Politics: May 2011
Rep Weiner Caught in Twitter Bulge Pic Scandal
Filed by Jake Weinraub | May 31, 2011 | 6:30 PM |The "Weinergate" controversy surrounding NY Representative Anthony Weiner is a muddled internet mess of accusations by rightwing "journalists."Read More
Pawlenty Spoof of Savage's Google Chrome Commercial
Filed by Bil Browning | May 31, 2011 | 2:30 PM |Of course this isn't really a Tim Pawlenty campaign ad, but the synchronicity between the feel-good commercial for Dan Savage and the fake campaign spot is amazingly well done.Read More
The Boogey Man Hasn't Gone Away
Filed by Anthony Carter | May 31, 2011 | 8:00 AM |After ten years of grief, the American public feels vindicated. The big bad evil one, the devil incarnate, has been made to pay the price for f--king the world's saviors - the country that rights the wrongs of evildoers.Read More
State Dept Responds to Dan Choi Russian Incident
Filed by Bil Browning | May 29, 2011 | 9:15 PM |You're doing your job as a troublemaker well when the government issues a statement about an incident and you were involved. This just in from Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner after Dan Choi was arrested in Moscow.Read More
Going to the White House for AAPI Heritage Month
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 28, 2011 | 2:00 PM |Guest blogger Ben de Guzman writes about attending the White House's Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders LGBT Youth Pride and Heritage Event this week.Read More
House Approves Anti-Gay Defense Authorization Bill
Filed by Bil Browning | May 27, 2011 | 11:00 AM |The House of Representatives approved defense budget legislation that includes several anti-gay provisions meant to disrupt the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell & increase the scope of the Defense of Marriage Act.Read More
Brazilian President Halts Anti-Homophobia Campaign
Filed by Jake Weinraub | May 26, 2011 | 3:00 PM |Brazil's president halts an anti-homophobia campaign Wednesday.Read More
NYC Mayor Bloomberg Delivers Speech Supporting Marriage Equality
Filed by Adam Polaski | May 26, 2011 | 2:15 PM |Bloomberg presses New York State Legislature to consider the importance of same-sex marriage and vote on the issue before the end of the legislative session in June.Read More
Anti-Gay Propaganda at the "Watchmen on the Wall" Conference
Filed by Adam Polaski | May 26, 2011 | 1:30 PM |The Family Research Council's Peter Sprigg took to the podium to tell pastors that gay people are propagandists, distrustful of black people, and committed to stamping out free speech.Read More
MN Governor 'Vetoes' Marriage Amendment
Filed by Bil Browning | May 26, 2011 | 10:45 AM |Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton symbolically vetoed the recently passed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. The legislature accidentally sent the measure to his office as a bill - which requires either a signature or a veto.Read More
Combating the 'Drill, Baby, Drill' Philosophy
Filed by Don Davis | May 26, 2011 | 8:00 AM |What if, in a world of depleting oil resources, the last thing you want to do is use yours up?Read More
EQCA Town Hall in WeHo Split on Prop 8 Repeal
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 25, 2011 | 7:30 PM |By the time the Equality California organizers took a final vote on whether the LGBT community in Los Angeles wanted to go back to the ballot to repeal Prop 8 in 2012, two hours had elapsed and about half the crowd of about 100 people had left.Read More
A Trans and Cis Queer Women's Dialog
Filed by Tobi Hill-Meyer | May 25, 2011 | 6:30 PM |There's a joke going around that events, community spaces, and resources labeled "women and trans" have an unwritten addendum "(but not both)." The reality is that there are few queer spaces specifically for trans women and cis women.Read More
Caption This: Obama's Limo in Ireland
Filed by Mike Rogers | May 25, 2011 | 5:00 PM |I'm going to try and have some more fun with caption this photos now and then. I got shredded for the last one; hopefully this one sits better with the masses.Read More
Nevada Governor Approves Gender Identity Protections
Filed by Adam Polaski | May 25, 2011 | 11:45 AM |Nevada becomes the fourteenth state to outlaw employment discrimination based on gender identity or expression.Read More
John Edwards to Face Prosecution for Affair Cover Up
Filed by Bil Browning | May 25, 2011 | 11:00 AM |Former presidential candidate John Edwards is facing indictment over his cover up of an affair he had with a campaign videographer. The Dept of Justice accuses him of using campaign donations to support mistress.Read More
