Family Research Council leader Tony Perkins was disinvited from a planned speaking engagement at Andrews Air Force Base that was to have taken place last weekend after criticizing the president’s position on DADT. Two days after President Obama’s State of the Union speech, in which he announced plans to repeal “Don’t ask, Don’t tell,” Perkin’s received a letter from the …
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PhoboQuotable – Barb Davis White
“Rosa Parks did not move to the front of the bus to support sodomy. There is no difference between a black person and a white person other than their skin color when there’s a tremendous difference between a man and a woman. Allowing a black woman and a white man to marry does not change the definition of marriage. However, …
Read More »Quote Of The Day – Lady Gaga
“I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me’.” – Lady Gaga, speaking to …
Read More »Michele Bachmann, The Comic Book
Comic book fans may be interested in False Witness! The Michele Bachmann Story, by Kevin Avidor. She’s certainly the most cartoonish member of Congress in quite a while. And that’s saying something. Ordering details at the above link.
Read More »UC Davis LGBT Center Vandalized
The LGBT center at the University of California campus in Davis was struck by graffiti vandals over the weekend. For now, the damage will remain as a symbol of anti-gay sentiment. From a UC Davis bulletin: On the night of February 26th the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center experienced acts of vandalism. The entrance to the LGBTRC was …
Read More »Exodus International Launches Campaign In Support Of Anti-Gay Bullying
GLSEN’s national Day Of Silence is six weeks away, but the “ex-gay” mental cases at Exodus International have already launched their “Day Of Truth” campaign to stop students from being taught that it’s wrong to beat up and harass gay kids. According to Exodus, the anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund is standing by with 1200 attorneys to represent anybody that faces …
Read More »Ron Romanovsky – Sanctity Of Marriage
New music from one-half of the classic gay folk duo Romanovsky & Phillips.
Read More »Stop Kill Gays Bill: 450K Signatures Delivered To Uganda Government
Today activists delivered more than 450,000 signatures to the Ugandan government on a petition protesting the “kill gays” bill. The online petition was organised by campaign group Avaaz, which hopes to eventually garner one million signatures. It was delivered to Uganda’s parliament in Kampala this morning by a delegation led by Anglican priest Canon Gideon Byamugisha. The petition was accompanied …
Read More »Lithuania’s Anti-Gay Law Takes Effect
Lithuania’s new law anti-gay law takes effect today after being slightly amended due to the protests of the European Parliament. The law bars ‘minors’ from receiving information about any type of sexual relationships, and seeks to protect the ‘traditional’ concept of family defined by the Constitution as based on the union between a man and a woman. Last September the …
Read More »Giant Inflatable Beavers
Surely, this is the one thing we’ll all remember from last night’s closing ceremonies. They kind of remind me of the Union Rat.
Read More »Poly-Sci Model: The Musical
OUTRAGEOUS: Fort Worth Police Press Charges Against Rainbow Lounge Patrons
After the Fort Worth police and the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission staged a widely criticized raid of the Rainbow Lounge last June, authorities from both organizations admitted wrongdoings that resulted in the firings of three TABC officers and a rewriting of the rules regarding nightclub raids. But despite all of that and an abject apology to the gay community from …
Read More »SNL – We Are The World 3
Gays Protest At Dutch Catholic Church
About 300 protesters, many in pink wigs and shirts, walked out of services at a Catholic church in the Netherlands yesterday in reaction a gay man being denied communion for being a hell-bound sinner. This dispute began during Dutch carnival celebrations earlier in February, when the man chosen to be carnival prince in nearby Reusel was refused communion because of …
Read More »Improv Everywhere – Ted’s Birthday
Thirty strangers show up at a bar and throw a birthday party for a guy named Ted. Not only does Ted not know them, his name isn’t Ted.
Read More »Sydney: Gays Go Nude For Spencer Tunick
Famed American photographer Spencer Tunick was commissioned by the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras for a mass nude photo on the steps of the Opera House. From a Sydney Morning Herald reporter (and participant) account: There were elderly couples walking down Macquarie Street, single young women in cars and plenty of gay groups whooping it up as they headed …
Read More »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.
Read More »Trend Alert: Vajazzling
Possibly NSFW.
Read More »This Week In Holy Crimes
Over the last seven days… Texas: Pastor Hezekiah Stallwork charged with molesting a seven year-old girl. Other victims are expected to come forward.Mississippi: Youth pastor Stephen Brown charged with multiples counts of possessing child pornography.Louisiana: Pastor Joseph Jones charged with multiple felony counts of dumping untreated human sewage from the six subdivisions he manages.New York: Rabbi Milton Balkany charged with …
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