July 22, 2011
Weekly Reader: The NFL Star, the Future Closet, & the Old Boy Network
Filed by Bil Browning | July 22, 2011 | 6:00 PM |You weren't able to read every post on Bilerico Project last week? Don't worry! Every Friday I round up the best Bilerico posts from the past seven days to help you stay up to date on the latest queer news and analysis.Read More
The Facts About India's Infant 'Sex Changes'
Filed by Mercedes Allen | July 22, 2011 | 5:00 PM |Canadian and international press outlets reported last month that in India, the preference to have male children is so strong that parents are having their female infants surgically assigned (a.k.a. "sex changes") to male. Here are the facts of the matter.Read More
Trans Character Playable in Street Fighter x Tekken
Filed by Austen Crowder | July 22, 2011 | 4:00 PM |For years I've said that I'd play any game in which Poison was a playable character. Even if her look leans toward mid-90s trash she's in that elusive T community and that's something to be excited about.Read More
DADT Certified for Repeal; Policy Dies in 60 Days
Filed by Adam Polaski | July 22, 2011 | 3:50 PM |Today, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, and President Barack Obama certified repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Repeal will take effect officially 60 days from now, on September 20. Read More
Santorum Using His Frothy Mix as a Fundraising Tool
Filed by Bil Browning | July 22, 2011 | 3:00 PM |Rachel Maddow loves it when Republicans try to raise money by invoking her name. Rick "Frothy Mix" Santorum is trying to link Dan Savage and Rachel together in his most recent fundraising scheme for his moribund presidential campaign.Read More
Seventh-Day Gay Adventists
Filed by Davina Kotulski | July 22, 2011 | 2:00 PM |Religion continues to be the biggest weapon aimed at LGBTIQ and same-sex loving people. This is where the final "battle" will be won - with love, and by opening hearts and minds, one person at a mind.Read More
Tweet: DC's Gang Wars
Filed by Bil Browning | July 22, 2011 | 1:30 PM |I suppose this is one way to look at things. Can't say that I really disagree...Read More
Sweet Womanly Treats: Antique Lesbian Photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 22, 2011 | 1:00 PM |Everything about this ca. 1900 photo strikes me as perfect and delicate, from the blush on their cheeks to the detailed box, the fabrics, and those gorgeous coifs. Read More
The Swoopes Complications
Filed by Leslie Robinson | July 22, 2011 | 12:00 PM |After becoming one of the most high-profile lesbian celebrities after coming out in 2005, WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes is engaged to a man. Sexuality is complicated. Read More
Maryland & Colorado Begin Push for Marriage
Filed by Adam Polaski | July 22, 2011 | 11:30 AM |Inspired by New York's success, Colorado and Maryland are both gearing up for marriage equality campaigns, using different strategies in hopes of attaining success.Read More
NY Gay Marriage Gets Animated
Filed by Bil Browning | July 22, 2011 | 11:00 AM |You knew it was coming, didn't you? What big news topic doesn't get animated Sim-style by Next Media Animation now?Read More
Is NFL Star Cedric Benson an Angry Gay Man?
Filed by Mark S. King | July 22, 2011 | 10:00 AM |Do we try to understand Cedric Bensen, because he may be a panicked gay man trapped in a living lie, or blame this on a culture of homophobia (internalized and otherwise), or mind our own damn business?Read More
The Times's First Gay Columnist Isn't Helping
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 22, 2011 | 9:00 AM |Imagine reading Frank Bruni's columns as a conservative-but-not-crazy straight Arizonan. Would they convince you to support LGBT rights? Or would they make you a bit resentful against the queers?Read More
'We Have to Do the Work'
Filed by Ed Team | July 22, 2011 | 8:30 AM |"Younger people have grown up now in a world where they know gay people, where the silence has been shattered, where they know people as people. And they don't see marriage as some kind of thing that has to be...Read More
Democrats Cave On Justice For LGBT Working Families
Filed by Rebecca Juro | July 22, 2011 | 8:00 AM |With the economy still in the crapper and jobs still hard to come by, with LGBT unemployment estimated at around double the national average, the silence from Democrats on LGBT workplace rights has been deafening. Read More
Marcus Bachmann Clinic Gets Glitterbombed
Filed by Ed Team | July 22, 2011 | 7:00 AM |Continuing the "glitterbombing" fad is this crew of "barbarians," who show up to Bachmann & Associates requesting reparative therapy only to find that Marcus isn't around. Kind of sad, a little anti-climactic, but still some funny stuff (via Queerty)....Read More
