Tag Archives: Pam Spaulding

David Mixner’s 20 Most Powerful Lesbians

For those you who have issues with yesterday Out Power 50 list, former Clinton White House adviser David Mixner has his own list of the 20 most powerful lesbians in politics. Mixner’s top ten: Rachel Maddow, Tammy Baldwin, Hilary Rosen, Pam Spaulding, Randi Weingarten, Christine Quinn, Annise Parker, Rea Carey, Urvashi Vaid, Dr. Marjorie Hill. Hit the link for the …

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Joe Solmonese: We Are Going To Bring Down DADT This Year

Pam Spaulding reports from Saturday’s HRC gala in Raleigh. HRCs’ President Joe Solmonese delivered some news at the HRC Carolinas Gala on Saturday night. I was there reporting for the Blend as he made these emphatic statements to the members of the LGBT community and allies from North and South Carolina in attendance at the Raleigh Convention Center about what …

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Clay Aiken Speaks At NC HRC Gala

Pam Spaulding recorded the below clip of pop star Clay Aiken’s speech at Saturday’s HRC gala in North Carolina. Not bad, Clay. Visit Pam’s House Blend for full coverage of the event.

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Deviant Homosexual Bloggers Lead Air America Cruise Contest

Today Air America released an updated ranking in their rebooted contest and its two homofascist/hellbound/pinko contestants are in the lead! Does the “Go me” dance.* Does the “Go Pam” dance.* Don’t worry, all this is over in a week, so you’ll only have to hear about it…say…seven more times.*Something like the cabbage patch. I think.

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Blogger Beauty Pageant: Top Five!

Squee! Pam Spaulding and I made the Top Five in the Air America thingy. Thanks y’all! Final voting is now open via their insta-results widget. The contest ends Dec. 17th. I can’t tell if you get to vote every day, like in some of these things. Anyone? 1. Digby, Hullabaloo2. Mike Lux, Open Left 3. Karl Frisch, Media Matters 4. …

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Blogger Beauty Pageant

Apparently I am a semi-finalist in a contest I didn’t know existed. Air America Media is running a promotion asking you to vote for your favorite progressive blogger. The winner gets a week-long cruise to the Mexican Riviera with Air America hosts, including our heroine, Rachel Maddow. I’m way down at #11 in the semi-finals voting, which ends tomorrow. But …

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Pam Spaulding Makes Out 100 List

Popular progressive blogger Pam Spaulding has been named to this year’s Out Magazine list of LGBT movers and shakers, the Out 100. Via Pam, here’s this year’s complete list of honorees with links to their stories in Out. Congratulations, Pam! And I see several JMG regulars on that list, congrats to them as well! Adam Lambert Wanda Sykes Rob Marshall …

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Bloggers Honored By NYC’s LGBT Anti-Violence Project

Last night Pam Spaulding of Pam’s House Blend, Andy Towle of Towleroad, and Bil Browning of The Bilerico Project and I attended the NYC Anti-Violence Project’s Courage Awards, where we were honored for our work as “citizen journalists” – a term Pam calls “the glamour word for bloggers, don’tcha know, since we didn’t have PJs on.” We had elected Pam …

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November 9th: NYC Anti-Violence Project’s 13th Annual Courage Awards

With the horrendous spate of brutal hate crimes seen recently in New York City, the important work of the NYC Anti-Violence Project has never been more vital. Please consider supporting them by attending Nov. 9th’s 13th Annual Courage Awards fundraiser. The New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) will hold its 13th Annual Courage Awards on Monday, November 9, 2009 at …

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NC: Country Singer Banned After Anti-Gay Song At City Festival

Pam Spaulding reports that country singer Matt Boswell and his Hillbilly Blues Band have been banned from future performances by the city of Reidsville, North Carolina after a live broadcast from a city festival where he performed an altered version of a Merle Haggard song that included the anti-gay lyric, “And you can’t get married, you stupid gays and queers, …

