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Audio: Some apples from the 'teacher'
2009-09-23 14:49:00 We've dug up some more audible nuggets from Stand For Marriage Maine 's latest video star, Charla Bansley, which even more fully detail how ridiculous it is for the "Yes" campaign to to refer to Ms. Bansley as a mere "teacher."... More About: Audio , Apples , Teacher
Video: Now they're using their own troops as 'teachers'?!?
2009-09-23 04:38:00 The new "yes on 1" ad is up. Or actually, we should say the reworked "yes on 1" ad, as it's nothing more than a repurposed version of an old Prop 8 spot: The same old lies and fears and... More About: Video , Troops , Teachers , Maine
Video: Before watching SFMM's ad, watch a mother's heartbreak
2009-09-23 03:00:00 Yes, Stand For Marriage Maine : Anti-gay bias certainly does have "everything to do with schools": **UPDATE: S4MM has now released their "everything to do with schools" ad. Go watch, while keeping Ms. Walker and her late son firmly in your... More About: Video , Watch , Watching , Heartbreak
Tomorrow in Maine: We seize upon a teachable moment!
2009-09-23 02:34:00 Get ready, kiddies -- Maine 's anti-equality side is about to make us sound like the schoolyard bully who bullies the slightly smaller schoolyard bully: MEDIA ADVISORY, Sept. 22 /Christian Newswire/ -- The following is submitted by Stand for Marriage Maine:... More About: Moment , Tomorrow
Weird, I walk past St Patrick's all the time and have no desire to hurt
2009-09-23 02:13:00 We've been busy tracking the Catholic influence in Maine, where the Catholic-dominated National Organization For Marriage and the influential Portland diocese (and its head, Bishop Malone) are wielding considerable influence in the unrighteous fight to roll back CIVIL equality. But... More About: Weird , Time , Hurt , Past , Walk
Video: This isn't even low road, just a ridiculous detour
2009-09-22 22:45:00 We've seen some ridiculous campaign ads before. But the following spot from the New Jersey gubernatorial race, which is an official video that was put together by Republican foe of marriage equality Chris Christie, has got to be in the... More About: Video , Road , Ridiculous
Video: Robbing the gayness, taking it to the Banks
2009-09-22 20:25:00 Back in March, we showed you some clips of a Connecticut church, Manifested Glory Ministries, trying to "exorcise" a gay man's "demon." Today on the "Tyra" show, Ms. Banks follows up with the victim and the... -- well, they all... More About: Video , Taking
Mike abandons organization the way Maine's 'yes' campaign abandoned him
2009-09-22 19:07:00 You know Mike "gays cause bad weather/graffiti/economic crises" Heath, the longtime, very far-right leader who the more "mainstream" anti-equality folks at Stand For Marriage Maine have been desperately working to keep in the closet? Well, it looks like they're not... More About: Organization , Campaign
Frivolous lawsuit of the day: Lesbians court 'lesbians'
2008-06-10 18:48:00 A few weeks back, we told you about the residents of the Greek island of Lesbos who are trying to ban a local gay group from using the word "lesbian" in its name, as they say that the term insults... More About: Lawsuit , Lesbians , Court
Gay pride: Destroying the sanctity of Celtics b-ball
2008-06-10 17:24:00 To kick off gay pride week, Boston mayor Thomas Menino and various other city officials held a ceremony in which they raised a pride flag at city hall. So it should come as no surprise that Massachusetts ' most vehement anti-gay... More About: Gay Pride , Resistance , Pride , Celtics
SBC: Gender issues office engenders unease within us
2008-06-10 16:22:00 Within the Southern Baptist Convention, there is a centralized gender issues office whose sole purpose is to ?inform, educate and encourage our people to be proactive and redemptive in reaching out to those who struggle with unwanted same sex attractions.?... More About: Office , Issues , Gender , Gender issues
Video: Thirty years of "Change?! Are you kidding me?!?"
2008-06-10 14:55:00 Here at G-A-Y, we often poke fun at the wackity schmackity idea that gays can and should "change" into "ex-gays." However, as you'll see in this clip from a rare National Lampoon HBO special that originally aired in 1978, we... More About: Video , Kidding , Change , Years
If FOF won't post our entry, we'll do it ourselves
2008-06-10 14:33:00 Yesterday, in a followup to an earlier post about a "Superdad" contest being held by Focus on the Family in affiliation with Tivo, we told you how the gay-unfriendly guardians at FOF are blocking entries honoring gay or gay-supportive dads.... More About: Post , Entry
Video: '[Insert jokey play on word 'Sex'] and the [Insert joke
2008-06-10 00:51:00 On film screens this summer, "Sex"y celesbian Cynthia Nixon is helping her somewhat self-absorbed friend Carrie deal with man troubles. But on YouTube screens, she's warning Samantha-loving Charlottes about a truly "Big" problem: Wise, important words. Though lesbians, for a... More About: Video , Joke , Word , Play , Celebs
Friends don't let 'friends' drive marriage into biased hole
2008-06-09 23:16:00 Wanna see a phrase that sums up all that is wrong with those trying to stem the inevitable tide of marriage equality? Well looks at these seven words, which Concerned Women For America intern Hilary Webster wrote as a headline... More About: Marriage , Friends , California , Drive , Hole
Oh look, Pete's getting snarky. That's cute.
