The Movement: April 2010
Of buses and passports
Filed by Sean Martin | April 30, 2010 | 4:00 PM |No cartoon today, sorry. Instead, I'm gonna talk a bit about what it feels like to come to a country where you're clearly not wanted. This is a true story....Read More
Gay, Jew, Dwarf, Leftie: Harry Weider Killed in NYC Accident
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 29, 2010 | 12:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Michael Petrelis is gay man living with HIV, and his 221 t-cells in San Francisco's Mission District. He's been happily partnered to Mike Merrigan since 1995. As I write this my eyes are cloudy with tears...Read More
Marriage matters even to gays in "flyover" states
Filed by Michael Crawford | April 28, 2010 | 7:00 PM |I spend my days working to working to win marriage nationwide as New Media Director for Freedom to Marry. As part of my job, I come across an amazing array of stories from folks all over the country eager to...Read More
Our Rights Are There for the Taking
Filed by Michael Hamar | April 28, 2010 | 4:00 PM |Gerald, a reader in Melbourne, Australia, whose life parallels my own in some respects and with whom I have corresponded from time to time, sent me a link to an op-ed piece from The Age, Melbourne's principal newspaper, that addresses...Read More
Uniting the T and the LBG
Filed by Bil Browning | April 27, 2010 | 5:00 PM |Last year I celebrated my birthday in Washington DC with hundreds of friends and readers at the National Equality March. This year, I'll be celebrating in Phoenix, Arizona, and, of course, you're all invited. I'll be a plenary speaker at...Read More
Listen & Watch: Sirius XM Radio town hall
Filed by Bil Browning | April 25, 2010 | 4:00 PM |Last weeks' Sirius XM Radio town hall meeting of LGBT activists was amazing for the unusual joint appearance by several prominent Gay Inc leaders. While quite a bit of seemed like a pile-on for HRC and Joe Solmonese, it's worth...Read More
San Francisco LGBT Pride Committee Throws a Pink Brick at Senator Roy Ashburn
Filed by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer | April 23, 2010 | 4:00 PM |The San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Committee awarded Roy Ashburn its Pink Brick yesterday. Roy Ashburn is the California state senator with an anti-gay legislative record who was arrested for drunk driving leaving a Sacramento gay bar...Read More
Pride is about making people uncomfortable
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 23, 2010 | 1:00 PM |Here's another story about how restrictions on free speech ultimately get used to quell political debate and silence certain opinions, no matter what the intentions were in developing those restrictions. I was following a story from Toronto last month on...Read More
The Trevor Project Honored with Crisis Center Excellence Award for Work with LGBTQ Youth
Filed by Waymon Hudson | April 23, 2010 | 12:00 PM |Amazing news for my one of my favorite LGBTQ organizations that do incredible and life-saving work for our community! The Trevor Project, the leading national organization focused on crisis and suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning...Read More
Who knew what when?
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 22, 2010 | 7:00 PM |I've been saying for some time here on TBP that DADT repeal won't happen before the midterms - the White House has been sending that message between the lines for a while now (most obviously when they trotted out Mullen...Read More
Bi African-American Ballplayers Sue Gay Softball Organization For Discrimination
Filed by Monica Roberts | April 22, 2010 | 5:00 PM |If the GLBT community wants their rights and humanity respected, protected and codified under the law, it is imperative for them to remember and realize that they must do the same thing for others inside and outside the GLBT community....Read More
Don't Miss This: LGBT Leadership Town Hall Today
Filed by Bil Browning | April 22, 2010 | 12:00 PM |Don't forget that Michelangelo Signorile is hosting an LGBT Leadership Town Hall today. The event will be broadcast live via Sirius XM Radio channel 109 from 2pm - 4pm Eastern. If you are not a subscriber to Sirius XM you...Read More
A Call to Action: Immigration is a Queer Issue!
Filed by Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz | April 21, 2010 | 12:30 PM |On April 13, 2010 The Arizona legislature voted 21-to-35 to make it a criminal offense to be an undocumented immigrant in the state of Arizona. This measure also requires local police to determine a person's immigration status by establishing whether...Read More
A Call to Action: Immigration is a Queer Issue!
Filed by Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz | April 21, 2010 | 12:30 PM |On April 13, 2010 The Arizona legislature voted 21-to-35 to make it a criminal offense to be an undocumented immigrant in the state of Arizona. This measure also requires local police to determine a person's immigration status by establishing whether...Read More
The Unasked Question
Filed by Antonia D'orsay | April 17, 2010 | 2:00 PM |I promised this post a few short days ago. I'm setting it up for the weekend, because it's the kind of thing that will take time to discuss, to flesh out, to explore, and besides, it'll get ugly if "the...Read More
What's the Key to the Gay Rights Movement? Straight Liberation.
