2009 | 2:30 PM |I was pleasantly shocked a few weeks ago when the Indianapolis Star solicited my help in finding a "20-something gay couple" for an upcoming feature on Valentine's Day. I quickly called long-time friend (and total hottie!) Josh Verbeke and asked...Read More
Will Lesbian Batwoman Steal Sperm to Impregnate Partner?
Filed by Dana Rudolph | February 11, 2009 | 6:00 PM |At first, I was excited. A lesbian Batwoman, and a redhead, no less. Being a fellow member of that esteemed league, I felt a certain bond. Then I read the rest of the article, in which Gotham's female guardian is...Read More
Clearly, you need more Gina de Vries in your life!
Filed by Gina de Vries | February 11, 2009 | 10:00 AM |Attention Pioneer Valley, Boston, NYC, & New England people! I'm hoping to make it out to the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Reproductive Justice conference at Hampshire College this April, and to turn it into an opportunity to do some...Read More
Bending Valentine's Day Our Way
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | February 10, 2009 | 10:00 AM |One of the bonuses of being a writer is that you hear from readers, and find out how our people do things all over the world. Yesterday I got a neat Valentine email from Italy. Italian LGBT activist Mariagrazia Leone...Read More
Regarding that video ...
Filed by Jessica Hoffmann | February 08, 2009 | 5:30 PM |Regarding that video, Please don't forget to be critical about marriage. Please love the weirdo queers, too. Please don't exclusively equate love with long-term, two-party commitment. Or atomized nuclear families. Please don't think assimilation + inclusion are justice + freedom....Read More
Hello, San Francisco (with an LA Infusion): Get Queer-Literary Next Week ...
Filed by Jessica Hoffmann | February 06, 2009 | 10:00 AM |Some LA friends and collaborators are heading to the Bay Area next week for some events I thought you might want to check out: Monday, the rad and talented Raquel Gutierrez (of Butchlalis de Panochtitlan, among many other projects), is...Read More
RuPaul's Drag Race Premiers
Filed by Jason Tseng | February 05, 2009 | 6:00 PM |RuPaul, easily America's most famous drag queen extraordinaire premiered her new reality program, RuPaul's Drag Race on LOGO. Move over Bravo! RuPaul has just cemented LOGO as the home of screaming queens and shade throwing fierce biotches, at least for...Read More
Islamic terrorists are using SODOMY to recruit!
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 05, 2009 | 5:00 PM |Gay Patriot, a gay conservative blog, is asking you to set your beds to wet with new information originally reported by the British tabloid The Sun: terrorists are using TEH SODOMY to recruit new suicide bombers. They've started a watch...Read More
Tranny IS Just a Word
Filed by Guest Blogger | February 04, 2009 | 3:30 PM |Editors' note: Monica Helms is the president of the Trangender American Veterans Association. I know that by expressing my opinion about this word in an article, I will make a lot of my trans friends angry. Seems that the quarterly...Read More
Oscar Wilde Bookstore, and my first and only visit
Filed by Matt Comer | February 04, 2009 | 2:30 PM |It is sad, sad news, indeed. The New York Times reports that the Oscar Wilde Bookstore at 15 Christopher St. in Greenwich Village, New York, will close March 29. The current owner cites the economy. Opened in 1967, the bookstore...Read More
API Equality Celebrates Chinese Lunar New Year
Filed by Karen Ocamb | February 03, 2009 | 10:00 AM |The 10th annual Golden Dragon Parade through Chinatown in downtown Los Angeles is one of the most colorful celebrations in a city renown for its colorful creativity. And for the fourth year in a row, API Equality participated in the...Read More
T-Shirt Hell goes out of business, blames accusations of hate crimes.
Filed by Nathan Strang | February 02, 2009 | 2:00 PM |T-Shirt Hell, the purveyors of fine and sarcastic shirts like "I Support Single Moms" accompanied by a silhouette of a stripper on a pole, is going out of business, effective February 10th. Their reasons aren't economy based, though a fine...Read More
Why the family planning funding mattered
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 02, 2009 | 12:00 PM |Several people argued on my last post about Obama capitulating to House Republicans on funding for women's reproductive health in the stimulus package that it's in the spirit of bipartisanship, not capitulating, to take rational criticism from the minority party...Read More
ESPN and Shaq's Homophobic Commerical
Filed by Michael Crawford | February 02, 2009 | 10:00 AM |John Aravosis is dead on when he asks the question " If the ad called a show of affection between blacks and whites "weird" and "disgusting," would you find it just as funny?" That's the question everyone should ask themselves...Read More