2008-06-09 21:33:00 When we heard Brokeback Mountain is being mounted as an opera, our reaction from both a gay rights and NY theatregoing standpoint was nothing short of positive. One who doesn't share our enthusiasm, however, is Americans For Truth's Peter LaBarbera:... More About: Cute
Universal, Disney, 'ex-gay' conference: Orlando truly is land of imaginatio
2008-06-06 15:19:00 Saturday morning in Orlando , folks from PFLAG, Wayne Besen's Truth Wins Our organization, and members of the clergy will hold a silent protest outside of a Love Won Out "ex-gay" conference: Gay activists to protest Orlando event, notion that homosexuality... More About: Disney , Land , Universal , Conference
More on Kern County's 'I don'ts"
2008-06-06 13:30:00 Remember our post from yesterday speculating about the real reasons why the clerks office of Kern County, CA, has chosen to get itself out of the marriage game? Yea, well, The Bakersfield California n pretty much confirms for us that homo-hostility...
Westboro itching for Takei/DeGeneres invite
2008-06-06 00:38:00 The first thing we have to say to the following press release: George Takei has freely announced that his wedding will be on 9/14 at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. As best we know, Ms DeGeneres does... More About: Ellen Degeneres , Celebs , Westboro , Invite
Audio: Lesbian goes on Stern for reasons other than straight fantasy fulfil
2008-06-05 22:20:00 The other day we heard celesbian Rosie O 'Donnell call in to "The Howard Stern Show" and gave a frank-for-even-Rosie interview with her onetime adversary. We found it interesting and thought you might as well (H/t: Towle): More About: Audio , Fantasy , Lesbian
Marriage foe uses 'despicable' argument
2008-06-05 21:08:00 Speaking of the far-right's attempts to amend the California state constitution in a way that is both anti-gay and un-American, Brad Dacus of the "pro-family" Pacific Justice Institute has issued the following rally cry: "The bottom line is that, if... More About: Marriage
Delonas boldly goes where anti-gay men have gone before
2008-06-05 20:06:00 You know Sean Delonas, the NY Post cartoonist who's routinely caught heat for being anti-gay, yet who has denied his homophobia at every turn. Yea, well, his denials are wearing thin: Look out, T.R. Knight. We hear Sean has a... More About: Anti
WAAH! Gays are going to push for their rights. WAAH!
2008-06-05 17:49:00 As the inevitability of same-sex marriage becomes ever more apparent, our opposition becomes ever more desperate. Which is exactly why in reaction to the news that there will be no "stay" on the California Supreme Court's marriage ruling, the folks... More About: Rights , Gays , Push
Video: Uniting the party Signorile style
2008-06-05 16:40:00 Longtime gay activist Michelangeleo Signorile is lots of things. Mealy-mouthed ain't one of 'em: A Rough Day on the Show [Signorile] (H/t: PHB) More About: Video , Democrats , Party , Barack Obama , Cain
Tivo/FOF: We're recording our unhappiness
2008-06-05 15:42:00 Last October, we expressed concern over a partnership between Focus on the Family and Tivo , in which the extremely anti-gay "pro-family" group had teamed with the digital video recording pioneers in order to help shape the programming options that are... More About: Recording
Kern divorces self from marriage
2008-06-05 14:34:00 Citing a lack of available staff, officials with the clerk's office of Kern County, CA, announced yesterday that they'll no longer marry any couples, gay or straight: County clerk will stop performing all weddings [Bakersfield Californian] An announcement that obviously... More About: Marriage , Divorces
There's hyperbole and then there's Barber
2008-06-05 00:40:00 Liability-in-waiting Matt Barber has again put pen to paper, as he continues his job of destroying the last remaining shreds of credibility enjoyed by the Concerned Women for America. Some choice quotes from Matt's latest anti-marriage equality missive: "If marriage... More About: Ellen Degeneres
He doesn't carrot all about about gay equality
2008-06-04 23:35:00 It's a sad day for this writer. For I have just found out that the dude behind a carrot juice that I regularly drink, William Bolthouse, has donated $100,000 in support of California 's anti-gay constitutional amendment: Local carrot farmer donates... More About: Carrot , Equality
NOM's form letters: Even a zombie sheep should take pause
2008-06-04 22:06:00 Brian Brown and Maggie Gallagher's Nation For Marriage group has prepared a form letter that they're encouraging folks to send to NY Gov. David Paterson in protest of his directive about the recognition of out-of-state same-sex unions. And while we... More About: New York , Letters , Form , Zombie , Sheep
America as it is, and THIS is the George we need to recall?!
More articles from this author:2008-06-04 20:37:00 Well there "stay" was unsuccessful and there attempt at a constitutional amendment is still to be determined. But what will be the far-right's next temper tantrum over the California marriage ruling? Well check out this site we just stumbled upon:... More About: America , Recall , George 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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