Media: June 2010
Gay Sex Among the Animals
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | June 30, 2010 8:30 AM |A few years ago the Zurich Zoo in Switzerland conducted guided tours that centered around homosexual behavior among the zoo animals. Unfortunately, the one hour tours were held in the early evenings, at a time when most animals were asleep....Read More
What is the state of gay online media?
Filed by Adam Bink | June 29, 2010 6:30 PM |In the last few years, there has been a lot of ink (some of it digital) spilled on the decline of print media as news and entertainment outlets, and the shifts to online. Last week's piece by Michael Lavers in...Read More
Best Headline Evah
Filed by Bil Browning | June 29, 2010 12:30 PM |I don't know that I really have anything to add to this. The headline speaks for itself. Anyone know where this comes from? I want to read the entire article now!...Read More
What were you doing when Ellen came out?
Filed by Nadine Smith | June 28, 2010 3:00 PM |In 1997 when that special episode of the Ellen Show was airing across the country, the local affiliate invited me and a small group of lesbians to watch the show alongside a group of far right homophobes. In particular I...Read More
Must See Movie: Perversion for Profit (1965)
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | June 27, 2010 11:30 AM |When you have 31 minutes to spare, I strongly recommend watching this 1960s anti-sex propaganda movie, Perversion for Profit (1965). The only thing more amazing than the lies and hypocrisy in this film is that some Americans still believe the...Read More
Stirring up the gay media's hornet's nest
Filed by Matt Comer | June 25, 2010 1:00 PM |If gay journalist Michael Lavers, national news editor for Edge Media Network, intended simply to write a balanced article exploring the demise of Window Media, the future of gay print publications and the rise of LGBT digital media, then he...Read More
Michael Lucas shouldn't have a column in The Advocate
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 25, 2010 10:00 AM |Michael Lucas has another bash-Europe/Muslims column in The Advocate, which has taken a pretty hard anti-Gaza line since the flotilla was raided. I noticed a few factual errors, and could probably find more if I actually googled any of his...Read More
Thoughts after a preview screening of We Were Here: Voices from the AIDS Years in San Francisco (a work-in-progress)
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | June 24, 2010 5:00 PM |The thing that haunts me the most from this movie is the look in the eyes of one young guy in the hospital, dying at 22, and he's looking out at the doctor or the camera so stunned, so scared,...Read More
Break traditions, have sex, tell everybody
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 24, 2010 4:00 PM |I'm actually enjoying Kirsten Palladino's column on gay wedding etiquette at 365gay.com, mostly because of the bizarre questions she finds. Please tell me queers like this don't actually exist. Question: My wedding's coming up in a few months, and my...Read More
The Ethics of Surrogacy
Filed by Jason Tseng | June 24, 2010 9:30 AM |I was recently sent a screener of CNN's upcoming broadcast of Gary and Tony Have a Baby (which airs at 8pm on Thursday). In it, Soledad O'Brien walks us through the lives of Gary Spino and Tony Brown as they...Read More
Que es mas macho: Bud Light Lime or Bordeaux?
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 23, 2010 2:00 PM |Gen. Stanley McChrystal reportedly offered his resignation for that article in Rolling Stone where he trashed Obama and his staff (because politics ends at America's borders unless you're a Republican and you complain to everyone). While this article was scheduled...Read More
Vintage Ad: Can you handle the sexism?
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | June 23, 2010 1:30 PM |From those same "good ole days" that some crusty bastards always reminisce about with fondness. You know, that happy time in America when women were too stupid to use a camera. via flickr...Read More
Journalist attends anti-gay "12-step" program, outs quasi-famous pastor
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 23, 2010 11:30 AM |John Townsend, a writer for Lavender, Minnesota's LGBT paper, went undercover to a support group for gay Catholics trying to be chaste to out rabidly anti-gay Lutheran pastor Tom Brock. Brock's been leading a crusade against the Evangelical Lutheran Church...Read More
Thoughts on The Owls
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | June 22, 2010 6:00 PM |I'm always kind of stunned by the demographics of Frameline audiences. As I'm walking up to the Castro Theatre, almost every single person in line is a lesbian. Hundreds and hundreds of lesbians, mostly middle-aged, and of course this is...Read More
Alan Moore, 'Zines and Reinvigorating the Queer Underground
Filed by Andrew Belonsky | June 21, 2010 8:30 AM |It's not very often that I buy an actual, real-life publication. Sure, I shell out for a New York Times from time-to-time, and stock up on men's fashion mags like V Man when I have a few bucks. Other than...Read More
CNN's Gay In America: Stereotypes Abound & Bigger Picture Ignored
Filed by Bil Browning | June 20, 2010 7:00 PM |I had a chance to preview CNN's first episode of their new Gay in America series: Gary & Tony Have A Baby. Unlike the multi-hour Black In America extravaganzas, the network has several one hour shows planned to look inside...Read More
Sunday Funnies: Colbert vs Lesbian Moms, Safi on Gay in Video Games, & Sam Seder on Icky Gays!
