The Justice Department’s amicus brief joins other ones opposed to Prop 8, including one from 75 pro-equality Republicans. This leaves a lot of questions: namely, what took them so long?
Hot beverages, hot women and hot rodding across the country with a pup. Who’s in?
“Am I allowed to tell my girlfriend that I would like to have sex more often? If so, how?”
“On Wednesday, Marco McMillian was found dead on a Mississippi River levee. He was a gay man of color running for mayor of Clarksdale, Mississippi, and his death is being investigated as a homicide.”
Topics include Ellen circa 1998, women in the KKK, the HMS Bounty, high cost medical care, long prison terms and poverty, Adalia Rose, studio photography, child beauty pageants & manufacturing in America.
You’re about to fall entirely in love with Brianne. “My Femininity is powerful. This is my body, and I’ll do with it as I please.”
Good music, good cause, Good Vibrations. I had you at “good,” right?
When a dog goes on a book tour, the rest seems pretty self-explanatory. Get in on this!
During SXSW, an equally awesome and certainly more queer festival will be happening in Austin. On March 9th at as part of OUTLander’s Spring Festival, Main Screen will show episodes of Words With Girls, Unicorn Plan-It, and Gay Street Therapy along with a live performance from Haviland Stillwell.
Vanessa’s Team Pick: F to 7th is “a homoneurotic web series about Ingrid Jungermann and her descent into lesbian middle age,” it’s really funny, has awesome guest stars and I think you need to watch it.
It’s your monthly dose of party pictures from Phresh Cutz, a queer pop-up barbershop where cool kids, excellent hair and queer sensibilities come together to make magic.
Today the House of Representatives has finally passed the Violence Against Women Act – and it includes expanded protections for Native women and survivors in same-sex relationships.
In which Tegan lets me know that her songs are like her babies, she has a tea-drinking schedule, and she doesn’t want you to build a shrine to her in your home.
Lena Dunham auditions for Zero Dark Thirty, Jeremy Lin gets you all teary eyed, British teenagers answer questions about the “National Football Legion”, and Michelle Obama shows off her motherly dance moves.
It’s almost March which means it’s almost spring which means I’m about to start putting flowers on everything.
A trans* take on Katie Couric’s “Growing Up Transgender” show.
“Yesterday it was revealed that 75 prominent Republicans have signed onto an amicus brief arguing for the legalization of gay marriage in the Supreme Court case dealing with marriage equality.”
A former campus activist explains why universities are getting away with not seriously addressing rape on campus, and why they need to start.
Vanessa’s Team Pick: As a Jewish lesbian with hopes and dreams of one day becoming a mom, I feel that it is my duty to tell you that the very first LGBT-inclusive Jewish children’s book in English finally exists!
Homophobes get told off, allegorical vegetarians, and Brokeback Bollywood.