So… Target, after giving tens of thousands of dollars to rabidly anti-gay politicians, released an “It Gets Better” video. Three things: First: We can’t stop people from making IGB videos, or uploading them to YouTube. It’s an open-source project, and anyone who wants to—any individual, any politician, any club, any corporation—can make an IGB video […]
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Overheard in a Hotel Room in Midtown Manhattan
“That Jamaican singer who sings ‘murder music’ songs about killing gay men was sentenced to 10 years in prison.” “Buju Banton?” “Yeah.” “It gets better.”
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AC 360: Obama’s Devolution on Marriage Equality
Anderson Cooper walks us through the president’s long, slow, and insulting (“God is in the mix”) walk-back of his support for marriage equality: Totally maddening. I agree 100% with Cleve. But I gotta say… It’s true that a small-but-growing majority of Americans support marriage equality. But that SBG majority isn’t evenly spread throughout the country. […]
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Today in Terrible Live Blogging: Tracy Morgan Apologizes, Hugs
Comedian Tracy Morgan—he of the recent homophobic comedy kerfluffle—is currently in Nashville (where he delivered the offending routine) and has just apologized and hugged Kevin Rogers, the person who first posted about Tracy’s rant on Facebook. Here is a very poorly blogged version of what happened from Erin Quinn of The Tennessean. Tracy Morgan is […]
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My Flame Is Dim?
They’re issuing Gay Cards now and I’m saddened to report that I scored pretty dismally on the official-gay-card quiz: I got my Gay Card just the same. But to raise my Gay Card score I’m gonna hafta get some GaGa/Cher/Madonna on my iTunes, invest in a wider selection of hair product, and go out dancing […]
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Katy Perry Needs to Have a Word With Michele Bachmann
Cause, Michelle baby, you’re a firework noxious bigot. When Bachmann took to the stage at the RightOnline conference and received what CNN termed a “rock star” reception, the song that was playing? “Firework.” Let the countdown begin to Katy Perry issuing a statement saying she’d really, really appreciate it if her song wasn’t associated with […]
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The Chicago Cubs: It Gets Better
The Cubs’ “It Gets Better” video—which is after the jump—is great. But what really got me was seeing the Cubs’ iconic Clark Street flashing “IT GETS BETTER.” I probably rode my bike and the bus past that Cubs sign about 100,000 times when I was a teenager living on the North Side of Chicago struggling […]
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Louis CK Defends his Defense of Tracy Morgan
Want more of the Tracy Morgan homophobic kerfluffle? Sure, why not. Previously on “Tracy Morgan’s Homophobic Kerfluffle”: Tracy said this! Which made the internet say that! Which made Louis CK say this! Which made you say that. (We now join TMHK already in progress.) So today Slate published a good interview with Louis CK—who has […]
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Quote of the Week: Republican State Senator Roy McDonald on Voting for Gay Marriage
Here’s Republican New York State Senator Roy McDonald: “You get to the point where you evolve in your life where everything isn’t black and white, good and bad, and you try to do the right thing.” “You might not like that. You might be very cynical about that. Well, fuck it, I don’t care what […]
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The God That Failed
The only upside to this… …is that the kids who came forward during that altar call—the girls who are attracted to girls, the boys who are attracted to boys—will soon realize, if they haven’t already (if they didn’t before this video could be uploaded to YouTube), that they’re still queer. They weren’t cured, there were […]
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Tracy Morgan Apology 2.0
After apparently discovering that publicist-written apologies don’t work so good, Tracy Morgan is back with a more personal apology for his recent homo-hatin’ rant which he relayed to Marc Malkin of E!Online exclusively (because he wouldn’t dare tell anyone else). “I know how bad bullying can hurt,” Morgan tells me exclusively. “I was bullied when […]
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Breaking: Rick Santorum Has Gay Friends
Are we supposed to take Rick Santorum‘s word for the fact that he has gay friends? Gay friends who don’t mind that he opposes their right to serve in the military, wants to prevent them from marrying, doesn’t think they should be allowed to adopt or have any civil rights protections at all, felt the […]