January 11, 2010
It's not the hypocrisy, it's the ubiquity: Iris Robinson and Scott Brown's straight moral sex lives
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 11, 2010 | 7:00 PM |I don't care much at all about who or what people want to do in their private lives, but sometimes it becomes apparent that certain public figures' private affairs are affecting their public views and actions that it makes you...Read More
AFA Self Mutilates over Amanda Simpson
Filed by Keri Renault | January 11, 2010 | 5:00 PM |The social-cultural divide in America has widened considerably since conservatives were voted from power after the 2008 election. Nowhere is this emotionally charged environment more evident than when an LGBT American makes national news. Take the Obama administration's appointment of...Read More
Update from the Prop 8 trial: Special Report
Filed by Davina Kotulski | January 11, 2010 | 4:00 PM |The Prop 8 trial started with introductions from all the attorneys and discussion of the stay of a live feed of the trial to other federal courthouses and streaming for YouTube. A stay has been issued until Wednesday at 4:00...Read More
Manchester Grand Hyatt protest still going strong
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 11, 2010 | 3:00 PM |These folks know how to boycott: Waving signs reading: "We All Deserve the Freedom to Marry," more than 200 gay-rights activists and union members representing hotel employees rallied outside the Manchester Grand Hyatt on Saturday in the latest protest over...Read More
Meet the Independent: Jim Madigan vs 'The Machine'
Filed by Phil Reese | January 11, 2010 | 2:00 PM |Jim Madigan is taking a big risk. He's running against the infamous Chicago Democratic Machine to try to become Illinois's only openly gay state Senator. Check this guy out, he knows his stuff. And he's got what it takes to...Read More
Special Prop 8 trial report: All Rise for Equality
Filed by Guest Blogger | January 11, 2010 | 1:00 PM |Editors' Note: Bilerico Project special correspondent, Dr. Davina Kotulski, is live at the federal Prop 8 trial and will be filing regular reports as the trial progresses. Davina is the former executive director of Marriage Equality USA and is the...Read More
Live Twitter feed of Prop 8 trial
Filed by Bil Browning | January 11, 2010 | 12:30 PM |Now that the US Supreme Court has put a stay on cameras in the federal courthouse for the Prop 8 trial (including delayed YouTube videos and satellite watching locations) for at least three days, the only way you can keep...Read More
Cynthia Nixon And ACLU Florida Kick-Off Campaign To End Adoption Ban
Filed by Father Tony | January 11, 2010 | 11:30 AM |In December of 2008, Guest Contributor Martin Gill wrote about a judge's decision to allow him and his partner to adopt two foster children in their care. Our lead-in to that post was erroneous. We said: On November 25, a...Read More
Federal Prop 8 trial starts today
Filed by Bil Browning | January 11, 2010 | 10:30 AM |UPDATE: The Supreme Court has blocked a live broadcast and delayed daily YouTube videos for three days until it has enough time to fully consider the appeal by Prop 8 proponents to ban cameras from the courtroom. Perry v. Schwarzenegger,...Read More
Smoke 'em if you've got 'em
Filed by Bil Browning | January 11, 2010 | 9:30 AM |Just in from the tip line. I know a lot of you will be celebrating this, but keep in mind that registering a PAC is a lot different from actually getting a law passed. If registering was all you had...Read More
It's funny because he helps set American foreign policy
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 11, 2010 | 9:30 AM |Charles Murray over at the American Enterprise Institute (a neoconservative think tank that really, really wanted to invade Iraq) started talking about Paris after visiting a non-Paris part of France, and he went there: Last night, having been struck by...Read More
Buffalo straight man threatened in homophobia trial
Filed by Alex Blaze | January 11, 2010 | 7:00 AM |A strange case in Buffalo about a man who was attacked in a parking lot. Hate crimes charges might be filed....Read More
The gay anti-gay preacher
Filed by Ed Team | January 11, 2010 | 7:00 AM |"One night at [a Johannesburg gay nightclub], I found myself in a long, confusing and infuriating conversation with an evangelical preacher from Soweto, who was the guide for a group of conservative, anti-gay white American evangelicals traveling around the country....Read More
