Politics: May 2010
Roy Ashburn makes the case for outing
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 31, 2010 | 4:00 PM |Roy Ashburn, a California legislator whose closet burned down around him, talked to the local paper about how being outed changed him: On Thursday in a remarkably candid interview, Ashburn, who had long been a no vote on gay rights...Read More
Is it Time to Nuke the Oil Well?
Filed by Joe Mirabella | May 31, 2010 | 1:00 PM |Bloomberg News interviewed energy expert Matt Simmons, founder of energy investment bank Simmons & Company. From Raw Story: Simmons said the US government should immediately take the effort to stop the leak out of the hands of BP and put...Read More
Gen Casey & Sec McHugh: DADT repeal not a "done deal"
Filed by Bil Browning | May 31, 2010 | 10:00 AM |Secretary of the Army John McHugh and Army Chief of Staff Gen George W. Casey sent an e-mail to troops over the weekend about Congress' "Don't Ask Don't Tell" repeal compromise. The legislation, which has been passed by the House...Read More
Congressman Dave Reichert is Either an Idiot or a Liar
Filed by Joe Mirabella | May 30, 2010 | 7:00 PM |Congressman Reichert can't have it both ways. After getting blasted by bloggers, Equal Rights Washington, and his opponent Susan DelBene, Reichert issued the following statement in an attempt to back pedal from his clearly inexcusable no vote on an Amendment...Read More
The broader ramifications of DADT repeal...even in slo mo
Filed by Nan Hunter | May 30, 2010 | 4:00 PM |I had dinner two nights ago with a friend who said he was thoroughly confused by an email blitz of conflicting views about the DADT repeal legislation. What did I think, he wanted to know. Bottom line - I believe...Read More
Mary Cheney: Look in the Mirror, Sister
Filed by Sara Whitman | May 30, 2010 | 10:00 AM |The news today is all good- my sister's numbers came back great, she's feeling much better, the sun is out, and I'm still keeping an eye on this pesky ocean, making sure it doesn't go anywhere. I read today that...Read More
Canaries in the Economic Coalmine
Filed by Terrance Heath | May 29, 2010 | 4:00 PM |When the jobs-focused plenary panel at America’s Future Now convenes— with Angela Glover-Blackwell, Rich Trumka, Jared Bernstein, and Bob Herbert — it’s likely they will continue a discussion America desperately needs, and that tea party conservatives wants desperately not to...Read More
Canaries in the Economic Coalmine
Filed by Terrance Heath | May 29, 2010 | 4:00 PM |When the jobs-focused plenary panel at America’s Future Now convenes— with Angela Glover-Blackwell, Rich Trumka, Jared Bernstein, and Bob Herbert — it’s likely they will continue a discussion America desperately needs, and that tea party conservatives wants desperately not to...Read More
Don't Blame MSNBC for Our Poor Messaging on ENDA
Filed by Joe Mirabella | May 29, 2010 | 10:00 AM |Bilerico Project contributor Rebecca Juro asked a very good question on Friday's post Insightful Yet Still Blind: MSNBC Just Doesn't Get the LGBT Civil Rights Movement I mean, what else could it be? How else can you explain the logic...Read More
Incrementalism Shoe on the Other Foot on DADT
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 28, 2010 | 4:00 PM |John Aravosis of Americablog yesterday called out the liberal Center for American Progress (CAP). As he notes, CAP has been on a rather public campaign to take credit for the entire Don't Ask, Don't Tell compromise that has much of...Read More
Stonewall Statement Regarding DADT Repeal Vote
Filed by Jerame Davis | May 28, 2010 | 3:41 PM |Indiana Stonewall Democrats released the following statement today regarding yesterday's historic votes to move forward with the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". Yesterday, five Indiana Democrats stood on the right side of history and voted to repeal the discriminatory...Read More
Stonewall Statement Regarding DADT Repeal Vote
Filed by Jerame Davis | May 28, 2010 | 3:41 PM |Indiana Stonewall Democrats released the following statement today regarding yesterday's historic votes to move forward with the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". Yesterday, five Indiana Democrats stood on the right side of history and voted to repeal the discriminatory...Read More
This Memorial Day
Filed by Sean Martin | May 28, 2010 | 3:00 PM |Plenty to remember. Plenty to think about as well. Unlike most of my activist friends, I'm not as hopeful about the fate of DADT. I honestly believe we're being played, in an enormous shell game that's hopelessly stacked against us....Read More
Insightful Yet Still Blind: MSNBC Just Doesn't Get the LGBT Civil Rights Movement
Filed by Rebecca Juro | May 28, 2010 | 12:00 PM |I mean, what else could it be? How else can you explain the logic involved in presenting the kind of excellent coverage MSNBC has been doing on Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the virtually absolute silence from the network on...Read More
Insightful Yet Still Blind: MSNBC Just Doesn't Get the LGBT Civil Rights Movement
Filed by Rebecca Juro | May 28, 2010 | 12:00 PM |I mean, what else could it be? How else can you explain the logic involved in presenting the kind of excellent coverage MSNBC has been doing on Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the virtually absolute silence from the network on...Read More
Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal Passes House and Senate Armed Service Committee, Soldiers Still at Risk
Filed by Joe Mirabella | May 28, 2010 | 9:30 AM |An amendment to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell passed the House of Representatives Thursday night with a vote of 234 to 194. 5 Republicans voted in favor of the Amendment. 229 Democratic Representatives voted in favor. The Senate Armed Services...Read More
1961: Love Letter to a Soldier
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 28, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" was launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT). With the House and Senate votes,...Read More
Col. Grethe Cammermeyer tells it like it is
Filed by Phil Reese | May 27, 2010 | 3:00 PM |The retired Colonel — the highest-ranking discharged gay or lesbian under DADT — gives us an insider's perspective on the Lundon Calling podcast. She was the subject of of the 1995 Emmy-award winning TV movie, Serving In Silence, starring Glenn...Read More
Compromise means everyone loses
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 27, 2010 | 1:00 PM |The DADT Deal isn't through Congress yet, and while there are enough votes to get it attached to the Defense Authorization Act, there may not be enough to get around a Republican filibuster. And they're planning one: Armed Services ranking...Read More
(You Gotta) Fight For Our Right (To Potty)
