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It would be really hard to walk away from Wednesday’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee thinking that Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was not a solid ally in the repeal process.
After several months of what looked like none-too-subtle warnings from senior military leaders that they staunchly opposed a repeal of Don’t Ask Continue Reading
Following President Obama’s less-than-stirring promise to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell “this year,” many advocacy groups are asking Obama to show them the money (via Joe.My.God).
You wouldn’t think that a 13% increase in the numbers of Minnesotans diagnosed with HIV from 2008 to 2009 would be good news, right? But it is, because the alternative was a 25% increase the Minnesota Department of HIV had predicted based on the numbers of new cases between January and September of last year. According to Peter Carr, the head of the HIV and STI section at MDH, increases in cases in October, November, and December “bottomed out,” for a year-end total of 368 new cases, 203 were gay and bi men, and 73 were women (MDH doesn’t record the sexual preferences of women who contract HIV because risk of transmission during sex between two women is extremely low).What that number of new cases does not include, however, are HIV-positive Minnesotans who have not been tested for HIV. “The only way to know that is to routinely do a ‘population base study’ where you routinely grabbed 2000 people out of population [such as gay and bi men], and give everyone an HIV test” Carr told me in an interview today. “You look at who’s positive, and who knows their status. Continue Reading
In her column in Monday’s Star-Tribune, Katherine Kersten warns of a “troubling double standard” held by gay marriage activists. Continue Reading
With Martha Coakley’s loss to Republican Scott Brown in a special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s senate seat, two big questions are before us: will Brown also pose for naked victory photos on his new desk in D.C., and what will happen to the many items on the LGBT legislative agenda? Continue Reading
In response to a decision by the US Supreme Court to stay the broadcast of Perry v. Schwarzenegger, LA filmmaker and actor John Ireland announced he is filming a reenactment of the civil trial that could overturn California’s Proposition 8, and posting it on YouTube. Just no powdered wigs or handlebar mustaches, please. Continue Reading
“What’s the easiest way to turn a fruit into a vegetable?”
“No idea.”
“A baseball bat.”
That’s from a disgusting comic published in Wednesday’s edition of the Notre Dame student newspaper (h/t glaadBLOG), the Observer. After receiving GLAAD’s demands for a retraction and an apology, the head editor Jenn Metz gave “a tearful and what appeared to be heartfelt apology by phone,” and ran an official apology in this morning’s paper, taking full responsibility for the comic’s printing. The comic’s three authors also ran a less-heartfelt apology – not so much “sorry we did this” as “sorry we were caught.” Continue Reading
Hey guess what? Prop 8 isn’t intended to be discriminatory because Brokeback Mountain won a bunch of Oscars!
Thompson, the smug attorney for the Proponents of Prop 8, is taking the position that gays are not being discriminated against any more and so that cannot be the reason that Prop 8 passed.
David Letterman (and his show) are stuck in 8th grade, squealing with disgust that Amanda Simpson, Obama’s new appointee in the Commerce Department, “used to be a dude.”