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February 10, 2012
Q&A: Das Racist's Dapwell On Tibetan Independence And Playing Carnegie Hall
Every day this month, Sound of the City has been publishing pieces about Philip Glass turning 75 years old, in conjunction with the Voice's cover story on the composer. Naturally, of course, this has led to an interview with Dapwell (Ashok Kondabolu) of Das Racist, who's performing Monday night at t ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2011
Rashad Robinson, Executive Director of Color of Change, on the Collapsed AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
FacebookEarlier this year, we wrote about how a bevy of civil rights groups like GLADD and the NAACP supported, inexplicably from our point of view, the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile. That deal fell apart yesterday, and the telecoms will not be combining forces after all. One civil rights group ... More >>
Blogs
July 14, 2011
Rick Jacobs, Founder of the Courage Campaign, On Pepsi and Corporate Giving
Steven ThrasherJacobs at the Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal signing ceremonyLast week, we wrote about how the Courage Campaign won $50,000 from the Pepsi Challenge, and our concern about the ways in which Pepsi was able to use an LGBT advocacy group to market its product in the non-profit arena ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
GLAAD Stops Supporting AT&T Merger with T-Mobile
Last month, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation got in a lot of trouble when they backed a merger between AT&T and T-Mobile, after their full relationship with Ma Bell was exposed. GLAAD had received $50,000 from AT&T in donations and had a former AT&T executive and lobbyist on its ... More >>
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July 7, 2011
Courage Campaign and Pepsi: Is $50K the New Sell Out Price for LGBT Non-Profits?
Yesterday, we got an email from the Courage Campaign with the subject line, "We won! Here's what's next." We assumed it would be a belated fundraising appeal responding to New York's Marriage Equality Act, asking for donations to fight on the federal level. Instead, what we found when we op ... More >>
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June 19, 2011
GLAAD President Steps Down Amid Controversy
Photo: HRCJarriett Barrios, the head of GLAAD, has resigned due to the big mess that started when a GLAAD letter went out backing the AT&T/T-Mobile mega merger. It turns out AT&T has reportedly sponsored GLAAD to the tune of $50,000.
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May 31, 2011
I've Been Declared A "Queen Bear"
Or more specifically, "the grandmother of the Queen Bear movement". Here's an excerpt from a christwire article on twinks vs. bears, the two groups waging a bitter internal struggle to determine the future of the gay movement, especially with regard to hair design: "Bears tend to live in sm ... More >>
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November 2, 2010
Shocker: 'Guidos' of Jersey Shore Show Insensitivity to LGBT and Bullied People Communities
Heartbreak. It's the only way to describe how one could feel on the shocking revelation that the cast-members of MTV's Jersey Shore -- and Village Voice Queer Issue cover-models -- are showing hatred towards the transgendered and bullying victims communities.
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October 12, 2010
Ticked-Off Trannies Open In Theaters
Israel Luna's Ticked-off Trannies with Knives is the grindhouse homage about a group of transsexual club performers who get hit with acts of psychotic rage and carefully seek their revenge. The film made a huge brouhaha when GLAAD tried to get it pulled from the Tribeca Film Festival even th ... More >>
Film
October 6, 2010
Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Queer Cinema's Phantom Menace
Israel Luna's Ticked-off Trannies with Knives is the grindhouse homage about a group of transsexual club performers who get hit with acts of psychotic rage and carefully seek their revenge. The film made a huge brouhaha when GLAAD tried to get it pulled from the Tribeca Film Festival even th ... More >>
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July 26, 2010
MTV and CW Rewarded For Representing Gays on TV, Still Lack Diversity
Transgenders on TV!The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has awarded their first-ever rating of "excellent" to MTV for offering "richly diverse portrayals of gay and transgender people" for 42% of their line-up. The CW fell only a little short with 35% of their airtime devoted ... More >>
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June 22, 2010
Gay Pride's Here! And I'm So Ashamed!
We're asking, so tell us: What about our civil rights?
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June 22, 2010
Gay Print Media on the Wane
The Internet spells doom for many long-established periodicals
Blogs
June 4, 2010
GLAAD Disses Ellen DeGeneres With Ill-Advised Remarks
The LGBT watchdog group GLAAD does a lot of good work, but sometimes they drop the gay ball and embarrass us big time. I recently wrote about how they tried to pull the movie Ticked-off Trannies With Knives from the Tribeca Film Festival, partly because it didn't depict the kind of tasteful ... More >>
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May 4, 2010
"Ticked-off Trannies" Should Get a GLAAD Award!
All the knives and the fighting back make GLAAD sad. Tough!
Blogs
April 23, 2010
Kate Bornstein Is Ticked Off With Ticked-off Trannies With Knives
The Tribeca Film Festival entry Ticked-off Trannies With Knives has irritated groups like GLAAD for what they deem is the insensitive portrayal of hate crimes against transsexuals. Well, now trans author Kate Bornstein takes on both the movie and GLAAD, intelligently finding fault with both ... More >>
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April 19, 2010
Trannies, Drag Queens, and Hermaphs at the Tribeca Fest!
