You Gotta See This: October 2011
Perry's Kooky Fundie Speech
Filed by Bil Browning | October 31, 2011 8:00 AM |While Rick Perry has always been quite a bit whackadoodle, his speech to the New Hampshire Cornerstone conservatives this weekend proves without a shadow of a doubt that he is simply Michelle Bachmann's intelligence in a suit and tie....Read More
Bounville Holds Matthew Shepard Vigil in Laramie
Filed by Ed Team | October 30, 2011 9:00 AM |Frequent guest contributor Alan Bounville has been walked his way across America to raise awareness for LGBT issues. In Laramie, Wyoming, he stops with a friend to hold a vigil at the site of the murder of Matthew Shepard....Read More
Zzzzzzz: New Maine Marriage Ad
Filed by Bil Browning | October 29, 2011 9:53 AM |Wake me up when this boring ad featuring a minister and his wife is over. Yet another bland and boring ad for marriage equality that's ashamed to even feature an LGBT person. When will the movement realize these boring-ass...Read More
Grindr Gets Taiwanese Animation Treatment
Filed by Ed Team | October 28, 2011 3:36 PM |You know you love those Taiwanese animations about American news stories. Here comes one on the launch of Blendr, the new app made by the same folks who make Grindr. Surprisingly, there's quite a bit of live action footage...Read More
Mo'Nique on Marriage Equality
Filed by Bil Browning | October 27, 2011 9:19 AM |"We've all been given free will, so let's use our will to let others be free," says Mo'Nique in HRC's latest Americans for Marriage Equality video....Read More
Celebrities on Anti-LGBT Bullying
Filed by Ed Team | October 26, 2011 8:00 AM |There's scads of celebrities in this promo video from GLAAD about anti-LGBT bullying. There's Chaz Bono, Shaquille O'Neal, Naya Rivera, Kristin Chenoweth, Amy Poehler and Rashida Jones all in one video!...Read More
(Field) Hockey Player Comes Out
Filed by Bil Browning | October 25, 2011 8:00 AM |Australian field hockey goalkeeper Gus Johnston has come out in a video he posted online. I always screw up how big of a "star" these foreign sports stars are, so I'll just come clean now and admit I thought...Read More
A Phone Call to Mom
Filed by Ed Team | October 24, 2011 8:00 AM |Frequent guest contributor Alan Bounville is walking across America for LGBT equality. He hadn't spoken to his mother for two years after she voted in favor of a marriage discrimination amendment, but as he crossed the Great Divide, Alan...Read More
School District Hangs Up on Bullying
Filed by Ed Team | October 23, 2011 11:58 AM |After Merik Castro spoke at the Litchfield Elementary School board meeting and asked them to change their district policies to protect their students and staff from bullying, harassment, intimidation and discrimination, he was summarily ignored. The district has come...Read More
Buick: Hudson Taylor on Athlete Ally
Filed by Ed Team | October 22, 2011 9:00 AM |Straight ally and three-time All-American wrestler, Hudson Taylor, was chosen as one of Buick's "Human Highlights." Here's his story and how he came to create Athlete Ally - "a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering athletes to consider their status...Read More
Ellen Honors Spirit Day
Filed by Ed Team | October 21, 2011 8:00 AM |video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Ellen Degeneres honored Spirit Day yesterday with a purple outfit and some words of wisdom (and wit)....Read More
HRC Takes Video Campaign National
Filed by Ed Team | October 20, 2011 8:00 AM |The Human Rights Campaign has expanded it's successful New York State video series of prominent Americans advocating for marriage equality to the national stage. The first video stars Newark, New Jersey mayor Cory Booker....Read More
Absolutely Distasteful
Filed by Bil Browning | October 19, 2011 8:00 AM |Watching this video from ProjectGOPink will leave you with a bad taste in your mouth. I don't care that it's a group for women, using the First Lady in a political ad while twisting her words to make it...Read More
I'm Not Racist
Filed by Bil Browning | October 18, 2011 8:00 AM |He's not racist. Okay. Maybe he is....Read More
The Tug Toner
Filed by Ed Team | October 17, 2011 8:00 AM |Apparently contributor Ed Kennedy wasn't the only man to see a commercial for the Shake Weight successor, Free Flexor, and imagine another arm exercise entirely. Jimmy Kimmel takes the logic one step further to introduce the sure-to-happen fitness craze,...Read More
Your Man Reminder: Touch Yourself
