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09/28/2007
Divided we now stand to pass a non-united measure this fall
Well, as suspected/feared, it looks like The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) will be separated into two separate bills: One geared towards sexual orientation and another geared towards gender identity. Advocate has the scoop: ENDA to be separated into two bills,...
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Wherein we launch a 'pro-family' proofreading service
In a piece he posted today on the Family Research Council's blog, Tony Perkins does as so many of his conservative cronies have done and condemns the Folsom Street Fair for using The Last Supper as the basis for their...
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Contrada's apple falls WAY far from the tree?
We've told you about Amy Contrada on several occasions. She, along with Brian Camenker, form the visible portion of MassResistance, the extremely anti-gay fringe group that works day and night to sweep the gay-friendliness out of the Bay State. To...
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Concerned Women For De-Rationalizing America
In a press release wherein they decry the Senate for advancing hate crimes legislation as part of the Department of Defense Authorization bill, the reliably unprincipled folks at the Concerned Women For America make the following comments: "Senators humiliate our...
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Airport security: No fluids, sharp objects, or toe-tapping
It is being reported that the airport bathroom in which Sen. Larry Craig was alleged to have solicited sex is being outfitted with new stall dividers that go down (no pun intended) almost all the way to the floor. New...
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Taking liberties to say 'gays hate liberty'
This might shock you, but we at G-A-Y dislike many of our conservative opposition's tactics. Among our least favorite of all of their duplicitous actions: The way they will take two completely unrelated events and try to connect them in...
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Hate crimes passage: Nothing but a dinner party icebreaker
Responding to yesterday's cloture vote on the Matthew Shepard Act, the always affable Andrea Lafferty of the Traditional Values Coalition says the following: “Why are Americans seeing such an onslaught of pro-homosexual/drag queen bills being rammed through the House and...
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09/27/2007
9 LGBT groups stand up for acronym's last letter
Yesterday, the Washington Blade reported that House Democrats are likely to drop transgender inclusion from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) in order to help its passage. In reaction, Jody Huckaby of PFLAG, Matt Foreman of the National Gay and Lesbian...
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Breaking: Right-wing's most lied about bill advances
Holy mother of bias prevention! By a 60-39 cloture vote, the Senate has advanced their version of the much-debated hate crimes legislation: Senate votes 60-39 for cloture on hate crimes legislation; voice vote adds Kennedy-Smith hate crimes amendment to Department...
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But we hear he'd still support the Girl Scouts because of their yummy Thin Mints
At last night's Democratic presidential debate, Gov. Bill Richardson said that if elected president, he would refuse the position of Honorary Chair of the Boy Scouts of America because of that organization's ban on gays: Richardson Would Drop Boy Scouts...
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Pace further ensures legacy will be overshadowed
Apparently needing to get one last anti-gay shout out before he exits stage left, retiring Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Peter Pace made the following comments at a Senate hearing on Wednesday: "Are there wonderful Americans who happen to...
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Fun with headline inaccuracy
This headline comes from the website of the Southeast Missourian: This headline comes from our bitchy asses: GLADD study: Gay characters decline on network TV series [SEMissourian]
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A Miller capitulation that really 'ales' us
In reaction to the brouhaha from folks like Matt Barber and Peter LaBarbera, the Miller Brewing Company has announced that its pulling its logo from the Folsom Street Fair's "Last Supper" advertisement. The company released this terse statement: While Miller...
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09/26/2007
Video: If Stephen Hawking were batshit crazy, it'd go something like this
Well, you can say one thing for this spineless YouTube user: At least his world view is a unifying one, as pretty much all of us are condemned within it: Oh, hate. It's the only thing of which extremist bigots...
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Is that wiretap in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
So all this time, we've been thinking that the man with the binoculars outside our window was simply trying to admire the decor inside of G-A-Y headquarters. And when thought the lady with the cup pressed against our door was...
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What's on our sexual 'Slate'?
Fifty years after the Kinsey studies (and 3 years after the Kinsey movie), how much do we know about what humans are doing in their bedrooms? Well, the tops at Slate aim to get to the bottom of that issue:...
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It's not about the fair -- it's about fairness!
So yesterday we showed you how Matt Barber is condemning an ad for San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair, because organizers of the event used The Last Supper as the creative basis for their promotion. Well, in a new, coattails-riding piece...