Filed by Waymon Hudson | June 20, 2010 10:00 AM |After a few weeks off for me to settle in our new home of Chicago, your weekly round-up of giggle-inducing LGBT themed videos is back! Let's get right to it! Colbert Report- Testoster-Ruin The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm /...Read More
Gay Pride PSA: It's every choice we make.
Filed by Mark S. King | June 15, 2010 4:00 PM |I must admit, I think it's pretty funny. Until it punches you in the gut. Please share and re-post freely. Someone might hear the message at the right time....Read More
Why does McDonald's hate America?
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 15, 2010 3:00 PM |The COO of McDonald's was interviewed by the Chicago Tribune and they got into that French gay ad that Bill O'Reilly compared to al-Qaeda. It's also the ad that got the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce upset since...Read More
Half naked bloody Dutch men compete in beauty pageant
Filed by Bil Browning | June 15, 2010 2:00 PM |Well, that's a post title I never imagined writing: "Half naked bloody Dutch men compete in beauty pageant." Yup. Never in my wildest. Thank goodness, the Mr. Gay Netherlands contest decided to help me expand my horizons, eh? The beauty...Read More
Why Aren't a "Man Gay?"
Filed by Andrew Belonsky | June 15, 2010 8:30 AM |Being gay and male comes with more than its fair share of stereotypes: we're all fashionable, have seen Rent a million, billion times, and none of us, not one single homo, likes sports. But we do like ballet; we're fabulous...Read More
Sesame Street: Bert comes out on Twitter
Filed by Bil Browning | June 14, 2010 2:00 PM |Oh, Sesame Street. While Bert and Ernie's longtime "roommate" status has often been the topic of rumor and innuendo by other muppets (and those of us with time to wonder about the sexual orientation of puppets), Bert seems to have...Read More
Mail: A Hater Asks About Pride
Filed by Bil Browning | June 13, 2010 4:00 PM |While we get hate mail all the time, this one came in yesterday while I was at the Pride parade. It seemed apropos to overlook the tone, publish it today and ask everyone to answer the larger question it asks:...Read More
Whither the Amateur Blogosphere?
Filed by Terrance Heath | June 13, 2010 1:00 PM |I’ve never considered myself a “professional blogger.” That’s mainly because I’ve never come close to making my living off my humble blog. So, I’m light years away from being in the same set as those who have, like Markos and...Read More
At Last, The Rebecca Juro Show Returns! Live Test Show Tonight 7pm Eastern
Filed by Rebecca Juro | June 13, 2010 11:30 AM |It took a while longer than we'd anticipated, but it's finally here! The Rebecca Juro Show returns to the cyber-airwaves for a live one-hour test show tonight, Sunday, June 13th at 7PM Eastern, and we need your help! We've got...Read More
Gay Street Beat Podcast (Featuring Me!) Talks About DADT, Taking Back Pride, Prop 8, & More!
Filed by Waymon Hudson | June 12, 2010 12:00 PM |I was back on the new LGBT podcast "Gay Street Beat" this week for their Pride edition and wanted to share it with all of you! Be sure to download it free on iTunes and hear all the fun &...Read More
Radical Queers Reclaiming and Naming (and I'm in a Movie) and More
Filed by Jessica Hoffmann | June 12, 2010 10:00 AM |As I mentioned in my last post, there is a ton of stuff happening at the National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco this month, and radical queers (and others) across the country are gearing up to head to Detroit...Read More
Here I am on NPR, talking about -- yes, you guessed it -- marriage!!!
Filed by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | June 11, 2010 7:00 PM |On Thursday, I was on the nationally broadcast National Public Radio program Tell Me More -- listen here, and tell me what you think......Read More
Gay pulp fiction: The covers of our fathers
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | June 11, 2010 10:30 AM |They were "shame mates"? That's kind of hot! But perhaps not quite as hot as a "dungaree jungle" where men are clad only in underwear. Do I see a hint of stockings under that robe? Two gay pulp fiction book...Read More
Discussion: What Media or Pop Culture Figures Do You Identify With?