Filed by Monica Roberts | May 27, 2010 | 12:00 PM |Projectors, been a while since I posted one of my infamous song rewrites here. It was originally triggered by an idea from Ethan St. Pierre and Bet Power, and I quickly came up with the remixed lyrics for it. The...Read More
Major General: I saw the end of segregation
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 27, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
NOM loses challenge in Maine
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 26, 2010 | 5:00 PM |I'm guessing NOM's defense - If we release the names of our donors, the gay mafia will hunt them down and send their heads to MSNBC where they'll be labeled homophobes - didn't actually work and they have to follow...Read More
Gay Bashing Christian Group Poses Qur'anic Problems for MN GOP
Filed by Andrew Belonsky | May 26, 2010 | 4:00 PM |Election years bring the queerest of skeletons out of the closet. And the Minnesota Republican party, including Michele Bachmann and gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, have a doozy: ties to a punk rock ministry whose leader, Bradlee Dean, praises Muslims nations...Read More
Vanguard's 'Missionaries of Hate': The American Architects of Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill
Filed by Waymon Hudson | May 26, 2010 | 2:00 PM |Current TV's Vanguard series will be showing a powerful report on Uganda's horrendous anti-homosexuality "Kill the Gays" bill in a documentary entitled Missionaries of Hate. It premiers tonight, May 26th, at 10/9c. Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to Uganda...Read More
Struggle to Survive: A Career in the Marines
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 26, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
On Malawi: If they were most gay men people wouldn't care either
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 25, 2010 | 5:00 PM |The story of Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza, the couple in Malawi sentenced to 14 years hard labor last week, hasn't gotten much attention on Bilerico. The only post I remember - and that Google can find - is this...Read More
Jim Crow? Really?
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 25, 2010 | 3:30 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Aaron Belkin is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Palm Center at UCSB. I am so glad that I was wrong. For two years, I have been predicting that Congress would not...Read More
John McCain's campaign manager is a gay man
Filed by Bil Browning | May 25, 2010 | 12:30 PM |Remember Alex's post from a couple of weeks ago asking what we should call gay "Uncle Toms" who work against their own community? It's time to add a new nominee to the list of self-serving assholes who's more worried about...Read More
Salvaging ENDA: Can You Help?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 25, 2010 | 11:30 AM |As you know, ENDA was recently put off until mid-June or July, while DADT repeal goes full speed ahead. That gives us a bit more time to look into ENDA holdouts in the House. There are some who are never...Read More
Salvaging ENDA: Can You Help?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 25, 2010 | 11:30 AM |As you know, ENDA was recently put off until mid-June or July, while DADT repeal goes full speed ahead. That gives us a bit more time to look into ENDA holdouts in the House. There are some who are never...Read More
Virginia Supreme Court to Gays: You Have No Employment Protections
Filed by Michael Hamar | May 25, 2010 | 9:30 AM |The results are in from the Virginia Supreme Court in the Moore v. Virginia Museum of Natural History case. Ducking any discussion of the issues, the Court issued a few sentence letter indicating that Michael Moore's appeal was rejected and...Read More
Virginia Supreme Court to Gays: You Have No Employment Protections
Filed by Michael Hamar | May 25, 2010 | 9:30 AM |The results are in from the Virginia Supreme Court in the Moore v. Virginia Museum of Natural History case. Ducking any discussion of the issues, the Court issued a few sentence letter indicating that Michael Moore's appeal was rejected and...Read More
Thank you for helping us end DADT this year
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 25, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
Summers Off
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 24, 2010 | 4:00 PM |If there is one thing for which professors are generally envied, it is summers off. I'm working on the Moonlight Sonata this summer, all three movements. I'm also spending a lot of time hiking and boating in beautiful Harriman State...Read More
All hands on deck
Filed by Adam Bink | May 24, 2010 | 3:00 PM |I spent a lot of time over the past few days talking about repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell to both strongly political friends as well as apolitical friends of mine, LGBT and straight. The comment I heard most often...Read More
The VA has a New Directive on the Treatment of Transgender Veterans
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 24, 2010 | 1:00 PM |Editors' note: Monica F. Helms is the president of the Transgender Americans Veterans Association. The VA has a new directive on the treatment of Transgender Veterans, but they won't release it. This is becoming a theme with the Obama Administration....Read More
My Captain opposed my DADT discharge
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 24, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
Nevada DMV debuts new form to change gender marker
Filed by Cassandra Keenan | May 23, 2010 | 5:30 PM |Transgender Nevadans had reason to celebrate recently as the state's motor vehicles department decided to no longer require documentation of genital reconstructive surgery in order to switch applicants' gender marker on their driver's licenses. Local activists hailed it as a...Read More
Anatomy of a Short Sale; or, My Personal Red Flag on the LGBT Mortgage Crisis
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | May 23, 2010 | 4:00 PM |While the world has been going to hell in a hand basket, I've been moving. Hence my month-long hiatus from Bilerico posting. On April 30, after weeks of packing personal and business effects, escrow closed on the short sale of...Read More
Letters to President Barack Obama - A Retired, Ordained United Methodist Pastor
Filed by Michael Hamar | May 23, 2010 | 1:00 PM |As readers of my personal blog, Michael-in-Norfolk, cannot help but know, I am one of the bloggers participating in the SLDN campaign "Letters from the Frontlines - Letters to President Barack Obama," along with the Bilerico and dozens of other...Read More
We Need a Platonic Democracy
Filed by Andrew Belonsky | May 22, 2010 | 4:00 PM |Democracy's an imperfect, unpredictable beast. It works one place, yet disintegrates elsewhere. It's unstable, to say the least, and with continued discrimination against gay people, our country's failing the democratic task. That's why we need to reframe democracy within updated...Read More
