You Gotta See This: January 2009
Matt Alber's "End of the World"
Filed by Michael Crawford | January 31, 2009 7:00 AM |Openly gay singer Matt Alber recently released his new solo album Hide Nothing after five years with the Grammy Award winning classical vocal group Chanticleer....Read More
Christ-bashing is not the same as gay bashing
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 30, 2009 7:00 AM |A vlogger takes on the "Christian Anti-Defamation League" (seriously) and their list of "Christ-bashing" incidents....Read More
Gay Bar
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 29, 2009 7:00 AM |The music video for punk-funk band Electric Six's "Gay Bar."...Read More
Grant Haas speaks out about Ted Haggard
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 28, 2009 7:00 AM |Grant Haas, the young man who was sexually molested by Ted Haggard, speaks to local news....Read More
Best baseball game ever!
Filed by Bil Browning | January 27, 2009 7:00 AM |This little league game turns into a major sporting event thanks to Improv Everywhere. They worked the league commissioner and NBC Sports to give these kids the time of their lives. None of the coaches, players or parents have...Read More
Barack Obollywood
Filed by Bil Browning | January 26, 2009 7:00 AM |I'm not sure if this is clever editing or if the creator was on a acid trip around Indiana. Either way, Barack Obama colliding with Bollywood is absolutely hysterical. I love the women dancing on his suit the best....Read More
99 Problems, But a Bush Ain't One
Filed by Michael Crawford | January 25, 2009 7:30 AM |At the Obama campaign staff party during inauguration week Jay-Z performed 99 Problems changing a crucial line of the song. As you can see in this clip, the song captured the mood of the audience and frankly the rest...Read More
No Homo
Filed by Michael Crawford | January 24, 2009 7:00 AM |In case you've been wondering about the etymology of the hip-hop phrase "no homo," here it is courtesy of Ill Doctrine....Read More
GetToKnowUsFirst.org's Inauguration ads
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 23, 2009 7:00 AM |GetToKnowUsFirst.org ran these ads during the Inauguration, and were even rejected by one local affiliate as inappropriate....Read More
Pistol Youth's "In My Eyes" Golden Girls video
Filed by Bil Browning | January 22, 2009 7:30 AM |Pistol Youth's video for "In My Eyes" takes every gay man's love of Golden Girls* to the extreme. Be careful - you'll have nightmares if you watch this music video. Hat tip to Graydon at omg blog for this...Read More
Why I'm happy, why I'm not satisfied
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 21, 2009 7:00 AM |The Ill Doctrine talks about the big day yesterday....Read More
Franklin D. Roosevelt's inaugural address
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 20, 2009 7:00 AM |Here's FDR's first inaugural address....Read More
Ten Other Things Martin Luther King Jr. Said
Filed by Bil Browning | January 19, 2009 7:00 AM |Everyone knows Martin Luther King Jr. for his "I Have a Dream Speech." Other than that, most just think of him as "the civil rights guy." But what else did he say? Here's ten other things Martin Luther King...Read More
Aer Obama
Filed by Michael Crawford | January 18, 2009 7:00 AM |"This is a mixed-media stop motion music video and celebration commemorating the election and inauguration of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth president of these United States. Audibly showcasing Adam Freeland's remix of Daft Punk's "Aerodynamic" and the imaginative stylings...Read More
Inside the Transition: LGBT advocates
Filed by Michael Crawford | January 17, 2009 7:00 AM |Here is video of a meeting between LGBT leaders and the Presidential Transition Team's Office of Public Liaison....Read More
Mormons broke the law for Prop 8?
Filed by Bil Browning | January 16, 2009 7:00 AM |Activists claim that money from the Mormon Church was the deciding factor in passing Proposition 8 in California - banning gay marriage. The church claims to have only spent a few thousand dollars on the campaign, but American News...Read More
Nancy Pelosi rickrolls America
Filed by Bil Browning | January 15, 2009 7:00 AM |The whole "Rickrolling" joke is now officially dead. Rickrolling the Macy's Day parade was bad enough, but once you involve Nancy Pelosi's Capital Cat Cam, all bets are off. Bury the damn thing....Read More
Mike Huckabee isn't pro-sodomy
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 14, 2009 7:00 AM |Who sucks more, Ann Coulter or Mike Huckabee? At least Mike calls Ann a liar, although his groveling for Ann's approval is disgusting. Gay part starts at 4:05. Huck is "pro-sodomy"? He wanted to round us up and drop...Read More
Smack 'dem Christians down
Filed by Bil Browning | January 13, 2009 7:00 AM |Right-Wing Evangelical hypocrites receive their comeuppance at the hands of singer-songwriter Jay Spears, the Founding Fathers, and the Warren Court, deftly and fabulously separating Church and State. See a higher-res version and get a DVD at jayspears.com Thanks for...Read More
I love a boy named Jesse
Filed by Bil Browning | January 12, 2009 7:00 AM |This great music video features Israeli singer Ivri Lider. It's a beautiful, haunting melody that I rushed out to buy for the ole iPod. You'll love it. (Hat tip to Projector Daniel for sending it in.)...Read More
Call Her Ms. Ross
Filed by Michael Crawford | January 11, 2009 9:58 AM |It doesn't get any better than The Supremes performing Love is Like an Itching in My Heart....Read More
What About Gay Marriage?
Filed by Michael Crawford | January 10, 2009 7:00 AM |Wondering what gay marriage would look like? The kindly folks at 23/6 produced this PSA to help you get a clue....Read More
Anderson Cooper and the Puppy Debate
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 09, 2009 7:00 AM |Because CNN has decided it has to worry about being taken too seriously, Anderson Cooper hosted a debate of puppies to be the nation's First Dog....Read More
impACT Florida video
Filed by Bil Browning | January 08, 2009 7:00 AM |This low-budget YouTube video for impACT Florida reminds me of some of my own first steps towards activism. Hat tip to Andrew, one of the producers, for sending it in....Read More
Monkeys talk about evolution
Filed by Bil Browning | January 07, 2009 7:00 AM |Seth McFarland's YouTube short toons are just as good as Family Guy. Some of them are even crappier! I loved this one; the father monkey just sounds so rational doesn't he? I wonder how he'll react when little Steven...Read More
Top Gun's gay
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 07, 2009 7:00 AM |All the gay parts of Top Gun, all in one video. I don't remember the movie being quite so gay.......Read More
Richard Simmons's foot fetish
Filed by Bil Browning | January 06, 2009 7:00 AM |Oh. My. God. What in the world could have compelled Richard Simmons to maul this woman's foot on live television? Foot fetish, anyone? I don't think I want to know... *walks away shaking his head*...Read More
Being Gay PSA
Filed by Michael Crawford | January 05, 2009 7:00 AM |Okay, this is a little offensive, but its pretty funny....Read More
Antarctica
Filed by Michael Crawford | January 04, 2009 7:00 AM |It is films like Antarctica full of beautiful Jewish men that make me want to catch the next flight to Tel Aviv. Look for the film at a LGBT film festival near you....Read More
Uncle Jay explains 2008
Filed by Bil Browning | January 03, 2009 7:00 AM |Okay, I promise - no more 2008 round ups. We'll give good old Uncle Jay the last word since he set to Christmas music. We're already past Christmas, but doesn't he seem the type that would be the creepy...Read More
Kathy Griffin doesn't realize the mic is still on
Filed by Bil Browning | January 02, 2009 7:00 AM |Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin on CNN for New Year's Eve. Did anyone really think there wouldn't be a "Whoops!" moment?...Read More
