July 25, 2008
Are gay men wealthier than straight men?
Filed by Nina Smith | July 25, 2008 | 6:00 PM |"Spending is quick, earning is slow." - Russian proverb According to a new national survey conducted online by Harris Interactive, nearly half (48%) of gay and lesbian adults report they like to keep up with the latest styles and trends....Read More
Queer music Friday - Joan Baez
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 25, 2008 | 5:00 PM |Here bisexual folk musician Joan Baez with "Diamonds and Rust": iPhone users: Click to watch And Joan on hanging out with the boys and aging, after the jump....Read More
A Great Divide
Filed by Eric Leven | July 25, 2008 | 4:00 PM |This past Sunday I helped my friends of ACT UP New York sell tee shirts and buttons at their booth at the Broadway Street Fair. I'll always make myself available for any additional help ACT UP needs and I am...Read More
HIV/AIDS Crisis Across the South
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 25, 2008 | 2:00 PM |The Southern AIDS Coalition, a nonprofit partnership of government and private-sector programs based in Birmingham, Ala., has issued a report concluding that AIDS has created a health disaster in the South. They are calling for a "fundamental rethinking of HIV...Read More
Black History: The First Klan
Filed by Storm Bear | July 25, 2008 | 1:00 PM |click to enlarge From Wikipedia: As W.E.B. DuBois noted, "It is always difficult to stop war, and doubly difficult to stop civil war... In the case of civil war, where the contending parties must rest face to face after...Read More
Update roundup: Larry Craig loves DADT, FRC's mad at rudeness, PEPFAR reauth passes the House
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 25, 2008 | 1:00 PM |Here are a few updates to stories we've been following here at The Bilerico Project Larry Craig supports Don't Ask Don't Tell: Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) told CNSNews.com, "Current policy has served us well. I think we ought to sustain...Read More
It's a joke, until someone ends up dead
Filed by Mike Rogers | July 25, 2008 | 12:00 PM |When I first heard that anti-gay Oklahoma legislator Sally Kern was caught taking a gun int the state capitol, I made a joke out of it......Read More
Ptown GPS
Filed by Kate Clinton | July 25, 2008 | 11:00 AM |One of the big controversies in Provincetown this summer involves complaints by fifty-third generation descendants of Puritan about nudity and public sex in the far reaches of the Herring Cove Dunes. The good news is that my worry that gay...Read More
Another new face at B-IN
Filed by Bil Browning | July 25, 2008 | 10:00 AM |Please welcome Robert Ganshorn to Bilerico-Indiana. Robert is a new Bilerico Project contributor who lived in Indiana for several years. He graduated from Purdue University where he established the first queer student group. Robert will also be posting on the...Read More
Sally, Get Your Gun and Elaine? Keep Talking
Filed by Sara Whitman | July 25, 2008 | 10:00 AM |As if Elaine Donnelly wasn't enough comic relief, in comes the news that Sally Kern has been caught packing some heat in the Oklahoma State Capitol building. "Anti-gay Okla. lawmaker caught with gun at Capitol" Seems Sally carries with her...Read More
Florida Voters gets Skewered on the Daily Show... AGAIN
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 25, 2008 | 9:00 AM |The Daily Show's correspondent Wyatt Cenac heads to South Florida to see if Barack Obama can win the Jewish vote. Along the way he meets state Sen. Jeremy Ring, D-Margate, and some colorful, crazy retirees. Sigh......Read More
Gay in Iraq: Stories of Terror
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 25, 2008 | 9:00 AM |The plight of gays in gays in Iraq is something I have written about before (see Iraqi Gay Safe Houses to Close). It seems mainstream media is finally catching on to the extreme danger that LGBT Iraqis face. A great...Read More
Jared Polis: You can't spell 'Equality' without the 'T'
Filed by Ed Team | July 25, 2008 | 7:30 AM |"I do think there was a good grassroots response from gays and lesbians nationally, to push back against our political leadership in Washington. I know that HRC and others got a lot of negative letters from gays and lesbians. I...Read More
Is Batman gay? I give you- the Batusi Dance!
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 25, 2008 | 7:00 AM |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