Harvey Milk and Bakersfield
Filed by Davina Kotulski | May 22, 2010 | 12:00 PM |Years ago my wife, Molly, and I were driving through Bakersfield and stopped at an IHOP, Denny's, or one of those places you go to when you're on the road. We met a really nice waitress and she came out...Read More
A Few Quick Words About Small Government
Filed by Don Davis | May 22, 2010 | 11:00 AM |We don't have a lot of time for a big discussion today, but I wanted to take a second and talk about basic federal government economics as they apply to Rand Paul. It is his stated vision to reduce the...Read More
You Gotta Give Em Hope: Saturday Is Harvey Milk Day
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 21, 2010 | 4:00 PM |On Saturday, the nation's LGBT community will remember Harvey Milk. Nationally, thousands of activists, allies and community members are organizing local actions to demand full federal equality for all on Harvey Milk Day and during the week of the International...Read More
Everyone loves a good outing
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 21, 2010 | 12:00 PM |A local news channel in Australia staked out bathhouse, pointed a camera at the door and recorded for several hours, and caught the state's transport minister coming out. Of course, this is a brave new world, and since the doors...Read More
ENDA Delayed To Late June or Mid-July
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 21, 2010 | 11:00 AM |Representative Barney Frank said in MetroWeekly late yesterday that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act will be delayed until late June or mid-July. He also indicated that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is committed to getting a vote on ENDA in the House at...Read More
ENDA Delayed To Late June or Mid-July
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 21, 2010 | 11:00 AM |Representative Barney Frank said in MetroWeekly late yesterday that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act will be delayed until late June or mid-July. He also indicated that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is committed to getting a vote on ENDA in the House at...Read More
Harvey Milk Day - Stuart Milk and Assembly Speaker John A. Perez Talk about Harvey Milk
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 21, 2010 | 10:30 AM |One has to imagine the late Harvey Milk beaming down from heaven as he watched openly gay California Assembly Speaker John A. Perez walk into Wednesday night's White House State Dinner with Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa and be seated...Read More
Tell Bill McCollum: We want our money back!
Filed by Nadine Smith | May 20, 2010 | 8:00 PM |Attorney General Bill McCollum spent $120,000 of our tax dollars on a fraud in his quest to pander to bigots and homophobes, and we need your help to get our money back. Sign the petition to Bill McCollum: we want...Read More
Harvey Milk Day 2010: Being Out Is No Longer Enough
Filed by Marc Solomon | May 20, 2010 | 7:00 PM |As much as any other leader, Harvey Milk is my hero and inspiration. Like so many others, I drew tremendous strength from his belief in the fundamental goodness of all LGBT people in spite of what society too often tells...Read More
Dear Dems: We need to talk. Love, the Gays.
Filed by Adam Bink | May 20, 2010 | 4:00 PM |Action: Add your name to our open letter to the Dems on ENDA and repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell! Dr. Jillian Weiss has written here before about Democrats' excuses for not bringing ENDA up. At this point, it's become...Read More
Dems High After Primaries, But So Is Gay Bar
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 20, 2010 | 9:30 AM |The Democrats are high with relief after the primaries, celebrating a far better than expected election night, but the bar on LGBT rights bills remains high as well. They seem to forget why they get elected in the first place,...Read More
Dems High After Primaries, But So Is Gay Bar
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 20, 2010 | 9:30 AM |The Democrats are high with relief after the primaries, celebrating a far better than expected election night, but the bar on LGBT rights bills remains high as well. They seem to forget why they get elected in the first place,...Read More
Today's open letter to Obama is extra special
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 20, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
Today's open letter to Obama is extra special
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 20, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
Great Global Kiss-in: Reports from Around the World
Filed by Waymon Hudson | May 19, 2010 | 5:00 PM |A huge number of cities around the globe took place in the Great Global Kiss-in Protest. May 17th was the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO), a worldwide rallying event offering an opportunity for people to get together, reach...Read More
The Congressional, queer Bradley Effect
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 19, 2010 | 4:00 PM |Jill summarized Pelosi's transparent attempt to stall on ENDA this morning: First, she said that taking a vote on ENDA and DADT in the same week is impossible from a scheduling standpoint. An amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act...Read More
Primary election results from last night
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 19, 2010 | 12:30 PM |In Pennsylvania, progressive Joe Sestak beat Republican Democrat Arlen Specter 54-46. That's a big upset, what with Specter getting support from Organizing for America, the DSCC, and Obama himself. Rep. Sestak has a 95% rating from HRC and has been...Read More
Pelosi ENDA Discussion Belies Frank's "Whip Count" Defense
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 19, 2010 | 11:30 AM |Speaker Nancy Pelosi convened a conference call on Monday to quell rumors about the death of the two LGBT legislative agenda items: DADT repeal and ENDA. Her discussion belied strong allegations made on Saturday by Rep. Barney Frank's office that...Read More
Pelosi ENDA Discussion Belies Frank's "Whip Count" Defense
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 19, 2010 | 11:30 AM |Speaker Nancy Pelosi convened a conference call on Monday to quell rumors about the death of the two LGBT legislative agenda items: DADT repeal and ENDA. Her discussion belied strong allegations made on Saturday by Rep. Barney Frank's office that...Read More
Two Tours of Duty in Iraq
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 19, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
Two Tours of Duty in Iraq
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 19, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
Another moral majority Republican caught...
