June 4, 2009
Heart Rob
Filed by Terrance Heath | June 04, 2009 | 6:30 PM |OK. Rob Thomas was never all that hard to like. (At least not as far as I’m concerned. He’s easy on the eyes, and many of his songs work quite well for my voice, on the occasional karaoke night)....Read More
Projector suggested
Filed by Bil Browning | June 04, 2009 | 5:30 PM |So many of you send me great links to articles or events that I'd love to blog about, but never find the time. Here's some of the best ones to land in the inbox lately that I haven't shared yet....Read More
Katy Perry vs Beth Ditto
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 04, 2009 | 4:30 PM |I don't think I've ticked off the "Celebrity Gossip" category button this year, so here goes. Beth Ditto of the Gossip and Katy Perry are involved in a Famous People Fight. If you're like me and don't listen to the...Read More
This Is How Change Is Made: A Story from Blogging for LGBT Families Day
Filed by Dana Rudolph | June 04, 2009 | 3:30 PM |Of all the posts submitted to Blogging for LGBT Families Day, my yearly blogfest over at Mombian, the one that has made the greatest impression on me is: "The One Where I Come Out... And Say It," by Haley Montgomery,...Read More
The transgender row to hoe
Filed by Austen Crowder | June 04, 2009 | 3:30 PM |I had a strange experience at a drag club the other night. I had gone with friends to see the show, see, and we were having a great time of it. During the end-of-show monologue, the queen onstage asked how...Read More
Welcome a new Bilerico contributor/editor
Filed by Bil Browning | June 04, 2009 | 3:00 PM |Please join me in welcoming a new contributor to Bilerico Project! John Shields was already a Bilerico-DC blogger, but he's made the jump to TBP now too. In fact, he's such a winner he's earned a promotion; he's the new...Read More
How did the gay partners get in immigration reform?
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 04, 2009 | 2:00 PM |Like an ever-expanding mushroom cloud of diversity, every few years another diverse group of people want to enter the United States. It has created a complicated history in which there are many people who are different in the US. In...Read More
Suffering in Silence - A Personal Tale of DADT
Filed by John Shields | June 04, 2009 | 1:00 PM |As a former Air Force officer before Don't Ask Don't Tell was even a twinkle in the eye, I was "in" the US Military when Ronnie was king, Nancy was queen and friends and family were dying by aircraft crashes...Read More
What does Pride mean to Hoosiers?
Filed by Bil Browning | June 04, 2009 | 12:30 PM |I had the opportunity to sit with the folks from Metromix (aka Indy.com) a couple of weeks ago as part of a group discussion about what Pride means to Hoosiers. Also on the panel was former scientist/journalist Tanisha Neely (hell...Read More
Really, Right-wing? "Homosexualizing"?
Filed by Waymon Hudson | June 04, 2009 | 12:00 PM |It's not the first time I've seen it, but for some reason it jumped out at me in a recent press release I was reading from some nutty, fundie, right-wing group (insert some combination of "America" "Traditional" and "Family" and...Read More
Onion on transgender gay marriages
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 04, 2009 | 11:30 AM |Yeah, let's not pretend like the Religious Right makes a clean distinction between sexual orientation and gender identity. Did like the graphs, though, since Silly Graphs + Contentious Issue = Comedy Gold. Another humorous video about marriage is after the...Read More
How has marriage changed me?
Filed by Father Tony | June 04, 2009 | 10:30 AM |Dear Father Tony, In all the talk about marriage equality, we hear about laws and rights and injustice, as well we should. But the video interview of George Takei and his husband made me wish I could hear more...Read More
Kamikaze Gay Liberation in Iraq
Filed by Michelle Marzullo | June 04, 2009 | 9:30 AM |In the recent New York Times story entitled "Iraq's Newly Open Gays Face Scorn and Murder,", Timothy Williams and Tareq Maher detail the murders of many gay men as well as the generalized tyranny these Iraqis toil under on a...Read More
Intimidation is not an effective tactic
Filed by Guest Blogger | June 04, 2009 | 9:30 AM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Dorian Davis starred on MTV's morning show, MTV Hits, before switching to the other side of the camera to research and develop Iraq coverage for MTV News. Now a freelance writer, Davis is published in Architectural...Read More
What Was that About Marriage and Procreation Again?
Filed by Ed Team | June 04, 2009 | 7:30 AM |"Homosexuality is nothing unusual among animals. Sex and coupling up in our world do not necessarily have anything to do with reproduction." --A representative of Bremerhaven Zoo in Germany, where a male penguin couple are raising a chick together...Read More
Felice Picano talks with Bilerico
Filed by Bil Browning | June 04, 2009 | 7:00 AM |Author, editor and publisher Felice Picano talks with our own Father Tony at the Lambda Literary Awards last Friday evening....Read More
