March 25, 2011
Queer Music Friday - Josephine Wiggs of the Breeders
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 25, 2011 | 5:00 PM |Bass guitarist Josephine Wiggs was one of the original members of the 90's alternative rock band the Breeders. She left the group to pursue collaborations with other artists and solo work. Even if you don't know her name, you've probably...Read More
But I Thought He Was Gay!
Filed by Bil Browning | March 25, 2011 | 4:00 PM |This has to be one of the most ridiculous stories I've ever heard. A woman went to a massage parlor and her male therapist gave her what she asked for. Now she's pissed and making a stink of it. Why?...Read More
Bioware's Dragon Age II Has Gay Scene that Some Straight Gamers Don't Like
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 25, 2011 | 3:00 PM |Dragon Age II has a gay love story in it that's cute that led some straight gamers to complain. You see, since the majority of people are straight, that means that everything has to be washed clean of homosexuality lest...Read More
Scarlet Betch Episode 39: Mutants Galore
Filed by Jason Tseng | March 25, 2011 | 2:00 PM |Hey Betches! We're back this week bringing you the latest queer comic book news! Apologies for the three weeks of down time. So to make up for it, we're recording three episodes for you that we'll release throughout the week....Read More
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell Takes on the Catholic Church Over LGBTs
Filed by Karen Ocamb | March 25, 2011 | 1:00 PM |The late author and AIDS activist Paul Monette must be doing a little jig in heaven right now. Wednesday night Lawrence O'Donnell, host of MSNBC's The Last Word, called out the antigay Catholic Church in an articulate, explosive, captivating fulmination...Read More
Uganda: 'Kill the Gays' Bill Dead?
Filed by Bil Browning | March 25, 2011 | 12:00 PM |Has Uganda's "Kill the Gays" bill finally died in the country's Parliament? Local television reports announced the bill's demise yesterday after the Museveni administration pulled its support. Information Minister Kabakumba Matsiko said in the news report that homosexuality is already...Read More
Texas Voter ID Law Will Disenfranchise Transgender People
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 25, 2011 | 11:00 AM |The Texas house just passed a bill requiring voters to present identification at the polls, harsher than any state has passed in recent years, including Indiana. The goal of these sorts of laws is to decrease the number of voters...Read More
Inconvenient History - God's Wife Was Edited Out of the Bible
Filed by Michael Hamar | March 25, 2011 | 9:30 AM |As many readers have no doubt figured out long before now, I have little use for Christianists who rant that the Bible is God's inerrant word. Logic, science and ever so inconvenient history and archaeological evidence dictate more and more...Read More
Remember the Triangle Fire
Filed by Jessica Max Stein | March 25, 2011 | 8:30 AM |Today is the centennial of the Triangle Waist Factory Fire - more familiarly the Triangle Fire - a 1911 blaze near Manhattan's Washington Square that killed 146 garment workers, most young immigrant Jewish and Italian women, many just in their...Read More
Pretty Little Liars Finale, Amazing!
Filed by Michael Buckley | March 25, 2011 | 8:00 AM |And meet that girl in pink, yes that girl!...Read More
Michelle Bachmann Loves Iowa
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 25, 2011 | 7:30 AM |"What I love about Iowa is you are fighters, you don't take no for an answer. If you have judges who thwart the will of the people you send them packing. Thank you, Iowa, for what you have done to...Read More
Boys Beware!
Filed by Jake Weinraub | March 25, 2011 | 7:00 AM |"Homosexual Warning Video" from the 1950s....Read More