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 18, 2010 | 7:00 PM |I'm not one usually to get much into the "hypocrisy" angle when an anti-gay politician comes out; it's usually just proof that even people who want to change their sexually cannot, nor can they ignore it, and it also means...Read More
Sam Brownback's Pastor Problem: Evangelical Extremist Lou Engle
Filed by Waymon Hudson | May 18, 2010 | 2:30 PM |American Evangelical Extremist Lou Engle is making waves again. Readers may remember Engle as the fringe pastor behind TheCall Rally in California supporting Proposition 8, where he called homosexuality a "spirit of lawlessness" and called for "martyrs" to become "God's...Read More
Sam Brownback's Pastor Problem: Evangelical Extremist Lou Engle
Filed by Waymon Hudson | May 18, 2010 | 2:30 PM |American Evangelical Extremist Lou Engle is making waves again. Readers may remember Engle as the fringe pastor behind TheCall Rally in California supporting Proposition 8, where he called homosexuality a "spirit of lawlessness" and called for "martyrs" to become "God's...Read More
My Queer Agenda: Puerto Rico, Palestine and Indigenous Sovereignty
Filed by Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz | May 18, 2010 | 12:30 PM |Self-determination over one's body and land are core to my personal and political principles. I'm going to go even further and say that I think that self-determination over one's body and land should be a central tenet of the queer...Read More
Today's ENDA Actions
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 18, 2010 | 9:30 AM |This week we will see dozens of actions around the country asking the Congressional leadership to move ENDA and DADT repeal forward. These are our most basic legislative issues. If we can't move anything forward, then we will have visibly...Read More
Today's ENDA Actions
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 18, 2010 | 9:30 AM |This week we will see dozens of actions around the country asking the Congressional leadership to move ENDA and DADT repeal forward. These are our most basic legislative issues. If we can't move anything forward, then we will have visibly...Read More
DADT throws more than just service people into the closet
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 18, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
DADT throws more than just service people into the closet
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 18, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
Will Gay Opposition Help Indiana Democrat Ellsworth?
Filed by Andrew Belonsky | May 17, 2010 | 8:00 PM |Indiana's Democratic Party named Congressman Brad Ellsworth as retiring Sen. Evan Bayh's replacement on this November's ballot. The news comes as no surprise: Ellsworth's long been described as the strongest Democratic contender. That doesn't mean, however, that the state's Stonewall...Read More
Indiana Young Dems side with gay group on Ellsworth
Filed by Bil Browning | May 17, 2010 | 4:00 PM |In a message posted to Facebook Saturday evening, the Indiana Young Democrats issued a statement of support for the Stonewall Democrats abstention from voting on Rep Brad Ellsworth's nomination to replace retiring Senator Evan Bayh on the fall ballot. While...Read More
Career advancement
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 17, 2010 | 1:00 PM |From the Huffington Post: On Friday, the Washington Post ran a meta-piece on the matter under the title: "Is sexual identity our business, or are we a nation of busybodies?" In it, author Karen Tumulty reported that "administration officials asked...Read More
Dems: The Dog Ate My Homework
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 17, 2010 | 10:00 AM |As a college professor, I've listened to many excuses on why the report wasn't done over the past decade. These included classic homework-eating dogs and tales of laptop explosions, Lazarus-like grandmothers who passed away, only to miraculously revive in order...Read More
Dems: The Dog Ate My Homework
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 17, 2010 | 10:00 AM |As a college professor, I've listened to many excuses on why the report wasn't done over the past decade. These included classic homework-eating dogs and tales of laptop explosions, Lazarus-like grandmothers who passed away, only to miraculously revive in order...Read More
The American People Are Not Quitters
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 17, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
The Kagan Rorschach Test
Filed by Nan Hunter | May 16, 2010 | 7:00 PM |Hardworking as well as smart, grade grubbing, self-absorbed careerist with sense of humor and liberal politics (possibly reflecting ethnic heritage or parental values) for whom pragmatism is the ultimate value ISO job commensurate with skills and potential for ego growth......Read More
Great Global Kiss-in in Paris
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 16, 2010 | 5:30 PM |Waymon posted about the Great Global Kiss-in last week, with events all over the world in advance of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. I went this afternoon; more on that after the jump. Did you participate? NYC and...Read More
What's Behind Senator Jim Webb's PR Campaign?
Filed by Michael Hamar | May 16, 2010 | 4:00 PM |It turns out that I was not the only person to receive what at first appeared to be pro-active outreach from Senator Jim Webb's office on DADT. It seems I was but one of several. Other recipients included field consultants...Read More
Ellsworth selected to replace Bayh: IN Stonewall Dems abstain citing anti-gay past
Filed by Bil Browning | May 16, 2010 | 10:00 AM |Friday night's AIDS joke by Senator Evan Bayh at the 2010 Indiana Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner wasn't the only queer commotion in the Hoosier state this weekend. Saturday afternoon, conservative Congressman Brad Ellsworth was chosen by the Democrat's State Central...Read More
Video: Senator Evan Bayh's AIDS Joke
Filed by Bil Browning | May 15, 2010 | 7:00 PM |Senator Evan Bayh (D) made an AIDS joke at the 2010 Indiana Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner last night. The Indiana Stonewall Democrats walked out after the joke. Senator Bayh says he was just "misunderstood." Asked for a statement, state party...Read More
Is It Time To Rise Up Yet?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 15, 2010 | 4:00 PM |The LGBT civil rights movement is in disarray. We must live in shame and secrecy to serve the country we love, but which seems to hate and despise us. Is it time to rise up yet? AIDS funding has dropped,...Read More
Get the facts before you rant, or: ENDA will not exterminate trans women
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 15, 2010 | 2:00 PM |Editors' note: Ryan Blackhawke is a board member and the director of online communications at the Ingersoll Gender Center. Those of you who have ever met me can tell you that I can be impetuous and impulsive. I can be...Read More
LIVEBLOG: 2010 Indiana Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner
Filed by Bil Browning | May 14, 2010 | 5:45 PM |Welcome to Bilerico Project, Blue Indiana and the Huffington Post's liveblog of the 2010 Indiana Democratic Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner. Feel free to come on in, put your feet up and chat a bit. We'll be covering each speaker with quotes...Read More
Pucker Up to Fight Discrimination: The Great Global Kiss-in for the International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia
Filed by Waymon Hudson | May 14, 2010 | 3:00 PM |Get out the chapstick and breath spray! It's time for the Great Global Kiss-in! May 17th is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO), a worldwide rallying event offering an opportunity for people to get together, reach out to...Read More
