August 31, 2010
Uncle Stacey
Filed by Paige Schilt | August 31, 2010 | 7:00 PM |Sometimes I start thinking I'm an expert. I get to feeling like I've got things all figured out. And then, inevitably, parenthood brings me right back down to earth. Take the time we told our son, Waylon, that his friend...Read More
Sea Turtles!
Filed by Sean Martin | August 31, 2010 | 6:00 PM |It's those little ironies you have to watch out for......Read More
Cancer and Kittens
Filed by Sara Whitman | August 31, 2010 | 5:00 PM |Home again. This time for good. No more Maine, no more driving outside the city limits, no more beach. Bah. I went to Dana Farber, the cancer hospital of extraordinary care, with my sister yesterday. It's not the greatest news....Read More
Very good mushroom risotto
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 31, 2010 | 4:00 PM |Ever since I was a little kid I loved cooking. My first memory with my mother in the kitchen is hearing the old food processor she had to shred dry mozzarella and running to go and get the last little...Read More
The Trouble with Women: Vintage ads
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | August 31, 2010 | 3:30 PM |Stereotypes of women in vintage ads never cease to amaze. Here, two pre-feminist ads which more or less the traditional patriarchal view of what's wrong with females. First, we're very emotional. This woman, for example, just learned about the Tea...Read More
Richmond, Virginia Launches Gay Tourism Site
Filed by Michael Hamar | August 31, 2010 | 2:30 PM |In a move that one would think has Virginia's uber-Christian and decidedly anti-gay attorney general Ken Cuccinelli having convulsions, the Richmond Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau has launched a tourism page aimed at the LGBT tourism dollar. The site, called...Read More
Why Can't I Tell My Ex to F-Off ?
Filed by Michele O'Mara | August 31, 2010 | 1:30 PM |I try my best to stay on good terms with my exes. I wouldn't say we always end up friends but we can at least see each other and have a decent conversation. However, it's different with one person....Read More
Silently Listening
Filed by Guest Blogger | August 31, 2010 | 12:30 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Alan L. Bounville is a full time graduate student studying theatre for social change at New York University and is one of the founding members of Queer Rising New York City, a direct action group fighting...Read More
Focus on the Family's Model Pro-Bullying Policy
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 31, 2010 | 11:30 AM |Focus on the Family is going all out when it comes to schools, mainly to try to make the next generation of Americans more homophobic than the group of teens who just graduated. They know the battle is in schools...Read More
How Janet Jackson Can Save the Democratic Party
Filed by Bil Browning | August 31, 2010 | 10:30 AM |Fresh polling out from Gallup doesn't bode well for the Democrats. August is the cruelest month...for Democrats, it seems. Driving the news today is a new Gallup poll that shows Republicans holding an unprecedented 10 point lead over Democrats on...Read More
Does the Gay Men's Health Summit make me look fat?
Filed by Mark S. King | August 31, 2010 | 9:30 AM |I took more time than usual choosing an outfit this morning, because of two terribly conflicting forces. First, I was on my way to the 2010 Gay Men's Health Summit and, diametrically opposed to this fact, I went shopping for...Read More
'Equality' is My Middle Name: A Look at One of Facebook's Most Simple and Effective Uses
Filed by Leone Kraus | August 31, 2010 | 8:30 AM |We've all seen them in our Facebook friend networks, the friends who have 'Equality' as their middle name, such as Joe Equality Smith or Jane Equality Doe. The other night, I was scouring Facebook for blog ideas and came across...Read More
The voice of LGBT Kurds
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 31, 2010 | 7:30 AM |"There are 15 million Kurds in Turkey, and one in 10 people is gay, but where are the Kurdish gay people? That is the question that led to this. We wanted to find out how people express their sexuality in...Read More
"That's Gay" on schools
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 31, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Brian Safi discusses Focus on the Family's back-to-school focus....Read More