Filed by Bil Browning | October 16, 2011 9:00 AM |Rethink Breast Cancer has a new app called "Your Man Reminder." It employs a bevy of bare chested hotties to remind you to touch yourself. Stay tuned for the ending - particularly Christian....Read More
Fake English
Filed by Ed Team | October 15, 2011 9:56 AM |Ever wonder what English sounds like to someone who doesn't speak the language?...Read More
Gay Soldiers Don't Bother This Action Figure
Filed by Ed Team | October 14, 2011 8:15 AM |A group called Action Figure Therapy has revealed in this new video what everyone's been dying to know: what action figure soldiers think about the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Looks like this toy, Snow, is pretty clear:...Read More
Bryan Fischer Pleads Innocence
Filed by Ed Team | October 13, 2011 12:28 PM |Poor picked on Bryan Fischer. He's on Mitt Romney's "hit list." After Romney tiptoed around condemning Fischer's "poisonous language," Fischer has come out to plead his innocence saying he doesn't know what Romney could possibly be referring to. RightWingWatch...Read More
Chris Christie Endorses Mitt Romney
Filed by Bil Browning | October 12, 2011 8:00 AM |*yawns* The guy who's not running for President but everyone begs to jump in the race has endorsed the guy no one really wants to run but who just won't stop trying to win. Oh, Mitt Romney. Chris Christie...Read More
Our Families: LGBT Latino Stories
Filed by Ed Team | October 11, 2011 8:00 AM |Basic Rights Oregon's new three-part video series, Our Families, highlights the experiences of LGBT people of color. So to kick off National Coming Out Day, here's the video featuring Latino stories. There's also an Asian and Pacific Islander video...Read More
I'm Making an Effort
Filed by Bil Browning | October 10, 2011 9:30 AM |It's Columbus Day and I'm never comfortable to have a federal holiday dedicated to the rape and pillage of Native Americans. To make an effort, here's the "Great American Melting Pot." It's still heavily sanitized and whitewashed, so it...Read More
Mitt Romney 'Denounces' Bryan Fischer
Filed by Bil Browning | October 09, 2011 12:16 PM |GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke at the Value Voters Summit sponsored by the American Family Association. While Romney didn't specifically reference AFA bigwig Bryan Fischer, but Romney's soft-toned chiding was meant for the homophobic, racist, and sexist "family...Read More
Declaration from Occupy Wall Street
Filed by Jerame Davis | October 08, 2011 8:00 AM |It's a pretty detailed and damning list of grievances and a simple demand. What do you think?...Read More
Bachmann: Vote for Me Because I Love Straight Marriage
Filed by Ed Team | October 07, 2011 9:21 AM |Another round of crazy from Michelle Bachmann. She makes sure to let us know she loves straight marriage and hates uteruses. So, nothing new....Read More
The Crazy Ones
Filed by Bil Browning | October 06, 2011 9:08 AM |Apple Founder Steve Jobs narrates the first Think Different commercial "Here's to the Crazy Ones". It never aired. Jobs died yesterday at the age of 56 after a lifetime spent becoming a "crazy one."...Read More
Marylanders for Marriage Equality
Filed by Bil Browning | October 05, 2011 8:30 AM |The Human Rights Campaign is building off of the success of their New Yorkers for Marriage Equality videos featuring celebrities and high profile politicians announcing their support for marriage equality. They've kicked off the Marylanders for Marriage Equality series...Read More
John Aravosis on HRC National Dinner
Filed by Bil Browning | October 04, 2011 9:20 AM |Since I was at the event, I missed John Aravosis' CNN appearance to discuss the HRC National Dinner. They had John on both before and after Obama's speech. Here's the first pre-dinner part. The second post-speech video is after...Read More
Homophobic Jesus Makes Traditional Marriage PSA
Filed by Ed Team | October 03, 2011 8:00 AM |Have you heard of Homophobic Jesus? No, not the version regularly trotted out by the religious right, the one on Twitter and with his own website. Watch as the actor hired to portray Jesus tries to "make miracles happen."...Read More
Marriage = Man + Woman + 70 Kids
Filed by Ed Team | October 01, 2011 9:00 AM |I swear. When people treat the holy ceremony of matrimony so lightly that they don't tell their fiancee they've fathered 70 kids until shortly before the ceremony, it just burns my ass. Ban straight marriage! Oh, wait. The dude's...Read More
