I am a long time listener/reader, and a huge fan. I recently listened to the podcast in which you talked with Rebecca Drysdale about her song for the It Gets Better Project. That song IS perfect! I wondered if you would be interested in checking out my friend Nick Bombicino’s “mondaymashups” in which he combines […]
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Apple Pulls “Gay Cure” iPhone App
I missed this in Good Morning News, but an iPhone app from the group that “proclaims freedom from homosexuality”, Exodus International, has been pulled from Apple’s app store today after 152,000 people signed a petition urging Apple to yank the app. Exodus International is that gross group that runs camps and workshops to “cure” people […]
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Hack Back: Right-Wing Group Subpoenas Queer Activists’ Info from Google
Two Portland LGBT activists got an alarming email in their Google mail inbox this month—their “customer information” (including any name, home address, phone numbers, and billing info) had been subpoenaed by the Alliance Defense Fund, a right-wing Christian nonprofit. Google, along with several other email providers nationwide, was ordered to hand over the activists’ personal […]
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Newt Gingrich Funneled $350,000 to Anti-Gay Groups
ThinkProgress is reporting that Newt Gingrich secretly gave $350,000 to anti-gay groups including AFA Action: Last year, former Speaker Newt Gingrich offered his vocal support for the ultimately successful campaign to oust three of the nine Iowa Supreme Court justices who had unanimously ruled in favor of marriage equality. As Gingrich courts social conservatives while […]
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It Gets Better: David Sedaris
From David Sedaris’ essay “Drop Dead, Warlock”: I’m so old that when I was in junior high school calling someone a queer was like calling him a warlock. This is not to say that the word was never used, just that no one had actual faith in it. A kid might be girlish. He might […]
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Born This Way Blog
Born This Way Blog—a genius blog campaign that’s totally in the spirit It Gets Better Project—is up for a “Best Blog” award. You can vote for BTWB here.
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It Gets Better: Michael Cunningham
From Michael Cunningham’s essay “Going Back In”: Like so many gay kids, I had a secret childhood. There was the conventional outward childhood: school and birthday parties, family trips, all that. And there was the darker inner childhood that started before I can remember. The sense that there was something deeply wrong about me. That […]
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“Pick a Fucking Gender”
Local queer website QPDX has posted an interesting account of getting heckled outside Gaycation, one of Holocene‘s most popular gay dance nights, for being trans. The short story of the heated interaction is by Nik Rapier. Check it out: We were standing outside Holocene, cooling down from that overheated dance floor, when you reeled out […]
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If We Legalize Same-Sex Marriage We Will Go Extinct!
Jeffrey Kuhner at the Washington Times is worried that Americans will go extinct just like, um, Canadians: The homosexual lifestyle signifies the triumph of neo-pagan Epicureanism. By its very nature, homosexuality cannot fulfill the primary function of sex: procreation and the reproduction of the human race. It is inherently a socially barren act. A homosexual […]
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Huckabee Bears False Witness Against Gay Families
Mike Huckabee on gay parents: “I believe that we’re in denial about potential problems as we see more and more homosexual couples raising families. Essentially, these are experiments to see how well children will fare in such same-sex households. It will be years before we know whether or not our little guinea pigs turn out […]
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Obama Says DOMA is Unconstitutional
Huzzah! In a surprise announcement this morning, the president ordered the Justice Department to stop enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the long-reviled federal law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman. Obama wrote a long letter about the decision, arguing that DOMA is unconstitutional. From the letter: Much of the […]