You Gotta See This: July 2008

Waymon Hudson

Award Winning "Think Equal" Commercial

Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 31, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch Garden State Equality's "Think Equal" marriage equality ad, part of their highly successful equality education campaign, has won the Commercial Closet Association Award for the year's Outstanding Nonprofit Campaign! Congratulations!...Read More

Waymon Hudson

Lambda Literary Awards: Memorial to LGBT Literary Figures

Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 30, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch A memorial of the LGBT writers and literary figures who have passed during the 20 years since the begining of the Lambda Literary Awards. (h/t Towleroad)...Read More

Bil Browning

For the anti-social Japanese person

Filed by Bil Browning | July 29, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch Are you a computer geek with some nasty social interaction aversion? Are you too shy to even look a girl in the eyes? Well, never fear - Japanese company Avex has put out a DVD...Read More

Waymon Hudson

McCain just oozes charm...

Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 28, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch A video of McCain rudely dismissing a female reporter from the Wallstreet Journal. Should this be surprising when he calls his wife a c*nt in public? Even more telling is Lindsey Graham's expression... The great...Read More

Waymon Hudson

Leave Marti Alone

Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 27, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch Our own Marti Abernathey gets the "Chris Crocker" treatment from Lori....Read More

Waymon Hudson

Florida Amendment Backers Put Out Commercial- UGH

Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 26, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch Florida4Marriage, the backers of the so-called "Marriage Protection Amendment" in Florida, have put out their first commercial. It's just as bad and insulting as you would imagine. To help defeat the Florida's Amendment 2, visit...Read More

Waymon Hudson

Is Batman gay? I give you- the Batusi Dance!

Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 25, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch On the heels of our wildly popular "When Batman Was Gay" post by Tyrion, I thought a little vintage Batman doing the "Batusi" dance would be appropriate. Holy Homosexual, Batman!...Read More

Alex Blaze

My son is gay?

Filed by Alex Blaze | July 24, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch A weird made-for-Youtube video about a mother coming to terms with her son's sexuality....Read More

Bil Browning

Love and laughter: Estelle Getty dies

Filed by Bil Browning | July 23, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch Beloved actress and gay rights advocate Estelle Getty has passed away. Her Golden Girls character, Sophia Petrillo, is one of the most memorable television mothers in history. Anyone else remember the episode where Sophia fights...Read More

Bil Browning

A rightwinger finally answers the question

Filed by Bil Browning | July 22, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch For those of us always wanting an answer to the "How does my family hurt your family?", Focus on the Family's Glenn Stanton is ready to answer. Why do single parents hate diversity? My God,...Read More

Alex Blaze

Jesse Helms... cross dresser?

Filed by Alex Blaze | July 21, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch From the Signorile Show... was Jesse Helms into cross-dressing...Read More

Bil Browning

John McCain isn't the decider

Filed by Bil Browning | July 20, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch Planned Parenthood released this commercial highlighting John McCain's Viagra moment. His non-answer should be played continuously like Dean's scream was. What a tool....Read More

Bil Browning

Send Karl Rove to jail

Filed by Bil Browning | July 19, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch The snotty little bastard should spend some time cooling his heels behind bars. Karl Rove should be persecuted as a war criminal, not appearing on talk shows and jetting off to foreign countries on vacation...Read More

Bil Browning

(Mostly) naked college hunk hula hooping!

Filed by Bil Browning | July 18, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch My God, I love a man who can hula hoop. Our dedicated athlete, Nicholas Ryan, will be in Playgirl's Nov. 2008 College Hunks issue. If he'd only tell me which campus he's on, I'd be...Read More

Bil Browning

Campaign Time

Filed by Bil Browning | July 17, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch Jib Jab's latest skewers both Obama and McCain while tossing in a few good smacks at Hillary Clinton too. As I heard Jack Cafferty say last night on CNN, "This'll actually make you laugh out...Read More

Alex Blaze

Drag Queen in China

Filed by Alex Blaze | July 16, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch Ted Koppel talks to a Chinese drag queen on self-expression and the closet....Read More

Alex Blaze

John McCain knows computers

Filed by Alex Blaze | July 15, 2008 7:30 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch Lord knows someone needs to help John McCain, and it might as well be Video Professor....Read More

Bil Browning

Even Hasselhoff would ride these cowboys

Filed by Bil Browning | July 14, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch All I'm going to say is after watching the footage, I'm confident I could save a horse....Read More

Alex Blaze

New Team Gina music video

Filed by Alex Blaze | July 13, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch ZOMG!!!1!!1!! A new Team Gina music video!...Read More

Bil Browning

How to seduce a transgender woman

Filed by Bil Browning | July 12, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch I've been cracking up watching riftgirlblog's videos on YouTube. She has her own blog too - Being T and she's just as funny there. Definitely check her out....Read More

Alex Blaze

Homophobic Scientology

Filed by Alex Blaze | July 11, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch A gay group tries to hand out pro-gay fliers outside a Scientology institute in Toronto. Wackiness ensues....Read More

Bil Browning

Putting a condom on Jesse

Filed by Bil Browning | July 10, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch What a great way to remember hateful bigot Jesse Helms. When I heard that TAG had put a condom on Helms' house, I laughed out loud. He was deadlier than the virus......Read More

Bil Browning

Lieberman Must Go

Filed by Bil Browning | July 09, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch I forgot to post this earlier, but this Brave New Films video spawned 43,000 signatures to ask the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee to strip Sen. Joe Lieberman of his rank and committee chairmanship...Read More

Alex Blaze

Silly string at SF Pride

Filed by Alex Blaze | July 08, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch From San Francisco Pride - a hater gets silly stringed....Read More

Bil Browning

Is Barack Obama the Antichrist?

Filed by Bil Browning | July 07, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch Oh, for pity's sake. Obama is the Antichrist. That's a smear campaign that Jerry Falwell cooked up in hell. The worst part is that someone will take it to heart and vote with these "facts"...Read More

Bil Browning

The T Word - Episode 1

Filed by Bil Browning | July 06, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch Maybe I've been hanging around the trans folk too much lately, but "The T Word" seems a lot more interesting than "The L Word." *grins*...Read More

Waymon Hudson

Activism is more than a word

Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 05, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch A look at pictures in LGBT activism from around the world....Read More

Bil Browning

The Fabulous Life of John McCain

Filed by Bil Browning | July 03, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch It must be nice to be as rich as John McCain. I'm sure he's just like one of the guys......Read More

Bil Browning

Just when you though McCain couldn't get creepier

Filed by Bil Browning | July 02, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch Oh yeah. John McCain as a stalker... Won't someone please use this clip from Saturday Night Live in an ad? I'm sure it would help his appeal to women voters. Nothing says "Presidential material" like...Read More

Sara Whitman

California Marriages in Communities of Color

Filed by Sara Whitman | July 01, 2008 7:00 AM | comments

iPhone users: Click to watch If for no other reason that to see the diverse groups all gathering to celebrate marriage equality, please watch this video. Ms. Sen makes a strong point and I agree. Michelle Obama stood up and...Read More

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