The ninth annual Tribeca Film Festival starts Wednesday, and though the opening feature is the pretty mainstream Shrek Forever After, a lot of the rest of the lineup is "edgy" and quirky and plays with gender as much as most film critics tend to play with themselves. There's Ticked-off Trann ... More >>
Film
April 6, 2010
La Mission, as Subtle as a Face Punch
The ninth annual Tribeca Film Festival starts Wednesday, and though the opening feature is the pretty mainstream Shrek Forever After, a lot of the rest of the lineup is "edgy" and quirky and plays with gender as much as most film critics tend to play with themselves. There's Ticked-off Trann ... More >>
Film
January 26, 2010
When in Rome: A Small Victory for Romantic Comedies
The ninth annual Tribeca Film Festival starts Wednesday, and though the opening feature is the pretty mainstream Shrek Forever After, a lot of the rest of the lineup is "edgy" and quirky and plays with gender as much as most film critics tend to play with themselves. There's Ticked-off Trann ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2009
Boo to Homophobic Buju Banton!
Would a musical artist who sings "Jews must die" or "black people need to be killed" get a Grammy nomination? I really don't think so, and if I am somehow off-base in assuming that, please look through this year's list of nominees--Beyonce, Taylor Swift, and so on--and let me know.
Blogs
December 4, 2009
GLAAD Backs GMA For Dropping Adam Lambert
Let's do a quick recap: Adam Lambert indulged in gay shenanigans on his now legendary American Music Awards performance. Everyone I knew was loving it, but not Good Morning America, which promptly canceled Lambert's scheduled appearance. Gay activists were furious, especially since the show w ... More >>
Blogs
October 30, 2009
Here's Looking at Chaz Bono
Photo of Chaz Bono by Jason Bell, via PopnographyOut magazine's site provides a current photo of Chaz Bono in a sneak glimpse at the mag's Out 100 issue, which will name Chaz as a reinventing icon.
Blogs
June 11, 2009
Chastity Bono Is Having a Sex Change
This is not a joke, folks. Remember when Cher initially bristled when her daughter Chastity turned out to be a lesbian? Well, now the eternal superstar can finally relax. It turns out she has another straight son. Yes, Chastity--who briefly worked at GLAAD before saying Ellen was too gay to make it- ... More >>
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April 13, 2009
Bisexual Furor! I'm The Gay Devil!
Swarms of bisexuals have clicked ambidextrously on their keyboards to shoot me rage-filled responses to my post last week called "Ever Meet a Real Bisexual?" "Are you saying I don't exist?" sounded the bi brigade, fuming. "How dare you, turdface!" The gay watchdog group GLAAD even contacted me in ... More >>
Columns
June 12, 2007
Haven Can Wait
Rehab as a beautiful experience, plus cracks about pies. Psst! Ted Haggard was a top.
Columns
April 4, 2006
NY Mirror
Rehab as a beautiful experience, plus cracks about pies. Psst! Ted Haggard was a top.
Specials
October 18, 2005
2001
Rehab as a beautiful experience, plus cracks about pies. Psst! Ted Haggard was a top.
Film
April 26, 2005
Film
Rehab as a beautiful experience, plus cracks about pies. Psst! Ted Haggard was a top.
News
April 5, 2005
Pope Springs Eternal—But Why?
Why one sinner can't cry for John Paul
Columns
March 29, 2005
NY Mirror
Why one sinner can't cry for John Paul
News
September 17, 2002
Pushy Queers
Two Plays and a Smackdown Augur a New Gay Image
Columns
August 27, 2002
NY Mirror
Two Plays and a Smackdown Augur a New Gay Image
News
September 11, 2001
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Backlash
Can’t Take the Fag jokes? Dude, That’s Sooo Gay!
News
June 19, 2001
Fronting for the Enemy
Gay Men Who Make Homophobic Rappers Look Good
Music
February 27, 2001
Forever Old
NARAS Sifts Through an Arty Bunch in a Don't-Miss Year
Columns
January 30, 2001
There's No Place Like 'Oz'
NARAS Sifts Through an Arty Bunch in a Don't-Miss Year
Specials
August 15, 2000
Letters
NARAS Sifts Through an Arty Bunch in a Don't-Miss Year
News
August 1, 2000
Who’ll Be Blacklisted Next?
‘It’s a Plain Old Censorship Campaign’
News
May 9, 2000
Virtual Marchers, Real Results
Fight Back Online
News
May 2, 2000
Grappling With Homosexuality
Professional Wrestling: Simultaneously Homoerotic and Homophobic
News
April 25, 2000
Fight Club
A Gay March on Washington Spawns a Major Movement Rift
Specials
March 21, 2000
Letters
A Gay March on Washington Spawns a Major Movement Rift
News
February 22, 2000
Caught in a Hyperlink
Gore’s Web Site Promotes a Homophobic Web Filter
Columns
June 22, 1999
NY Mirror
Lately we all seem to be over the rainbow—and in fact over everything.
Specials
May 25, 1999
Letters
Lately we all seem to be over the rainbow—and in fact over everything.
Specials
February 2, 1999
Letters
Lately we all seem to be over the rainbow—and in fact over everything.
Specials
December 8, 1998
Letters
Lately we all seem to be over the rainbow—and in fact over everything.
News
November 10, 1998
The Green Menace
Lately we all seem to be over the rainbow—and in fact over everything.
News
November 3, 1998
The GLAAD Hand of Coors
Lately we all seem to be over the rainbow—and in fact over everything.
Columns
August 25, 1998
NY Mirror
Lately we all seem to be over the rainbow—and in fact over everything.
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