January 6, 2012
High Heels, Eric Cantor's Wife, & a Cost/Benefit Analysis [Weekly Reader]
Filed by Bil Browning | January 06, 2012 | 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
Santorum Booed by New Hampshire College Students
Filed by Karen Ocamb | January 06, 2012 | 5:00 PM |Antigay Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was booed during an exchange with a group of college students in Concord, New Hampshire, over his opposition to same-sex marriage.Read More
Justice Dept Updates Rape Definition
Filed by Bil Browning | January 06, 2012 | 4:00 PM |The federal government is expanding its definition of "rape" to include more than just "the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will." The new definition is much more inclusive than the narrow one implemented in 1927.Read More
Just Like On TV...
Filed by Terrance Heath | January 06, 2012 | 3:00 PM |Looks like somebody took those Volkswagon "test-drive" commercials a little too seriously.Read More
Don't Watch This if You Are Already in a Bad Mood
Filed by Bil Browning | January 06, 2012 | 2:00 PM |I'm warning you, you'll want to hurl something at your computer screen if you're already in a foul mood today.Read More
Researcher Complains Anti-Gay Group Distorts Study
Filed by Bil Browning | January 06, 2012 | 12:30 PM |Sirota studied the effect of gay dads raising girls while in heterosexual marriages. NARTH, however, published an article using Sirota's research to claim that children of same-sex parents don't fare as well as children raised "in stable homes with a mother and a father."Read More
Does Mitt Romney Know He's Quoting a Lesbian?
Filed by Dana Rudolph | January 06, 2012 | 11:30 AM |Mitt Romney has been frequently quoting "America the Beautiful" in his speeches. What he may not know is that the song was written in 1893 by Katherine Lee Bates - who lived with and shared her life with another woman.Read More
Disney & Kotex: The Story of Menstruation
Filed by Bil Browning | January 06, 2012 | 10:30 AM |Did you know that Disney and Kotex made an animated cartoon to teach girls about menstruation? It's the kind of flick that they showed us in health class when it was time for sex ed. Read More
Interview: Openly Gay Presidential Candidate Fred Karger
Filed by Adam Polaski | January 06, 2012 | 9:30 AM |Fred Karger is still running for president, and he's the first openly gay person to do so. Here, he speaks with The Bilerico Project about his lack of support, his disappointment with The Victory Fund, and what his campaign is trying to achieve.Read More
Darren Criss' Melodic Rolling Stone Interview
Filed by Bil Browning | January 06, 2012 | 9:17 AM |When Darren Criss was asked to sit down for a videotaped Rolling Stone interview, he offered to sing his way through the Q&A. Watch as he puts issues like gay youth, teen bullying, and his television relationship with Kurt...Read More
The Male Body Is Damn Beautiful
Filed by Bil Browning | January 06, 2012 | 9:09 AM |"We love your strong, solid thighs and calves. Your penises in their wide variety of shapes and sizes (and sometimes, angles), which, by the way, are just as enjoyable to look at when they're soft as when they're not... You...Read More
