The Rapid City School District, in South Dakota, revised its anti-discrimination policy in September to add "pregnancy" and "marital status" to its list of protected classes. Not yet on the list: sexual orientation or gender identity. But to keep its state accreditation, the district is considering doing just that. Until the school board held a [...]
It wasn't a tough decision to call bullshit on web reports that Asher Roth, the campus hero behind the single "I Love College," acknowledged he was the "gay rapper" in a book author's blind item. But before the entire Twitterverse branded Roth a homo, his handlers at Loud.com/SRC/Universal Records have opted to shoot down any [...]
Given that this season's Gap ads feature colors of all stripes, and human beings singing about their devotion to clothes, the retailer's holiday campaign was already pretty gay. Then In The Loop director and Britney Spears satirist Ryan James Yezak got his hands on some Gap attire, and made this ode to shopping mall fashions. [...]
I was sitting in Starbucks today and heard this song. It’s an oldie but a goody. Oh, Ben Folds whatever happened to you? Also in other news: did you know that Fresno’s City Council finally decided that having a night life wasn’t such a bad thing after all? It’s like Fresno’s almost a real city. Now we [...]
It comes to my mind often when I’m editing the party pictures from Integration. I’m expecting similar results with our once a month Evolution party, which will happen this Saturday. Stay fierce, everyone. 
Tickets are $10 all pre-event ticket buyers will be entered to win a Marriott/The Original New Year’s Eve package!
Tickets will be available at these locations:
Funny Bone
Just Out
The Original
We want to take a moment to recognize everyone who participated in making this year's Southern Oregon Garden Party a tremendous sendous success! On October 24th, our friends down in the Rogue Valley area helped to raise well over $5,000 to support the work of Basic Rights Oregon, which is double our original goal for the event! A special thanks needs to be extended to Senator Alan Bates for helping out with the special appeal, to Tammy Marston (and her friend Mark) for providing fantastic entertainment for the event, and to everyone who gave of their time and money to support fairness and equality in our state! Thank you all so much and we look forward to our next trip down to the Rogue Valley very soon!
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 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 i t 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.
Monday’s Gay News Headlines — Updates from the Weekend: TheObserver talks to Tatchell; A Brit Rugby Legend Comes All the Way Out; Ugandan Updates; China’s Gay Bar; An “Outlaw Pastor” in Colorado; Scapegoats in America; How Meredith Baxter Got Help; And Misguided Rants… Activist Profile: Peter Tatchell is standing down as a Green party parliamentary [...]
On Friday there was a vigil in protest of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill at The 519 Community Centre in Toronto. Xtra.ca reporter Ryan Carter reports: Vigil in Protest of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Tis’ the season for Christmas Music — I think that George Michael’s December Song r Song is fitting video for today*: Video: December Song Related Link: George Michael’s Site Related Article: George Michael: ‘I’m surprised I’ve survived my own dysfunction — The spliff-smoking, tabloid-hating, Elton-baiting, super-gifted, straight-talking, sex-obsessed pop legend opens up. * Actually this was going to play on [...]
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