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 16, 2010 | 3:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Grace Chu lives in New York City, and she is the editor-in-chief of lesbian humor and culture blog Grace The Spot and a staff writer at AfterEllen. She likes penguins. I've been hit with deadline after...Read More
What's the Key to the Gay Rights Movement? Straight Liberation.
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 16, 2010 | 3:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Grace Chu lives in New York City, and she is the editor-in-chief of lesbian humor and culture blog Grace The Spot and a staff writer at AfterEllen. She likes penguins. I've been hit with deadline after...Read More
An LGBT, beyond marriage win
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 16, 2010 | 11:00 AM |Obama released a presidential memo late yesterday to allow people to choose who gets to visit them and who gets to act as health care proxy, effectively banning hospitals that participate in Medicaid or Medicare (almost all of them) from...Read More
White Noise and Queer Families
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 15, 2010 | 7:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Susan Raffo lives in Minneapolis where she writes, is a bodyworker, parents, lives in communal housing, organizes and, when the weather permits, gardens. She is planning on going to Detroit for the US Social Forum. She'll...Read More
Steny Hoyer says vote is coming on ENDA
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 14, 2010 | 2:00 PM |Add the majority leader to the list of Democrats saying a vote is coming on ENDA: Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer signaled Tuesday that the House is likely to consider legislation this year banning employment discrimination based on sexual orientation,...Read More
Same-Sex Marriage in 2012? That'll Be the Day
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 14, 2010 | 12:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Patrick Connors is a self proclaimed uppity fag living in San Francisco that is legally married to a man. He is a freelance writer for The Snitch, a blog for SF Weekly. He is tired of...Read More
2012 or bust
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 13, 2010 | 1:00 PM |After Equality California and the Courage Campaign endorsed 2012 as the year to repeal Prop 8 in California, people didn't think that the orgs left in the 2010 had the resources to get enough signatures to get on the ballot....Read More
Barney Frank: Lobby like the NRA
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 12, 2010 | 7:00 PM |Karen Ocamb has a great, wide-ranging interview up with Barney Frank about DADT, ENDA, and other LGBT legislation that's worth reading if you want to know what's up with what. And he's trying to rally the troops: So what the...Read More
Pre-Modern Feminist advertising: Kotex
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | April 12, 2010 | 10:30 AM |Kotex ran an ad campaign around the the theme of "there is no average woman" in the 1940s, a lovely blip in pre-feminist time when women were filling in for absent soldiers in factories and other traditionally male-dominated professions. With...Read More
There are no homophobes in America, just homophobia
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 11, 2010 | 2:30 PM |An interesting article in the Wall Street Journal this week discussed whether employers should out themselves in interviews: But others point to instances of recruits abruptly quitting after learning they were working for a gay-owned establishment. As a result, they...Read More
Top 10 LGBT groups to follow on Twitter
Filed by Michael Crawford | April 08, 2010 | 6:00 PM |Despite evidence to the contrary, Twitter is not the sole province of rabid Justin Bieber fans. It's also a fantastic way to stay up-to-date on LGBT news and to connect with advocacy organizations. And, #samesexsunday is a great way to...Read More
Fraternity, Sorority, Gender: 19th Century Lesbiana
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | April 06, 2010 | 11:30 AM |Something tells me there is more to this late 19th century postcard than meets the eye, though what meets the eye is certainly enchanting....Read More
The Catholic church pedophilia scandal: The forgotten victims
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 05, 2010 | 3:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Dr. Carlos T Mock is a native Puerto Rican who resides in Chicago, IL and Three Oaks, MI. He has published four books and is the GLBT Editor for Floricanto Press in Berkley, CA. I was...Read More
What do you see?
Filed by Antonia D'orsay | April 02, 2010 | 3:00 PM |(Trigger warning: Yeah, from me. So it's bad.) I take in a fair amount of information in a given day. It ranges from the absurdist to the terrifying, and all manner of points on a three dimensional grid around them....Read More
Glimpses of Equality: Why I Queered the Census
Filed by Waymon Hudson | April 02, 2010 | 1:00 PM |Many of the readers on Bilerico know that my partner, Anthony Niedwiecki, and I were married in California before Prop 8 passed and became one of the 18,000 limited edition gay couples grandfathered in to marriage equality. I posted about...Read More
I'm Joining The NCTE Board
Filed by Monica Roberts | April 01, 2010 | 12:00 PM |I have an announcement to make that is probably going to come as a shock to people who have known me for a while. It's also going to come as a surprise to those individuals in the trans community who...Read More
