November 22, 2011
Your Thoughts? The HRC President Job Description
Filed by Viktor Kerney | November 22, 2011 | 6:00 PM |The HRC has posted an ad, searching for a new President. All of the important pieces are included in the job description. But I would like to hear from you all on what should be added, specified or deleted from the description.Read More
Larry King's Father Talks about Plea Deal with Son's Killer
Filed by Karen Ocamb | November 22, 2011 | 5:00 PM |Christina Gonzala of Fox LA News followed Brandon McInerney's murder trial and after the plea deal was reached Monday, she spoke with the father of gay murder victim Larry King.Read More
Signorile Named Huff Po Gay Editor-at-Large
Filed by Bil Browning | November 22, 2011 | 4:00 PM |Michelangelo Signorile has been tapped to be the Editor-at-Large for Huff Po's new Gay Voices section. Signorile will continue to host his popular Sirius XM radio show.Read More
Thanksgiving & the Repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Filed by Guest Blogger | November 22, 2011 | 3:00 PM |Regardless of one's personal feeling about the U.S. military, the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell is cause for celebration by every member of the LBGT community on this Thanksgiving Day.Read More
Warning: Major Self Promoting
Filed by Sara Whitman | November 22, 2011 | 2:00 PM |Ah, the Most Influential Women of Newton...Read More
Equality Matters Staffers Leave Org
Filed by Bil Browning | November 22, 2011 | 1:00 PM |What happened to Equality Matters? The group was launched with great fanfare last year, but has slowly faded into nothingness.Read More
Meet the One Percent... And the 99 Percent
Filed by Terrance Heath | November 22, 2011 | 12:00 PM |Being in the 99 percent, and living in Washington, DC, is to live and work in close proximity to the 1 percent. (Especially if you work in Capitol Hill.) When you do so on a daily basis, it's easy to forget that - as F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote - "The rich are different from you and me."Read More
Beef for Thanksgiving: Vintage Hunks
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | November 22, 2011 | 11:00 AM |A group of happy, healthy, and super-hunky lifeguards, ca. 1970s. Check out the front row left, for a sweet surprise.Read More
Larry King Killer Gets 21 Years in Prison
Filed by Bil Browning | November 22, 2011 | 10:00 AM |Brandon McInerney, the teenager who shot gay classmate Larry King twice in the back of the head during a computer lab class, will serve 21 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.Read More
The Last Thanksgiving
Filed by Steve Ralls | November 22, 2011 | 9:00 AM |Benjamin Anderson will spend this Thanksgiving packing. The Coast Guard resident is preparing to leave the United States because current immigration laws have made it nearly impossible for him to remain in the country he honorably served.Read More
Pope: AIDS Is an Ethical Problem
Filed by Bil Browning | November 22, 2011 | 8:30 AM |"Above all, it is an ethical problem. The change of behavior that it requires - for example, sexual abstinence, rejection of sexual promiscuity, fidelity within marriage - ultimately involves the question of integral development, which demands a global approach and...Read More
Senator Apologizes to El Salvador Over 'Pro-Gay Agenda'
Filed by Bil Browning | November 22, 2011 | 8:00 AM |Senator Jim DeMint, in a speech opposing interim Ambassador to El Salvador Mari Carmen Aponte, references an OpEd Aponte published in El Salvador applauding the country's record on LGBT right. The senator apologizes on behalf of the United States...Read More
