Media: August 2009
The Peter's flaccid fed lawsuit against Holiday Inn charges 'religious discrimination'
Filed by Pam Spaulding | August 31, 2009 12:00 PM |Back in 2007, Americans For Truth About Homosexuality was planning to hold one of its pitiful fundraising banquets at the Holiday Inn Select in LaBarbera's town of Naperville. He told staff there that there that he expected the homophobia-laden event...Read More
Don't Take Your Lesbian Moms to Hooters
Filed by Dana Rudolph | August 29, 2009 2:00 PM |The Canadian musical comedy My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, which became the hit of the 2009 Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival in July, will be expanded for a run beginning Nov. 7 at the Panasonic Theatre in Toronto, reports...Read More
Washington Post shills for the far right, unsurprisingly
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 29, 2009 12:00 PM |If you haven't read the Washington Post profile that fawns over NOM executive director Brian Brown, please protect your keyboard from vomit if you click over the link to go read it. I don't really get what the news value...Read More
What's so mutually exclusive about being radical and being rational?
Filed by Phil Reese | August 29, 2009 10:00 AM |I am the biggest queen you never met. I love Madonna and dancing and fashion and cooking and all of the shallow, stereotypical things that the nonpolitical superficial sissies are interested in. I long for the day that I won't...Read More
Why LGBT groups need to get with the social media revolution
Filed by Michael Crawford | August 28, 2009 12:30 PM |I've had conversations with more than a few LGBT activists who don't understand how the social media revolution is changing the way we communicate and share ideas and information. And, the implications that these rapid changes will have on the...Read More
Wow. So, yeah. There. What he said.
Filed by Bil Browning | August 27, 2009 7:00 PM |I'm still not sure whether or this guy is anti-gay or not, but I doubt he knows either. While Kevin Leininger's News-Sentinel column "Lutheran gay debate shows 'change' isn't always worth believing in" definitely sounds anti-gay, I'm not sure he...Read More
What do teabaggers, birthers and march gossip have in common?
Filed by Bil Browning | August 27, 2009 6:30 PM |Have I got some gossip for you! Truly stunning. I got it from a friend who read it on a blog who says they got an e-mail tip from someone they'd never heard of, so we know it's legit. If...Read More
The Week of Bi-Bi's: Biracial & Bisexual Identity in New Movies and TV
Filed by Guest Blogger | August 27, 2009 9:30 AM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Amy Andre, MA, MBA, is a writer, lecturer, and the co-author of Bisexual Health, a book published by the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force. A biracial, bisexual, African American Jew, she lives in San Francisco...Read More
Moni's Ah Kua Show Commentary
Filed by Monica Roberts | August 26, 2009 4:00 PM |I was surprised when I received an e-mail from Leona Lo, my sis in Singapore, a few months ago with a request. She asked me to compose a comment for the program of her Ah Kua Show she was putting...Read More
Vote for me, my penis is bigger!
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 25, 2009 4:00 PM |I know that there are plenty of people in America who feel so inferior and resentful that the only way they know to relate to others is in idiotic displays of machismo, but I kind of thought that people who...Read More
Michelangelo Signorile endorses the National Equality March
Filed by Bil Browning | August 25, 2009 1:00 PM |Michelangelo Signorile has endorsed the National Equality March in a column printed in the Advocate. Signorile joins a growing list of recent endorsements including Julian Bond, Cindy Sheehan, Dan Choi, Bilerico contributor and national columnist Diane Silver, and Illinois Congressman...Read More
Did you know we live in a "post-AIDS" world?