Filed by Waymon Hudson | June 11, 2010 9:30 AM |Every generation has them- media or pop culture figures that resonate or are reflective of the changing fabric of society. The LGBT community is no exception. Our community has always found or made icons in pop culture that speak to...Read More
The Grio's Trans Free LGBT Leaders List
Filed by Monica Roberts | June 11, 2010 8:30 AM |I'm usually paying attention when black LGBT leaders lists are put together by media outlets geared toward people of color. I've found these lists are heavy on the gay and lesbian side of the community, forget the bi part or...Read More
Two Worlds: The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
Filed by Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz | June 10, 2010 8:00 PM |I was born with a gift. I was born of Jewish/Muslim Arab descent. Yes, my friends, I am a clear headed, unconflicted Jewish Arab-American that deeply values and respects my Semitic roots and the histories and cultures of my peoples....Read More
Film Review: "8: A Mormon Proposition"
Filed by Joe Mirabella | June 10, 2010 8:30 AM |On Monday night I attended the Seattle International Film Festival screening of the new documentary "8: A Mormon Proposition." The screening was at the Egyptian Theater, a beautiful old two story theater on the crest of Seattle's gay friendliest neighborhood,...Read More
File this under "Hypocritical Stone Throwing"
Filed by Bil Browning | June 09, 2010 4:00 PM |Okay, seriously. I know politicians like to drum up scandals and faux outrage to score political points against their opponents, but New York Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Kristin Davis has a different target in her sights. Instead of attacking her opponents,...Read More
The Heathers
Filed by Kate Clinton | June 09, 2010 8:30 AM |I was trolling an LGBT online news service. It used to be if something gay happened in the news, it was pretty much a one-off and you clung to as if it were a life preserver in a sea of...Read More
On Canadian Cultural Imperialism, Or, I Explain Red Green
Filed by Don Davis | June 08, 2010 11:30 AM |We are again having to take a short bypass on our planned writing journey; this time to a place that's, according to their Facebook page, about 148 beer stores north of Toronto, Ontario. It's a crazy place, where duct tape...Read More
The covers of our mothers: Lesbian pulp fiction
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | June 07, 2010 6:30 PM |I just can't get enough of those wacky 50s and 60s pulp novels. I wonder if the women who bought them were like me when I first began exploring kinky sex -- stealing into newstands trying to look casual but...Read More
Helen Thomas: Jews out of Israel & Helen out of a job
Filed by Bil Browning | June 07, 2010 3:00 PM |After video surfaced this weekend of Hearst Newspaper's White House correspondent Helen Thomas saying that Jews should stop occupying Palestine, the venerable journalist has announced her retirement. This is a travesty that all LGBT people - whether you support Palestine...Read More
Rush's fourth marriage proves that he has "sex only within marriage, marriage for life"
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 07, 2010 12:00 PM |The NY Times profiled lesbian conservative Eve Tushnet, and she had this to say about same-sex marriage: But same-sex marriage, she wrote in The New York Post in 2007, "can bring one of three outcomes: A two-tiered marriage culture, where...Read More
Queers Without Borders
Filed by Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz | June 07, 2010 10:00 AM |The oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico is keeping me up at night. The destruction, ignorance and inaction are just so HUGE. For generations to come the waters, plant life, fish... well let's just say the entire fucking ecology...Read More
LGBT vs. gay, at my own risk
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 04, 2010 3:00 PM |John "what I as a gay man have in common with a man who wants to cut off his penis" Aravosis started the perennial conversation, and it wouldn't be a perennial conversation if I didn't jump in. Here's the title,...Read More
Ted Haggard wishes he knew how to quit... tax breaks
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 02, 2010 5:00 PM |Pastor Ted Haggard (who got outed by a male prostitute a few years back) had a big, surprise announcement yesterday. It turns out he is starting a new church, something he knows about since he built one of the biggest...Read More
Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Banksters
Filed by Terrance Heath | June 02, 2010 10:30 AM |So much for telling kids to "always tell the truth." It turns out, toddlers who tell lies do better as adults. Whether this is surprising news about child development, or a sad statement about the kind of society we live...Read More
It's June! National Queer Arts Festival, Pride, AMC + USSF, and So Much More ...
Filed by Jessica Hoffmann | June 01, 2010 6:00 PM |It's June, and there is so much radical queer stuff happening! Pride events everywhere at the end of the month, the social-justice convergences of the Allied Media Conference and the US Social Forum in Detroit in a couple of weeks......Read More
Punk and Gay: The Reunion Tour
Filed by Andrew Belonsky | June 01, 2010 9:30 AM |Words, as I've so often said, are mercurial. In one context, they're perfectly acceptable. In another, they're terribly offensive. We've already learned that lesson with "gay," which sad, misinformed people use as a pejorative and proud people often embrace. There's...Read More
Underlying Cause of ENDA's Failure: Not MSNBC, Messaging, Or Apathy
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | June 01, 2010 8:30 AM |We have been speculating here at The Bilerico Project as to why ENDA failed in this Congressional session. Of course, the fight for ENDA isn't over in this session, but even if it passes the House, it's likely too late...Read More
