It's not that we don't love our reality stars. Jack Mackenroth, Charlie Herschel, and Kim Stolz are all cool cats. But Tila Tequila, with her obvious famewhoring, always rubbed us the wrong way. Like she was using a Brillo. She claimed to be bisexual, but anecdotal evidence suggested her lady love was a ruse. And [...]
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Paul Colichman, the chief executive of Regent/Here Media, is the nice guy who on Sunday opened his home to raise money for the AIDS Project Los Angeles (whose annual AIDS walk just raised $3.1 million). For $150, cocktail-attired guests were invited to schmooze with elite LA A-Gays and Tony-winner John Lloyd Young. But "home" is [...]
In the days leading up to my departure for Maine, I wasn't sure what to expect from the people I'd meet here. I'm no stranger to ballot campaigns; we've had our share of those in Oregon. I rode on Tuesday to a suburb outside of Portland, Maine with another volunteer staff to meet with nine high school students about their intere Portland, Maine with another volunteer staff to meet with nine high school students about their interest to get involved with the No On 1 campaign. Our goal was to start a “Friends and Family†Volunteer Recruitment Phone Bank with them on the spot, and to organize a few times when they and their friends could volunteer together, canvassing door-to-door the weekend before Election Day. We rolled up to their neighborhood Starbucks at about 3 o'clock and met the students inside. They'd come straight after school, and had heard about the campaign at an all-ages concert, where they'd been watching their favorite local band. Three of the youth were band members! A few of them had worn their No On 1 buttons to school that day, and mentioned that they'd started conversations with other students about the issue, and what it meant to them. After introducing ourselves and briefly describing the state of the campaign, we read through a script and role-played it, making sure to arm the students with the facts needed to express to their friends and family members how much this means to them and why we need their help in the last two weeks of the campaign. When we asked the students to get out their mobile phones and start calling to sign their friends up for volunteer shifts with the campaign, they excelled at the task! After about a half hour, the students made a plan to gather together with their newly signed up volunteers for a morning canvass on Halloween, knocking on doors to get out the vote. None of the nine students were affiliated with the Gay Straight Alliance at their school, (and none mentioned that they identified as LGBT,) but all shared a sense that whoever you are and whomever you love, couples deserve to be recognized equally under the law.
“You Have Always Been Welcome Here†here Presented by PFLAG Pendleton in cooperation with Communities of Welcoming Congregations & The Drama Queens   - “You Have Always Been Welcome Here†portrays the lives of four transgender people as they explore their relationships to family, gender, Christianity and spirituality.  Rev. Tara Wilkins, executive director of Community of Welcoming [...]
Gay News Stories for Tuesday: Gay Spies; A gruesome murder; A teacher who may have put a hit out on a student; A student who won’t pledge; Australian Archbishop’s lobby effort; South African Gays Protest; And a Prop. 8 repeal effort. Crime Files: - Puerto Rican authorities arrest suspect in connection with gay man’s gruesome murder - Georgia [...]
The troubled gay media empire known as Window Media LLC finally collapsed and has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Window Media’s failure also brings about the closure of the remainder of it’s publications which included the Washington Blade, (which just celebrated its 40th anniversary) Southern Voice, David Atlanta, and South Florida Blade. Some of the Stories [...]
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