Filed by Dustin Kight | August 25, 2009 11:00 AM |Apparently the Beverly Hills: 90210 revival is going well. What else can explain its sister revival of Melrose Place? The CW is bringing Melrose Place, 90210's sleezy, later-night sibling, back to television on Tuesday, September 8th. Gay fans of the...Read More
Fag Hags and PFLAG Moms
Filed by Annette Gross | August 23, 2009 12:00 PM |Friday afternoon I was listening to NPR's show "Tell Me More", hosted by Michel Martin. She was interviewing Thomas Rogers, who had written a column called "Ladies, I'm Not Your Boyfriend" in the online magazine Salon.com. In it, Rogers discusses...Read More
Sunday Funnies: InfoMania's 'Lady Kisses'
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 23, 2009 11:30 AM |He's back! Brian Safi, the brilliant and irreverent satirist from my favorite nerdy show on my favorite nerdy channel - InfoMania on Current TV , is back exploring LGBT issues and stereotypes as they are portrayed by the clueless media....Read More
Saturday Morning Cartoons: An Interview with aGLIFF's Jake Gonzales
Filed by Paige Schilt | August 22, 2009 4:00 PM |One Saturday morning, my son was sitting in the living room, watching an animated video about numerals. "Mom!" In keeping with his TV-watching custom, he was shouting, even though I was only a few feet away. "Mom, Mom!" he persisted,...Read More
5 must read DC blogs
Filed by Michael Crawford | August 22, 2009 2:09 PM |The New Gay Famous DC Anti-Real World Blog...Read More
Metro Weekly profiles The Advocate's Kerry Eleveld
Filed by Michael Crawford | August 22, 2009 12:30 PM |Sean Bugg, a Bilerico-DC contributor, has an wonderful interview with the amazing Kerry Eleveld in Metro Weekly. Kerry is the Washington correspondent for The Advocate. Her weekly column View to Washington is indispensable reading for anyone wanting to know what's...Read More
Tobias Wolff (and Lou Dobbs!) slay NOM's Gallagher on DOMA
Filed by Pam Spaulding | August 21, 2009 3:00 PM |Tobias Wolff, law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, does a great job of taking on the irrelevant bile coming out of the piehole of the National Organization of Marriage's Maggie Gallagher during a debate on CNN. What's amusing is...Read More
AFA steals from Bilerico Project
Filed by Bil Browning | August 20, 2009 12:00 PM |Why does the American Family Institute (AFA) and their local affiliates feel that they are above both the rule of law and the the rules set forth in the Bible they claim to follow so closely? In June of 2007,...Read More
No Wonder Letterman is Beating Conan in the Ratings
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 19, 2009 3:00 PM |Self-promoting king, Donald Trump, appeared on Letterman last night to talk about the Miss Universe contest. Not surprisingly, Carrie Prejean came up, with Trump touting her "great beauty" as reason for caring about her opinions... Gotta love some late night...Read More
Vogue Evolution Takes ABDC By Storm
Filed by Jason Tseng | August 19, 2009 2:00 PM |America's Best Dance Crew, which is broadcast Sunday nights at 9pm on MTV, is in its fourth season. Many of these dance shows that are popping up all over the tube (Dancing with the Stars, So You Think You Can...Read More
One More Time...Marriage Is Not a "Church-based Tradition"
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | August 18, 2009 12:00 PM |Back in 1957, when I was 21 and closeted, I tied the knot with a heterosexual European guy named Yuriy. We did the deed at City Hall in New York City. My mother had wanted to see me walk down...Read More
Conan O'Brien was always a less-talented Letterman
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 18, 2009 11:00 AM |GLAAD responded to a joke performed by Conan O'Brien on the Tonight Show in which O'Brien poses for "tabloid" pictures he could sell and make a whole lot of money off. What do you think about this one? Another one...Read More
Regurgitated homophobia at "God Has a Better Way"
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | August 18, 2009 9:30 AM |Political duty led me to read the speech delivered a couple of weeks ago at an anti-gay rally -- pardon me, a "God has a better way" rally -- in North Carolina. The speech was crafted to reflect how Christians...Read More
Game Changers in New Media
Filed by Jerame Davis | August 17, 2009 11:00 AM |The Huffington Post announced on Thursday they are accepting nominations for their list of the top 100 people changing the world through new media. We want your suggestions about the innovators, visionaries, and leaders who are harnessing the power of...Read More
Totally Gay for GenCon!
Filed by Zac Hart | August 16, 2009 8:01 PM |After living my entire life in and around the Indianapolis area (minus my short stints in San Fran and Tokyo), I finally decided to take the plunge into the "Geekdom" known as GenCon 09. For those of you who...Read More
Diaper Fetish Caper
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | August 16, 2009 5:30 PM |In the category of "why desperately frustrated fetishists need to work on their issues before they do something craaaazy," this strange story about another Craigslist ad debacle. Woman Falls Victim to Man's Baby Fetish, Via Craigslist According to a report...Read More
Sunday Funnies: 'That's Gay' Commercials
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 16, 2009 10:00 AM |My favorite nerdy show on my favorite nerdy channel, InfoMania on Current TV, has started taking on media misrepresentation of the LGBT community in a rather hilarious and irreverent way in a segment called "That's Gay.". This segment is focused...Read More
On Being American, Or, "A Hybrid? Not Unless It Has Tail Fins"
Filed by Don Davis | August 14, 2009 6:00 PM |It's great to see that people are starting to think about hybrid vehicles, but so far, they really haven't been for me. You know why? Because for the most part, they have no...style. The Prius? If you look at it...Read More
What Would Jesus Do?
