• Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 9:00pm By System Administrator
    160 Handy Twitter Tools and Resources | Social Media Strategies and Tools Explained – FWD/Forward – FWD (feminists with disabilities) for a way forward Richmond High School gang rape: Cops arrest 2 in attack on Calif. teen girl; Bystanders did...
  • Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 1:30am By System Administrator
    These are my links for October 25th through October 26th: Scary Sex Toys – Sex Toys That Are More Scary Than Sexy | Cory Silverberg – the sex toys below are ghoulish not just in their looks, but in misguided conception, poor design, and sometimes...
  • Friday, October 23, 2009 - 11:30am By Chris Hall
    Michigan state Representative Jim Slezak (Dem., Davison Township), has decided to start tilting at windmills in his very first term in office—if by "windmills" you mean women's wombs. Slezak has proposed an amendment to the state...
  • Friday, October 23, 2009 - 10:49am By System Administrator
    The Senate cleared a historic hate crimes bill Thursday for President Obama’s signature, approving new federal penalties for attacks on gay men and lesbians. The legislation, which was attached to the conference report for the bill outlining the...
  • Monday, October 12, 2009 - 12:08pm By Chris Hall
    Last night, while faced with over 700 pieces of legislation that needed to either be signed or vetoed before midnight, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed two bills into law that were significant to the LGBT communities. One...
  • Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - 12:39pm By Chris Hall
    Via PZ Myers at Pharyngula, we find yet another one of those items that just makes our heads hurt to think about it. Apparently, the great divisive controversy in the Bahamas is legislation that would make it illegal for a man to rape his wife....
  • Friday, July 24, 2009 - 4:35pm By Monica Shores
    Picture this seedy scene: an undercover cop pays to enter an establishment advertising itself as a spa. After a massage, the female attendant offers him a hand job. (Or if you're feeling coy, "simulate[s] a sex act with her right hand".) The officer...
  • Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 1:36pm By Chris Hall
    Representative Barney Frank introduced a new version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in the House this morning that would include not only sexual orientation, but gender identification. The introduction of the new version of ENDA brings up...
  • Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - 1:41pm By Tim McElreavy
     The Onion reports on a conservative solution to Gay Marriage.  Video After the Jump.   Conservatives Warn Quick Sex Change Only Barrier Between Gays, Marriage
  • Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 12:31pm By Chris Hall
    The ironically-named Jay Love, an Alabama state representative from Montgomery, introduced a resolution in the legislature on Tuesday supporting Miss California USA's recent comments about same-sex marriage. At Sunday night's Miss USA competition,...
  • Monday, April 6, 2009 - 1:21pm By Chris Hall
    The most popular rationalization for moral panics is some version of the words of Helen Lovejoy from The Simpsons: "Won't someone please think of the children?" See the recent freakouts over "sexting" as an example. You would think that children...
  • Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 9:11am By Tim McElreavy
    In the first 2 days following his announcement that he would veto legislation legalizing same-sex marriage in his state, the Associated Press reports that Vermont Governor Jim Douglas received over 1,500 letters and emails. The messages range from...
  • Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 10:12am By Chris Hall
    The voters of Gainesville, Florida rejected an initiative that would have repealed protections for lesbians and gays. The vote was 58% to 42% in favor of maintaining the city's laws protecting LGBT civil rights, which have been in place for a decade...
  • Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 11:39am By Chris Hall
    Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Cal.) introduced the Responsible Education About Life Act (REAL) today, which will provide federal funding for comprehensive sex education. For the last several years, federal funding has only...
  • Monday, March 16, 2009 - 11:04am By Chris Hall
    As we reported previously, the state legislature of North Dakota is currently considering something called the "Personhood Bill," which would give full rights of personhood to every fertilized egg in the state, and make intentional...