Yearly Archives: 2010

SHOCKER: The Wealthy White Men At GOProud Want To Keep Their Tax Cuts At The Expense Of Homosexuals

Don’t fall out of your chairs, but the wealthy white men at gay billionaire funded GOProud have endorsed the GOP’s plan to hold the nation hostage unless America’s millionaires get richer. GOProud executive director Jimmy LaSalvia: “Senate Republicans are absolutely right. It is time that Democrats in the Senate stop playing political games with our economy. If Democrats are truly …

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GOP Senators: We Will Block 100% Of All Bills Until Bush Tax Cuts Are Extended

Today all 42 GOP members of the Senate issued a letter declaring that not one single bill (including DADT) will be considered until Congress agrees to extend the Bush tax cuts to the wealthy. Because when you’re out of money, the thing to do is cut your income. And so much for yesterday’s bipartisan summit. “[W]e write to inform you …

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NEW YORK CITY: Nine Arrested At Bloomberg AIDS Housing Protest

Nine people were arrested this morning outside of a breakfast meeting hosted by NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg in a protest about the exclusion of indigent AIDS patients from a state housing program that caps the rent of ill people on public assistance at 30% of their income. More photos from the protest are here. Video is here. At Bloomberg’s urging, …

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SF AIDS Foundation – It Gets Better

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Membership

ABOVE: At the 1985 Xmas party described below: Me, Michael, and Barney. I also wrote about Barney here. Originally posted May 2004. Reposted for World AIDS Day.Membership Michael didn’t look good. We were at his annual Christmas Luau party. Tons and tons of people in the house and the backyard. Standing in his kitchen, wearing a grass skirt and a …

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Tony Perkins Is Ever So Pissed At Apple

After complaints from LGBT activists, a few days ago Apple quietly removed an iPhone app for the Manhattan Declaration, whose signers vow to disobey all laws granting rights to gay Americans. Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council hate group, is furious. Silencing opposition has become a winning strategy for the Left because fewer people seem willing to speak …

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A Day With HIV In America

Via press release: POSITIVELY AWARE, a leading magazine devoted to HIV treatment, today announced that “A Day With HIV In America,” a photo essay published in the new November/December 2010 issue of the print magazine, is viewable online, tying in with World AIDS Day on December 1. Taken in cities and towns around the country on September 21, 2010, this …

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Once, When We Were Heroes

Bilerico contributor and AIDS activist Mark S. King remembers the worst of the plague years for World AIDS Day. Watch this, please.

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Quote Of The Day – Peter LaBarbera

“And so Illinois, dominated by Chicago and its corrupt Democratic machine, continues its moral descent. Land of Lincoln? In name only, as Abe Lincoln — whom some very troubled homosexual activists have tried to smear as a homosexual (it’s easy when the targeted victim is deceased) – actually revered the Bible, and thus surely respected its moral teachings — including …

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Elaine Donnelly Vs. Gay Veterans

The vile Elaine Donnelly of the self-titled “Center for Military Readiness” takes on gay veterans Mike Almy and David Hall over yesterday’s DADT study.

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LA Times: Family Research Council Rightfully Labeled A Hate Group

From an op-ed piece by Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times columnist Tim Rutten. Exhortations against “race mixing” were commonplace pulpit messages short decades ago, though we now recognize them as hate speech. It’s past time to do the same with rhetoric that denigrates gays and lesbians. So long as even the most objectionable religious dogma stays under the church roof, …

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Today’s Lie From Sarah Palin

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Catholic League Fires Back At Lincoln Tunnel Atheism Billboard

Days after the American Atheists posted their “You Know It’s A Myth” billboard at the New Jersey entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel, the Catholic League has erected an answering billboard at the other end. Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, a lay civil rights organization that receives no church financing, said that an anonymous donor in Manhattan came up …

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NEW YORK CITY: Guilty Pleas In Hate Crime Bashing Of Queens Gay Man

Two men charged in the brutal October 2009 gay-bashing of Queens resident Jack Price have pleaded guilty to hate crimes. Price, 49, spent days in a medically-induced coma after the attack left him with collapsed lungs, multiple broken ribs, and liver and spleen damage. Daniel Rodriguez, 22, of 502 115th St. in College Point, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count …

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Deck The Falls

It seemed like a funny idea until: “A 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn’t realize that it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of the many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn’t …

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Log Cabin Republicans Ask John McCain To Change His Mind On DADT

Chris Matthews calls out LCR head R. Clark Cooper for being a gay Republican, what with their pesky anti-gay platform. Cooper: “Something, something, work from the inside, something something.”

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Glee Spoiler: Special Education

Stay out of the comments if you haven’t yet seen tonight’s episode. Otherwise, dive in and dish the strangeness. (The above clip may vanish from YouTube, of course.)

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Dan Savage: McCain Is A Bigot

“There’s really no other explanation for his backflips and his hypocrisy other than just irrational animus, which is the definition of bigotry.”

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Tweet Of The Day II – GetEQUAL

Today’s summit with GOP leaders at the White House was primarily about extending the Bush tax cuts and the START treaty. And it was attended by GOP leaders of the House, which has already approved the repeal of DADT. GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was also there, but he’s one of the staunchest opponents of repealing DADT. So who, …

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Tweet Of The Day – NOM

The above tweet comes from the new Twitter account of NOM’s Facebook moderator, Louis Marinelli, who formerly tweeted for them as OneMan-OneWoman. It’s not the first time Marinelli has expressed support for the repeal of DADT, which is all the more bizarre as he believes that all homosexuals are mentally ill.

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