Gay Marriage Used to Aid the Return of the KKK
JURIST reports the KKK is using gay marriage, along with issues such as urban crime and immigration, to spark new cells in Mid-Atlantic and Great Plains towns.
Transparent Excerpt
Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers by Cris Beam was released last month by Harcourt. In Transparent Beam introduces four teen trans girls whose lives she found herself deeply involved with when she decided to volunteer…
The Carnival of Shoes and Bags, Renting Designer Fashions in NYC
The Carnival of Shoes and Bags Submissions for the next edition of the Carnival of Shoes and Bags are due on Feb. 10th. You can submit anything shoe or bag-related, including posts on: unusual finds; manufacturers that have a strict…
New Memoir to Out “Down Low” Hip Hop Stars
Hiding in Hip-Hop: Confessions of a Down Low Brother in the Entertainment Industry, a book by former MTV producer Terrance Dean, has been sold to Atria Books, a division Simon & Schuster, and is expected to be published next year.…
Since I posted the Snickers Super Bowl commercial…
The Human Rights Campaign and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation have issued statements condemning the ad and the three "alternate ending" ads Snickers posted online at Snickers also posted player reactions to the two men kissing; here's a…
Gavin Goes to Rehab
Why does that sound like the title of a fucked up children's book? And is rehab the answer to everything these days? Does anyone really believe that Isaiah Washington is sorry for calling Knight a “faggot†because he went to…
Haggard Is “Cured”
After three weeks of intensive counseling by four ministers Ted Haggard is now ''completely heterosexual." Haggard also said his sexual contact with men was limited to the former male prostitute who came forward with sexual allegations, the Rev. Tim Ralph…
“We Don’t Use the D-Word”
Jen posted about Texas' "obscene device law†back in October, when the Supreme Court refused to consider whether the law is unconstitutional. Marti found this Dildo Diaries video (it's an eleven-minute edit of the full documentary) at YouTube. If you…
Bloggers in the News
"Anti-gay blogger charged with inciting murder": A French man accused of advocating the killing of gay people on a Web log has been charged with incitement of murder in the Caribbean island of "Edwards slammed for hiring pro-gay bloggers": Two…
Super Bowl Commercials Try to Remain Manly
If you didn't tune in to the Super Bowl last night, here's one of the commercials you missed: King Kaufman reports there was another similarly homophobic ad after that one: Two ads after the Snickers spot, a CBS ad for…