Are the Democrats Running a Con Game on ENDA?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 14, 2010 | 1:00 PM |Bay Windows newspaper published an article yesterday noting that Capitol observers suggest that the Democrats are running out the clock on ENDA. "The community and the movement have done everything we've been asked to do," said Mara Keisling, executive director...Read More
Are the Democrats Running a Con Game on ENDA?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 14, 2010 | 1:00 PM |Bay Windows newspaper published an article yesterday noting that Capitol observers suggest that the Democrats are running out the clock on ENDA. "The community and the movement have done everything we've been asked to do," said Mara Keisling, executive director...Read More
TONIGHT: Indiana 2010 Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner Liveblog
Filed by Bil Browning | May 14, 2010 | 12:30 PM |Just a quick note to say that Thomas Cook from Blue Indiana and I will be liveblogging Indiana's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner tonight for Bilerico Project, Blue Indiana and Huffington Post. The event starts at 6:15 Eastern so you'll want to...Read More
Kirk vs. Kirk: Lobbying a lawmaker on DADT with extra clout
Filed by Phil Reese | May 14, 2010 | 11:00 AM |When it comes to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights, we know that powerful political families are divided, but those divisions generally never make jaws drop. Then again, I've never lobbied a lawmaker with his ex-wife before. On Tuesday, May...Read More
LGBT BootCamp: training the next generation of LGBT activists
Filed by Michael Crawford | May 14, 2010 | 9:30 AM |You want equality? Well, equality costs and New Organizing Institute's LGBT BootCamp is where you start paying in sweat! Okay, leaving aside the somewhat cheesy reference to the 70's TV show Fame, winning full LGBT equality is going to take...Read More
LGBT BootCamp: training the next generation of LGBT activists
Filed by Michael Crawford | May 14, 2010 | 9:30 AM |You want equality? Well, equality costs and New Organizing Institute's LGBT BootCamp is where you start paying in sweat! Okay, leaving aside the somewhat cheesy reference to the 70's TV show Fame, winning full LGBT equality is going to take...Read More
Stick it in a Manila envelope and keep it in a desk
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 14, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
Stick it in a Manila envelope and keep it in a desk
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 14, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
Steve King is worried about transgender sting operations and flamboyant, litigious gays
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 13, 2010 | 8:00 PM |Rep Steve King (R-Iowa) is ready to whip the base into a frenzy over ENDA. Check out what he told a local radio host: KING: Well Tony, I can imagine someone coming in and interviewing one day in man's clothes...Read More
When epithets are not enough, what does it take to call a hate crime a crime?
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 13, 2010 | 5:00 PM |Editors' note: Sharon Stapel is the Executive Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project. The mistrial determination in the Brooklyn Keith Phoenix trial sends a clear message: We are not safe. Hakim Scott and Keith Phoenix were charged with...Read More
Harvey Milk Day of Action May 22
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 13, 2010 | 4:00 PM |On May 22, LGBT people all around the nation and the world will be marking the birthday of Harvey Milk, one of the first out gay politicians to be elected to public office in the United States. (Not the first,...Read More
Soldier's Spoof of Kesha's "Blah Blah Blah" Video is Satire of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
Filed by Joe Mirabella | May 13, 2010 | 12:30 PM |US Soldiers stationed in Afghanistan decided to put their own spin on the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" debate heating up back home. To be fair, they are not engaging in the debate. Soldiers are supposed to be apolitical. And they...Read More
WaPo: Choice Words For Civil Rights Of Transgender Workers
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 13, 2010 | 9:30 AM |The Washington Post weighed in this morning on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act with a few choice words. It characterizes ENDA as pushing a "testy" issue in the culture wars: civil rights for transgender workers. "Testy"? Really? I've heard of a...Read More
WaPo: Choice Words For Civil Rights Of Transgender Workers
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 13, 2010 | 9:30 AM |The Washington Post weighed in this morning on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act with a few choice words. It characterizes ENDA as pushing a "testy" issue in the culture wars: civil rights for transgender workers. "Testy"? Really? I've heard of a...Read More
No longer fit for military duty due to homosexual conduct
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 13, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
No longer fit for military duty due to homosexual conduct
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 13, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
Is there a connection between Jim Webb and Elaine Donnelly?
Filed by Michael Hamar | May 12, 2010 | 7:00 PM |My recent post concerning Robert Gates' outward insubordination on the issue of repealing DADT have triggered a number of comments and e-mails to me on the issue of Obama, Robert Gates and one of my U.S. Senators, Jim Webb of...Read More
Minimum wage
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 12, 2010 | 3:30 PM |For this kind of money, I'd pretend to be straight too: Anti-gay psychologist George Rekers charged Florida $300 an hour to testify as an expert witness in a trial defending Florida's ban on gay people adopting. The state planned to...Read More
Tallahassee: Leon County Passes Fully-Inclusive HRO
Filed by Nadine Smith | May 12, 2010 | 11:30 AM |Victory in Leon County! By a 5-2 vote, Leon County - home of our state capital - has added a sexual orientation and gender identity inclusive Human Rights Ordinance and added the protections to the county's own personnel policy as...Read More
Bilerico Sends Over 1,000 letters to Congress on ENDA, Yesterday
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 12, 2010 | 10:30 AM |Bilerico readers, you are amazing. Yesterday, I asked that you write letters to Congress in support of ENDA. I had expected a few hundred, based on my past guesses at participation. This time, using a site that tracks the number...Read More
Bilerico Sends Over 1,000 letters to Congress on ENDA, Yesterday
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 12, 2010 | 10:30 AM |Bilerico readers, you are amazing. Yesterday, I asked that you write letters to Congress in support of ENDA. I had expected a few hundred, based on my past guesses at participation. This time, using a site that tracks the number...Read More
Because one person felt I shouldn't be in the Navy
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 12, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
Because one person felt I shouldn't be in the Navy
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 12, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
BREAKING: 2nd Sit-in at McCain's AZ Office to Protest DADT
Filed by Joe Mirabella | May 11, 2010 | 8:00 PM |H.E.R.O staged a sit-in today at Senator McCain's Phoenix, Tempe, Arizona office. This is the second sit-in by the group in less than a month. According to statement from the group: Quarter Master 3rd Class (QM-3) Shellaine Gokey served her...Read More
How many gays work at NARTH?
