 "Study": “People who either identify themselves as homosexual or bisexual, or have had a same-sex encounter or relationship, tend to come from more disturbed backgrounds." Yeah, right. Lindsay Lohan keeps dressing up as Marilyn Monroe. New Michael Jackson album featuring...
 University of Illinois Catholic studies professor Kenneth Howell, who was let go from his job earlier this summer due to his anti-gay beliefs (according to him gay sex is "injurious" to the body), has been given the chance to teach...
(Note: I'm being good on vacation and trying not to file anything about news/politics.)
 Regular patrons of the coffeehouse know that a couple of weeks ago I was in NYC to attend my first game at the new Yankee Stadium with my brother Tim. We hadn't been to a game in years decades, and it was Old Timers Day to boot. The weather was abominably hot but we enjoyed ourselves. :)
One of the other things that I did during that trip was have some photos taken for general purposes (like the Blend masthead), and for head shots or pix for print and web use.
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 Openly gay writer Kevin Williamson reveals that he wants to see a gay character on his show, The Vampire Diaries. But it won't be somone currently on the show (sorry Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder fans), but a new character....
 He showed up on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson a couple of nights ago with a collection of Silly Bands he'd molded into shapes of things he really, really likes. Things such as rabbits, dolphins and pineapples. And...
 Israel's gay pride parade was pushed back about a month or so this year, so that it would fall on the one-year anniversary of the deadly shooting last year that claimed two lives in Tel Aviv. The gunman of that...
crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters Once religious right groups find an item which can be used to demonize the lgbt community, they repeat this item ad naseum, even if they have to omit some crucial facts which could change the flow of what they are trying to push.
For example this quote by AIDS researcher Ronald Stall:
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Educational Publisher Mason Crest is releasing a series of books on LGBT topics for middle school students.
The 15 book series The Gallup’s Modern Guide to Gay, Lesbian & Transgender Life [1] will debut in the fall exploring different aspects of LGBT life. Topics will range from the importance of positive role models to social and political stigma to bullying.
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And wingnut Gov. Jan Brewer is hopping mad. (via AZProgress)
Today in a simple two page ruling of appointed Gov. Brewer's request for an expedited hearing on this week's lower court gutting of SB 1070, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, "To the extent that appellants seek to expedite the appeal beyond the provisions of Ninth Circuit Rule 3-3(b), appellants' motion is denied." The Court further ordered, "The Clerk shall calendar this case during the week of November 1, 2010 in San Francisco, California."
In what can only be seen as yet another political maneuver appointed Gov. Jan Brewer today reacted to the Appellate Court's decision by threatening a special session to "fix" SB 1070.
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 So the reason we chose to go to Maine for vacation is because it's Joe Sudbay's (of Americablog's) birthday, and why not celebrate and get precious time away from political blogging by spending time with political bloggers, lol. Joe and his amazingly generous partner Carlos took us sightseeing.
One of the highlights was a large dinner at Portland, ME hot spot Local 188, with Joe's family, along with a few blogworld-related colleagues. I also met PHB barista Louise offline for the first time along with frequent Blender Dawn, and talked to barista Keori on the phone! It was a ton of fun, and Louise gave Kate and I a big bag of Maine-related goodies, including a quite bizarre local beverage called Moxie. I haven't tried it yet.
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 Joe McElderry, who won Britain's X-Factor last year, has come out of the closet. The UK Mirror reports: "The 19-year-old X Factor winner made the brave decision to come out in an emotional interview with the Mirror, just a week...
 On MSNBC this afternoon, Thomas Roberts spent a few minutes talking with Miss New York, who is the first Miss America contestant in the pageant's history to run on a gay rights platform. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...
The "DREAM Now Series: Letters to Barack Obama" is a social media campaign that launched Monday, July 19, to underscore the urgent need to pass the DREAM Act. The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, S. 729, would help tens of thousands of young people, American in all but paperwork, to earn legal status, provided they graduate from U.S. high schools, have good moral character, and complete either two years of college or military service. With broader comprehensive immigration reform stuck in partisan gridlock, the time is now for the White House and Congress to step up and pass the DREAM Act!
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 The Human Rights Campaign today published an open letter to Target and Best Buy following outrage over their donations totaling $250,000 to MN Forward, a conservative PAC supporting anti-gay gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer. The letter, which notes the two corporations...
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said in an exchange with The Advocate [1] that he didn’t know how Obama viewed the legality of the Defense of Marriage Act.
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Gibbs said: “I have not heard the president intone what he believes the constitutionality of the law is. I know that he believes the law should be changed.
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 Robert Duvall starts an unorthodox Oscar campaign for Get Low NATHANIEL ROGERS ...prefers air conditioned movie theaters to hot beaches in the summertime. He blogs daily at the Film Experience. YOUR FEATURE PRESENTATION Felix Bush (Oscar winner Robert Duvall is...
(Buenos Aires, Argentina) After a 27-year courtship, two men on Friday became the first gay couple to wed under Argentina's historic same-sex marriage law - the first of its kind for a Latin American nation.
Jose Luis Navarro, 54, and Miguel Angel Calefato, 65, tied the knot in provincial Santiago del Estero in an early morning ceremony where a civil registry official used a pen to cross out "man and woman" on the marriage license and wrote in "contracting parties."
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PETER LABARBERA: David Pakman interviews "Porno Pete" about his views on homosexuality, in two parts. TARGET AND BEST BUY: Boycott gets a rap anthem form Sean Chapin. OBAMA: Talks pop culture on The View. For recent Guides to the Tube,...
Lesbian actress Sara Gilbert [1] will co-host a new daytime talk show, featuring a panel of celebrity moms offering first hand accounts of the trials of motherhood.
Last week, CBS issued an official press release for the show including bios of co-hosts: Sara Gilbert, Julia Chen, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete, Leah Remini and Marissa Jaret Winokur.
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Netroots Nation was a blast! I got to have a great hour with Pam, eating chicken salads and catching up since our last F2F in Denver in 2008. I briefly got to see Autumn as well before she headed off to another activity in her busy weekend.
It reminded me that I need to post at PHB more often. However, as deep as I am in my work for marijuana law reform, it's rare that I find the time to post about much else. Heck, I didn't even know all the details of the Shirley Sherrod story until Pam filled me in.
But I promise to stop by more often, especially as my work intersects with sexuality, race, and politics. For this story, I get two out of three... --"R"R
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