December 8, 2011

Indiana Clark Gas Station Declares 'F--k U Homos'
Filed by Bil Browning | December 08, 2011 | 5:25 PM |After Bluffton, Indiana resident Josh Love walked into his local Clark station for a refill on a soda pop, he didn't expect to be verbally assaulted and short changed. Even worse, when he tried to contact the store's owner, he was cursed at and told not to come back to the store.Read More
Ron Paul: Bring On the Steamed Croutons
Filed by Bil Browning | December 08, 2011 | 4:00 PM |GOP presidential candidate (and all around kook) Ron Paul gets the bad lip-synching treatment this time around.Read More

The Reality of HIV Criminalization
Filed by Karen Ocamb | December 08, 2011 | 3:00 PM |36 states and territories have HIV-related laws. Sean Strub, one of the longest and fiercest fighters around anything and everything HIV-related, is looking for those who have been prosecuted as well as people who filed charges.Read More

It's Not About Cordray
Filed by Terrance Heath | December 08, 2011 | 2:00 PM |When it became clear that Senate Republicans would block Elizabeth Warren's appointment as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, President Obama appointed Richard Cordray. Now Senate Republicans are blocking Cordray's appointment. But unlike Warren's appointment, this time its not about Cordray. Read More

NCLR Policy Director Named to Ebony Power 100 List
Filed by Bil Browning | December 08, 2011 | 1:00 PM |Congratulations to my friend, Maya Rupert, for being named to Ebony Magazine's Power 100 List. Maya is the Federal Policy Director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights.Read More

Georgia Trans Employee Wins for All the Right Reasons
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | December 08, 2011 | 12:00 PM |A third U.S. appeals court rules in favor of trans employees, and alleviates some concerns raised by the District Court's decision. Read More

Don We Now Our (Censored) Apparel
Filed by Adam Polaski | December 08, 2011 | 11:00 AM |In Michigan this week, a music teacher came under fire for changing the words of "Deck the Halls," the super famous Christmas carol, so that the word "gay" didn't have to be a part of the lyrics.Read More

Advanced Hole Cleaning [Caption This]
Filed by Bil Browning | December 08, 2011 | 10:00 AM |Okay, folks. What's your best caption for this one? I know some of you are experts on this subject...Read More

9/11: The Gentrification of AIDS
Filed by Bil Browning | December 08, 2011 | 9:17 AM |"The deaths of these 81,542 New Yorkers, who were despised and abandoned, who did not have rights or representation, who died because of the neglect of their government and families, has been ignored. This gaping hole of silence has been...Read More
Let's See a Show of Hands
Filed by Bil Browning | December 08, 2011 | 9:12 AM |This brief animation ran at the Trevor Project Awards gala last week. Let's see a show of hands... on how many of you will share this on Facebook once you watch it....Read More

The Greatest Predictor of the End of Your Relationship
Filed by Jeff Lutes | December 08, 2011 | 9:00 AM |What is the greatest single predictor of relationship break-up? Can you guess the correct answer?Read More