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09/25/2007
Next he'll pressure Ban deodorant to become 'Fundamental Right To Freshness' stick
In a piece in which he decries the way the media covered the Maryland Court of Appeals recent decision that there is no fundamental right to marry a person of the same sex, longtime 'mo foe Robert Knight says this:...
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Bread and whine: Barber guns for Bible dinner party-based ad
This is the advertisement for San Francisco's annual Folsom Street Fair: Okay, so clearly it's a mockup of the Last Supper. And being that it does use a religious concept as its basis, the "pro-family" kids are of course out...
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Wherein we Focus on the Veracity
Continuing their quest to make the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) seem as if it would unfairly discriminate against anti-gay Christians rather than protect gays from unjust bias, the folks at Focus on the Family today say this: If Congress passes...
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Cuffs, not wedding bands, for CO lesbians
Remember the Colorado lesbians we told you about yesterday? The ones who staged a sit-in to protest the marriage inequality that exists in the Centennial State? Yea, well -- they got arrested: Jealous, heteros? Arrests end protest over same-sex law...
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Video: Get these kids a GSA, pronto!
Today's teens may be more accepting than their precedessors. However, it would seem we still have a long way to go: But then again, "gay comfort levels" do have a funny way of altering themselves once one reaches college (at...
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09/24/2007
From 'smear the queer' to 'burning gays' -- homophobic teens are so advanced these days!
Think there is no problem of gay bullying in modern day American schools? Well, consider the following two comments, which have been left on an old post regarding California high school students who protested the pro-gay Day of Silence event:...
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CO lesbians to marry tushy with floor
Colorado lesbian couple Kate Burns and Sheila Schroeder are reportedly planning to apply for a marriage license today at Denver's Webb building. And when inevitably denied for the nuptials-allowing paper, the ladies indicate that they will stage a sit-in until...
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Wherein the religous right begins researching Iranian real estate
The following is from the NY Times' City Room blog, recounting a portion of today's speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: In response to a question about the treatment of homosexuals in Iran, Mr. Ahmadinejad was initially evasive, instead talking...
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Video: 'Seattle L&G Film Festival: The Musical'
Hey, show queens: Are you tired of the creatively vacant theatrical concept of turning Hollywood movies into typically less-than-stellar Broadway musicals? Yea, us too. We are not, however, yet tired of the promotional concept of parodying that theatrical trend in...
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'Ros to come out for 'mos
The Atticus Circle and Soulforce organizations are sponsoring an event called "Seven Straight Nights for Equal Rights," wherein heterosexuals across the nation will hold candlelight vigils to show their support for equality for LGBT Americans: Straight Americans to "Come Out"...
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The Chambers Has Two Faces
In their report on the so-called "Family Impact Summit," the People For The American Way's Right Wing Watch blog described professional "ex-gay" Alan Chambers like so: We heard a lot about those "ex-gays" and then were addressed by "an ex-gay"...
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TV losing more 'Will' with every passing year
In their annual analysis of queer representation on network television, the kids over at GLAAD are dismayed to find that there will be only 7 regular LGBT characters on primetime scripted TV this season (down from both the 2006 and...
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Ain't Raging Homophobia A Shame?
This is Pat Boone: Unfortunately, so is this: In another part of town, in another spellbound school, a handsome young boy named Prince Charming was going through similar experiences. Snow White and Prince Charming would have made a perfect couple,...
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09/21/2007
Tony's red-haired red herring
So in our time covering the ins and outs of the anti-gay industry, we've seen its proponents take MANY leaps in logic. However, this latest from Tony Perkins' "Washington Update" column just might take the reason-hopping cake: When comedian Kathy...
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Poll: Gays make great quiches, couture, and schisms
The Episcopal Church may be debating its position on gay clerics, but for the vast majority of One News Now readers, the debate is already over: Wow! So around 90% will leave the church if its decided that being gay...
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Just like 'Cat Fancy' needn't host a speaker who detests pussies
Note to Peter LaBarbera: If you would actually admit that your words and actions are intolerant, discriminatory, mean-sprited, then you would understand WHY folks would be uncomfortable having you on a diversity discussion panel. However, since you and your buddies...
