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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...
Video: Mrs. Betty Bowers, ‘America’s Best Christian’, on voting about civil rights
Mrs. Betty Bowers calls herself “America's Best Christian”, and who are we to disagree. Just look at her. In this very funny episode of her continuing YouTube Series, Mrs. Bowers oh-so-properly schools Americans on the unconstitutional cr...
Video: 10-year-old explains his vow of no-pledge without LGBT equality
10-year-old Will Phillips explains to CNN's John Roberts why he is refusing to pledge to the flag until gays and lesbians have equal rights. Roberts asked Phillips to explain how he responded when his teacher gave him grief for not standing up with ...
Video: Prejean retreats to cone of silence after hearing ‘I’m a gay man’
OK. So it's only interesting because it offers a new method of refusing to answer a question. Former beauty queen Carrie Prejean appeared on Larry King Live. King asked her why she had settled a suit she had filed against Miss California pageant off...
Video: Queer and Loathing on ‘Daily Show’
Jon Stewart points out – as only he can – that none of the cable ‘news’ networks covered Sunday’s LGBT National Equality March in DC. Along the way, Stewart offers the best summary yet of President Obama’s Saturday night address to an HR...
Video: Stewart and Maddow take on bizarre GOP porn theory
One rule of the cable-news world is that someone who says or does something outrageous or stupid in range of any kind of camera gets a nearly automatic spike in notoriety – their own 10 or 15 news cycles of “fame”. The rule has worked well for...
Video: Maine gay couple celebrates 40th anniversary
Ron Schwizer and Doug Kimmel were married 40 years ago by a friend who performed a wedding ceremony for them on August 19, 1969 in a University of Colorado campus chapel. They’ve been together ever since, living most of the time in their home sta...
Video: Jared Polis on Colbert Report
For the first time, Stephen Colbert went back to a congressional district that he has previously featured in his “Better Know a District” segment. He looked again at Colorado’s 2nd because Rep. Jared Polis has replaced the district’s former c...
Brad Pitt expounds on freedom and religion on Maher’s show
Bill Maher told Brad Pitt on Friday’s Real Time, “You cannot do anything and America will not like you.” “I think I’m testing that this week,” Pitt responded. He’s on the talk show circuit this week to talk up his new movie, Inglourio...
Video: Rachel Maddow does tell about Congressional ‘don’t ask’ policy
Congress had an “Evel Knievel” moment yesterday about the military “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, as Rachel Maddow sees it. It’s starting to look like congress members, senators, and the White House have their own “don’t ask” pol...
Video: ‘Capt. Jack’ gets kissed by ‘Dr. Who’
Out gay actor John Barrowman, who plays the bi character Captain Jack on the BBC series Torchwood, said "I've slightly got all flustered, I really have," after Dr. Who star David Tennant gave him a peck on the lips at the San Diego ComicCon...
Video: Boy George – All hatred must turn to dust’
Boy George, now out of jail for an umm… ill-advised (at best) encounter, sings “All hatred must turn to dust.” Even if the blur-transitions are overdone, it’s a great video for a great song. As the YouTube intro says, “This song has certa...
Two generals calls for long, slow ‘review’ of DADT policy
A high-profile former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colin Powell, repeated in a talk-show interview aired today that it’s time to “review” the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, but said that the review should be par...
Video: Happy 4th; reminder that ‘land of the free’ is a goal
National Equality March, which is planning an October 10-11 LGBT march in Washington, DC, today released this video featuring San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus singing the Star Spangled Banner. It reminds us all on this US Independence Day that “la...
Video: Dan Savage discusses DADT with Keith Olbermann
The Stranger’s editorial director Dan Savage, identified on the program as “activist and author”, made what might be his first appearance tonight as a Countdown pundit, talking with Keith Olbermann about the president’s lack of action on repe...
White House reception for LGBT advocates draws applause and frustration [with Maddow video]
“It’s not for me to tell you to be patient, any more than it was for others to counsel patience to African Americans who were petitioning for equal rights a half century ago,” President Obama told a group of almost 300 LGBT activists, community...
Video: Another Stonewall 40th anniversary documentary
The website (and TV/radio program) DemocracyNow.org offers an extended documentary this weekend entitled, “Stonewall Riots 40th Anniversary: A Look Back at the Uprising that Launched the Modern Gay Rights Movement”. The program features a long e...
Video: Colbert on Obama’s ‘Stonewalling’ and on ‘polter-gaysts’
Stephen Colbert nailed President Obama's approach to LGBT issues in a word, and later revealed the real problem with Christian exorcisms of “polter-gaysts”. He explained the president’s approach to LGBT rights in Thursday nights “Word” s...
Video: Anderson Cooper recalls night out at Studio 54 with Michael Jackson
During a brief break from CNN’s wall-to-wall coverage last night of Michael Jackson’s shocking death, Anderson Cooper recalled that when he was 10 years old, he went to Studio 54 with Jackson and a number of other people. “I had no idea who he...
Video: Straight guy from Renton, WA declares crush for David Hasselhoff
A friend of his explains in a comment at AfterElton.com that America’s Got Talent contestant David Johnson “is happily married to a woman”. The explanation was required because Johnson, a bank loan officer, took his first few minutes of fame-li...
DADT target Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach sees ‘No change’ at work after coming out
Decorated Air Force Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach returned to the Rachel Maddow Show Tuesday evening to talk about the reaction of his squadron since he announced a month ago on the show that he is gay. He said that he’s been invited to be a guest o...
Video: ‘History of Homosexuality’ – Adam to Augustine to Wilde and psychiatrists
Current TV host Graeme Smith offers this jam-packed bit of video, “The History of Homosexuality”. It’s both humorous and – even though Smith warns that it might be “quite possibly inaccurate” – highly informative. The clip is a promo f...
Video: Kathy Griffin on encounters with Paris Hilton, lasagna, and Padma
Kathy Griffin was as unfiltered as ever Friday night during an appearance on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Show. to promote, promote, promote her Bravo show, My Life on the D-List. She didn’t do a “table flip” which is the current Bravo standard for s...
Video: Sanjaya – ‘straight gay best friend’ – dances for the girls
::: One-time American Idol novelty act Sanjaya Malakar came out on his current reality-show gig. But his revelation was a bit more surprising than that of a far more talented recent AI alum: Sanjaya is not gay. He reportedly told fello...
Video: AC 360 interview with Dustin Lance Black and Richard Socarides
On 360 last night, Anderson Cooper talked with Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and former Clinton aide Richard Socarides about the memorandum President Clinton signed yesterday extending a few partnership rights to federal employees. As he has ...
Video: College wrestlers who posed for porn question double standard
Paul Donohoe “We didn’t kill anyone. We didn’t put anyone in the hospital. We weren’t selling drugs,” says former University of Nebraska wrestler Kenny Jordan about the incident that got him and fellow wrestler Paul Donohoe kicked o...
