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You be the judge: Wanna live with unfettered mob rule? 2008-05-22 10:43:17 This is a sample of the kind of logic that Randy Thomasson and his crew at the Campaign for Children and Families are using to fuel their efforts to overturn the CA Supreme Court's recent marriage decision: Courts commonly order...
Focus to Colorado: 'Speak now or forever hold your pee' 2008-05-22 08:46:46 There is a long overdue piece of legislation that has passed both the House and Senate in the state of Colorado
. Labeled the "Expansion of Discrimination Prohibitions" bill, the measure would update current laws so that they prohibit discrimination on... Read more:Focus
Video: Barack, are you taking notes? 2008-05-22 07:36:19 On today's episode of her eponymous show, Ellen Degeneres will grill John McCain on his short-sighted marriage views. Check out a preview, courtesy of TMZ: "We just have a disagreement." Isn't that line of rationalization getting really frickin' old? Because... Read more:Barack
Because we need a new way to talk about this mangy issue 2008-05-21 17:29:04 When this writer was in college, there was cat who lived next door to my rented house. Now, I'm a HUGE animal lover who quite literally cannot and will not kill a fly. However, this was not just any cat... Read more:issue
Reminder: Never hire a CWA staffer to tutor us for the bar 2008-05-23 16:07:55 The following faith-based, uncredible information is all posted over on the Concerned Women For America's website under a banner reading "Legal Studies": Radical homosexual activists want you to believe that they, too, are "born that way." The reality is otherwise.... Read more:Reminder
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'Advocate': Barrett, Jon to bear it, EIC title 2008-05-23 14:05:41 Attention lovers of non-porn periodicals that you still might receive in plastic wrap: There's a regime change coming to The Advocate
. Towleroad and Queerty bring us the news that Jon Barrett
, previously the Features Director of O at Home magazine...
'Gas the jews' vs. 'Marry the gays': 'SaveCalifornia' get cold feet 2008-05-23 12:56:58 This is how Randy Thomasson's "SaveCalifornia" site read yesterday (see Google cache): And this is how it reads today: Oh, but Randy -- we know it was there. We know you said it. We know that you were likening the... Read more:Marry
Video: Wherein FOX News doesn't even fake objectivity 2008-05-23 11:39:15 This is Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly interviewing Brian Camenker of MassResistance (a certified "hate group," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center). See if you can tell where she stands on this complex issue: Cutest part? When Megyn says,...
RED ALERT! 2008-05-23 10:20:10 Attention troops: Brigadier General Pam Spaulding has alerted us that there has been a critical security breach in the Gay Armed Forces. It seems someone has leaked our secret schematic for "normalizing same-sex relationships" to the folks at the rabidly...
Acceptance to kid-eating: Just a hop, skip, and a child munch 2008-05-23 09:55:54 In the past, we've joked about how our opposition makes it sound like our encouragement of gay acceptance is just one step below actually eatingchild
ren. In a new article posted on the American Family Association's One News Now site,... Read more:Acceptance
McCain chops Parsley; hangs up Hagee 2008-05-23 09:22:16 On March 7, we showed you a video of McCain
endorser Rod Parsley spouting anti-gay nonsense. On April 23, we showed you the now-notorious quotes from John Hagee, wherein the pastor twice linked Hurricane Katrina to a local gay parade.... Read more:chops
Far-right interrupts our dinner by trying to interrupt our ceremonies 2008-05-23 09:06:45 Last night, while this writer and his partner were joyously discussing our impending nuptials over a glass of Pinot and a pile of Rigatoni, this notice hit my iPhone: "What the hell is this?" I asked myself while popping an... Read more:interrupt
Gay marriage? Jenna doesn't need daddy's blessing! 2008-05-27 11:07:27 As much as we've been troubled and enraged by their papa and husband, we've always had a soft spot in our heart for the female Bushes. They surely seem to love their family's patriarch, but it's also always seemed to... Read more:marriage
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Gay-shunning gay's practices again bite him in ass 2008-05-27 10:30:01 Remember last week when we showed you a commentary from David Benkof, the gay-identified writer who rejects both gay sex and gay marriage? And remember how, among other points of contention, we pointed out that he had misrepresented/ decontextualized at...
