Archive for July, 2012

Question of the Day: Does Your Car Shout “I’m a Bottom?”

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It’s one of those things we have all drove up on or had fly by us with their disco music playing playing  way to loud…yes the Cha-Cha Queen in the Bottom mobile. Oh come on don’t say you have not thought the same thing-I know you have and that’s OK. There’s nothing wrong with driving [...]

Olympic Picture of the Day

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Olympic Picture of the Day and a slight wardrobe malfunction of the good kind…

Scotland Introduces Gay Marriage Legislation

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In a surprise move Scotland parliament advances a gay marriage bill that could make it the first in the UK to allow it. If passed it would start in 2015 (not sure how Scottish law works or why the delay till 2015 and not earlier). Churches would not have to participate if they do not [...]

Aids Quilt Now Online

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The AIDS memorial quilt in the US has grown so large it  now covers 1.3 million square feet making it impossible to display all at once, but thanks to a joint project between Microsoft Research, The University of Southern California and a group of other organisations, you can view the quilt in it’s entirety. Bing [...]

New Zealand Edges Closer on Gay Marriage

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New Zealand Labour MP Louisa Wall’s bill on same-sex marriage is to go before the country’s Parliament, Express Magazine reports. The members’ bill ballot today drew the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill, which would allow all New Zealanders to marry regardless of their sexual orientation. Members’ bills in New Zealand go into the ballot [...]

Another High Profile Antigay Bigot is Outed

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Jonathan Merritt, the son of famous evangelist James Merritt, has become a prominent evangelical blogger, writing for, among others, USA Today and The Atlantic (where he most recently wrote about his support of Chick-fil-A). Turns out he’s, as Queerty puts it, also “a deeply conflicted gay man” who just got busted for canoodling with gay blogger [...]

Simply Delish should be called Simply Disgusting

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If this news from the latest code inspection of Simply Delish doesn’t want to make you hurl or throw up I don’t know what will. As local 10 news reported the most recent inspection has closed it down to 37 code violations. Yes they should really change their name from Simply Delish to Simply Disgusting. [...]

Maine Marriage Battle Is On and Show Are Side Raising More Cash!

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Mainers United for Marriage, the coalition working to pass marriage equality in a statewide referendum this fall, has raised nearly 25 times the amount reported by opponents, a figure that includes a sizable donation from Paul Singer, a top Republican fund-raiser. Figures released Wednesday showed that several political action committees had funneled over $1.1 million [...]

More Boy Scout Fall Out from Anti-Gay Rulling

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Ten employees at a Boy Scout camp in Northern California have quit in outrage over the firing of a gay staffer. Tim Griffin, 22, an Eagle Scout and seasonal staff member at Camp Winton in Amador County, was let go Friday, and 10 of the camp’s 30 employees resigned in support, The Sacramento Bee reports. [...]

CDC Launches New HIV Testing Campaign

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held a conference Aug. 15-16 in Atlanta that included new research on HIV’s impact on men who have sex with men in the black community. They also previewed a new campaign aimed at increasing HIV testing and awareness since the CDC estimates that a very high percentage of [...]