Tag Archives: Inauguration Day

In a little more representation of gay folks at the inauguration concert yesterday, a prerecorded clip from Ellen DeGeneres encouraged some silly call-and-response from the crowd.

I’m guest-posting for Andy Towle over on Towleroad for the next two days while he and his intrepid cub reporter Corey Johnson conduct in-person reports from the inauguration. I’ll cover some of the same items you’ll see here, but make sure you check in at Towleroad for their interviews with politicos and LGBT newsmakers.

Head over to veteran LGBT news reporter Rex Wockner’s blog where he’s posting a series of responses to his question: “What do you feel about the new president and what do you think he’ll accomplish for LGBT people?” Wockner is adding posts as responses come in; so far he’s had two dozen responses from names you may know, including: Edmund …

His mention of gay Americans occurs just after the 4:00 mark.

After days of controversy and outrage from the religious right, openly gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson opened Barack Obama’s inauguration concert on the National Mall today with a request that the nation pray for “understanding that our president is a human being and not a messiah.” But only the people AT the concert heard that, because HBO did not televise …

In a historic first, the Washington DC Gay Men’s Chorus just performed at the inaugural concert on the National Mall, backing Josh Groban and Heather Headley. And they were fantastic. I got all toh up, for realz. These are shots I took off my TV, I’ll have video as soon as it’s available.UPDATE: Obama gave gay folks a shout out …

An estimated 500,000 people are gathering on the National Mall for today’s inauguration concert at the Lincoln Memorial. HBO is broadcasting the show live and for free from 2:30-4:30PM eastern time. Performers include Bruce Springsteen, U2, Garth Brooks, Steve Wonder, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Sheryl Crow, Usher, Shakira, Renee Fleming, Herbie Hancock, Heather Headley, James Taylor, Rosario Dawson, Jamie Fox, …

You probably fondly recall Dan Savage’s successful redefinition of former Sen. Rick Santorum’s last name, a legacy that will follow Santorum as long as teh interwebs exists. Now Savage is looking to give Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church the same treatment. Here are Savage’s suggestions; email your vote to him at [email protected]. (1) “Logically, if ‘barebacking’ means having butt sex with …

Just in time so Barack Obama doesn’t have to deal with it, Israel has declared a cease-fire in Gaza. Israel declared a unilateral cease-fire Saturday in its 22-day offensive that turned Gaza neighborhoods into battlegrounds and dealt a stinging blow to the Islamic militants of Hamas. But Israeli troops will stay in the Palestinian territory for now and Hamas threatened …

Barack Obama’s Lincoln-esque whistle-stop train tour is about to reach DC’s Union Station after stops in Wilmington, DE to pick up Joe Biden and a stop in Baltimore for a giant rally.

The anti-abortion mob is going wacko-ballistic because Krispy Kreme is celebrating Obama’s inauguration by giving away “Freedom Of Choice” donuts. From the Catholic-run American Life League: KRISPY KREME CELEBRATES OBAMA WITH PRO-ABORTION DOUGHNUTS“The next time you stare down a conveyor belt of slow-moving, hot, sugary glazed donuts at your local Krispy Kreme you just might be supporting President-elect Barack Obama’s …

Making the blog rounds today is this 2005 speech from Rick Warren in which he urges a stadium full of his followers to emulate the actions of the Hitler Youth in their fanatical devotion to creating a theocracy in the United States, “whatever it takes.”

“It’s a shame that President-elect Obama apparently has so little regard for his Christian constituents that he would give such a high place of honor to a self-styled man of God whose only claim to fame is that he abandoned his wife and children to enter, ‘loudly and proudly,’ a sexually deviant lifestyle expressly condemned by the very Bible he’s …

The Washington DC Gay Men’s Chorus has been invited to perform at an inaugural event at the Lincoln Memorial, the same event at which Bishop Gene Robinson will give the invocation. The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington will perform during a pre-inauguration event Sunday that will take place from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Lincoln Memorial. Among the …

Barack Obama has invited openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson to give the invocation at an inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial. Via press release from the HRC: Right Rev. V. Gene Robinson, bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church in the diocese of New Hampshire has accepted an invitation from President-elect Barack Obama’s inaugural committee to deliver the invocation at a …

The Westboro Baptist Church has been given permission to picket Barack Obama’s inauguration. NBC reports that the US National Park Service has granted Westboro Baptist Church a permit to protest on Inauguration Day, January 20th. 15 members will be in a corner of John Marshal Memorial Park on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue. This year the inauguration parade will …

Apologists for Obama’s selection of Rick Warren continually point to his work in fighting AIDS in Africa. OH, but hang on a motherfucking minute. In exhaustive piece at Daily Beast, Max Blumenthal rips the fucking lid off the real job Warren is doing in Africa with his right-hand man Martin Ssempe. [S]ince the Warren inauguration controversy erupted, the nature of …