Apparently they’ve been around for a couple of years, but I’ve only just learned about them via Slog. From the Against Equality about page: Against Equality is an online archive, publishing, and arts collective focused on critiquing mainstream gay and lesbian politics. As queer thinkers, writers and artists, we are committed to dislodging the centrality of equality rhetoric and challenging …

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American Family Association spokesdouche Bryan Fischer is worried that Donald Trump doesn’t hate gay people enough to earn the endorsement of the right wing. Does he believe the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is constitutional? Does he believe President Obama violated his oath of office by refusing to defend this law in court? Does he support a federal marriage amendment …

Rep. Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann has so far this year raised more money for her 2012 presidential campaign than any other prospective candidate. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., raised a combined total of $2.2 million in the first quarter of 2011, outgaining presumed presidential contender Mitt Romney who raised $1.9 million over the same period. Bachmann’s political action committee, MichelePAC, raised …

And it goes exactly as you’d expect.

The website that almost inarguably did more to recast the social and sexual lives of gay men than any phenomenon in recent history, turns ten years old today. Some, including myself, would say that Manhunt and its copycats are largely responsible for the accelerating demise of gay nightlife, especially the now almost-all-gone gay megaclubs. But as some of you know, …

The U.S. Senate has passed a Boxer/Feinstein-sponsored resolution honoring Elizabeth Taylor. It reads, in part: Whereas Elizabeth Taylor used her fame to raise awareness and advocate for people affected by HIV/AIDS;Whereas, at a time when HIV/AIDS was largely an unknown disease and those who were affected by HIV/AIDS were ostracized and shunned, Elizabeth Taylor called for and demonstrated compassion by …

You will join the Apple Borg, my child. According to ThinkGeek, the set “introduces children to the magic of Apple technology.” There’s an entire two-level Apple Store staffed by PLAYMOBIL™ associates, with tiny demo tables filled with minuscule Apple gear, software shelves, and even the kid’s corner on the ground floor. Upstairs, there’s a Genius Bar and a Keynote Theater …

Just launched by Ireland’s BeLonG To Youth Services. Tagline: “Stand up for your LGBT friends.” Lovely clip. You might want to grab a tissue before viewing.(Tipped by JMG reader Vivian)

Three weeks after the tsunami, Japanese rescue workers found a dog riding the floating roof of a house, miles out at sea. Video at the link. UPDATE: Embeddable video has been posted.

“I think Mr. Trump’s position on this has been a pretty common-sense one, and honestly, I can’t understand why President Obama wouldn’t have released his birth certificate before now to put an end to this once and for all.” – GOProud chairman Chris Barron, who says the president’s nationality is not among his group’s priorities. Politico’s Ben Smith comments: “Trump, …

The Day Of Silence, GLSEN’s annual anti-bullying campaign is April 15th. And Focus On The Family’s Candi Cushman is ready for her first year running the PRO-bullying Christian response, which was handed over to them last year by Exodus International. FOF’s Day Of Dialogue will take place on April 18th. “The whole idea is to help embolden and encourage students …

The same group whose anti-abortion billboard was yanked in Soho is posting thirty of the above billboards around Chicago’s black neighborhoods. Think Progress reports: As the Guttmacher Institute notes, these groups are “exploiting and distorting” the fact that “the abortion rate for black women is almost five times that for white women” to falsely blame the “aggressive marketing by abortion …

Igor Volsky reports at Wonk Room: Douglas Napier of the Alliance Defense Fund led the formal opposition against the bill and maintained that civil unions would likely lead to same-sex marriage, despite a 2006 voter-approved constitutional amendment that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The debate quickly disintegrated from there, as witnesses began quoting the …

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Whackadoodle teabagger Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) yesterday declared that U.S. action in Libya is actually a false flag operation meant to exhaust the military’s resources. That way the president can call up his super-secret army as authorized in the health care reform bill. Seriously. “It’s a bad bill. And then when you find out that the prior Congress not only …