June 29, 2009
Fort Worth Gay Bar Raid: Stonewall Redux
Filed by Waymon Hudson | June 29, 2009 | 6:00 PM |Over the weekend, Fort Worth police raided a new gay bar in a move reminiscent of the Stonewall Raid that sparked the modern gay rights movement in 1969. The newly opened Rainbow Lounge was hosting a birthday celebration for Todd...Read More
Reagan's revenge
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 29, 2009 | 5:00 PM |Ronald Reagan, for years while he was in office, refused to even recognize the existence of the HIV epidemic. The sluggish response to thousands of people dying probably made the epidemic worse than it needed to be. And now that...Read More
Hate crimes fate tied to F-22 fighter jets
Filed by Bil Browning | June 29, 2009 | 4:00 PM |Last week I sent out an urgent update to Projectors to save proposed hate crimes legislation from being attached to a defense spending bill in the Senate. A source on Capital Hill and a federal lobbyist both contacted me with...Read More
Clubland's Wonder Woman: Kristine W interview
Filed by Guest Blogger | June 29, 2009 | 3:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Scott David recently interviewed dance music artist Kristine W for Bilerico Project. She has had 13 No. 1 Billboard Dance hits and is one of the best selling dance artists of all time. The singer took...Read More
Introducing Krystal Ball
Filed by Juan and Ken Ahonen-Jover | June 29, 2009 | 2:00 PM |A wife and mother supports equality... ...and she is running for Congress! Straight allies of the LGBTQ community are critical to the success of achieving equality. And there can be no stronger ally than this 27 year old wife and...Read More
Necessary evil
Filed by Alex Blaze | June 29, 2009 | 1:00 PM |Way back in the day when I started doing this blogging thing, I wrote that labeling folks who preach so-called traditional moral values and then go running around town with their dicks out wouldn't resonate all that much with Americans...Read More
Two quick hits from Projectors
Filed by Bil Browning | June 29, 2009 | 12:30 PM |Two quick hits from the "What do Bilerico Project contributors do when they're not blogging for the site?" department. The answer? They write for large mainstream newspapers! Here are two must-read articles from Bilerico contributors that were published yesterday and...Read More
Federal Prop 8 Test Happens Thursday
Filed by Karen Ocamb | June 29, 2009 | 11:30 AM |After all the outrage, protests and promises to put same sex marriage back on the ballot in 2010 following the California Supreme Court's May 26 ruling upholding Prop 8, the struggle over marriage equality is now back in the courts...Read More
Gay NYC Marching Bloggers in front of Stonewall on the 40th Anniversary
Filed by Father Tony | June 29, 2009 | 10:30 AM |We assembled on 54th Street at 11:30 AM Sunday June 28, 2009 with our group in Section 8 (of 12 - largest gay pride New York City parade ever). FIrst time the gay bloggers and digital activists marched as...Read More
Transgender Comics: "Abstract Gender"
Filed by Austen Crowder | June 29, 2009 | 10:00 AM |There are two types of transgender comics in the world. This fact is not a judgment of quality so much as it a statement of taxonomy. I've featured the first kind in the past two weeks' posts; "Closetspace" and "Venus...Read More
Sitting About the Gay Campfire of History
Filed by Cathy Renna | June 29, 2009 | 9:30 AM |I quipped to a friend about 2 hours into one of last week's events, a reunion of the Gay Liberation Front; All we need is a small fire and some marshmallows. This is like a gay campfire, ghost stories included....Read More

We promise to keep in touch!
Filed by Bil Browning | June 29, 2009 | 8:30 AM |A lot of Projectors write and ask what we send to our e-mail list. Each night at midnight, we round up all of the day's posts and send them out to subscribers. We only include the front page portion of...Read More
A--Shaving Song! Chace Crawford is Gay! Make It Or Break Gives Me Wood!
Filed by Michael Buckley | June 29, 2009 | 8:00 AM |Comment Questions of the Day: 1. Do you think Chase Crawford is GAY? 2. Are you watching Make It Or Break It on ABC Family? Thoughts? I LOVE IT! 3. Are you watching America's Got Talent? Who is good?...Read More

A Disappointment for All
Filed by Ed Team | June 29, 2009 | 7:30 AM |"It's a press cliché that 'gay supporters' are disappointed with Obama, but we should all be. Gay Americans aren't just another political special interest group. They are Americans who are actively discriminated against by federal laws." --Frank Rich, New York...Read More
Gay Liberation Front Surviving Members
Filed by Father Tony | June 29, 2009 | 7:00 AM |At New York City's Gay and Lesbian Community Center, on Thursday June 25, 2009, the surviving founding members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) each had 3 minutes to tell a personal story from the earliest days of the...Read More