April 9, 2010
Queer music Friday - Marie France
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 09, 2010 | 5:00 PM |Marie France is a glamorous rock and pop singer of transsexual history who's been famous for her music, acting, and modeling here in France since the 1970's. Her current musical project is an hommage to Brigitte Bardot, France's Marilyn Monroe....Read More
Hair Emergency
Filed by Bil Browning | April 09, 2010 | 4:00 PM |I'd planned on writing an insightful political piece today - and it's half done. A hair emergency, however, has called me away. I'm so furious, I could spit! My stylist slipped with the clippers this afternoon and before either of...Read More
The Incense Of A New Church
Filed by Betty Greene Salwak | April 09, 2010 | 3:00 PM |A censer swings through the aisles of a new church, the smoke curling through the sun's rays streaming from stained glass windows; and its scent is pleasing to God. This new church is an institution that people do not fear....Read More
Justice Stevens will retire this summer
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 09, 2010 | 2:00 PM |This will be John Paul Stevens's last session with the Supreme Court. He's just short of 90 and has been an associate Justice since Ford nominated him in 1975. Right now he's the only Protestant in the Court, and he's...Read More
Coming Out: Trans
Filed by Antonia D'orsay | April 09, 2010 | 1:00 PM |Coming out is a pretty important process. And it is a process. For trans people, coming out is made a little more complicated, and the degree of complication follows the sort of trans person they are. For some trans people,...Read More
Giant Love: vintage photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | April 09, 2010 | 12:30 PM |Probably a posed photo to demonstrate the height of the tall man -- Victorians loved their human curiosities. But whatever their relationship actually was, the look in the eyes of the smaller fellow is filled with such admiration that I...Read More
Officer who held Duanna Johnson down testifies
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 09, 2010 | 11:30 AM |Updated after the jump with contact information for the newspaper. It's been almost two years since that disturbing video of one cop holding down while another cop beat a black trans woman, sending her to the hospital, was released. Both...Read More
Service Members Still at Risk under New DADT Instructions
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 09, 2010 | 10:30 AM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Aaron Tax serves as Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's Legal Director. Mr. Tax provides legal assistance to those currently serving who are impacted by "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," and related forms of discrimination, including those who are...Read More
Bareback porn is killing our community and you're to blame
Filed by Joe Mirabella | April 09, 2010 | 9:30 AM |Bareback porn is killing porn stars. From Edge: Chad Noel's March 17 death was reported on at GayPornGossip on March 26. The posting read, "Chad Noel age 25, a former 'twink genre' gay porn performer using the stage names of...Read More
Gay Evolution 4!
Filed by Sean Martin | April 09, 2010 | 8:30 AM |Well, *someone* had to step up and do it... Click here for a larger version....Read More
Drag Discrimination at Miss Gay IU 2010
Filed by Peter Monn and Alex Paredes | April 09, 2010 | 8:00 AM |Several years ago, a friend called me and asked me to come down to Bloomington for the Miss Gay IU Pageant. Since I love pageants of any kind, I buckled in and headed down south, not quite expecting to find...Read More
Sometimes fitting in is more powerful than everything else
Filed by Ed Team | April 09, 2010 | 7:00 AM |"I had chosen the desire to "belong" over kindness. I had placed my own fantasy idea of a high school "moment" over someone's actual, real-life feelings. I know, "belonging" and the myth of "glory days" can be pretty powerful stuff...Read More
Kyra Phillips responds to criticism
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 09, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Kyra Phillips responds to criticism around her segment with Richard Cohen....Read More
