April 21, 2011
This Is Nonsense: Your iPhone Is Not Tracking You
Filed by Jerame Davis | April 21, 2011 | 7:00 PM |After reading the repeated breathless reports about how our iPhones are spying on us all, I couldn't help but roll my eyes - then I got annoyed. Seriously folks, this is a non-issue. Yes, iPhones collect general location data that...Read More
Texas A&M Student Senate Backs Homophobic Measure
Filed by Jake Weinraub | April 21, 2011 | 6:00 PM |A bill of support passed through the Texas A&M Student Senate last night for a Texas Legislature bill (SB-63-106) that would require Texas colleges and universities with GLBT resource centers to provide equal funding for "Traditional and Family Values" Centers...Read More
NOM Sues Miss California USA Pageant
Filed by Bil Browning | April 21, 2011 | 5:00 PM |Just when you think that the National Organization for Marriage couldn't get any wackier, along comes this story from Michael Musto about running into an official from the Miss California USA pageant outside of a musical the other evening. Musto...Read More
What Price for this Life?
Filed by Sara Whitman | April 21, 2011 | 4:00 PM |Strange day today. I have the appraiser coming over to go through all my sister's things and put a price tag on it for tax purposes. Feels odd to have your whole life summed up in a number. I was...Read More
An Open Letter to Kelly James, PhD
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 21, 2011 | 3:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Peter C. Frank is a 30-something, disabled GOP LGBT political & community activist, advocate, & single gay technology-loving male night-owl living in the northern suburbs of New York City. He is a partner of The Symposium,...Read More
"Don't Say Gay" in Tennessee
Filed by Jake Weinraub | April 21, 2011 | 2:00 PM |Tennessee's state judiciary committee passed the "don't say gay" bill this week, prohibiting any discussion of homosexuality prior to ninth grade. Sponsored by Sen. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxille, the measure is being added to the existing Board of Education's "family life...Read More
The House Republican Contract with King & Spalding Really is Republican
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 21, 2011 | 1:00 PM |The LA Times, which puts out "We agree with the gays but their tactics are just so uncivil!" editorials every few months just to remind everyone how centrist they are, has an editorial out saying that HRC (you know, the...Read More
America's Gay Confederate and Union Soldiers
Filed by Rev Irene Monroe | April 21, 2011 | 12:00 PM |Queer Civil War buffs have been arguing for some time that the deafening silence around LGBTQ Confederate and Union soldiers indicates proof of their very presence. With this month commemorating the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil...Read More
Boy Meets Girl but Wants Boy: Classic Gay Pulp
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | April 21, 2011 | 11:30 AM |Classic novel from 1964, discussed in depth in Susan Stryker's Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback. Copies are rare and can go for upwards of $200 when they come up for sale....Read More
The Not-So-Pretty Face of Eating Disorders
Filed by Bil Browning | April 21, 2011 | 10:30 AM |Huffington Post blogger Galia Slayen, a Chinese and Government Major at Hamilton College, has created a life-sized replica of the iconic Barbie doll as a shocking wakeup call for National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Slayen kept Barbie's proportions the same;...Read More
The Case for a Truly Progressive Third Party
Filed by Rebecca Juro | April 21, 2011 | 9:30 AM |If there's anything progressives have learned over the last generation or so, it's that the Democratic Party can't be trusted to lead on the issues its members campaign on any more than the Republican Party can. The vast divide between...Read More
Don't Act Straight
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 21, 2011 | 8:30 AM |Yesterday I posted a QOTD I found on the site for WBTV, a Rock Hill, South Carolina, local station. Here's the quote, attributed to Kelly James, a professor and advisor of her university's LGBT group: "I've got to let my...Read More
John Boehner Gets Smug
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 21, 2011 | 7:30 AM |"The minority leader's new-found concern for saving taxpayers money is encouraging. We hope it means we can count on her support for reducing DOJ's budget to recoup any costs incurred by the House so that taxpayers will bear no added...Read More
Kobe Bryant Does Gay PSA
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 21, 2011 | 7:00 AM |Kobe Bryant and the Lakers shot a PSA against using slurs. He seems really happy to be there....Read More
