You Gotta See This: January 2013
Sean Chapin on the NFL Closet
Filed by Bil Browning | January 31, 2013 | 12:30 PM |After Super Bowl-bound 49ers player Chris Culliver made disparaging remarks about gay people playing in the NFL, the queer outrage-o-meter went off the charts, but the reaction from the normally heterocentric sports radio announcers may have topped our own....Read More
A Pep Talk Just for You
Filed by Bil Browning | January 30, 2013 | 7:00 PM |If you don't feel better after this pep talk, there's no hope for you....Read More
Bad Lip Reading the Obama Inauguration
Filed by Bil Browning | January 27, 2013 | 11:30 AM |My god, I love these bad lip reading videos. It's ridiculous. I know they're not as funny as they used to be, but they still make me giggle. Here's Obama's inauguration - including Beyonce's lip synching performance....Read More
Obama Addresses Queer Conference
Filed by Bil Browning | January 26, 2013 | 4:11 PM |Sure, after five years of constant attendance, I decided to sit out the Task Force's Creating Change conference this year. But what happens? Obama addresses the attendees via video. Here's Obama's remarks to the conference. In all seriousness though,...Read More
Spencer Cox's Moving Memorial
Filed by Bil Browning | January 25, 2013 | 1:00 PM |Sunday's memorial for AIDS activist and former ACT UP spokesperson, Spencer Cox, included this moving eulogy by his friend and fellow activist Peter Staley. It's called "Grief is a Sword" and you'll need Kleenex by the end. Cox ended...Read More
Get Ready to Cry
Filed by Bil Browning | January 24, 2013 | 12:00 PM |This video of a New Jersey teenager coming out at a school assembly has swept the web. If you haven't seen it yet, go grab some Kleenex before you hit play....Read More
Rand Paul Wants to Fire Hillary Clinton
Filed by Bil Browning | January 23, 2013 | 2:00 PM |Rand Paul continues proving to America that he's more interested in grandstanding and running for President in 2016 than he is with discovering what really happened in Benghazi....Read More
Wonderful: Live Action 'Toy Story'
Filed by Bil Browning | January 22, 2013 | 12:22 PM |Two teenagers, Jonason Pauley and Jesse Perrotta, decided to make a live action version of the classic Pixar flick Toy Story scene-for-scene. The result is something remarkably wonderful....Read More
Interior. Leather Bar. Trailer.
Filed by Bil Browning | January 19, 2013 | 2:04 PM |James Franco's highly anticipated flick Interior. Leather Bar. hits Sundance this weekend and the trailer is out now. It's based off Al Pacino's 1980 film Cruising which had 40 minutes removed by censors. Franco's movie reimagines what it was...Read More
We Are All Jamaicans
Filed by Bil Browning | January 18, 2013 | 10:50 AM |The Jamaica Forum For Lesbian, All-Sexuals, and Gays (J-FLAG) has started a new web PSA series called "We Are Jamaicans." This one features a straight ally talking about why he supports LGBTQ rights. (Hat tip to Andres via Joe)...Read More
The NRA's New Attack Ad
Filed by Bil Browning | January 16, 2013 | 10:48 AM |While common sense might dictate that the NRA's recent meltdown in the face of the Newtown shootings would be good cause for them to rethink their positions, the far right gun group has instead decided to go on the...Read More
Wheel of Bigotry [Satire]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | January 15, 2013 | 9:00 AM |'Some Grey Bloke' takes on the recent disgusting transphobia from Julie Birchill, which was published in The Observer and cross-posted to The Guardian....Read More
Jodie Foster Comes Out
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | January 14, 2013 | 9:00 AM |Jodie Foster confirmed one of Hollywood's most open secrets when she acknowledged her history of relationships with women while accepting the Cecile B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes....Read More
Noah St. John - 'The Last Mile'
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | January 13, 2013 | 9:00 AM |15yr old Noah St. John recounts a defining car ride with his two moms, and in the process earns the title of "NPR Snap Judgment Performance of the Year."...Read More
A Heartfelt Thank You
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | January 12, 2013 | 9:00 AM |LGBT people say a sincere "thanks" to the Westboro Baptist Church for helping advance the cause of equality by putting an ugly face to homophobia....Read More
'Fresh Guacamole' - Stop Motion, Oscar-Nominated Short Film
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | January 11, 2013 | 9:00 AM |To quote the description on the nomination page "An unseen cook uses a series of unusual ingredients to prepare a bowl of guacamole."...Read More
If Only Lincoln Had a Gun!
Filed by Bil Browning | January 08, 2013 | 12:15 PM |Just think how awesome it would be if Lincoln, Gandhi, and Lennon had heeded the recommendation of the NRA. After all, the only cure for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun and...Read More
You Can't Be Gay if You Don't Have a Job
Filed by Bil Browning | January 03, 2013 | 2:15 PM |How do you know if you're gay? Do you have a job? Have you been to prison? Do you butt fuck? Do you live happily ever after? It's all so confusing anymore....Read More
Run! Hide! Fight!
Filed by Bil Browning | January 02, 2013 | 2:30 PM |The Alabama Department of Homeland Security just released this video in response to the elementary school shooting in Connecticut. While it contains some obviously good advice, the blood spatter and spooky music puts it, shall we say, over the...Read More
DJ Earworm: 2012 in Pop Music
Filed by Bil Browning | January 01, 2013 | 3:00 PM |DJ Earworm's mashup of all the popular songs from the previous year is always highly anticipated around this time. The United State of Pop 2012 mix is no exception....Read More
