Media: July 2009
Indy Star runs same-sex marriage announcement
Filed by Bil Browning | July 29, 2009 11:30 AM |Bilerico-Indiana reader Marie Siroky and her lovely wife CJ (Weiss) Siroky were married in Iowa recently and the Indianapolis Star printed a wedding announcement for the blushing brides. I spent some time poking around in the Star's archives since I...Read More
Been around too long
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 28, 2009 2:30 PM |Yes, this Jason Bellini article is about how Kirsten Gillibrand wants to hold hearings to discuss an end to DADT, which is good, but I couldn't let this slide: The controversy has caused bitter rifts and recriminations within the gay...Read More
Gay Generation Gap: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Filed by Jason Tseng | July 27, 2009 5:30 PM |With the passing of the 40th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, many in the gay community have taken the opportunity to reflect upon the historic moment in our collective queer history and how the community and movement has changed. The...Read More
Iconic Gay Choreographer Merce Cunningham, dies at age of 90
Filed by Jason Tseng | July 27, 2009 1:30 PM |Merce Cunningham. Only his name need be uttered in dance circles and a sense of reverence follows. Cunningham was one of the most influential, radically inventive, and avant-garde choreographers in dance in a century. His career in dance spanned an...Read More
Bareback the f--k up!
Filed by Eric Leven | July 24, 2009 3:00 PM |Fresh off the digital pages of Will Clark's blog comes the story of International Mr. Leather President Chuck Renslow's refusal to continue including bareback vendors, videos and other bareback paraphernalia during next year's 2010 event:...Read More
Can exclusion be good?
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 23, 2009 1:30 PM |Should gay bars ban women? Should lesbian bars ban men? Two cases this week raise those questions. First, in the UK, a gay bar refused service to and asked a lesbian woman and her partner to drink in a different...Read More
Listen: bOUT2 Podcast Interview About ENDA, Indiana Equality, and Facebook
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | July 22, 2009 4:30 PM |Here's an interview I gave to bOUT2, an LGBT podcast based around a radio show that broadcasts in southern Indiana. Hosts Helen Harrell and Sean Lemieux of WFHB's Blooming Out radio show and I discuss the legal and political meaning...Read More
First all Israeli gay porn movie
Filed by Bil Browning | July 22, 2009 2:30 PM |Lucas Entertainment is promoting a new porn movie, "Men of Israel." [link NSFW] The big hook here is that it's the first gay porn movie to feature only Israeli men and be shot on location in Israel. Former porn star...Read More
Tampa Bay Community Not Speechless Over Homophobic Infomercial
Filed by Guest Blogger | July 22, 2009 2:00 PM |Editor's Note: R. Zeke Fread, has been a GLBT Rights Grassroots Activist for past 20 years. The Director of Pride Tampa Bay, Zeke has organized local actions for ImpACT Florida, Join the Impact, Day of Decision, Don't Amend and for...Read More
Twibbon? What's a Twibbon?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | July 20, 2009 9:30 AM |Techno-savvy queers, take note! Twibbon.com is the newest way to promote causes on Twitter. A "twibbon" is a way to promote your cause by adding a small graphic banner to the lower right hand corner of your twitter pic. Here's...Read More
Beary Fashionable: Wonde® by Walter Van Beirendonck
Filed by Nathan Strang | July 19, 2009 2:30 PM |High fashion and couture are not normally paired with bellies and fur. Normally. However, Belgian fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck sees a veritable canvas on the broad shoulders and fuzzy stomachs of the men intended to wear his 2010 Summer...Read More
Walter Cronkite and the Player Piano
Filed by Karen Ocamb | July 19, 2009 10:00 AM |Dateline: Christmas season, 1975. A cab left me off in front of Walter Cronkite's Upper Eastside townhouse. Fresh out of college, I had joined CBS News two years earlier as a desk assistant and had become a regular substitute for...Read More
Albus Dumbledore: The G Quotient
Filed by Guest Blogger | July 17, 2009 12:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Justin Nelson is the Co-Founder and President of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC). He has used his background in small business and issues advocacy to develop the NGLCC into the business advocate...Read More
Rockstar Energy Drink CFO breaks ties with Savage Productions
Filed by Bil Browning | July 17, 2009 9:30 AM |After guest blogger Michael Jones posted concerns about Rockstar Energy Drink's possible connections to far-right radio talk show host Michael Savage, Bilerico Project and Change.org worked closely with the company over the last few weeks to take concrete steps on...Read More
Where's My Gay Tennis Player?