New Poll Finds 70% of People Favor LGBT Antidiscrimination Laws
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 24, 2011 | 7:00 PM |It's the only national poll I know of (please let me know if there's another in the comments) on LGBT antidiscrimination legislation that I know of, and it shows broad support for it. 70% of Americans favor antidiscrimination legislation for LGBT people in housing, public accommodations, and employment.Read More
The Fight for Gay Marriage in New York is On
Filed by Leone Kraus | May 24, 2011 | 3:00 PM |The battle for gay marriage is on in New York. Yesterday, Governor Andrew Cuomo released a video urging New York residents to call their state senators to ask them to support marriage equality.Read More
Christian Activist Asks If Rapture 'False Prophet' Should Be Executed
Filed by Mercedes Allen | May 24, 2011 | 1:00 PM |In light of Harold Camping's failed rapture prophecy, Christian Governance activist Timothy Bloedow appears to call for Camping's execution as a false prophet.Read More
Israeli PM Heckled Before Joint Session of Congress
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 24, 2011 | 12:15 PM |The AP is reporting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was heckled this morning during his speech to a joint session of Congress.Read More
Tennessee's Don't Say Gay Bill Passes Senate
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 24, 2011 | 11:30 AM |Either a school thinks that gay students and the kids of gay parents are welcome there or not. There is no middle ground, there is no neutrality. Read More
The Recession Can Aid in LGBT Equality
Filed by Matt Comer | May 23, 2011 | 6:00 PM |Jim Daly, president and CEO of Focus on the Family, admits the struggle for LGBT equality in marriage is all but lost for the religious right.Read More
TAKE ACTION: Comment Blast the Facebook Pages of Homophobic Companies
Filed by Jake Weinraub | May 23, 2011 | 5:00 PM |Each of these organizations is a board member of the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & Industry and responsible for the chamber's lobbying for anti-gay religious right hate legislation.Read More
Rick Santorum Doesn't Know The Meaning of 'Personal'
Filed by Andrew Belonsky | May 20, 2011 | 4:00 PM |Rick Santorum has some nerve! The former Pennsylvania Senator and super long shot presidential claimed this week that he's not a homophobe, and anyone who says otherwise is just "personalizing" a political debate, which is a bizarre statement, because all...Read More
The Difference between Republicans and Democrats Is Dead Real
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 20, 2011 | 2:00 PM |Editors' Note: Michael Mitchell is the Executive Director of National Stonewall Democrats. "There's really no difference between the Democrat and the Republican candidates." It's an all too familiar comment I hear around election time. While it would be a gross...Read More
Gay Man the Right Loved to Hate Leaves Education Department Job
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 20, 2011 | 1:00 PM |Kevin Jennings is leaving the Department of Education to work for a nonprofit: The Be the Change nonprofit announced today that Kevin Jennings, currently serving in the Obama administration's Education Department as the assistant deputy secretary and the head of...Read More
Gallup: Majority Support Same-Sex Marriage
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 20, 2011 | 9:30 AM |Gallup joined several recent major polls in finding that a majority of Americans support same-sex marriage OutletWhenFavorOppose APAugust, 20105246 Wash. Post/ABCMarch, 20115344 CNNApril, 20115147 GallupMay, 20115345 Well, that question is settled. How about some polling on LGBT anti-discrimination legislation, which...Read More
China: Distributing HIV/AIDS Drugs Reduces AIDS Deaths
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 19, 2011 | 6:00 PM |China has released numbers showing that AIDS deaths go down - a lot - when HIV/AIDS drugs are given out for free: China has slashed AIDS mortality by nearly two-thirds since it began distributing free antiretroviral drugs in 2002, Chinese...Read More
Do and Don't Get Excited About AIDS 'Cure'
Filed by Andrew Belonsky | May 19, 2011 | 1:00 PM |Timothy Ray Brown is being hailed as a medical marvel. The 45-year-old man tested positive for HIV back in 1995 and, as he fought the retrovirus, also found out that he had Leukemia, a disease doctors hoped to fight with...Read More
The GOP's Own Private 'Mediscare'
