QueerCancerCare LiveJournal Community
Kelli Dunham couldn't find an online support group for queer caregivers of people living with cancer, so she started her own. QueerCancerCare is for "all queer caregivers of folks with that person is your spouse, partner, mistress, best friend, shortstop…
Martha Stewart and Prison Butches
During her appearance on Howard Stern's Sirius Satellite radio show, Martha Stewart spoke about the lesbians she met in prison: While she never had lesbian sex in prison, Stewart admitted she saw many beautiful women there -- and that she'd…
Researcher #3 Says Dobson is Twisting the Facts
Wayne Besen: Truth Wins Out released an exclusive video today featuring celebrated New York University educational psychologist Carol Gilligan, PhD, who upbraided Focus on the Family leader, James C. Dobson, for misrepresenting her research in a guest column he wrote…
Truth Wins Out Video: Carol Gilligan on James Dobson’s Time Magazine Column
Earlier today: "Researchers Angry at James Dobson" H/T: Box Turtle Bulletin You can find Maria on MySpace here and read her current call for essays on femme identity here. Pick up Queer Shorts, her new anthology, at
Watch _Phallocy_ Online
How does a 32-year-old lesbian become a man? Phallocy is an autobiographical film using spoken word, music and experimental techniques to explore the struggles of a female-to-male transsexual. The double-exposed, sepia-toned footage and sharp editing create the mood for the…
Red. It’s for trans people, too.
Because it's got to be hard for transgender Republicans to find each other, here's a link to the blog of a Republican trans woman. Do you know of other blogs by transgender Republicans? Leave links in the comment section. You…
Researchers Angry at James Dobson
Two researchers cited by James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, in a piece about Mary Cheney's pregnancy in this month's Time Magazine are speaking out against the way Dobson used their work to support discrimination. The conservative religious…
Please help keep the Koufax Awards going!
I recently learned about some difficulties of hosting this year's Koufax Awards while reading the comments to a post at Shakespeare's Sister. This is part of a comment left by Nanette of Human Beams: As this is a linky sort…
“Naked Boys Singing” Lawsuit Dismissed
In August 2005, the Milwaukee Gay Arts Center (MGAC) filed a claim against the city of Milwaukee after performances of "Naked Boys Singing" were shut down because the center did not have a theater license. The MGAC claimed the ordinance…
A ‘fine’ mom, if not an ‘ideal’ one
In a 2005 interview with The New York Times, Bush said: “I believe children can receive love from gay couples but the ideal is — and studies have shown that the ideal is where a child is raised in a…