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 11, 2010 | 7:00 PM |According to this story from the Miami New Times, NARTH is trying to cover up the Reker/Rentboy scandal. After the story broke last week, Rekers sent Lucien a questionnaire with questions about what exactly happened during their trip to Spain...Read More
Obama Needs to Fire Gates Now!
Filed by Michael Hamar | May 11, 2010 | 4:00 PM |Contributor's note: I live in the Norfolk, Virginia, area and know many discharged under DADT. Hence, my emotions on this issue are high. I have previously drawn the parallel between Harry Truman's firing of General Douglas MacArthur for insubordination and...Read More
New state-wide LGBT organization to launch in Michigan
Filed by Amy Hunter | May 11, 2010 | 3:00 PM |An event, long talked about and long overdue, will come to pass this week in Michigan. This state's two preeminent LGBT education, rights advocacy, and lobbying organizations, The Triangle Foundation and Michigan Equality combined this past January to form an...Read More
Is Elena Kagan gay? A sexy mystery
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 11, 2010 | 1:00 PM |Yesterday morning, I came across this post on Renew America's webpage, in which the author assumed Elena Kagan is gay: My main argument against adding a homosexual to the bench is simply this. That individual would have already made up...Read More
Caught in a Bad Hotel: San Francisco queers support hotel worker boycott
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 11, 2010 | 11:30 AM |Editors' Note: This post comes to us from Pride At Work San Francisco. On a bustling Saturday afternoon at San Francisco's Westin St. Francis Hotel, there was a strange disturbance at the check-in counter. A seemingly innocuous gay couple had...Read More
ENDA Now Ready To Pass
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 11, 2010 | 9:30 AM |The question on most people's minds about ENDA is: can it really pass? The National Center for Transgender Equality, along with the Transgender Law Center, and the Coalition of State/City Transgender Advocacy Organizations, held a conference call last night on...Read More
ENDA Now Ready To Pass
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 11, 2010 | 9:30 AM |The question on most people's minds about ENDA is: can it really pass? The National Center for Transgender Equality, along with the Transgender Law Center, and the Coalition of State/City Transgender Advocacy Organizations, held a conference call last night on...Read More
DADT: I was present at more than 1500 military funerals
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 11, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
DADT: I was present at more than 1500 military funerals
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 11, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
DADT: Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan & the Solomon Amendment
Filed by Nancy Polikoff | May 10, 2010 | 8:00 PM |Elena Kagan was not my choice for the Supreme Court. I preferred others on the short list. Like everyone else, however, I am not surprised by Obama's choice. We'll be hearing much about the "Solomon amendment" in the coming weeks,...Read More
Cruising sting nabs local politician; at least he's denying everything
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 10, 2010 | 5:00 PM |Is it a crime to discuss having sex in public? To lick you lips in a park? Or to carry a condom? Since the police didn't tell the press anything worse happened in the cruising sting that saw the arrest...Read More
Encouraging News: Uganda Government Panel Rejects "Kill the Gays" Bill
Filed by Waymon Hudson | May 10, 2010 | 4:00 PM |Promising news coming out of Uganda regarding the odious "Kill the Gays" Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The New York Times is reporting that the Ugandan President's special panel called to offer a recommendation on the bill has ruled that it should be...Read More
Dueling Capitol Versions of ENDA: "It's A Sure Thing" "No, It's Not"
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 10, 2010 | 9:30 AM |What's going on with ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would finally prohibit overt homophobia and transphobia for millions of LGBT US employees? On the one hand, the Dems said they would conduct a whip count and proceed to a...Read More
Dueling Capitol Versions of ENDA: "It's A Sure Thing" "No, It's Not"
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 10, 2010 | 9:30 AM |What's going on with ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would finally prohibit overt homophobia and transphobia for millions of LGBT US employees? On the one hand, the Dems said they would conduct a whip count and proceed to a...Read More
DADT: I lived in constant fear
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 10, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
DADT: I lived in constant fear
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 10, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
President Obama Honors Mothers and Their Families - All Kinds
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 09, 2010 | 7:00 PM |Mother's Day is as non-political as you can get, right? Well, politics comes in all forms. The personal is the political. The Bush Administration was a rough time for LGBT families, as well as any family that didn't fit into...Read More
Examining the Basic Math of SB 1070 in Arizona
Filed by Bobby Parker | May 09, 2010 | 1:00 PM |Examining the basic math of SB 1070, I find: This law requires the arrest and detention of all people in the state of Arizona who are not legally in the United States. Estimates put their number at 400,000 to 460,000....Read More
Wiesel's Lesson for the Gays
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 08, 2010 | 2:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Michael Petrelis is gay man living with HIV, and his 221 t-cells in San Francisco's Mission District. He's been happily partnered to Mike Merrigan since 1995. Oy, vey. Those Jews are like the gays, in that...Read More
I'm here to help
Filed by Amy Hunter | May 08, 2010 | 12:00 PM |Haiti Dr. Joia Mukherjee is an impressive person. She holds an MPH from Harvard, specializes in infectious diseases, and practices internal medicine and pediatrics. Considered one of the foremost experts on public health policy and implementation, she teaches the subject...Read More
Florida Taxpayers Paid Reker's $120,000, Twice What Was Initially Reported
