The GOP Convention mercifully came to a close night and it certainly went out with a bang. The night was built around Mitt Romney accepting the Presidential nomination and his speech in which he pledged to "restore America's pr…
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Archives for August 2012
Posts from August 2012
Victoria Jackson Loves Her Gay Friends And Todd Akin, Too
Former Saturday Night Live star and current conservative fundamentalist Victoria Jackson was of course at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, which where Sirius radio host Michelangelo Signorile ran into her and asked the Tea Partier to soun…
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Right Attacks ‘ParaNorman’ For Featuring Likeable Gay Jock
Conservatives are having a fit over news that a jocky character in the new stop-motion film ParaNorman is gay. Nancy French gripes at National Review that "parents who take children to the new movie ParaNorman might have to answer unwanted quest…
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Minnesota Archbishop Spreads The Discrimination He Laments
Minnesota Archbishop John Nienstedt is trying to blur the lines between church and state with a letter encouraging Catholics in that state to vote for a measure that would constitutionally ban same-sex marriage there. In the letter, claims that marri…
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Towleroad Guide To The Tube #1199
‘PENIS RITUAL’: Nutty theory about the 1995 Million Man March. BOOTED: Footage of Code Pink protesters being ejected from RNC. FIRST LOOK: Trailer for The Company You Keep. ABC’S TGIF: Short, sweet and repeated in my head every Frid…
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News: Paul Ryan’s Mystery Marathon, Penile Suit, Kelly Taylor
The sad state of American political engagement: shockingly engaging TLC reality show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo beat the Republican National Convention in the ratings game. The book Romney's Gay America: Mormon Leaders, Same-Sex Rights — Bridging t…
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Help Save Utah-Based Gay Pub ‘QSaltLake’: VIDEO
Michael Aaron, publisher of the debt-hampered QSaltLake, released this video this week asking readers who appreciate his magazine’s indepth, professional reporting to help them raise the dough necessary to pay off $16,000 of a loan taken out when the…
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Watch New Trailer For ‘How To Survive A Plague’: VIDEO
With the release of David France’s How To Survive a Plague only about three weeks away, France and company have released the official poster for the flick, about ACT-UP’s early days fighting discrimination about HIV/AIDS. The official description: Ho…
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Boxer Micky Ward Pulls Scott Brown Endorsement Over Gay Rights
Republican Scott Brown meant to hold an event today in which Micky Ward, the boxer who inspired the Oscar-nominated movie The Fighter, would throw his weight behind the Massachusetts Senator's reelection campaign. Ward, however, pulled out at the…
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The OXD Mirror: New Music for 8.31.12
BY OCCUPY THE DISCO / JOSH APPELBAUM The OXD Mirror is a weekly music column brought to you by the boys of OCCUPY THE DISCO (OXD), a New York City based movement created by three music lovers, Ru Bhatt, Josh Appelbaum, and Tad…
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