Filed by David Badash | August 14, 2009 4:00 PM |How is it possible that so-called "Christian" and "Family" organizations are planning to protest an event that was created to celebrate and affirm the right of all couples to share simple acts of affection - like a kiss? That's right....Read More
Brokeback Mountain cowboy shirts installed at Autry National Center of the American West
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | August 13, 2009 3:00 PM |Now and then, amid all the religious-right efforts to hurt LGBT people, a moment comes when that I see the America that I love and fight for -- the one that would rather heal than hurt. The other day, August...Read More
Miami TV news anchor says firing caused by 'increasingly high profile' of his sexual orientation
Filed by Pam Spaulding | August 12, 2009 7:00 PM |Note: Perez just gave an interview to The Advocate. The Miami Herald's Steve Rothaus reports on the discrimination lawsuit and subsequent firing of WPLG-ABC's Charles Perez, who alleges that the station demoted him to weekend anchor/reporter "because of their discomfort...Read More
Florida Governor Charlie Crist Asked to Issue Executive Order Prohibiting Discrimination
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 12, 2009 1:00 PM |The Palm Beach Human Rights Council, a nonprofit organization founded in 1988 that is dedicated to dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, has asked Governor Charlie Crist to sign an executive order to...Read More
"Two Hot Transsexuals Finally Give You Some ANSWERS!"
Filed by Gina de Vries | August 11, 2009 5:00 PM |Red and Charles, two trans artists/activists/media makers/hotties (hey, they said it -- I'm just agreeing!) answer a series of the obnoxious but unfortunately usual questions that trans folks often get from clueless non-trans people. I love how smart, funny,...Read More
Rumble for the Gay Games
Filed by Brett Abrams | August 11, 2009 3:00 PM |My home city of Washington, D.C. held a rally last night to spur interest in hosting the Gay Games of 2014! The competition with Cleveland and Boston has already motivated several newspapers and magazines in DC to cover the prospect...Read More
Gayneration Gap: Where have all of the gay big brothers gone?
Filed by Phil Reese | August 11, 2009 2:00 PM |This is the 10th anniversary of my first gay summer. I had come out the year prior, during the early winter of 1997/1998 (take that, Ellen!), but hadn't made any gay friends. The spring of 1999, I began hanging out...Read More
Barack Obama, Cover Boy
Filed by Dana Rudolph | August 10, 2009 5:30 PM |The Advocate's current issue features a cover image of President Obama with the words: "Nope? He was our greatest hope, but he has yet to deliver." At GRITtv with Laura Flanders, journalists Michael Musto and Esther Armah talk about the...Read More
John Duran's Moving Summation of a Generation
Filed by Karen Ocamb | August 09, 2009 7:00 PM |At first glance, someone 49 years old seems too young to be receiving a "Lifetime Achievement Award." But openly gay and HIV positive West Hollywood City Councilmember John J. Duran has been fighting for civil rights since he was 18....Read More
Unplugged: GayWired.com calls it quits
Filed by Bil Browning | August 07, 2009 4:00 PM |Thursday evening GayWired.com Editor-At-Large Duane Wells sent an e-mail to their writers to let them know the site "will be going on hiatus effective immediately." Visitors are now greeted with an error message and all the content has been removed....Read More
World on the Square 2009
Filed by Donna Pandori | August 07, 2009 2:00 PM |The annual World on the Square 2009 festival is scheduled to take place in Corydon, Indiana on Saturday August 8th between 4:00 - 8:00 pm. For those you who have never heard of World on the Square, it is free...Read More
I know I wore an HRC polo the last time I golfed
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 06, 2009 3:30 PM |They made a gay male Sarah Haskins, and that makes me happy....Read More
PR 101: Dustin Lance Black lawsuit over leaked sex pics
Filed by Bil Browning | August 05, 2009 3:30 PM |Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black is suing Starzlife, the website that published pictures of the writer having sex with an ex-boyfriend, for three million dollars damages. Black is also suing the person who leaked the naughty photos. Black, who also...Read More
If you kiss a guy you deserve to get punched, right?
Filed by Bil Browning | August 05, 2009 11:00 AM |Found this featured on YouTube - almost 2 million views as I write this. One fighter kisses another boxer and gets knocked out before the fight starts. I know! Isn't it hilarious when some brute feels his sexuality has been...Read More
The Great Nationwide Kiss-In!
Filed by David Badash | August 05, 2009 9:30 AM |San Antonio. El Paso. Salt Lake City. Three cities. Three same-sex couples. All harassed and detained or arrested - for kissing. You've heard the stories. You've read the news. The lesbian couple arrested last December. The two men who kissed...Read More
Gay Self Hate
Filed by Michael Buckley | August 03, 2009 2:00 PM |Note from Bil: I bumped this post from Buck's usual spot in the middle column because it deserves more attention than his usual entertainment show. It's not often that comedian Buck gets serious, but his reply to a viewer's apology...Read More
Transgender Comics: Interview with Erin Lindsey
Filed by Austen Crowder | August 03, 2009 10:00 AM |I know I covered Venus Envy on this column before, but I wanted to let everyone know that the comic is about to start updating again. It just so happens that I recently interviewed the comic's creator, Erin Lindsey, about...Read More