Ninth life for Vol State hate 2008-05-27 09:40:37 We've told you before about Neal Anthony, a Tennessee man whose property has been repeatedly attacked with anti-gay graffiti and vandalism. Well over the weekend, Mr. Anthony saw his property targeted for the ninth -- NINTH! -- time, with the... Read more:Ninth
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Gas prices? Housing bust? No, no -- it's gay 'I do's that are gonna dick us over 2008-05-27 08:49:58 In a recent edition of his daily "Washington Update" in which he crudely referred to gay couples who wish to marry as "wedding crashers," the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins (or his ghostwriter) said the following about the supposed financial... Read more:Housing
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'One News Now' raises hail 2008-05-27 07:38:40 So here at G-A-Y, we knew that the mouth-foamingly anti-gay news site OneNewsNow (property of the equally foam-mouthed American Family Association) was having a negative effect on society. However, even we didn't realize the expanse of their destructive nature: Ooh,...
SF to 'stay': Go away! 2008-05-28 17:19:22 San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is coming out strong against those who want to "stay" the California ruling, calling the feet-dragging maneuver both "inappropriate" and "inhumane." Press release and filing can be read here: Letting fair rulings take course:...
Pop quiz time 2008-05-28 16:53:29 Q. If we told you that tomorrow morning, grown adults will be serving up a half-baked, one-sided, wholly unsavory product under the pretense of good taste, which event would we most likely be describing? (a) A disgruntled bunch of bakers...
'T'-less Mat wants baseless 'stay' 2008-05-28 13:57:11 So why do our opponents want to "stay" the fair marriage ruling that was issued by the California Supreme Court? Well, because apparently they want to protect us all from having to experience the emotional roller coaster that would result... Read more:wants
Video - From: Bayard, To: Barack 2008-05-28 12:08:22 Some passionate food for reasoned thought: The enraging part? Just how many people think they can trump all of these points with the four simple words, "You need Jesus, son!" Or even more than upsetting that? How many more people... Read more:Barack
Poll: Most Californians not planning to screw us 2008-05-28 08:42:37 A Field Poll released today shows that a small majority of Californians oppose the November ballot initiative that seeks to amend the state's constitution so that it bans same-sex marriage: Californians support gay marriage: poll [Reuters] Incidentally, the exact same... Read more:planning
And for her honeymoon, Matt suggests an 'ex-gay' conference 2008-05-28 07:14:56 Speaking about John McCain's recent appearance on "The Ellen Degeneres Show" and the tenuous well-wishes that that the senator wished the soon-to-be-wed talk show host, the Concerned Women For America's Matt Barber says the following to One News Now: "I... Read more:conference
Video: Jesse "the body the mind the fair-minded" Ventura 2008-05-27 19:46:15 Alright, so we have trouble with the "give everyone a civil union on a state level and let the churches have the word 'marriage'" stance because we feel it complicates the matter at hand. After all, civil marriage is already... Read more:Jesse
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Harvey's war on fairness now targeting 'fair use' 2008-05-27 18:14:34 The good boys at Box Turtle Bulletin have been contacted by rabid anti-gay activist Linda Harvey
, who has demanded that they remove a photo they were using to highlight a post. Linda even emphasized her point by saying BTB has... Read more:fairness
Video: Standing up for gays, apologizing to no one 2008-05-29 14:32:51 This morning we told you about NY Gov. David Paterson making good on the idea that Empire State gay couples should have their out-of-state marriages recognized at home. Now in this afternoon press conference, Paterson has both explained the reasonable... Read more:Standing
Gay-themed publishing's going in the toilet 2008-05-29 12:00:08 It's tough to land a book deal. It's even tougher when you write about gay issues, as the industry widely considers the commercial prospects of the topic to be limited (read: The Sex and the City Movie will make more...
Video: 'Rash Behaviour' booted by same 2008-05-29 11:18:13 When your humble scribe was in the eighth grade, I travelled with my family to Charleston, SC, during the annual Piccolo Spoleto Arts Festival. For those not familiar with the event, basically it is a 17-day jamboree in which the... Read more:Behaviour
But he means 'force of evil' in the loving, Christian way 2008-05-29 10:54:59 How willing is our opposition to reduce our progressive ideas to nothing more than self-serving, destructive game-playing? Well, of the gay community's work to encourage the Boy Scouts of America to stop fostering a world in which gays are discriminated... Read more:Christian
And why shouldn't our existences be summed up in four talking points? 2008-05-29 09:57:48 To equip their "pro-family" friends and fellows in a way that encourages them to shut off their own independent thought and instead rely on canned ideas that have been crafted by the collective mindsets of a faith-based political movement, the...