Media: February 2011
A Gay Man Joining the Libyan Revolution
Filed by Mark Segal | February 28, 2011 | 7:00 PM |I've covered the fall of the Berlin Wall from East Berlin, snuck into Cuba without government knowledge, reported for the gay press from behind the Iron Curtain and reported from Lebanon, but actually participating in a revolution had to wait...Read More
Rachel Maddow Fudges the Facts, Calls Out Homophobes
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 28, 2011 | 2:00 PM |Rachel Maddow, on February 18th, did commentary on the protests in Wisconsin. She opens with and repeats several times the claim that Wisconsin is going to have a "budget surplus this year," that the deficit a fabrication being used to...Read More
Newt Gingrich Wants Obama Impeached for DOMA Position
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 28, 2011 | 10:00 AM |Newt Gingrich is calling for the impeachment of Obama over the Holder Letter on DOMA. The only video that I could find on this was Lawrence O'Donnell, who didn't seem to get that the point of Gingrich calling for impeachment...Read More
Queer Music Friday: Natalia Zukerman
Filed by Leone Kraus | February 25, 2011 | 6:00 PM |Last summer, I had the pleasure of interviewing folk singer, Natalia Zukerman on how she uses social media to stay connected with her fans while on the road. A lot has gone down since we last spoke. Earlier this year,...Read More
High School Column Calls for Death Penalty for Gays
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 25, 2011 | 12:00 PM |A high school column in Kansas that seems to call for the death penalty for gay people has a school under fire and has started a debate on the limits of free speech in high school publications. Here are the...Read More
Not Born This Way
Filed by Paige Schilt | February 24, 2011 | 6:00 PM |Last week, Lady Gaga's single "Born This Way" debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Her achievement marked the 1000th number one hit since the list was launched in 1958. It also seemed to signal the ascendancy...Read More
It's Official: We're Obsessed with Facebook!
Filed by Leone Kraus | February 24, 2011 | 3:00 PM |I love videos that illustrate the powerful impact of social media and this one is no exception. Check out this new video by Alex Trimpe, a student at the Columbus College of Art and Design, which illustrates our obsession with...Read More
Maggie Gallagher: Obama Says Gay Is the New Black
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 24, 2011 | 12:00 PM |Maggie Gallagher of NOM went on Fox News to say that Obama declared unilaterally that gay is the same as black, which means that Obama is trivializing the Civil Rights Movement or something. Gallagher fudges the facts and says that...Read More
Mainstream Coverage of Gay Cruising Misses the Point
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 23, 2011 | 12:30 PM |WBTV in Charlotte, NC, noticed that there was gay sex going on in their town. Outrage ensues (text version at link): Here's the title of the story: Internet Site Links Charlotte To Gay Sex The silliness of this report obliges...Read More
Video: CNN's Coverage of Santorum's 'Google Problem'
Filed by Bil Browning | February 21, 2011 | 4:00 PM |This whole mess just keeps getting better... Last week former Senator Rick Santorum acknowledged that he had a "Google problem" that could be damaging to his presidential run. After Dan Savage's successful campaign to have Santorum's name become synonymous with...Read More
This Week On PostSecret: It Gets Better
Filed by Betty Greene Salwak | February 21, 2011 | 1:00 PM |From this week's entry at PostSecret:...Read More
On Changing My Facebook Relationship Status
Filed by Joe Mirabella | February 20, 2011 | 10:00 AM |I'm an early adopter of everything social media related. Partly because it is my job, but mostly because I love it. After I received the press release from GLAAD announcing their win with Facebook to add the additional relationship statuses...Read More
Facebook or Twitter: Strategies on Information Sharing
Filed by Leone Kraus | February 18, 2011 | 3:00 PM |Facebook and Twitter are two of my favorite social media platforms. I use them both in my daily communications to connect with people in my online community. Last year, Facebook announced that it had over 500 million users, which is...Read More
CBS News' Lara Logan Sexually Assaulted in Egypt, Stirs Internet 'Debate'
Filed by Karen Ocamb | February 18, 2011 | 2:00 PM |The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz reported Wednesday morning that the extraordinary CBS News correspondent Lara Logan has recovered sufficiently from her brutal sexual attack and beating in Egypt to leave the US hospital and be re-united with her two children....Read More
LGBT Fiction Fest: Last of the Lesbians
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 18, 2011 | 10:30 AM |This brings my five-day queer pulp fiction fest to an end (sniffle), but I'll be back before too long with more fabulous literary finds for queer history buffs and book-lovers. Hope you enjoyed!...Read More
LGBT Fiction Fest: Gender Transcending
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 17, 2011 | 11:30 AM |Two classics which traded on the out-dated notion that gays and lesbians lived in a kind of intersexed "twilight." One wonders how many other misconceptions lurked between the covers. Any of you familiar with either of these books?...Read More
Santorum's 'Google Problem'