Filed by Terrance Heath | May 19, 2011 | 12:00 PM |It’s almost enough to make you feel sorry for Republicans. Almost. The mess the GOP finds itself in, after appointing itself to Medicare’s “death panel,” would be laughable if it weren’t also so pathetic. Especially since it’s a mess...Read More
Barney Frank Visits Seattle and Discusses ENDA
Filed by Joe Mirabella | May 18, 2011 | 7:00 PM |On Tuesday Barney Frank visited Seattle to help raise money for Congressmen Jim McDermott. I had an opportunity to meet Barney Frank in a small group setting at Equal Rights Washington. He spoke to the group about the state of...Read More
Glitter Is the Herpes of Craft Supplies
Filed by Bil Browning | May 18, 2011 | 10:30 AM |Demetri Martin's joke popped automatically to mind when I heard that Newt Gingrich got glitter bombed by a gay activist at a recent book signing in Minneapolis. The Salamander was in town for an event with the Minnesota Family Council...Read More
Police Officer who Beat Duanna Johnson Gets 2 Years Prison
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 18, 2011 | 9:30 AM |Bridges McRae, the police officer caught on video beating Duanna Johnson, a black, trans woman who was being detained on prostitution charges that were later dropped, has been sentenced to two years of prison and two years probation. That time...Read More
Schwarzenegger Fathered Child With Employee
Filed by Bil Browning | May 17, 2011 | 2:30 PM |Now the real reason why Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger have separated has hit the news. While the Arnold has said he hopes to reconcile soon, apparently his wife is telling friends the opposite and here's why: Former California Gov....Read More
Gay LAPD Sergeant Sues City for Job Discrimination
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 17, 2011 | 11:30 AM |When I interviewed incoming LAPD Chief Charlie Beck for Frontiers In LA in November 2009, one of the first concerns, given Beck's 32-year career with the LAPD, was about whether he belonged to antigay Deputy Chief Mark Kroeker's "God Squad"...Read More
On Sunday Drinking, Or, Has Satan Been Rendered Irrelevant?
Filed by Don Davis | May 17, 2011 | 10:30 AM |I know better than to go drinking on Sundays, but it's just been one of those weeks, and I figured I'd grab a few beers, no big deal, and then head home and get some real work done. Of course,...Read More
Wisconsin Governor Wants to Stop Defending Gay Rights
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 17, 2011 | 8:30 AM |Gov. Scott Walker, the conservative ideologue Wisconsin somehow elected to its highest office, has asked the court if his office could stop defending Wisconsin's domestic partnership registry, which gives same-sex couples the opportunity to register for some of the rights...Read More
What Happens If LGBT Rights Aren't Profitable?
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 16, 2011 | 4:00 PM |I can't say I expected a NY Times column to take on this position today: And yet supporting marriage on economic grounds dehumanizes same-sex couples by conflating civil rights with economic perks. Americans should be offended when the value of...Read More
Trump Won't Birth Presidential Campaign
Filed by Bil Browning | May 16, 2011 | 3:00 PM |America's favorite showman since P.T. Barnum finally made the announcement today that he won't be running for President. "After considerable deliberation and reflection, I have decided not to pursue the office of the presidency," Trump said in a statement. With...Read More
Tennessee Bill to Ban Local LGBT Non-Discrimination Laws - Is It Constitutional?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 16, 2011 | 12:00 PM |Tennessee Senate Bill 632 would strike down local legal protections from discrimination for LGBT Tennesseans, and would make it impossible to pass such protections in the future. It recently passed the Senate State and Local Government Committee by a vote...Read More
The Black Unemployment Epidemic
Filed by Terrance Heath | May 16, 2011 | 11:00 AM |Lost in the media tsunami after U.S. special forces killed Osama bin Laden is news that may prove as economically devastating the terrorism bin Laden masterminded. For a lot of Americans, "returning to the private sector" means practicing saying "You...Read More
Rachel Maddow Details Senate Ethics Allegations Against 'Family Values' Supporter John Ensign
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 15, 2011 | 4:00 PM |Rachel says the Senate Ethics report reads like a movie script. The new details of former Sen. John Ensign's sexual harassment of the wife of his former staffer - and alleged best friend - are jaw-dropping. As Rachel reminds us,...Read More
