You Gotta See This: August 2010
"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
Pepper spraying protesters turns vigilante
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 30, 2010 | 7:00 AM |The guy in the red truck there was later arrested for pepper spraying 16 people in a drive-by. Police believe he wasn't targeting the Westboro Baptist Church, but the Patriot Guard Riders who were counterprotesting....Read More
Rocky vs. Priscilla
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 29, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Here's an old clip from The Drew Carey show where they dance off and try to prove that either The Rocky Horror Picture Show or Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is better. I say Rocky, mainly because of Tim...Read More
When Birds Get Crazy, Unicorns Get Horny
Filed by Don Davis | August 28, 2010 | 7:00 AM |The Belgian band Hermanos Inglesos, with the help of MeMe, has finally answered the question of what happens when birds eat the blue berry and go to the club...and all I can say is that I hope unicorns don't...Read More
Creepiest commercial winner
Filed by Bil Browning | August 27, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Have you seen this latest commercial for Orbit gum? This is one of the creepiest damn things I've seen in a while. It's just horrid....Read More
Gay Coke ad
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 27, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Here's a Coca-Cola ad from Egypt. It's kind of gay....Read More
Bill Maher outed Ken Mehlman
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 26, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Remember when Bill Maher outed Ken Mehlman on Larry King Live and then CNN later censored it? That's zen....Read More
LCR meets with Utah's governor
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 25, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Local news covered the LCR meeting with the governor of Utah, which isn't extraordinary, but I'm impressed by the earnestness of the local journalists in covering this meeting....Read More
Christians come to pray for the gays
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 24, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Christians came to pray/protest a gay couple. Debate ensues. via...Read More
Natural Woman: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Filed by Bil Browning | August 23, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Incredibly cute actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt takes the stage for a great rendition of "Natural Woman." I think he's performing at a benefit for his online cooperative production company hitRECord.org and he does a damn good job....Read More
Trailer for "The Right to Love: An American Family"
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 22, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Reader Jay sent in the preview for "The Right to Love: An American Family," a documentary about Prop 8....Read More
Marriage Equality Old Spice Spoof
Filed by Bil Browning | August 21, 2010 | 7:00 AM |This pro-marriage equality ad from Australia mimics the Old Spice commercials. What do you think? Old Spice worthy?...Read More
Big Brother 12: Gay Cat Fight
Filed by Bil Browning | August 20, 2010 | 7:00 AM |The gay guy on Big Brother 12 got into a fight with one of the other housemates. Apparently she's this season's bitch. I stopped watching long ago when they just turned into stereotypes shoved into a few rooms. Anyone...Read More
Ted Olson on religious tolerance
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 19, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Theodore Olson, who's a 9/11 widow and is arguing the Prop 8 federal case, is OK with the Islamic community center in lower Manhattan....Read More
Overcoming difficulties
Filed by Bil Browning | August 18, 2010 | 7:00 AM |This Chinese piano player is unlike any other you've seen. The contestant on China's Got Talent lost his arms in an accident and taught himself to play the piano with his feet....Read More
MoveOn's "Boycott Target: The Musical"
Filed by Joe Mirabella | August 17, 2010 | 7:00 AM |MoveOn.org produced this very fun music ensemble that reminds Target, "we're going to make you pay." MoveOn is part of a national boycott of Target for their political contributions to the very anti gay candidate for Minnesota Governor, Tom...Read More
Video from Tokyo Pride
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 16, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Video from the first pride in Tokyo in three years....Read More
Blind live
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 15, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Here's "Blind" by Hercules & Love Affair, which they recorded with Antony Hegarty so it sounds weird to hear it sung by Nomi Ruiz....Read More
Don't be jealous of my boogie
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 14, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Here's the video RuPaul, Raven, Tyra, and Jujubee made at the end of Season 2 of RuPaul's Drag Race, "Don't Be Jealous of my Boogie."...Read More
Glenn Beck is for same-sex marriage
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 13, 2010 | 7:00 AM |I can barely watch this stuff, but Glenn Beck did say that same-sex marriage isn't a threat to the country. Everything else in this video is painful....Read More
Words
Filed by Bil Browning | August 12, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Check out this fabulous video from NPR's RadioLab about how one thing flows into another....Read More
Social Security video
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 11, 2010 | 7:00 AM |This video shows how American handles gay seniors is inadequate....Read More
Keith Olbermann on homophobic fundies
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 10, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Keith Olbermann did a segment on the rightwing crazies....Read More
Ted Olson talks marriage equality on FOX News
Filed by Bil Browning | August 09, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Watch Ted Olson eat FOX News Sunday's Chris Wallace for lunch when they talk about marriage equality and the Prop 8 case....Read More
Dumbass of the Week Award Winner
Filed by Bil Browning | August 08, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Watch Mr. Young Conservative squirm as he stands outside of Media Matters' offices asking staff what it feels like to work for George Soros. Soros, however, has never donated to the organization - no matter how many times FOX...Read More
240,000 Boycott Notices Delivered to Target
Filed by Joe Mirabella | August 07, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Randi Reitan, whose YouTube video inspired the Target boycott, spoke with me about how important the boycott was to her on Same Sex Sunday. She clearly was not distracted by this week's good news. Hopefully the CEO will meet...Read More
Sophia Petrillo on Marriage Equality
Filed by D Gregory Smith | August 06, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Out of the mouths of (old) babes......Read More
The Bilerico Players Present: The Prop 8 Decision Explained
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 05, 2010 | 7:00 AM |The Bilerico Players Present: The Prop 8 Decision Explained. Slightly odd -- but highly informative -- animated exchange between a mocked-up Judge Vaughn Walker and a legal counsel supporting the anti-marriage equality Proposition 8, which Judge Walker struck down....Read More
Bryan Safi on anti-gay ads
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 04, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Bryan Safi talks about the rising anti-sissy messages in advertising. The Arby's one makes me the saddest, considering a bunch of execs who probably never eat the crap Arby's serves sat around thinking of ways to exploit men's insecurity...Read More
Manchester Grand Hyatt protested
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 03, 2010 | 7:00 AM |LGBT activists protested the Manchester Grand Hyatt as GOProud is holding a convention there....Read More
Lady Gaga in Arizona
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 02, 2010 | 7:00 AM |Lady Gaga performed in Arizona, and she talked about the anti-immigrant bill they just passed....Read More
Video from Jerusalem Pride
Filed by Alex Blaze | August 01, 2010 | 7:00 AM |This video captured a good part of Jerusalem Pride from earlier this week. Jerusalem Pride experienced violence in years past and was threatened with a donkey counterprotest by the deputy mayor (because gay sex and bestiality are equivalent), but...Read More