Filed by Bil Browning | February 16, 2011 | 4:00 PM |It must be rough being a candidate for President after your name has been turned into a sexual reference. Witness former Senator Rick Santorum's "Google problem." After Dan Savage named "the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is...Read More
LGBT Fiction Fest: Hot Gay Hook-Ups
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 16, 2011 | 2:30 PM |Wow, I'd love to come for lunch. Do you think he's serving salad too? Here are two of the more deliciously explicit vintage novels aimed at gay male audiences in the early 1980s (pre-AIDS)....Read More
The Queer Thing About CPAC, Pt. 2
Filed by Terrance Heath | February 16, 2011 | 9:30 AM |I spent most of my two-day sojourn through CPAC covering economic issues at the conference, but I was aware (as were lots of people) about the gay-related controversy around the conference, due to the presence of the gay conservative group...Read More
Female Condoms Distributed in San Francisco
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 15, 2011 | 6:00 PM |Female condoms started being distributed and will be marketed to gay men in San Francisco. Local news was on the scene (text here): Was there any reason to go to a Catholic teacher to get the "gay sex is bad"...Read More
LGBT Fiction Fest: Lesbian Lust
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 15, 2011 | 4:30 PM |At least someone was able to acknowledge that lesbians are normal, though I myself prefer the stranger ones!...Read More
The Rosie O'Donnell Comic Book
Filed by Bil Browning | February 15, 2011 | 3:30 PM |Just when you think you've seen the last of Rosie O'Donnell, another pop culture reference will jump out and grab you. This time queer-owned graphic novel company Bluewater Productions, will feature O'Donnell in a 32 page comic called Female Force:...Read More
The Queer Thing About CPAC
Filed by Terrance Heath | February 15, 2011 | 1:30 PM |I expected a lot of things when I attended the Conservative Political Action Caucus (CPAC) last week. I was assigned to cover the conference for my day job. I'll admit some trepidation. Let's face it. I'm a lot of the...Read More
LGBT Fiction Fest: Five Fabulous Days of Pulp
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 14, 2011 | 9:30 AM |I've collected so many cover images of vintage LGBT novels that it's time to do a full-scale show: five days in a row of fabulous queer pulp! I will start with these two vintage tomes. I love the campy art...Read More
Trouble with a Capital T, and That Rhymes with P, and That Stands for Pool
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 12, 2011 | 4:00 PM |I'm watching the movie version The Music Man, in which a traveling sales/conman goes to small town Iowa to sell them a marching band, and this number where the Professor is trying to convince the town there's something wrong seems...Read More
Podcast Interview Series: Denise and Donna, Hosts of The Lesbian Lounge
Filed by Leone Kraus | February 12, 2011 | 2:00 PM |This is the last installment of my three-part podcast profile series. Earlier we heard from Phil Reese of Same Sex Sunday and Ben and Dave of The Six Pack. Now we're going to hear from two women who cover celebrity...Read More
A Short History of Physique Magazines
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | February 11, 2011 | 12:00 PM |I saw my first physique magazine when I was 13 years old (1966), in a newsstand in downtown Miami. Though I did not yet know what I was, I knew that I found other men attractive, and I was instinctively...Read More
Australian TV Station Cleared of Charges in Homophobic Bathhouse Sting
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 10, 2011 | 6:00 PM |Last May a TV news station in Australia staked out a bathhouse and taped transport minister David Campbell leaving. Gay blogs in America were calling it "Australia's George Rekers," even though no one could really show any reason to believe...Read More
Another Congressmember with Zipper Itches: Republican Chris Lee Resigns
Filed by Karen Ocamb | February 10, 2011 | 5:00 PM |Rep. Chris Lee, (R-NY) who was elected to Congress in 2008, resigned Wednesday afternoon after the website Gawker posted a story that included email exchanges and a photo Lee allegedly sent to a single 34-year old woman he found on...Read More
Interview with Comedian Erin Foley: We Talk Buttered Rolls, Twitter and PR
Filed by Leone Kraus | February 10, 2011 | 1:00 PM |I always love meeting comedians. To me, they're like really funny public relations representatives who have to market themselves and communicate in a way that both engages and attracts an audience. This includes their skits and communications via their social...Read More
Egypt: We Should be Celebrating
Filed by Sara Whitman | February 10, 2011 | 8:30 AM |Egypt is a multicultural, diverse population. It is one of the oldest cultures in our world today. Egyptian culture has six thousand years of recorded history. Egypt has the highest number of Nobel Laureates in Africa and the Arab world....Read More
To Curb Political Outcry, Obama Should Support .gay
Filed by Andrew Belonsky | February 09, 2011 | 6:00 PM |News that the White House hopes to enact a "Presidential Alert System" has some people worried about President Obama's position on executive control of the Internet, and opponents are already decrying the alert as part of the President's "Orwellian" efforts...Read More
5 Tips to Live Tweeting: A Look at #CC11 and #Marryland