Dear GOProud
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 15, 2011 | 2:30 PM |Dear GOProud, When you refer to gay people who are centrist, independent, liberal, progressive, nonpolitical, socialist, leftist, left-libertarian, and center-right as "the gay left," it sounds like you don't really know much about politics other than "Cut taxes! Privatize wealth...Read More
How Afterbirthers Will End my Unemployment
Filed by Anthony Carter | May 15, 2011 | 1:00 PM |Although I have been unemployed for two years, I finally figured out what I was doing wrong. Whenever I have been called in to interview, I have consistently and absentmindedly neglected to bring along my fetal membranes and god only...Read More
Thoughts on Prison, Hatred, and Disorganization
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 14, 2011 | 10:00 AM |It seems every time I talk about the criminal justice system with Americans, the "Well, if they did something wrong, they should expect to be punished!" argument comes up to justify pretty much whatever. Criminals are the scum of the...Read More
No Vote on Uganda Anti Homosexuality Bill
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 13, 2011 | 3:00 PM |Jim Burroway at Box Turtle Bulletin is reporting that the Ugandan Parliament has adjourned without taking a vote as expected on the horrific Anti Homosexuality Bill. Burroway cautions that there is a procedural way the bill could be revived in...Read More
Potosnak Files for 2012 Congressional Bid
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 13, 2011 | 12:00 PM |Ed Potosnak, the 2010 Democratic Nominee for United States Congress in NJ's 7th Congressional District, filed last week with the Federal Elections Commission to run in 2012. Mr. Potosnak, a newcomer to politics, received 40% of the votes in the...Read More
Ron Paul Is Running for Prez
Filed by Bil Browning | May 13, 2011 | 11:00 AM |Since Ron Paul is older than Newt Gingrich, when the civil libertarian announced his candidacy for President of the United States this morning he didn't do it on that new-fangled Twitter box, he did it like a real Amurcan: He...Read More
King & Spalding Was Right to Drop DOMA Defense
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 12, 2011 | 3:00 PM |When King & Spalding dropped DOMA defense, newspapers and columnists around the country ran breathless pieces scolding the firm (and HRC). Their reasons were pretty much all the same: everyone deserves a legal defense, as if DOMA were a human...Read More
Delaware Civil Unions
Filed by Jerame Davis | May 12, 2011 | 2:00 PM |Last night, I had the honor and privilege of attending the signing ceremony for the Delaware civil unions bill. In front of a capacity crowd at the recently renovated Queen Theater in downtown Wilmington, Governor Jack Markell signed the bill...Read More
Afghanistan Peace Dividend Stimulus Lotto? OK!
Filed by Don Davis | May 12, 2011 | 1:00 PM |They told us "We're dropping about $10 billion a month in Afghanistan so we can catch that Bin Laden guy but, eventually, we're gonna catch him and as soon as we do you can imagine that folks will be wondering...Read More
Secret GOP Talking Points: Newt Gingrich Is Running for Prez
Filed by Bil Browning | May 12, 2011 | 9:30 AM |Proving how hip and with it he is, yesterday Newt Gingrich announced he was running for President on Twitter with a link to his YouTube page. Newt, the only Speaker of the House to be disciplined for ethics violations, is...Read More
Uganda: Follow the Money
Filed by Mercedes Allen | May 12, 2011 | 8:30 AM |I don't know that I can say it any plainer than that: we need to follow the money. Barney Frank gets it: I was pleased when the Financial Services Committee overwhelmingly, in a bipartisan way, voted in favor of my...Read More
Mitch Daniels Cuts Funding to Planned Parenthood
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 11, 2011 | 6:00 PM |Hey, remember how Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN) called for a truce on social issues a bunch of times? Apparently there was an asterisk no one noticed, because he's leading the way on the right's extreme social agenda: And in Indiana,...Read More
NOM's Ad against Same-Sex Marriage: It'll Turn Your Kids Gay
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 11, 2011 | 3:00 PM |NOM has an ad targeting African Americans in New York, whose legislature is considering same-sex marriage this year: The ad discusses the children, over and over again, as if children will be turned gay because same-sex marriage is legalized in...Read More
Wait, Congress Is Messing with DADT Repeal Again?
