News: Nevada, Sarah Palin, Donuts, National Parks, Tammy Baldwin
Nevada issues first domestic partnership certificates.
Jeffrey S. Crowley, the Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy: Website to accept public input through November 13 on National HIV/AIDS Strategy
Harper Collins out gay marketer Jonathan Burnham hired virulent homophobe Lynn Vincent to ghost write Sarah Palin's new book: "The Palin book, moreover, is clearly being styled as a work of polemic, appealing to the Christianist base, thereby fanning homophobia, and empowering those who would like nothing more than to push gay people back into the closet, out of marriage, out of the military, and out of the workplace. Burnham is now directly party to this effort."
Tom Cruise will do his own stunts.
Chair of the Iowa chapter of Marriage Equality USA arrested for embezzlement; Phyllis Stevens and partner donated money to progressive and LGBT causes.
Man arrested at Apple store after threatening to shoot his iPhone with a gun.
McCain strategist Steve Schmidt on Palin 2012: "I think that she has talents, but my honest view is that she would not be a winning candidate for the Republican Party in 2012, and in fact, were she to be the nominee, we would have a catastrophic election result."
First look: George Takei and Brad Altman on The Newlywed Game.
Bet you never thought you could play Ohio like a piano. Instrument.
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS launches new website.
AfterElton interviews Sam and Dan McMillen from The Amazing Race.
Revisiting Mark Salling's shirtlessness on Glee.
Homophobic donut shop owner in Pittsburgh airs his views: "This crowd will not rest until Homosexuality is mainstream; until the Second Amendment is done away with; until abortion on demand is as common and accepted as going to the dentist; until sexual images and strip clubs line our streets and suburbs; until government education is started in the womb; until disagreement with their political party is “hate speech” and becomes a crime..".
Mariah Carey hits Rockefeller Center for the Today show.
This land is your land: The National Parks go interactive.
Dear Abby: Out gay man runs into his closeted straight past on Facebook.
Helen Thomas digs in.
Record crowd expected for Fort Worth Pride this weekend in wake of Rainbow Lounge raid.
Catholic Bishop on the lam over child porn charges is arrested by Canadian border guards.
Are anti-gay forces in Washington state waiting until the last minute for a well-funded media barrage on Referendum 71?
Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduces new AIDS legislation: "Baldwin's new legislation, 'The Ryan White Grantee Payment Equity Act' (H.R. 3665), would authorize increased Medicaid funding to health care providers. The HIV/AIDS population would benefit from a higher Medicaid reimbursement rate. A higher rate would enable clinics to expand operations and care for the growing number of people living with the disease."




"until government education is started in the womb"
How would that work
Posted by: mcc | Oct 2, 2009 4:30:40 PM
"Bishop Raymond Lahey, on the lam for several days after Canadian border guards found child pornography on his laptop, yesterday surrendered to authorities."
The Vatican released a statement after the arrest announcing that Lahey converted from Roman Catholic to Anyfuckingdenomination Protestant as soon as the child pornography was discovered on his computer. Or was it when he put the photos there in the first place? Or when he got his first chubby from looking at little boys?
Posted by: MikeMick | Oct 2, 2009 4:38:45 PM
That lighting looks totally natural.
Posted by: Timothy | Oct 2, 2009 5:43:20 PM
Am I the only one who falls into the facile trap of thinking that Sarah Palin LOOKS nuts?
Posted by: gregorybrown | Oct 2, 2009 7:07:05 PM
Can more people please write to the AIDS office at the White House (URL above in the story) about concern that the CDC will promote circumcision as a means of trying to stop the AIDS epidemic here at home domestically when in fact circumcision unethically takes away the right of the guy to make his own decision about his important appendage. Not to mention it snips away a lot of erogenous skin. AND the studies in Africa would not apply to the epidemic here--it's totally different among different subgroups. Plus there are flaws in the study.
What is clear who will benefit is the insurance companies and those "experts" who profit from pushing circumcision. A bad idea all around. And the CDC is considering it when it is the wrong solution totally!
Please write and join me in writing the Office of AIDS Policy. Thanks everyone!
Posted by: Randy | Oct 3, 2009 12:40:01 AM
@Randy: can you contact me to explain more what you are talking about? derekisademocrat@gmail.com
Posted by: Derek Washington | Oct 3, 2009 5:15:33 AM
Once demoralized and defeated, Nevada gays have much to celebrate about this legislative session. Aside from domestic partnerships, less contentious bills were also considered and passed with relatively little fanfare. The state's anti-discrimination laws are now superior to that in neighboring California in some respects. With regards to treatment in hotels and casinos for instance. This is an incredible achievement for a conservative, Mormon founded state.
Posted by: John | Oct 3, 2009 11:31:56 AM
I have to agree with John. We in Nevada have it good compared to the horror stories I see coming from other states. ALL of our Democratic representatives are fully accesible and welcoming to the LGBT community. They are actually a lot better at supporting the LGBT community than a lot of our Gay "leaders".
Posted by: Derek Washington | Oct 4, 2009 4:40:25 PM