Filed by Leone Kraus | February 09, 2011 | 10:30 AM |I love Twitter. No other social media platform grants you immediate access to such timely news and updates. Twitter also uses hashtags, words you see in Twitter with the '#' in front, to help connect you to the content that...Read More
Into The Lion's Den: The NYC HRC Gala
Filed by Rebecca Juro | February 09, 2011 | 8:30 AM |It really wasn't quite as dramatic as it sounds, but it was, well, educational. On Saturday night, I attended the New York City Human Rights Campaign gala at the Waldorf Astoria as press representing Bilerico Project. Basically, my job that...Read More
Controversy Erupts Over WeHo Tom of Finland Exhibit
Filed by Karen Ocamb | February 08, 2011 | 5:00 PM |This legislative session, Equality California and Sen. Mark Leno will strongly advocate for the FAIR Education Act, a natural extension of last year's historic Harvey Milk Day. The bill requires that LGBT history and contributions be taught in the California...Read More
Gay Chick-fil-A Culture Jamming
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 08, 2011 | 2:00 PM |This sign appeared at a West Virginia campus: (If you can't see the image, it's a Chick-fil-A cow holding a sign that says, "Hate Mor Gay People.")...Read More
What They're Saying: Indiana's Marriage Discrimination Amendment
Filed by Bil Browning | February 08, 2011 | 12:00 PM |An Indiana House committee passed a marriage discrimination amendment yesterday, sending the bill to the entire House for passage. Similar legislation has died in committee in previous years, but since the Republicans took control of both legislative branches in the...Read More
Podcast Interview Series: Ben and Dave of the Six Pack
Filed by Leone Kraus | February 07, 2011 | 12:30 PM |This is the second installment of my three-part podcast interview series. I kicked off the series with Bilerico's own Same Sex Sunday host, Phil Reese. In the interview, we learned how effective podcasts can be in getting the political word...Read More
Documentary Films Featured at the 2011 Colorado Gold Rush Conference
Filed by Kelley Winters | February 06, 2011 | 2:30 PM |The 12th annual Colorado Gold Rush, the Rocky Mountain Region's premiere gender conference, will kick off with a screening and preview of two remarkable documentaries by Colorado producers on February 24 at the Denver Renaissance Hotel. Keynote speakers for the...Read More
PrEP: Some Red Flags
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | February 05, 2011 | 2:00 PM |We can always count on many of the media to give us a rosy once-over-lightly about the latest in HIV products. Why do they do this, when they're supposed to give us the pro-and-con analysis that has traditionally been expected...Read More
Why Are Advocate Columnists So Bad?
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 04, 2011 | 2:00 PM |Zack Rosen takes exception to Bil's post on him from last week, but doesn't really seem to know how to respond. So instead of addressing Bil's issues (I don't agree with Bil either - my response to him is in...Read More
Advocate Columnist Supports Hosni Mubarak
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 03, 2011 | 5:30 PM |Foreign policy expert Michael Lucas has a column up talking about how much he loves Hosni Mubarak. You see, dictators are bad and anyone who supports them is "brainless," but sometimes a pro-America dictator is needed to keep dirty, stinkin',...Read More
Book: Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Filed by Yasmin Nair | February 03, 2011 | 3:00 PM |For some time now, the LGBTQ community has been involved in various internal disputes and conversations about its relationship to law and order. With Lawrence v. Texas in 2003 and the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention...Read More
This Week on The Rebecca Juro Show: NCTE Executive Director Mara Keisling
Filed by Rebecca Juro | February 03, 2011 | 2:00 PM |With the Republicans now in control of the House and the introduction and passage of LGBT-protective federal legislation a pipe dream for the next couple of years at minimum, where do we go from here? We'll explore that with National...Read More
Gay Beer
Filed by Alex Blaze | February 02, 2011 | 6:00 PM |I know I worry about the queerness of the beer I drink: To compete with these giants, smaller breweries such as Minerva have started to target their products, and produce specialized beer. Jalisco based Minerva is producing its second lot...Read More
Podcast Interview Series: Phil Reese
Filed by Leone Kraus | February 02, 2011 | 5:00 PM |Podcasts are an excellent social media tool that can be leveraged by the LGBT community to get their messages out to the world. According to 2010 research conducted by Edison Research, podcasts have grown over the past five years paving...Read More
The Penis that Almost Ruined Marriage Equality
Filed by Bil Browning | February 01, 2011 | 2:30 PM |If you'll be joining us in sunny, warm Minneapolis later this week for the Creating Change conference, be sure to check out this session that combines two of your favorite things - Bilerico and sex! We'll combine some of our...Read More
Egypt: A Message to Be Feared
Filed by Sara Whitman | February 01, 2011 | 8:30 AM |I'm nervous. Oh, I should be nervous about the snow but I'm simply resigned. I give up. I have assignments lined up for the kids to do if they are home for the day. I'm nervous about Egypt. I've been...Read More
