July 30, 2008
Exclusive: How gay 9/11 con artist was found
Filed by Bil Browning | July 30, 2008 | 7:00 PM |Convicted gay con artist Patric Ian Henn made headlines in 2005 when he pled guilty to charges of scamming the American Red Cross out of over $68,000. Henn falsely claimed his domestic partner had died in the September 11 tragedy....Read More
Prohibitive Prescriptions
Filed by Terrance Heath | July 30, 2008 | 6:00 PM |You can tell a lot about a person by what is in their medicine cabinet. A quick peek during a trip to the bathroom and the nosey neighbor could find out whose taking anti-depressants or birth control pills. Maybe someone...Read More
What Am I Missing Here?
Filed by Tyrion Lannister | July 30, 2008 | 5:09 PM |The Star reports that the Indiana State Police have fired two officers involved in an altercation outside of Gregs last year. What's perfectly bizarre about the article is its headline -- "ISP Fires 2 Officers in Gay Bar Incident" --...Read More
Tennessee Shooting
Filed by Sara Whitman | July 30, 2008 | 5:00 PM |I'm still stunned by the news that an armed gunman went into a Unitarian Church in Tennessee that was in the middle of a performance by kids of the play "Annie" and killed two people, with the intention of killing...Read More
Pass the PEPFAR, join the bipart-gasm, and redeem colonialism
Filed by Alex Blaze | July 30, 2008 | 4:00 PM |There is just too much wrong with this Michael Gerson column on PEPFAR reauthorization for me not to address it here on Bilerico. According to him, the PEPFAR reauthorization proves that politics is meaningless and that the Bush Doctrine, not...Read More
Big Brother 10 Jessie Godderz is naked (and gay?)
Filed by Bil Browning | July 30, 2008 | 3:00 PM |My fascination with CBS's Big Brother (and the regularly scheduled scandals) is well documented. Last season I found a picture of one gay contestant's bare butt on MySpace and then caused a bit of a stir for posting graphic pictures...Read More
New Studies Show Girls Have Eliminated the Math Gap
Filed by Serena Freewomyn | July 30, 2008 | 2:00 PM |Remember the posts I ran a few weeks ago about the biological basis of gender differences? One of the articles discussed the myth that girls are inherently bad at math. Well, last week the University of Wisconsin-Madison released a study...Read More
More Wedding Bells for Massachusetts
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 30, 2008 | 1:00 PM |The Massachusetts House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to repeal a 1913 law that prevented the state from marrying out-of-state couples if their marriages would not be valid in their home states. This comes a week after the Senate voted...Read More
The initiation caption this
Filed by Bil Browning | July 30, 2008 | 12:00 PM |George Bush initiates another young convert into Skull Al-Bones by teaching him the secret "terrorist fist bump"...Read More
Fandango, I Want My Money Back
Filed by Simon Aronoff | July 30, 2008 | 11:00 AM |Warning: this post is one big plot spoiler. I was a fan of the X Files while it had its run on television. The show was an entertaining ride through all manner of paranormal experience--from UFOs to changeling monsters and...Read More
Will Arizona be abandoned?
Filed by Guest Blogger | July 30, 2008 | 10:00 AM |Editor's Note: Guest Blogger Barbara McCullough-Jones is Executive Director of Equality Arizona. A native of Seattle, Barbara first arrived in Arizona in 1989 and has since enjoyed nearly 20 years working in the LGBT movement. Barbara has received numerous honors...Read More
Report Finds Attorney General's Office Broke the Law
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 30, 2008 | 9:00 AM |The Department of Justice has released a scathing report against White House liaison Monica Goodling, an aide to former Attorney General Roberto Gonzalez. The report, entitled "An Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring by Monica Goodling and Other Staff in...Read More
Those "San Francisco Values"...
Filed by Ed Team | July 30, 2008 | 7:30 AM |"When [Republicans] sort of use their winks and nods about San Francisco values, they are talking about the fact that we respect our gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community." - Speaker of The House Nancy Pelosi on anti-gay Sam Graves...Read More
Lambda Literary Awards: Memorial to LGBT Literary Figures
Filed by Waymon Hudson | July 30, 2008 | 7:00 AM |iPhone users: Click to watch A memorial of the LGBT writers and literary figures who have passed during the 20 years since the begining of the Lambda Literary Awards. (h/t Towleroad)...Read More