Filed by Jarrod Chlapowski | May 11, 2011 | 12:30 PM |So over the past few days some have been making a show about Duncan Hunter introducing an amendment that would add each of the Joint Chiefs as certifying authorities on repeal. The language introduced by Hunter is the same exact...Read More
What Does Discrimination Cost?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 11, 2011 | 12:00 PM |A new research study released today by The Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy shows that employment discrimination against transgender residents of Massachusetts likely costs the Commonwealth millions of dollars each year. The findings...Read More
Gay Republicans Fight Back Against DADT Repeal Backlash
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 11, 2011 | 10:30 AM |The headline in Tuesday's Navy Times reads: "Effort to alter DADT repeal may be too late." The story, in advance of this morning's House Armed Services Committee mark-up hearing for the FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, is about the...Read More
URGENT: Uganda Parliament May Pass Anti-Gay Bill Tomorrow
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 10, 2011 | 4:30 PM |Jim Burroway at Box Turtle Bulletin reports Tuesday morning that the Ugandan Parliament is likely to take up the HIV AND AIDS PREVENTION AND CONTROL BILL, 2010 and the ANTI HOMOSEXUALITY BILL, 2009. The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power protests...Read More
Gay Donors Expected to Fill Enthusiasm Gap for Obama
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 10, 2011 | 2:30 PM |Politico has an article up saying that rich gay donors are going to be a cornerstone of Obama's 2012 billion dollar campaign strategy. There's a lot of interesting information in the article, although with all the unnamed sources, boilerplate, and...Read More
Was Rome Felled by Gays or Christianity?
Filed by Michael Hamar | May 10, 2011 | 1:30 PM |One of the often repeated mantras of many Christianists, including loons at Focus on the Family and Family Research Council among others (not to mention their political whores in the GOP), is that the acceptance of homosexuality caused the fall...Read More
Birthers, Deathers, & Bin Laden
Filed by Terrance Heath | May 10, 2011 | 12:30 PM |It’s a little unnerving -- because I’m not used to being in the majority -- but it looks like I am now, at least when it comes to the president’s decision not to release pictures of Obsama bin Laden’s...Read More
Fred Karger Will Save You From Alien Frisbees
Filed by Bil Browning | May 10, 2011 | 10:30 AM |While Fred Karger's political ad is called, "Demon Frisbee," it seems more like an alien frisbee to me. The kooky gay Republican has put out a spot in New Hampshire touting his, um, free Fred frisbees. Sure, giggle all you...Read More
Action Alert: Texas Legislature Mulls Voiding Marriages, And One In Particular
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 10, 2011 | 9:30 AM |Texas law allows transsexual and intersex individuals to get married upon the presentation of a court order recognizing sex reassignment. This change honors the self-identification rather than basing access to marriage licenses on sex assigned at birth. The Texas Senate...Read More
Michigan Attacks Pro-Gay University Funding
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 10, 2011 | 8:30 AM |Don't accuse government of not accomplishing anything; here they're upholding the moral fabric of America by making certain some people can't get a bone marrow transplant when they get leukemia: The Michigan House approved an amendment to the education budget...Read More
Sally Kern Is Sorry
Filed by Anthony Carter | May 09, 2011 | 7:00 PM |"We have a high percentage of blacks in prison, and that's tragic, but are they in prison just because they are black or because they don't want to study as hard in school? I've taught school, and I saw a...Read More
Poor, Oppressed Corporations
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 09, 2011 | 6:00 PM |Maybe universities should start offering classes to study the oppression of corporations and create safe spaces for them on campus. They've only been people since 1886, and they've been maligned ever since. All they want to do is make a...Read More
War Porn: What We Don't Need to See
Filed by Terrance Heath | May 09, 2011 | 3:00 PM |Warning: Graphic images below the fold. NSFW. Strong trigger warning re: graphic depictions of violence, abuse, etc. Here, we go again. Why does it seem, lately, that a significant portion of the country sounds a lot like our three-year-old every...Read More
ACLU Finds Schools Intentionally Block LGBT Websites
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 09, 2011 | 11:00 AM |The ACLU, in putting out a call for students to check to see if LGBT websites are blocked by their schools, found a lot more violations of free speech and equal access than one would think. And they didn't just...Read More
Florida: Awake the State Again on May 10
Filed by Michael Emanuel Rajner | May 09, 2011 | 8:30 AM |This past March 8th, at the onset of our Florida's legislative session, thousands of Floridians rallied on street corners throughout the state, in 31 cities, to send Florida's state legislature a strong message. It was a warning to lawmakers that...Read More
We Who Feel Differently: Global Reflections on Gay Rights
Filed by R Conrad | May 08, 2011 | 11:30 AM |Carlos Motta, a queer Colombian-American multi-disciplinary artist making his home in New York City, has launched and ambitious new web-based project called We Who Feel Differently. The project exists largely as an online database of documentary style video interviews with...Read More
Vermont Goes to Single-Payer Health Care
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 07, 2011 | 4:00 PM |As Americans who pay attention to politics learned last year, the US spends (lots) more per person on health care but doesn't get spectacular results out of its system, half of all of bankruptcies are caused by medical expenses, and...Read More
Writing A Falsified American History
Filed by Michael Hamar | May 07, 2011 | 2:00 PM |The New York Times did a piece the other day on David Barton (pictured at left), a Christian dominionist who writes fictional versions of the history of the United States to support the efforts of Christianists to dupe the masses...Read More
Rightwing Poll: Americans Don't Want Gay Lessons
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 06, 2011 | 1:00 PM |America's most-trusted birther news source, World Net Daily, along with a birther polling outfit, Wenzel Strategies, have a poll about teaching about homosexuality in schools, which they say shows that 65% of people oppose. Assuming that they actually did hire...Read More
Florida's Sexting Bill: A More Measured Approach
Filed by Ricci Levy | May 05, 2011 | 3:00 PM |While I don't believe sexting ought to be a crime in all instances, I am pleased to see that Florida is taking a more measured approach than most states. Florida's SB 888 creates the crime of "sexting", the transmission of...Read More
Your Husband Will Be Deported Tomorrow
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 05, 2011 | 12:00 PM |BREAKING NEWS: MetroWeekly: Attorney General Holder Vacates Immigration Decision Based on DOMA The Velandia case has been stayed until mid-summer. Imagine that your beloved were being deported tomorrow. He is not being deported because he is a criminal, or entered...Read More
Is Rape a Legitimate Form of Punishment?