Filed by Nadine Smith | May 07, 2010 | 4:00 PM |Did Bill McCollum's office hide the truth about payments? Attorney General Bill McCollum has scrambled to distance himself from the "star" witness he paid to defend Florida's anti-gay adoption ban after George Rekers was caught in the Miami Airport with...Read More
Support the troops
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 07, 2010 | 2:00 PM |The hold up on DADT is in the Senate, according to an article by Kerry Eleveld: "Clearly the world changed dramatically with the Gates letter," said one Hill veteran who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Everyone is trying to figure...Read More
On George Rekers, Homophobia and Compassion
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 07, 2010 | 1:00 PM |Editors' Note: The Reverend Jonathon Edwards is a pastor in the United Church of Christ and has been active on a local level in the glbt movement since his youth. He currently pastors a congregation in Southern California and has...Read More
Why Immigration Reform Is Good for the LGBT Agenda
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 07, 2010 | 12:00 PM |The swiftly changing winds of Washington, D.C. today are making my head spin, but one theme begins to clearly emerge from all this: the Democratic Party is at a tipping point. The background of all this is the dire prediction...Read More
Department of Defense: Don't Ask, Don't Tell Inbox Goes Live
Filed by Joe Mirabella | May 07, 2010 | 11:00 AM |The Department of Defense posted to their blog, that the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Inbox soliciting anonymous comments from military personal about gays and lesbians is live. A new online inbox that enables servicemembers and their families to comment anonymously...Read More
Harry Truman's grandson writes Obama
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 07, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
When Gay Becomes A Weapon
Filed by Andrew Belonsky | May 06, 2010 | 8:00 PM |Homosexuality's instability boggles the mind. One day it's a good thing, something of which one should be proud, and the next it's being used as a weapon, and proves quite explosive. Gay, the action, the adjective and the concept, proves...Read More
Al Sharpton Comes to Arizona to Protest Immigration Law
Filed by Bobby Parker | May 06, 2010 | 5:00 PM |Remember - "Forty percent of LGBT binational couples in the United States include a Latino family member. For them, and their loved ones, Arizona is now the most dangerous place in America." That's why it's important to know what's happening...Read More
Looking for Work?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 06, 2010 | 9:30 AM |Friend, are you looking for work? Do you only have a part-time or temporary job? Are you afraid of coming out at work and would like to have a job where you don't have to worry every day about being...Read More
Looking for Work?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 06, 2010 | 9:30 AM |Friend, are you looking for work? Do you only have a part-time or temporary job? Are you afraid of coming out at work and would like to have a job where you don't have to worry every day about being...Read More
Advocacy alone won't change the status quo
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 06, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
Census 2010 - It's Not Too Late!
Filed by Michelle Marzullo | May 05, 2010 | 11:30 AM |The point of the Census is an accurate count of people in the US. It matters to everyone because it determines representation in congress, like how many US representatives are assigned per state. It also affects how more than $400...Read More
Lady Gaga: Are You Listening!
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 05, 2010 | 9:30 AM |I am starting to get discouraged with the progress of ENDA. I go through these periods. It's called being human. The last word from DC was that they were supposed to do a whip count on April 12, when they...Read More
Lady Gaga: Are You Listening!
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 05, 2010 | 9:30 AM |I am starting to get discouraged with the progress of ENDA. I go through these periods. It's called being human. The last word from DC was that they were supposed to do a whip count on April 12, when they...Read More
Macho has no place in a modern professional Army
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 05, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
Macho has no place in a modern professional Army
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 05, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
FL Atty General Bill McCollum's "Expert" Witness Caught with Male Prostitute
Filed by Nadine Smith | May 04, 2010 | 7:00 PM |George Rekers, the "expert" witness hired by Attorney General Bill McCollum to defend Florida's anti-gay adoption ban has been caught with a male prostitute at the Miami airport, according to the Miami New Times. Rekers was one of only two...Read More
Future Supreme Court Nominee Stephanie Grace??
Filed by Terrance Heath | May 04, 2010 | 5:00 PM |Well, maybe. But not until President Palin’s second term. Via Jill at Femeniste and Jezebel’s Anna North comes this bit of insight from Harvard Law School 3L Stephanie Grace, who felt the need to clarify her statements after a dinner...Read More
Current ENDA Language Regarding Transgender Workers Revealed, Concerns Mount
Filed by Rebecca Juro | May 04, 2010 | 4:00 PM |During his show Sunday night, TransFM founder and host Ethan St. Pierre received a call-in from International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE) Executive Director Denise LeClair, who revealed for the first time what the current language regarding transgender workers and...Read More
Marco Rubio Flexes Anti-Gay Muscles & Headlines Florida Family Policy Council Dinner
Filed by Waymon Hudson | May 04, 2010 | 1:00 PM |Florida Senate Candidate Marco Rubio continues to stake his claim of the right-wing fringe in Florida and around the country. Rubio is set to be the keynote speaker at The Florida Family Policy Council's 5th Annual Public Policy Dinner on...Read More
Real men
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 04, 2010 | 12:00 PM |We wouldn't want to let gays and lesbians in the military come out, because that would make the military all that much less manly. It's the military culture, you see, that has to be protected or else we won't be...Read More
Sexual Assault: Dirty laundry? Dirty little secret?
