March 17, 2009
Breaking News: U.S. to Sign U.N. Gay Rights Declaration
Filed by Michael Crawford | March 17, 2009 | 10:00 PM |This just came over the AP wire service: WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Associated Press has learned that the Obama administration will sign a U.N. declaration calling for the worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality that President George W. Bush had refused to...Read More
Meghan McCain, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter: Which of them doesn't belong?
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 17, 2009 | 5:30 PM |I hadn't really been following the Ann Coulter vs. Meghan McCain battle for the soul of the Republican Party until I saw the video of Meghan on The View telling conservative radio commentator Laura Ingraham to kiss her ass for...Read More
Like having a Personal Chef To Go
Filed by Bil Browning | March 17, 2009 | 4:30 PM |It's not often that I do a food review, but this is an exception. I was contacted by a potential advertiser last week that wanted to buy an ad for Personal Chef To Go. Made for busy people who want...Read More
Dire Straits
Filed by Wyatt O'Brian Evans | March 17, 2009 | 3:00 PM |Editors' Note: Wyatt O'Brian Evans is a Bilerico-DC contributor. This is part of the series "The Cancer that Slowly Consumes Our Very Souls: Racism" that we're running here on Bilerico Project. NaNa is an American citizen who is half-African American,...Read More
NBC's 'Kings' takes up gay interpretation
Filed by Matt Comer | March 17, 2009 | 2:00 PM |Well... at least slightly so, that is. I watched the premiere of NBC's allegorical "Kings" over the internet last night. Work at the paper on Sunday evening kept me away from the debut and my favorite weekly viewing pleasure, "Big...Read More
What can he do?
Filed by Bil Browning | March 17, 2009 | 1:00 PM |Friend of the blog Meghan Stabler sent me a copy of an e-mail an old co-worker sent her recently. Meghan transitioned while they worked together and the letter will bring a tear to your eye. Her former co-worker asks Meghan...Read More
Focus on the Family gives away free books!
Filed by Austen Crowder | March 17, 2009 | 1:00 PM |Or: Doctor Dobson's Dead Fish Handshake File this one under "surreal, messed-up Focus rhetoric." I could go on for a country mile about Focus on the Family's positions on gay marriage, reparative therapy, and the social degradation created by LGB...Read More
DC Council Hears Testimony on Needs of LGBT Seniors
Filed by Michael Crawford | March 17, 2009 | 12:30 PM |On March 16th the DC City Council held an oversight hearing looking at the Department of Aging. Alan Dinsmore, co-chair of the Elder Think Tank, delivered testimony on the needs of LGBT seniors including ways that the DC government can...Read More
Hearings opened yesterday in Vermont for same-sex marriage
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 17, 2009 | 12:00 PM |In 2000, Vermont created civil unions for same-sex couples with all the state-level rights of marriage in order to avoid letting same-sex couples marry, as their supreme court ordered. Yesterday, they opened hearings on same-sex marriage in the state legislature....Read More
What Would Harvey Milk Say If He Were Here Today?
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 17, 2009 | 11:00 AM |Editors' Note: Michael Adams is the Executive Director of SAGE (Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders), the oldest and largest organization in the country providing services and advocacy for LGBT seniors. Prior to joining SAGE, Michael was the Director of...Read More
Feinstein, Bond Star at HRC Gala; Solmonese on DOMA/ENDA
Filed by Karen Ocamb | March 17, 2009 | 9:30 AM |The Human Rights Campaign gala in Los Angeles was packed with heavy-hitters Saturday night at the Century Plaza Hotel including U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and NAACP board chair Julian Bond. Afterward, I asked HRC executive director Joe Solmonese about timelines...Read More
Vote No on Charter Amendment 1 This Week!
Filed by Waymon Hudson | March 17, 2009 | 9:30 AM |Join Equality is Gainesville's Business and stand united in opposition to the proposed charter amendment that would remove existing protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity and prohibit Gainesville from ever adding protections not included in the Florida Civil...Read More
Limbaugh Lower Now
Filed by Kate Clinton | March 17, 2009 | 8:00 AM |Vacation's over - time to work out, freak out, help out... PS: I meant eighteen thousand. But I'm not in charge of Treasury either....Read More
Julian Bond at the HRC dinner
Filed by Ed Team | March 17, 2009 | 7:30 AM |"When someone asks me, "are gay rights civil rights?" my answer is always, "Of course, they are." Civil rights are positive legal prerogatives: the right to equal treatment before the law. These are the rights shared by everyone. There is...Read More
Sportscaster Keith Olbermann with a mustache
Filed by Bil Browning | March 17, 2009 | 7:00 AM |This weekend we were playing Trivial Pursuit and one of the questions asked what former sportscaster was offered a $25k signing bonus to regrow his mustache. The answer? Keith Olbermann. Well, then we had to look for video of...Read More
