August 20, 2009
The Bilerico Rainbow Tour of the East Coast
Filed by Bil Browning | August 20, 2009 | 6:30 PM |The past week has been chock full of fun and new experiences! It began with Jerame and I going to Netroots Nation in Pittsburgh. While we were there we met Kip Williams, the Director of Equality Across America, and I...Read More
I Was There: Clinton, Don't Ask Don't Tell, & Wiggle Room
Filed by Guest Blogger | August 20, 2009 | 5:30 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Gloria Nieto lives in San Jose, Cal with her spouse and pack of animals. She is waiting anxiously for hockey season to start. With all the latest discussions about the history of Don't Ask Don't Tell...Read More
NAACP's Julian Bond Endorses the National Equality March
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 20, 2009 | 4:30 PM |NAACP Board Chairman Julian Bond has joined other high-profile people endorsing the the National Equality March on October 11th: GLBT rights are civil rights; there are no 'special rights' in America. Everyone has rights - or should have - and...Read More
Rise of hate groups in Virginia
Filed by Michael Hamar | August 20, 2009 | 3:30 PM |I have written about the rise of hate groups and also anti-Semitic vandalism in this area previously. Now one of the local television stations has opened its eyes to the phenomenon - which is a timely story in as much...Read More
Unraveling
Filed by Sara Whitman | August 20, 2009 | 3:00 PM |"Midlife is not a crisis. Midlife is an unraveling." A friend showed me a link to a new book being written by Brene Brown, called Wholehearted: Adventures in Growing Up, Falling Apart and Finding Joy. It hit home. An unraveling,...Read More
Awesome Website of the Week: 'God Hates Shrimp'
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 20, 2009 | 2:00 PM |Sometimes you just have to smile at the snarky, fun skewering of the anti-LGBT right. Activists Joe Decker and Ryland Sanders have created my new favorite parody site called "God Hates Shrimp", a smart poke at people like Fred Phelps,...Read More
Fort Lauderdale's Richard Gray given 'Gay+ Award for Achievement in Making Our World Gayer' from LOGO
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 20, 2009 | 1:00 PM |The folks over at LOGO have announced their first ever TripOutGayTravel.com Awards and one of the winners is Fort Lauderdale, FL travel Guru Richard Gray. Also named for "Best Ultimate Luxury Hotel/Resort (Global)" is the Fontainebleau Resort in Miami and...Read More
From the Buckeye State - A Bigot for Sec of State?
Filed by Bo Shuff | August 20, 2009 | 1:00 PM |Here in the Buckeye State we are gearing up (already) for the 2010 elections. So far we have a contested U.S Senate primary between one fully LGBT supportive candidate, Jennifer Brunner and one who "is open to the idea" -...Read More
I want to hear a song that makes me believe there's something to believe in
Filed by Sean Bugg | August 20, 2009 | 12:30 PM |There was a point in my life when I thought nothing could have more meaning than music. This point, of course, was during my teenage years in high school and college. At 16, even a Motley Crue song can carry...Read More
AFA steals from Bilerico Project
Filed by Bil Browning | August 20, 2009 | 12:00 PM |Why does the American Family Institute (AFA) and their local affiliates feel that they are above both the rule of law and the the rules set forth in the Bible they claim to follow so closely? In June of 2007,...Read More
Colorado's Sen. Michael Bennet
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 20, 2009 | 11:30 AM |Today's legislator of the day is a friend of the LGBT community. He is a likely yes vote, but has not yet confirmed his support. I'm sorry this post is a little sparse this morning. Lots happening here, and I...Read More
Goshen approves inclusive Civil Rights Amendment, will South Bend follow?
Filed by Donna Pandori | August 20, 2009 | 11:00 AM |Breaking news in Goshen: Dozens of people Tuesday night passionately pleaded for and against the addition of sexual orientation language to Goshen's Community Relations Commission ordinance. In a 4-3 vote the Goshen council voted in favor of the amendment that...Read More
Motown Helps When Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.
Filed by Father Tony | August 20, 2009 | 10:30 AM |Dear Father Tony, I'm involved with a smoker. He is funny and brilliant and we are great together, but I am not dealing well with the cigarettes. He wants us to live together and I do too. He promises...Read More
Face Value
Filed by Betty Greene Salwak | August 20, 2009 | 9:30 AM |Upon offering my first (guest) post for Bilerico, I was told I needed to submit a portrait photo to go with it. Wait. A picture? Now? As the One Who Wields The Camera, I don't have any pictures of myself....Read More
How we win marriage in DC
Filed by Michael Crawford | August 20, 2009 | 9:30 AM |Much has been made of the external challenges we face in DC as we build a movement to win and keep marriage for same-sex couples including the possibility of a Prop 8 style ballot fight and potential intervention from members...Read More
Gina Love
Filed by Kate Clinton | August 20, 2009 | 8:00 AM |This is not the dawning of the age of Aquarius. C'mon, Obama, lead! Keep the public option! Have a spine operation, c'mon!...Read More
Incorrect Assumptions
Filed by Ed Team | August 20, 2009 | 7:30 AM |"For conservatives who don't like what I'm doing, it's, 'If he just had someone in his family we'd forgive him.' For liberals it's such a freakish thing that it's, 'He must have someone in his family, otherwise a conservative couldn't...Read More
Is straight sex scarier than gay sex?
Filed by Bil Browning | August 20, 2009 | 7:00 AM |Davey Wavey is back with the answer to yet another incredibly asinine but entertaining question: "Is straight sex scarier than gay sex?"...Read More
