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Video: Rachel Maddow Show’s manifesto
On her last show for the show’s first full year on the air, Rachel Maddow offered a manifesto. She recalled the many “TRMS Investigates” episodes that the show has covered this year, something she calls “this mini-mission we’ve taken on of...
Item: Dragging White House ornaments into right’s Christmas wars
Hedda’s famous ball ::: Three of the 800 ornaments for a White House Christmas tree that were created by community groups sparked a minor flurry of seasonal outrage from the right on Christmas Eve. One of the ornaments shows an image...
Lessons in homophobia: Philippines denial of LGBTQ party’s ballot bid
Philippines Senate hopeful Danton Remoto photo by Ralph Camus, from Danton’s campaign blog “I will definitely run as senator in 2010,” said Philippine LGBTQ rights advocate Danton Remoto said Wednesday. “I’ve been invited by two pa...
DC Agenda, the ex-Blade staff’s new paper, launches its website
DC Agenda, “The LGBTQ Community’s Newssource”—according to its web tagline—is now out on the web. If it isn’t already there, the new newspaper will, apparently, be available today in printed form at outlets in the Washington, DC area. ...
Must listen: NPR on Obama’s slow DADT response
Prior to tonight’s speech by the President to a crowd gathered for an HRC dinner, NPR’s David Welna takes yet another look at the so-far unfulfilled campaign promises about repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. “We...
Columnist sees Rainbow Lounge raid as ‘intolerant hatemongering’
“Mistakes were made…”, said a spokesman for the Texas state agency whose officers participated in a Stonewall-Day raid on a Fort Worth gay bar that rounded up dozens of people and left one man seriously injured and five arrested. Texas Alcoh...
Out gay anchorman fired by Miami TV station
A Miami TV station has fired out gay anchor Charles Perez after he filed a discrimination complaint against the station, WPLG TV – an ABC affiliate owned by the Washington Post Company’s Post/Newsweek group. The complaint offers a unique glimps...
New York gay paper folds; Gay media company implodes
New York Blade, a biweekly newspaper that has covered gay-interest news in New York City since 1997, suspended publication this week, and its staff was let go, New York Times reports. “Everyone was let go, but the people on The Blade know that t...
History: Reporter who helped create it now clarifies part of Stonewall ‘myth’
One-time Village Voice reporter Lucien V. Truscott IV writes in New York Times that he helped Voice photographer Fred McDarrah set up this photo that McDarrah shot Friday or Saturday night after the riot at Stonewall Inn. The photo accompanied t...
