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Guppies, Windmills, & the Circular Firing Squad [Weekly Reader]
Filed by Bil Browning | January 27, 2012 | 6:00 PM | 0 commentsYou 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
Arm-Wrestling Hunks: Vintage Muscle Gods
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | January 27, 2012 | 4:30 PM | 1 commentsNot sure how you feel about this but OMG, it's everything with 3 giant cherries on top from my POV.Read More
Karger Releases 10 Years of Tax Returns at Romney Institute
Filed by Karen Ocamb | January 27, 2012 | 3:00 PM | 0 commentsOpenly gay Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger released his 2000 to 2010 federal tax returns today in front of the George Romney Institute for Law and Public Policy at Adrian College in Michigan.Read More
Young Adult LGBT Books Can Make a Big Difference
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | January 27, 2012 | 1:30 PM | 4 commentsAs an out queer boy in the mid 1990's, I did not have many role for being an LGBT young adult. Being a voracious reader, I often found myself searching out subtext where the author likely never intended it.Read More
Report from Creating Change
Filed by Bil Browning | January 27, 2012 | 12:00 PM | 1 commentsIf you'd like to follow along with the conference on Twitter, everyone is using the hashtag #cc12 and with thousands of LGBT activists here, you know the tweets are flying fast.Read More
Parents of LGBT Kids: It's Time to Speak Up!
Filed by Annette Gross | January 27, 2012 | 10:30 AM | 3 commentsWhen the Republicans say that LGBT people don't deserve the same rights as other citizens, don't they realize that they are talking about our children? Read More
Cathy DeBuono: VIP Q Movie Pick
Filed by Jenni Olson | January 27, 2012 | 9:00 AM | 1 commentsOut lesbian actress Cathy DeBuono (who also happens to be a licensed psychotherapist) shared this terrific LGBT film selection and analysis with us.Read More
Why Do Legislators Listen to Unindicted Criminal Co-Conspirators?
Filed by Michael Hamar | January 26, 2012 | 4:30 PM | 0 commentsI've asked before the question before: why does anyone listen to these foul, morally bankrupt clerical bureaucrats? The question takes on new importance now that the Archdiocese of Philadelphia has been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the criminal case against Catholic priests.Read More
Men at the Beach: Vintage NSFW Photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | January 26, 2012 | 3:00 PM | 3 commentsFrom the 1960s, this deliberately anonymous photo of two fine young men doing what comes naturally (when you're semi-naked and alone behind some bushes!). I'm thinking Fire Island, perhaps?Read More
White House Promotes First National Gay-Straight Alliance Day
Filed by Karen Ocamb | January 26, 2012 | 1:30 PM | 1 commentsPresident Obama made only one reference to gays during the State of the Union address Tuesday night, but Wednesday morning the White House went all-out on the first-ever National Gay-Straight Alliance Day.Read More
Cynthia Nixon & Shifting from Essentialism
Filed by Kyle Bella | January 26, 2012 | 12:00 PM | 8 commentsThe debate over Cythnia Nixon's argument that being lesbian is a choice reveals the ineffectiveness of situating LGBTQ politics along defensive lines. I try to change the focus of that conversation.Read More
Meth: A Documentary
Filed by Bil Browning | January 26, 2012 | 10:30 AM | 2 commentsThis riveting documentary about gay men and meth addiction is a little over an hour long, but once you start it you'll sit through it all.Read More
Torch Song Trilogy: Vintage Film Review
Filed by Jenni Olson | January 26, 2012 | 9:00 AM | 2 commentsTorch Song Trilogy was one of the first LGBT movies I ever reviewed (for GAZE Magazine where I got my start as a film critic). I just found the review (and critique of the original marketing of the film) and had to share it here.Read More
Rep Gabby Giffords Officially Resigns from Congress [Video]
Filed by Karen Ocamb | January 25, 2012 | 6:00 PM | 1 commentsIn a letter read by her close friend Democratic Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Giffords said she needed to continue working on her recovery after being shot in the head during a constituent event in January 2011.Read More
Indiana Senate to Study Civil Marriage Structure?
Filed by Bil Browning | January 25, 2012 | 5:00 PM | 1 commentsIndiana State Senate Minority Leader State Vi Simpson (D - Ellettsville), has introduced legislation to form a study committee to investigate "alternatives to civil marriage."Read More
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