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Joe Solmonese: HRC Dinner Attendees Know Best

On Sunday, HRC head Joe Solmonese told CNN that the membership of the HRC was diverse and “absolutely representative of the LBGT community,” and not a group of white elites as many have charged. We’re the largest LBGT organization in the country with nearly a million members. Most of them are small donors and supporters all over the country. And …

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Harry Jackson Calls On Haters Nationwide To Help Stop Marriage Equality In DC

Pam Spaulding points us the latest bile from Bishop Harry Jackson, DC’s head homophobe. Spaulding rants: This is outlandish. Harry Jackson, the loudmouth carpetbagging preacher from Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland is filing to collect signatures to put marriage equality on the ballot in DC. In order to raise the profile of his anti-gay efforrt, he’s also released a …

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Radio Hosts Who Made Anti-Trans Remarks Apologize, Invite Trans Advocates On Air

Pam’s House Blend contributor Autumn Sandeen and fellow trans-advocate Kim Pearson will appear on Sacramento’s KRXQ radio station this Thursday after the station’s hosts apologized for saying last week that they would beat transgender behavior out of their kids. The station suffered a massive pull-back in advertiser support after trans and gay bloggers took their outrage to the media. The …

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Pam Spaulding Wins First Women’s Media Center Awards

Noted LGBT activism blogger Pam Spaulding joins MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and CNN’s Christiane Amanpour as a winner of the first annual Women’s Media Center Awards. Spaulding won in the category of online journalism. The Women’s Media Center was founded in 2005 by Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan. Congratulations Pam!!

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Maine Governor Calls Calls Blogger To Discuss Support Of Marriage Bill

In a surprising move, Maine Gov. John Baldacci called the home of Pam’s House Blend blogger Louise yesterday to say he was reconsidering his position about signing the marriage equality bill should it reach his desk. Baldacci has been saying he was undecided for several weeks. On Tuesday the Maine Judiciary Committee strongly endorsed the bill and sent it on …

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Hackers Take Down Pam’s House Blend And Other Liberal Blogs

Someone claiming to be from the Asta La Vista hacking group has taken down Pam House’s Blend and several other liberal blogs. Via Pam: “I just found out Soapblox.net, the service that hosts many of the state blogs, has been hacked. Pam’s House Blend, RadicalRuss.net, American Liberalism, BeThink.org are some of the sites affected. I haven’t gone down the whole …

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At The LGBT Blogger Convention

I’m spending the weekend in Washington DC attending the National LGBT Bloggers Summit, where many gay activism bloggers have gathered to discuss the future of the movement and the role of bloggers in shaping the direction we take. The event is the brainchild of (in)famous outer Mike Rogers (BlogActive, PageOneQ). Several major LGBT activism groups are taking part in the …

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Tonight On Bilerico: A LiveBlog To Ask LGBT Leaders What Went Wrong

Tonight at 7pm EST there will be a LiveBlog hosted on the Bilerico Project during which the public can pose questions to Kate Kendell, Nadine Smith, and Barbara McCullough-Jones – the three women who led the anti-amendment movements in Florida, Arizona and California. The live Q&A will be hosted by Bilerico editor Bil Browning and Pam Spaulding of Pam’s House …

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You Deserve Hell! And Pizza!

Pam Spaulding came across this pizza box-wielding baby fundie at North Carolina Pride this weekend. Go check out Pam’s videos and slideshow for a cavalcade of crazy Christers, as well as some of the good people working on your behalf. By the way, the kid’s t-shirt says “Virginity Rocks!”

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LCR Cries Foul On Mark Buse

Log Cabin’s Scott Tucker is crying wah-wah-wah because the evil lefty gay bloggers have been talking about McCain’s chief of Quislings, Mark Buse. Mark Buse has been openly gay for years and has acknowledged as much. So the notion that he has been “outed” is simply false. But secondly–and this is the bigger point–this political stunt by Mike Rogers just …

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