Tag Archives: Alabama

The general manager and news director of an Alabama TV station were suspended for a week after their project to Tweet their news items directly to a roadside billboard resulted in the above image.

UPDATE: School board officials have reversed their decision and the couple may now attend. Another win for the ACLU LGBT Project! Rather than bow to pressure from the ACLU that they allow an out lesbian student to bring her girlfriend to the prom, Tharptown High School in Russellville, Alabama has canceled the event entirely. The ACLU has sent the school …

Fifteen current and former prison inmates are scheduled to testify in the trial of former Alabama circuit court judge Herman Thomas, who is accused of trading leniency for sexual acts performed in his chambers. Some inmates in those cases described being checked out of the jail for meetings with Thomas in his car or in his private office in the …

Yesterday the Alabama House of Representatives approved a resolution “honoring” Miss California USA Carrie Prejean for speaking out against gay marriage. The House approved the resolution by Rep. Jay Love by a general voice vote. The comments on the Birmingham News’ coverage are generally scornful of Love’s move.

Retired NBA superstar and ardent LGBT rights supporter Charles Barkley was arrested for DUI in Arizona on Wednesday after he told cops he was in a hurry to get a blow job. According to the officer who wrote the report, “He told me that he ran the stop sign because he was in a hurry to pick up the girl …

There’s been an explosion of chatter on Alabama-based blogs today that the state’s Republican anti-gay Attorney General Troy King may be about to resign in the face of a sex scandal with a male assistant. According to multiple sources, King was caught in bed with the man by his wife and thrown out of his home. Via Wonkette: His [King’s] …

Scandal has erupted around yet another gay porn star. John Katopodis, 61, former member of the city council of Birmingham, Alabama and “close friend” of Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford (D), is being investigated by federal prosecutors for allegedly misusing over $1M in funds from a charity Langford created to provide computers to needy children. Katopodis is suspected of using the …

Retired NBA star Charles Barkley announced on CNN that he was sick of “fake Christians” and that he fully supports gay marriage. Barkley plans on running for governor of Alabama after he satisfies their seven-year residency requirement in 2014. The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission is demanding an apology from Barkely, saying, “Ironically, Barkley engaged in the very activity of judging others …