You Gotta See This: May 2011
Why Family Research Council Was Designated a Hate Group
Filed by Bil Browning | May 31, 2011 7:00 AM |Ever wonder whether or not the Southern Poverty Law Center was justified in naming the Family Research Council a hate group? Yeah. They were. (Hat tip to JMG)...Read More
Starting the Long Weekend
Filed by Bil Browning | May 28, 2011 7:00 AM |It's the start of the long Memorial Day weekend. Traffic drops lower this weekend than it does for Christmas. To help get in the spirit of the lazy start of summer, here's a video that's sure to set the...Read More
This Never Happens on the Metro
Filed by Bil Browning | May 27, 2011 7:00 AM |Sometimes when I travel around DC, I still get a little awestruck by the go-go-go of it all. There's the bus, the circulator, the metro, taxis, zip cars, and the bike share. But the one thing I've not seen...Read More
The R Word
Filed by Bil Browning | May 26, 2011 7:00 AM |During this week's Glee season finale, this public service announcement ran to remind people not to use the word "retarded" to mean something stupid. The ad catches your attention right at the beginning; it's really well done....Read More
President Obama (Awkwardly) Toasts the Queen of England
Filed by Bil Browning | May 25, 2011 7:00 AM |When President Obama started to toast Queen Elizabeth, the orchestra misunderstood his pause after saying, "to her Majesty the Queen," and thought he wanted them to play "God Save the Queen." Awkwardness abounds....Read More
Former NY Gov Accepts Trans Rights Award
Filed by Ed Team | May 24, 2011 7:00 AM |Former New York Governor David Paterson accepted an award from the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund on Monday night. Michael Lavers brings us the entire acceptance speech....Read More
LGBT Antidiscrimination Laws Will Molest Your Daughter
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 23, 2011 7:00 AM |An ad for a bill in Tennessee that would outlaw LGBT antidiscrimination legislation passed at the local level, which takes footage from an ad from Florida in 2008....Read More
Too Close: Song about Erections
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 22, 2011 7:00 AM |We all remember there was a hit song back in the 90's about getting an erection in public, right? It may have been easier at the time to write it off as one of the excesses of a great...Read More
Bryan Safi on Real Housewives
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 21, 2011 7:00 AM |Bryan Safi takes on the gay man/straight woman relationships of Real Housewives. I had no idea that this sort of TV was happening....Read More
George Takei Lends His Name to Tennessee Gays
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 20, 2011 7:00 AM |George Takei takes on the "Don't Say Gay" bill in Tennessee by giving everyone his name....Read More
Bryan Fischer Calls Gays Muslim/Catholic Nazis
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 19, 2011 7:00 AM |Via RightWingWatch, here's the AFA's Bryan Fischer saying that gays are Nazis, just like Muslims and the Catholic Church during the Inquisition. Television stations still call on him to discuss homosexuality, since clearly he's an expert....Read More
Singapore's Pink Dot
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 18, 2011 7:00 AM |A promotional video for Singapore's Pink Dot Festival....Read More
Don Lemon Discusses Book
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 17, 2011 7:00 AM |Don Lemon's first interview since he came out....Read More
Video of NOM Rally in the Bronx
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 16, 2011 7:00 AM |Brian Brown of NOM at a rally in the Bronx, telling people gay marriage will make their children hate them. That's a lot of energy there for a campaign they claim is entirely about protecting the definition of a...Read More
Louis Marinelli on the NOM Counterprotest Today
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 15, 2011 7:00 AM |Louis Marinelli, the NOM defector, wants you to go out and protest for marriage today in New York City....Read More
PSA against 'That's So Gay'
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 14, 2011 7:00 AM |A PSA against saying "That's so gay," from GLSEN, the Ad Council, and the NBA....Read More
Marriage Ad from Israel
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 13, 2011 7:00 AM |An ad for marriage freedom from Israel....Read More
The Gay Sex Panic Video from Texas A&M
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 12, 2011 7:00 AM |Here's the video the campus conservatives at Texas A&M took and disseminated to try and shut down the LGBT Community Center, James O'Keefe style. NSFW, but then it wasn't meant to be viewed at work. I don't think it's...Read More
Trailer for Chaz Bono Documentary
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 11, 2011 7:00 AM |Trailer for the Oprah Winfrey Network's documentary on Chaz Bono, Becoming Chaz. Rupaul and Cher appear in it....Read More
Students Walk Out on Anti-Gay Commencement Speaker
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 10, 2011 7:00 AM |Law students at the University of Michigan walk out of Sen. Rob Portman's commencement speech because of his anti-gay views and votes....Read More
Raja Does 'Diamonds Are Forever'
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 09, 2011 7:00 AM |Drag queen Raja performs "Diamonds Are Forever."...Read More
Ron Paul on Same-Sex Marriage
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 08, 2011 7:00 AM |Ron Paul on same-sex marriage....Read More
Rick Santorum Still Wants to Talk about Gays and Abortion
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 07, 2011 7:00 AM |Rick Santorum disagrees with Mitch Daniels's "truce" on social issues. I find both their politics disgusting, but I'm closer to Santorum here. No, we can't pretend that we don't care about social issues just so we can unite around...Read More
FCKH8 on Tennessee
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 06, 2011 7:00 AM |FCKH8's video on the Tennessee "Don't Say Gay" bill. I can't say I don't find their videos entertaining....Read More
Clovis, New Mexico, Refuses GSA
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 05, 2011 7:00 AM |Local news covers Clovis, New Mexico, schools banning all clubs after a GSA applied to be a club. The city is near an Air Force base and its economy is largely supported through that and agriculture....Read More
Google's It Gets Better Ad
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 04, 2011 7:00 AM |Google runs an ad that's not really an It Gets Better video, but more to show that their various products can be used to view the videos and to associate their brand (for the purpose of profit) with a...Read More
A Teacher on Coming Out to Students
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 03, 2011 7:00 AM |A teacher talks about being open about being gay to his students....Read More
Obama Announces Osama bin Laden's Death
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 02, 2011 7:00 AM |Obama announces Osama bin Laden's death....Read More
Military Training on DADT Repeal
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 01, 2011 7:00 AM |The AP covers Marine training on DADT repeal. What's interesting here isn't the training itself, which has been discussed before. It's the reaction. The message that the military put on top of everything is that you don't have to...Read More