Filed by Sean Bugg | July 17, 2009 9:30 AM |As a young kid playing tennis on the cracked and ill-kept public courts of rural Western Kentucky, I had my idols who inspired both how and why I played. I loved Bjorn Borg, despite my great aunt's admonishment to "always...Read More
First the Abortionists, Then the "Homosexuals": TheCall Declares War
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | July 16, 2009 7:00 PM |Just this morning, an announcement went out from TheCall, asking its list of followers to join a national prayer-and-fasting movement aimed at "the spiritual darkness of the homosexual agenda" and the "restraining" of our "ideology." TheCall is not just another...Read More
Equality Florida Action PAC Releases St. Petersburg Endorsements
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 16, 2009 2:00 PM |The Equality Florida Action PAC, which supports openly LGBT and pro-Equality Candidates, has released its endorsements for the upcoming races in St. Petersburg, FL. St. Petersburg is Florida's fourth largest city and is part of the state that plays a...Read More
Bruno: the Herald of the Gayby Boom?
Filed by Dana Rudolph | July 16, 2009 12:30 PM |Johann Hari at HuffPo reports that--shock--we're in the middle of a gayby boom, and Bruno is spreading the word. He writes, "This quiet trend has finally poked its way to public attention with the sight of Bruno - the crazed...Read More
A Fine Bromance
Filed by Kate Clinton | July 16, 2009 9:30 AM |Bruno did not open as well at the box office as Borat. Despite a studio publicity blitz, including a faux fight with Eminem at the Grammies and his own best worst efforts, Sacha Barren Cohen did not take into account...Read More
Jewish lesbian crime-fighters and building progressive political power online
Filed by Michael Crawford | July 15, 2009 1:00 PM |Despite being a Jewish, lesbian crime-fighter, Batwoman didn't win. Wonder Woman did. The race was a mock mayoral campaign for DC mayor that was part of the New Organizing Institute's BootCamp 2009. It wasn't a two-way race between Batwoman and...Read More
"Red Flag" Rally TODAY- Let's Show WFLA What FREE SPEECH Really Means
Filed by Nadine Smith | July 15, 2009 9:30 AM |Join us for a Red Flag Rally to DEMAND a public apology from NBC's affiliate WFLA Ch 8 for screening a dangerous and dehumanizing anti-gay infomercial - Speechless: Silencing Christians. Media General, which owns WFLA, must hear from the community....Read More
Group to Protest WFLA CH 8 for Airing Homophobic Infomercial
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 14, 2009 9:30 AM |The great folks over at Pride Tampa Bay are organizing a peaceful protest of WFLA for airing the horrendously anti-gay infomercial "Speechless: Silencing the Christians" on Pride weekend. The protest will be July 15th, with a 4:30 P.M. Press Conference,...Read More
David Brooks got the bad touch from a Republican Senator
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 13, 2009 12:00 PM |I can't beat all the "point to where the Senator touched you on the doll, David" jokes out there, but can I just point out how weird this admission from David Brooks is?...Read More
Fig Trees, Transliminal Criminals, and Other Plural Nouns: Dispatch from Outfest 2009
Filed by Jessica Hoffmann | July 12, 2009 5:30 PM |So, you know, there's a bo-ring school of thought about how political art is didactic, great art can't be explicitly political, and bla bla bla silliness that shores up existing power structures and of course anyone who's outside or critical...Read More
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Starts to Sing
Filed by John Shields | July 12, 2009 4:00 PM |From the failure to pass hate crimes legislation - which should have been a no-brainer - to ENDA and DADT, the fits and spurts of "we're this close" to "you're going to have to wait in line" have been both...Read More
Best wishes for a beautiful bride
