Barnaby Joyce is the leader of the National Party of Australia, he’s Australia’s deputy prime minister, and he was a leading voice in opposition to marriage equality in that country. So we should’ve seen this coming: Barnaby Joyce, who opposed equal marriage because “every child has a right to know her or his mother and […]
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How the Vice Clique Scandal of 1912 Exposed Portland’s Gay Underground
Levi Hastings Once upon a time, Portland was the Wild West. In the early 1900s, the city teemed with bawdy saloons and street-fighting roughnecks who shared an uneasy coexistence with Gilded Age progressivism and Victorian pearl clutching. In response to rapid growth and urbanization, progressive reforms were coming to a swell; attempts to control venereal […]
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A City Scandalized
How the Vice Clique Scandal of 1912 Exposed Portland’s Gay Underground
How the Vice Clique Scandal of 1912
Exposed Portland’s Gay Underground
Posted inPolitics
Pentagon Says Trans People Can Start Enlisting in the Military in 2018
Protesters in Times Square after Trump announced a ban on transgender troops last summer. Spencer Platt/Getty Images After a federal judge again ruled against the Trump administration’s ongoing attempt to ban trans people from the military on Monday, a Pentagon official told the Associated Press that the military will begin accepting trans recruits on January […]
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White House: We’d Be Fine With Bakers Hanging “No Gays” Signs In Their Windows
During oral arguments before the Supreme Court yesterday about a homophobic baker in Colorado and the wedding cake he refused to sell to a gay couple there—a case that could gut civil rights protections for LGBT people (things don’t look good, says Mark Joseph Stern at Slate)—a Trump administration lawyer argued that bakers should be […]
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Portland Is Burning
Local Ballroom Culture Is About Much More than Looking Fabulous
Local ballroom culture is about much more than looking fabulous.
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Ballroom Glossary
Courtesy of Your Friends at #PDXBALL
Local ballroom culture is about much more than looking fabulous.
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This Is the Gayest Thing I’ve Ever Seen
This is gayer than anything I’ve ever done. And my gayest-thing-ever-seen-or-done bar is set pretty damn high. Watch: An anti-gay hate group opened their poorly attended #Teens4Truth conference in Texas earlier this week with this… interpretive rainbow flag modern dance gay ass fucking spectacular. Okay, okay: there’s no actual ass fucking—I watched to the glitter […]
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A Little Good News: Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality
Via JoeMyGod: the moment the crowd in Sydney learned the results of the marriage equality “survey.” Australian leading politicians, cowards one and all, refused to move on marriage equality despite polls showing overwhelming support for allowing same-sex couples to marry. So instead of doing something, Australian decided to hold a plebiscite—a non-binding, mail-in vote, i.e. […]
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Meanwhile, in Palm Springs, Their City Council Is Now Entirely Queer
Another bit of good election news.
Posted inMovies & TV
BPM Will Fuck You Up. Watch It Anyway.
France’s Oscar contender for Best Foreign Language Film, BPM, fucked me up for days after I saw it. But I’m glad I did—it’s a movie about AIDS activism that avoids many of the tropes that usually appear in depictions of HIV and AIDS. In other words, it’s the kind of movie that wouldn’t get made […]