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 04, 2010 | 11:00 AM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Roberta Sklar is the former director of communications at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Empire State Pride Agenda. She is a communications activist who lives and works in NYC. Over the past...Read More
Indy prosecutor candidate would establish LGBT liaison
Filed by Bil Browning | May 04, 2010 | 10:30 AM |After transwoman Taysia Elzy and her boyfriend were brutally murdered in late 2008, Indiana Equality met with then Public Safety Director Scott Newman in an attempt to establish a police liaison with the LGBT community. While the org touted their...Read More
"The Students By and Large Don't Have A Problem With A Transgender School Teacher; It's The Parents"
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 04, 2010 | 9:30 AM |The title quote from documentary filmmaker Rohan Spong, director of the highly-acclaimed documentary "T Is For Teacher," illuminates the overblown "moral panic" about transgender teachers now infecting the ENDA debate. It's reverberating especially hard in a few "moderate" Congressional offices....Read More
"The Students By and Large Don't Have A Problem With A Transgender School Teacher; It's The Parents"
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 04, 2010 | 9:30 AM |The title quote from documentary filmmaker Rohan Spong, director of the highly-acclaimed documentary "T Is For Teacher," illuminates the overblown "moral panic" about transgender teachers now infecting the ENDA debate. It's reverberating especially hard in a few "moderate" Congressional offices....Read More
They called me Vapor
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 04, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
They called me Vapor
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 04, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
An Open Letter to My Senators
Filed by Gloria Nieto | May 03, 2010 | 7:00 PM |Dear Senators Boxer and Feinstein: My last unemployment check came the first week of April. Yesterday I went out to talk to someone about some work and I could not find her. I almost ran out of gas trying to...Read More
Video: White House Correspondents' Dinner
Filed by Bil Browning | May 03, 2010 | 3:00 PM |Jay Leno hosted this year's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner and his jokes matched his usual television schtick. Leno's known for being one of the least edgy comics in the business; he goes for the chuckle instead of the jugular....Read More
A Tale of Two Phone Calls: A Call To Action
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 03, 2010 | 2:00 PM |Editors' Note: Babs Siperstein is a member of the Democratic National Committee, co-chair of the National Stonewall Democrats' Federal PAC Board and Political Director of the Gender Rights Advocacy Association of New Jersey. Last Thursday evening about 6:15 PM ET...Read More
A Tale of Two Phone Calls: A Call To Action
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 03, 2010 | 2:00 PM |Editors' Note: Babs Siperstein is a member of the Democratic National Committee, co-chair of the National Stonewall Democrats' Federal PAC Board and Political Director of the Gender Rights Advocacy Association of New Jersey. Last Thursday evening about 6:15 PM ET...Read More
American Evangelical Lou Engle Promotes "Kill the Gays" Bill at Sunday's Rally in Uganda
Filed by Waymon Hudson | May 03, 2010 | 1:00 PM |Over 1,300 people gathered at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda on Sunday to hear American Evangelical Lou Engle preach at a rally and prayer service against "homosexuality, witchcraft, and corruption." Engle's involvement in organizing TheCall Uganda was mired in controversy...Read More
Actor goes shirtless, becomes gay icon?
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 03, 2010 | 12:00 PM |I just got back from an exhausting vacation, and just now an even more exhausting first day back at work after spring break, so it's shirtless boys. I have no qualms about posting pics since it's clear to me that...Read More
Washington Blade: There IS a Path to 60 in the Senate (Pt. 2)
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 03, 2010 | 9:30 AM |This is Part 2 of a 2-part series. We counted to 49 with the help of the Washington Blade in Part 1 of this series last Friday. Can you count to 60?...Read More
Washington Blade: There IS a Path to 60 in the Senate (Pt. 2)
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 03, 2010 | 9:30 AM |This is Part 2 of a 2-part series. We counted to 49 with the help of the Washington Blade in Part 1 of this series last Friday. Can you count to 60?...Read More
They locked me in a feces-filled dog kennel
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 03, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
They locked me in a feces-filled dog kennel
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 03, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: "Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama" is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership at this critical point in the fight to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't...Read More
Andrew Sullivan: Pep Talk to LGBT Virginians at Equality Virginia Event
Filed by Michael Hamar | May 02, 2010 | 5:30 PM |Last night's Commonwealth Dinner was a wonderful affair and the venue at the Marriott was far superior to that of the Richmond Convention Center where it has been for the past several years. The key note speaker, Andrew Sullivan, provided...Read More
Prop 8 Fighters Olson and Boies Make the 2010 TIME 100 List
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 02, 2010 | 1:00 PM |The 2010 TIME 100 just posted their annual TIME 100 list of "people who most affect our world" and included in the "Thinkers" category is the federal Prop 8 trial odd couple of Ted Olson and David Boies (pictured here...Read More
Prop 8 Fighters Olson and Boies Make the 2010 TIME 100 List
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 02, 2010 | 1:00 PM |The 2010 TIME 100 just posted their annual TIME 100 list of "people who most affect our world" and included in the "Thinkers" category is the federal Prop 8 trial odd couple of Ted Olson and David Boies (pictured here...Read More
A squeeze play on DADT repeal?
Filed by Austen Crowder | May 02, 2010 | 10:00 AM |DADT is quickly becoming a big hot-potato issue on the hill. It seems that everyone wants to avoid taking action the bill; the Dems turn to the president, the Republicans turn a blind eye to the issue, the military wants...Read More
Why Regulate When You Can Masturbate?
Filed by Terrance Heath | May 01, 2010 | 4:00 PM |How, many people have asked since news broke about Bernie Madoff’s $50 billion ponzi scheme, could regulators have let such a blatant criminal slip through their fingers? We know, now. The Securities and Exchange Commission is the sheriff of the...Read More
ENDA Cuts Off Student Loans For Christian Colleges
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 01, 2010 | 2:00 PM |Well, according to this Family Research Council video. No, really. In fact, according to this video, Obama's Department of Education has already ordered Christian schools to comply or face a cut-off of federal funds. It's the end of the 100...Read More
ENDA Cuts Off Student Loans For Christian Colleges
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 01, 2010 | 2:00 PM |Well, according to this Family Research Council video. No, really. In fact, according to this video, Obama's Department of Education has already ordered Christian schools to comply or face a cut-off of federal funds. It's the end of the 100...Read More
Hawaii legislature passes civil unions; Will the governor sign the bill?
Filed by Michael Crawford | May 01, 2010 | 12:00 PM |In what can only be described as a legislative coming back from the dead, a civil unions bill was passed by the Hawaii House in the final hours of the 2010 legislative session. The key question is will Republican Governor...Read More
Privacy and the 2010 Census: Count Me In
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 01, 2010 | 10:00 AM |Editors' Note: Masen Davis has been an activist in the movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality since 1990. He currently serves as Executive Director of the Transgender Law Center, a civil rights organization advocating for transgender communities. Starting...Read More