Filed by Bil Browning | July 11, 2009 12:00 PM |The Indiana Family Institute's Director of Public Policy, Ryan McCann, got married at the end of June. His wife, Tory Clark, is a beautiful and gentle woman; I admire her patience, wit and kindness. Interestingly enough though, the IFI's blog...Read More
D.C. Queer Fringe
Filed by Brett Abrams | July 10, 2009 9:00 PM |It's show time! DC has a riches of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer shows coming up for the next two weeks as Capital Fringe runs from July 9 through July 26. Most of the shows appear four or five...Read More
Vote Batwoman: Because We Need a Crime-fighting Lesbian Jewish Mayor
Filed by Michael Crawford | July 10, 2009 2:00 PM |Today is election day in our campaign to elect Batwoman the first crime-fighting lesbian Jewish mayor of DC! Vote Batwoman for DC Mayor Voting is today until 6pm EDT. You can vote from anywhere in the world. Batwoman on why...Read More
Unbuckling Straps: An undoing of the NYC Leather Community
Filed by Eric Leven | July 09, 2009 5:30 PM |A week ago the decades-old organization of Gay Male S/M Activists (GMSMA) of New York put the kibosh on their twice a month meetings and community. Over the years numbers of attendees dwindled from hundreds to just a handful and...Read More
I'll be on bloomingOUT tonight, tune in
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 09, 2009 5:00 PM |I'll be appearing on the bloomingOUT radio show tonight to talk ENDA, the Dallas Principles, and Indiana Equality's stance on ENDA at 7pm. Be sure to tune in... it could get fun. Like "discussing the ins and outs of LGBT...Read More
We Win!! Rockstar Energy Drink to Donate $100K+ to LGBT Orgs & Bloggers
Filed by Bil Browning | July 09, 2009 1:00 PM |I'm pleased to post a joint press release from Rockstar Energy Drink, change.org, and Bilerico Project today. The beverage company will not be suing Bilerico Project or change.org and they have expanded or started many new LGBT positive corporate policies...Read More
The Trans-Free BET 'Who's Who In Black GLBT America' List
Filed by Monica Roberts | July 09, 2009 12:00 PM |I was shocked and surprised to discover BET.com puts out a list of what it considers as the 'Who's Who in Black GLBT America' and has done so for three years now. Jasmyne Cannick, one of the people some Projectors...Read More
Poster child
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 09, 2009 9:30 AM |This is a bit old, but I couldn't let it completely fall by the wayside. But Perez tells me that, in the heat of the moment that night, he almost chose to use a different word. "I thought about calling...Read More
Ice Age 3: Can a Queer Utopia Be Built on Prehistoric Gender Roles?
Filed by Paige Schilt | July 08, 2009 4:00 PM |Last week, Zac Hart at Bilerico-Indiana wrote about walking out of Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. Zac's catalogue of summer blockbuster racism and homophobia got me thinking about the other movie at the top of the box office charts,...Read More
Star Parker chastises blacks who support that homosexualist, Christian teaching-abandoning Obama
Filed by Pam Spaulding | July 08, 2009 3:00 PM |If you want another good laugh at the delusional anti-gay mindset, click over and read Star Parker's "When color trumps Christianity" over at Clown Hall. It's another case of Bizarro World, where the God-fearing American culture is going to hell...Read More
What's really scary is the deductible
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 08, 2009 1:00 PM |There are so many layers of possible, subtle, and overt homophobia, misogyny, racism, sodomy anxiety, Nixonian resentment, and sexophobia cynically in use to turn conservatives off to health care reform in the new National Review cover that it isn't possible...Read More
Batwoman for DC's First Lesbian Mayor
Filed by Michael Crawford | July 07, 2009 2:00 PM |Yesterday Batwoman announced her candidacy to become the first lesbian mayor of Washington, DC. Batwoman aims to unseat current Mayor Adrian Fenty. If elected, Batwoman would not only become the first openly lesbian mayor of DC, but she would also...Read More
Can gay men & straight men be friends?
