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Life on Q provides news, information and insights on issues that affect queer life. We look at life from a progressive queer perspective, podcasting and blogging on politics, discrimination, community, health, and arts and entertainment for and by LGBTQ
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The New York Times Buries Gay Prop 8 Protest Story
I am getting more than a little irritated by the mainstream media’s coverage of the anti-gay marriage amendments in California and elsewhere. Leafing through my Sunday New York Times this morning, I got hotter than my coffee to search for an a...
Amy Ray Feeling Kinder with New Solo CD
I have lived in Atlanta forever. Well, not forever, but longer than anywhere else, including my home town. I’ve been following the Indigo Girls since before their days as the house band at the Little 5 Points Pub. All these years later, I s...
GLAAD to Watch the Media’s Queer Coverage
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has launched a new Website called “Newsroom ‘08,” to track how media talk about issues affecting to the LGBT community as they pertain to local, state and national elections...
OutQ’s Presidential Caucus Chock Full of SIRIUS Discussion
SIRIUS Satellite Radio just wrapped up its three-hour forum on Democratic presidential politics on its OutQ channel, and results are in from the accompanying Web and phone polls conducted in conjunction with the program. Prominent supporters of Sena...
LGBT Voters to Get Sirius About Their Presidential Choices
SIRIUS Satellite Radio is holding a “queer caucus” of sorts tomorrow on The Michelangelo Signorile Show. The show is a part of the Internet and satellite radio company’s OutQ LGBT radio channel 109. The SIRIUS event is well, seri...
News of the Obvious: Jody Foster is a Big Dyke
Breaking News of the Obvious Alert. This news should move lesbians everywhere– like “t’ee in the way!” Jody Foster, the object of thousands of dyke crushes, has finally acknowledged that the sky is blue, the earth is round, ...
Fall From Grace a Prophetic Title for Showtime Documentary
We’re not in Kansas anymore. If only Fred Phelps had a heart. I TiVO’d K. Ryan Jones’ documentary about Phelps, Fall from Grace, which premiered last night on Showtime, (which will air five more showings on its networks as well as...
NYC Wants Gays and Lesbians to be a Part of It
NYC & Company, New York City’s official tourism organization, has launched the city’s first-ever effort to attract LGBT tourists. The New York Post reports that the group will air commercials on LOGO, MTV’s gay and lesbian chan...
The LGBT Web is All G with Little L, B or T
Blogging is a lot of work. Sometimes I ask myself if all this effort has any value to me or to the queer world. Life on Q is currently a non-commercial site. I’m not earning any money with advertising or reader donations. But I keep bloggi...
Gay History Month is Officially Underway
Gay History Month is officially underway, and leading publishers serving the queer community announced their second annual Gay History Project, a series of feature articles that will run in more than LGBT-oriented newspapers, according to the trade m...
CBS News and MTV Networks Contribute Gaffes to Logo’s Presidential Forum
The Logo Channel’s presidential candidate forum, held live tonight from Los Angeles, was historic. The network’s Visible Vote ‘08 effort should be lauded. Then CBS News and MTV ruined the mood. Fresh off the high of the first-e...
Kroger: Right (Wing?) Store’s Wrongs Are No Victory for Gay Rights
When Kroger banned Out & About newspaper from 34 Nashville-area Kroger stores and three Harris Teeter stores on May 31, they may have been just getting started. In June, Kroger expanded its effort to cleanse its stores of all things homosexual w...
Ticketholders Thrown a Curve at Peach Party
Curve Magazine’s Peach Party left Atlanta lesbians stunned. As the Peach Party crowd grew well into the night Saturday night, hundreds were left on line down West Peachtree Street, curving around the corner on 17th as a thin crew at the door I...
