Media: August 2012

Aaron Schock, the Democratic Convention, & the Dildo Lawsuit [Weekly Reader]
Filed by Bil Browning | August 31, 2012 | 6:00 PM |You 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

FOX Radio Cancels Show Over Pro-Gay Interview?
Filed by Bil Browning | August 30, 2012 | 4:00 PM |Reno, Nevada radio host Sean Savoy, however, claims that FOX News Radio affiliate KKFT 99.1 FM killed his show after he interviewed a pro-gay activist about marriage equality, Chick-fil-A, and other queer conversational topics.Read More

The New Face of Gay Gossip
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | August 26, 2012 | 1:00 PM |This article is not intended to condone gossip, which is frowned upon by the world's great religions. This is just a commentary about a developing social trend.Read More

Spongebob, a Bread Heel, & the Rape Debate [Weekly Reader]
Filed by Bil Browning | August 24, 2012 | 4:30 PM |You 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

Anti-gay Groups Urge Fox News to Stop Booking Gay Activist
Filed by Karen Ocamb | August 24, 2012 | 3:00 PM |Antigay "pro-family" groups are trying to go over the head of popular conservative Fox News TV host Bill O'Reilly and trying to get his Fox bosses to force O'Reilly to stop having on-air interviews with longtime LGBT activist Truth Wins Out founder Wayne Besen.Read More

1% Supremacy at the National Review Online
Filed by Terrance Heath | August 24, 2012 | 11:00 AM |Move over John Derbyshire. Make room for National Review Online columnist Kevin D. Williamson, the latest conservative to astound those of us who naively thought there was little the right-wing could do anymore that would leave us staring in open-mouthed disbelief.Read More

Pittsburgh Editorial Cartoon Sums Up FRC's Hateful Offense
Filed by Sue Kerr | August 20, 2012 | 12:30 PM |Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Rob Rogers posted a phenomenal cartoon yesterday morning, neatly summarizing the weak cries of the Family Research Council about being "unfairly" labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.Read More

Pansies, Winged Dogs, & Paul Ryan [Weekly Reader]
Filed by Bil Browning | August 17, 2012 | 6:00 PM |You 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

When Did CNN Anchors Find Their Inner Journalists?
Filed by Bil Browning | August 16, 2012 | 1:30 PM |With the departure of CNN president Jonathan Klein, the television news station seems to have found some mojo again. Instead of allowing their guests to set the agenda and proclaim their own truths, reporters have started calling bullshit on the blatant lies and spin.Read More

Did Anderson Cooper's Boyfriend Cheat?
Filed by James Holmes | August 13, 2012 | 2:30 PM |A UK tabloid stalked down Anderson Cooper's boyfriend and snapped a picture of him kissing another man. The public has responded in one of two ways - "How dare anyone cheat on Anderson?" or "Gay man = open relationship." Read More

Trans Power, Olympic Hotties, & Disowning a Child [Weekly Reader]
Filed by Bil Browning | August 10, 2012 | 5:30 PM |You 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

Access: Use It to Give Voice to the Voiceless & Hell to the Powerful
Filed by Guest Blogger | August 09, 2012 | 5:30 PM |On August 3, the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association named me NLGJA Journalist of the Year 2012. I addressed NLGJA's annual gala with my acceptance speech, "Access: Use It to Give Voice to the Voiceless (and Hell to the Powerful)." Read More

Compassion for the Boy Who Cried Wolf
Filed by D Gregory Smith | August 08, 2012 | 4:30 PM |Bad judgment is a hallmark of humanity. But so is compassion.Read More

Gay Chicago TV Talks with IL Couple Suing for Marriage Equality
Filed by Waymon Hudson | August 08, 2012 | 12:00 PM |Marriage equality has been making headlines across the country - from support for the right to marry being added to Democratic Party platform to the Chick-fil-A controversy over corporate funding of anti-gay hate groups and opposition to marriage rights for same-sex couples.Read More

You Don't Need Grindr to Hookup with Bilerico
Filed by Bil Browning | August 06, 2012 | 3:00 PM |You know you want to hookup with the Bilerico contributors. No Grindr needed...Read More

The Meat of the Issue
Filed by Mark Segal | August 05, 2012 | 2:30 PM |There's a bigger danger at stake - one the media, our straight allies nor Chick-fil-A are discussing, and one that journalists and elected officials should have researched by now.Read More

Chicken Wars, Lana Wachowski, & Non-Olympic Swimmers [Weekly Reader]
Filed by Bil Browning | August 03, 2012 | 6:00 PM |You 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

'The Gay Crusaders' at Forty
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | August 03, 2012 | 11:00 AM |The year 1972 was to lesbian and gay books what 1969 (the year of Stonewall) was to lesbian and gay politics. These were not scientific studies by heterosexual "experts" but first-person narratives by openly lesbian or gay activists. Read More

Defending Lana Wachowski
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 01, 2012 | 5:30 PM |Lana Wachowski's transition was news five years ago. Now, it is not news, but something else entirely. It is prurient, zoo-specimen gawking of the worst type, something that trans people must endure all the time. Read More