Filed by Bil Browning | July 06, 2009 2:00 PM |The New York Times ran an interesting article last week about whether or not gay men and straight men can be friends. Of course, the article concludes that they can be, but it does raise some interesting points along the...Read More
Wait -- is it my imagination, or is Saks Fifth Avenue satirizing the gay marriage assimilation agenda?
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | July 06, 2009 1:00 PM |Left display window: mannequins in Diesel underwear (and one with a hat, one wearing bow tie, and the other sporting a bandana), and the slogan -- EQUALITY IS THE BOTTOM LINE....Read More
The Word's poor coverage of IE's opposition to LGBT civil rights legislation
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 06, 2009 9:30 AM |The Word's coverage of Indiana Equality's opposition to ENDA in this month's edition is appalling. I had a chance to read July's issue (pdf available if you can't get a print version), and I didn't even find a news blurb...Read More
Progressive movement and the LGBT community
Filed by Bil Browning | July 03, 2009 1:30 PM |What can the progressive movement learn from the LGBT community? Friend of the blog, GRITtv host Laura Flanders, talks with Richard Burns, Chief Operating Officer of the Arcus Foundation, Naomi Clark of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Richard Kim, Associate...Read More
Let them attend their own insider salons
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 03, 2009 1:30 PM |I'm sure you've all at least hear about the story Politico broke yesterday about the Washington Post attempting to sell access to Obama officials, newsroom journalists, and editorial staff. For the low price of $25,000, health care lobbyists could secure...Read More
War! War! War!
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 03, 2009 9:30 AM |Patrick Vandenburgh, writing for the Freeport (Ill.) Journal-Standard, wants a Christian revolutionary war: It is time for a new Christian revolutionary war. It is time for Christians all over the United States to stand up for our Judeo-Christian heritage. Our...Read More
Dump Gay Marriage Now
Filed by Yasmin Nair | July 02, 2009 2:30 PM |The Canadian queer radical journal No More Potlucks has just published my piece "Dump Gay Marriage Now." A print-on-demand edition will also be available. "Dump Gay Marriage" was sparked by my Bilerico Project piece, "Prop 8 Is a Distraction, or:...Read More
Jena Six Free!
Filed by Monica Roberts | July 02, 2009 2:00 PM |After more than two years of protesting, writing phone calls and thousands of people descending on Jena, Louisiana, to protest this outrageous retro Jim Crow case, the Jena 6, Jesse Ray Beard, Carwin Jones, Robert Bailey, Theo Shaw, Bryant Purvis...Read More
Bending Towards Oblivion: my interview with historian Martin Duberman in the San Francisco Bay Guardian
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | July 02, 2009 1:30 PM |Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: We're approaching the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the symbolic event of early gay liberation, and I'm wondering if you think there's any of this liberationist spirit left in the gay movement. Martin Duberman: Well, I...Read More
The Cisgender Everyone Else Standard of Care
Filed by Mercedes Allen | July 02, 2009 11:30 AM |Every so often, I receive an email through the albertatrans website feedback form that challenges me with something I hadn't thought of before. Recently, a query came in from a cisgender male who thought that I might be a good...Read More
Uncovering Feminism: Emma Bee Bernstein and a few questions about suicide
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | July 01, 2009 2:00 PM |Okay, so I'm looking through the Seal Press catalog for the second time, just to see if I've missed anything interesting, and what calls my attention is the bio of one of the editors of a book called Girldrive: Criss-Crossing...Read More
"If we will take care of the morality, God will take care of the prosperity"
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 01, 2009 10:30 AM |Oh, no, deregulation of the markets, credit default swaps, massive greed and fraud, regulators falling asleep at the wheel, the housing bubble, stagnant job growth and median income, exotic investment products, and financial opacity had nothing to do with the...Read More
