April 3, 2009
Queer music Friday - Circlesquare
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 03, 2009 | 5:00 PM |We haven't done trance for a while on QMF, so here's Canadian/German techno group Circlesquare's "Dancers" from their newest album Songs about Dancing and Drugs. Jeremy Shaw of Circlesquare, after the jump on the gay scene in Berlin, where he...Read More
What Iowa Means To California
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 03, 2009 | 4:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Shannon Minter is the legal director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights and lead counsel for same-sex couples and Equality California in Strauss v. Horton, the challenge to Proposition 8 currently pending before the California...Read More
Compare and contrast
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 03, 2009 | 3:00 PM |A vast majority of LGBT people vote Democratic in elections, and that led GayPatiotWest to ask why gay people aren't more receptive to conservatism. He said that it's a "political conformity" brought on by "time socializing with their gay peers."...Read More
Defend Iowa
Filed by Bo Shuff | April 03, 2009 | 2:00 PM |Now that we have won in the Iowa Supreme Court, we need to defend the decision and prevent the Constitution from being amended. The Democratic leadership in both the Iowa House and Iowa Senate have pledged to block any Amendment...Read More
First thoughts on Iowa marriage decision
Filed by Nan Hunter | April 03, 2009 | 12:00 PM |First, hats off to Lambda Legal for a truly spectacular job in winning this case. In retrospect, this decision may come to seem almost as important as the first one in Massachusetts. Why? The decision was unanimous, the first time...Read More
Gay Marriage and the Slippery Slope Fallacy
Filed by Paige Schilt | April 03, 2009 | 11:00 AM |A few days ago, I was hanging out in the backyard with my son, Waylon, and his friend, Mike. I was watering the garden; they were molding playdoh into fantastic, multi-colored monsters. "Mama," Waylon asked. "Do you like stripes?" Since...Read More
Iowa legalizes gay marriage
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 03, 2009 | 10:00 AM |The court's site is down, but the Des Moines Register is reporting that same-sex marriage has come to Iowa. Congrats! The Iowa Supreme Court this morning struck down a 1998 state law that limits marriage to one man and one...Read More
Surprise! Indiana Department of Workforce Development squanders funds!
Filed by Austen Crowder | April 03, 2009 | 10:00 AM |Should I put on my OMG face for this, or can we all agree that anyone with knowledge of Indiana's state programs could see this coming from a mile away? The Indiana Department of Workforce Development broke federal laws and...Read More
Stop Playing "Kick the Can" with Don't Ask Don't Tell
Filed by John Shields | April 03, 2009 | 9:30 AM |I'm sick and tired of politicians playing "kick the can" with the lives of gay and lesbian servicemembers, and it better stop soon. First off, the LGBTQ community is not a "can" and I for one am tired of being...Read More
Waiting for the Iowa Supreme Court Ruling
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 03, 2009 | 9:00 AM |The Iowa Supreme Court is expected to rule at 9:30am today on the Varnum v. Brien case before it. It's the last of the state-level marriage cases for a long while. The grand marriage strategy was put together a few...Read More
Adam Lambert wins AMERICAN IDOL!
Filed by Michael Buckley | April 03, 2009 | 8:00 AM |Comment Questions of the Day: 1. Who are your top three/bottom three from IDOL this week? / Are you happy/surprised by who went home? 2. Who will win the whole thing? Predict now!...Read More
Technology is a queer thing
Filed by Ed Team | April 03, 2009 | 7:30 AM |"Technology is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand and it stabs you in the back with the other." -- C.P. Snow...Read More
Gay man robbed over Great Barrier Reef
Filed by Bil Browning | April 03, 2009 | 7:00 AM |This poor little guy got robbed! He made the video to apply for the "Island Reef Job" caretaking the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Obviously, it's a tourism related promotion, but this guy put so much work into his...Read More