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Video: Gene and Charles 'Match' wits
GENE: Dumb Doris was so dumb... AUDIENCE: How dumb was she? GENE: Dumb Doris was so dumb, that when she heard Gene Rayburn say in the following clip that Charles Nelson Reilly was "in the closet," she completely drew a...
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Unfortunately, it's not so easy for me to dig the Duggars
If you watched the "Today" show this morning, you probably saw extensive coverage of the 19 member Duggar family. Here's a pic: It was presented as a sweet, heartwarming family story involving the foibles and fun of raising 17 little...
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Also, Mr. Bauer, we heard Dobson call you a poopy face -- FIGHT! FIGHT!
Dissension in the far-right, rabidly anti-gay ranks. Is there anything better? Responding to a private email sent around by James Dobson in which the Focus on the Family president said he's not supporting Fred Thompson in the GOP primary, fellow...
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09/20/2007
Wherein an 80's film scene becomes forever tainted
It's no secret that Mr. "Buelller...Bueller...Bueller" himself, Ben Stein, is a conservative. And there have even been times when Stein has rubbed the gay community the wrong way for suggesting things like all gay men are interest in young boys....
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Illinois school gets anti-ill noise club
Thanks to pressure from the ACLU, Hononegah High School in Rockton, IL, has become the latest public institution to get a Gay-Straight Alliance. The local school board voted 5-2 to approve the club, reversing an earlier recommendation to ban the...
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Hillary says she's not stealth; we wonder if her fingers were crossed
In the forthcoming issue of The Advocate, Hillary Clinton will reportedly squash gay hopes that her civil unions-only support is really code wording for, "I'm ready to dance the horah at your full and equal wedding, just let me move...
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A Very Brady Sapphic Revelation
It is being rumored that in a forthcoming autobiography, the artist formerly known as Marcia Brady, Maureen McCormick, will reveal that she had a lesbian crush and perhaps even a mild fling with the actress who played Jan, Eve Plumb....
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Dobson & Thompson: Share a suffix, not an ideology
Due in major part to the "Law & Order" star's apparent lack of support for a federal ban on gay marriage, Focus on the Family president James Dobson has announced that he's not supporting Fred Thompson in the GOD GOP...
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Logo satiates those who wanna up their 'Bettes'
The Logo network has announced that in the summer of 2008, they will begin airing episodes of "The L Word": THE L WORD LANDS ON LOGO [Logo Release] In honor and celebration of the announcement, lesbians across the nation will...
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Gov. O'Malley: Closeted fan of equality?
Despite his public backing of civil unions and the gay marriage-unfriendly remarks he made following this week's Court of Appeals ruling, does Maryland's Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) support same-sex nuptials in private? Well, The Blade has published some personal email...
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Why rationally analyze when you can irrationally demonize?
Earlier this week, we briefly showed you how Focus on the Family was misusing the findings from a new "ex-gay" study to make it sound as if it definitively shows that 67% of participants were able to "change" their sexual...
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Video: God prioritizes his hate
God on Gays [YouTube] Oh That God! [YouTube] Technorati Tags: God, religion
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Audio: 'Some are children of the Devil'
Here is GOP White House hopeful Ron Paul speaking with theocrat John Lofton: Oh, Mr. Paul. Don't you know that this is the only acceptable, deserved response to these questions from any reasoned White house hopeful: "With all due respect,...
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Clearly, this gay man needs to take more vacations
So for the past few days this writer has been on a working vacation sort of thing in San Diego. And what happens while he's there? Well, the local City Council changed their split vote for two weeks earlier, voting...
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09/18/2007
Radio has completely gone to Mitt
In a blatant attempt to convince conservative evangelicals that h e truly is the gay-unfriendly dude that they want him to be, GOP presidential wannabe Mitt Romney is running a new radio ad in which he touts his support for...
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Just like tasers, Savage can still shock us
On his official website, conservative radio host and proven 'mo foe Michael Savage has ever so sweetly described the University of Florida tasering incident with the headline: BULL-DYKE FASCIST TASERS STUDENT WHO ASKS KERRY TOO MANY QUESTIONS No word on...
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'Ex-gay' Clue: We suspect FOF, with the fallacy, in the Study
The reliably disingenuous kids at Focus on the Family are creaming their jeans over a newly released study on the ability to "change" one's homosexuality, boldly stating that the religiously skewed, Exodus-funded research "confirms long-term change away from homosexuality is...
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