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 05, 2011 | 9:30 AM |Trigger warning for rape. A millionaire accused of murder in South Africa who was arrested in the UK is arguing that he shouldn't be extradited because he will certainly be raped in prison and has a good chance of contracting...Read More
Indiana's First Openly Gay Politician?
Filed by Bil Browning | May 04, 2011 | 4:00 PM |Congratulations to Indianapolis activist Zach Adamson on winning yesterday's primary race to be one of four official Democrat candidates for the Indianapolis City-County Council. Many of you know Zach from the comments section of Bilerico; he was one of our...Read More
Canada Votes for Hard Right Turn
Filed by Mercedes Allen | May 04, 2011 | 1:30 PM |Canada voted Monday, and in the end, centrist Canadians decided - thanks to some effective Conservative Party messaging and third-party vote-splitting - that they were more frightened by "socialism" than they were by the thought of a theocratic-influenced, Republican-style, control-fixated...Read More
61 Year Long Engagement
Filed by Michael Crawford | May 04, 2011 | 11:30 AM |Richard Dorr, 83, and, John Mace, 91, are seriously the most adorable couple ever. And, after being together for 61 years, haven't they waited long enough to get married in New York? This video featuring Richard and John is one...Read More
NOM's Superficial Diversity
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 03, 2011 | 6:00 PM |Louis Marinelli, the NOM organizer who defected, has a post up about how NOM uses imagery of racially diverse crowds in their promotional materials. The entire thing is worth a read - he publishes a bunch of emails that NOM...Read More
Why Does God Keep On Making Gays If He Doesn't Like Us?
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 03, 2011 | 1:30 PM |A Minnesota representative Steven Simon in a house debate on an amendment to ban same-sex marriage in that state asks, "How many more gay people does God have to create before we ask ourselves whether or not God actually wants...Read More
LGBT- Friendly Justice Sotomayor To Speak At Ramapo College Commencement
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 03, 2011 | 12:30 PM |Justice Sonia Sotomayor is coming to give the commencement address at my college, Ramapo College of New Jersey, on Friday, May 14. I am especially pleased about Justice Sotomayor because of her positions on LGBT issues. Are you listening, LGBT...Read More
Looking Back at 9-11: A Flight Attendant's Story
Filed by Waymon Hudson | May 02, 2011 | 7:00 PM |Author's Note: I was asked to repost my first hand recollection of September 11th when the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden broke, so here it is in its original form. I think it's important that we use...Read More
On Universities: If Obama's a Kettle, Is Donald Trump Black?
Filed by Don Davis | May 01, 2011 | 4:00 PM |Just about 40 seconds after (Yes, He's Actually the) President Barack Obama brought forth his Certificate of Live Birth unto the world, Donald Trump was accusing Obama of somehow sneaking his way into some university or another. If Trump's to...Read More
Prolonged Adolescence
Filed by Anthony Carter | May 01, 2011 | 1:00 PM |Six pack abs, huge cocks, all night sex parties, and drug-induced orgies are now officially over. We are now officially required to man up and grow up and take our rightful place in society as responsible, trustworthy citizens. I want...Read More
