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Tonight: Sexist On the Radio
Tonight, I have the honor of appearing on WPFW's monthly LGBT radio program, "Inside Out." I'll be talking about some recent LGBT coverage on the Sexist, from terminology disputes to wedding industry...
View ArticleD.C. LGBT Activists Push to Legalize Prostitution
Now that gay marriage is legal in the District, what's next for gay activists in D.C.? The Gay and Lesbian Activist Alliance (GLAA) recently released its 2010 agenda, which prioritizes causes like...
View ArticleHomophobia, Misogyny, and Other Social Ills Illuminated By Genital Surgery
The annual documentary film festival Silverdocs hits D.C. again this week. For the City Paper's coverage of this year's Nordic-heavy offerings, I reviewed Regretters, a documentary which unfolds as a...
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The Morning After: Soft-Core Skeleton Edition
*Broadsheet's Tracy Clark-Flory reports on an X-ray manufacturer's foray into the pin-up market. Clark-Flory's take: "damn, these skele-girls got femurs for daaays. As the Weekly Vice suggests, I...
View ArticleThe Morning After: Father Knows Best Edition
[youtube:v=4Y1__b6uyxg] Patriarchal family values porn. * Just in time for Father's Day, WorldNetDaily has republished David Kupelian's column on how refusing to acknowledge male superiority is hurting...
View ArticleThe Groper’s Path of Least Resistance
It is a principle of public sexual assault that gropers will follow the path of least resistance. They will gravitate toward situations where their activities will not be discovered, and their assaults...
View ArticlePFOX Demands Elena Kagan Out Herself as “Ex-Gay”
People who actually identify their sexual orientation as "ex-gay" are a rare breed, but Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) nevertheless manages to ferret out former homosexuals everywhere. Take the...
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Eric Holder Misses Deadline For Implementing Prison Rape Standards
Today, June 23, 2010, marks the deadline for Attorney General Eric Holder to finalize the national standards for corrections facilities to address prison rape. And unless Holder's doing some serious...
View ArticleThe Morning After: Fabulous Ex-Gay Scarf Edition
[youtube:v=wD5mFQkenqI] * Via BLOgT: Even ex-gays are allowed to wear fabulous scarves. * Feministing points to a Brightest Young Things piece on how some LGBT folks define queer virginity. * At Tiger...
View ArticleHRC on the “Gold Standard” of Hospital LGBT Policies
[youtube:v=FaOYwLVwECE] Earlier this month, we examined how D.C.-area hospitals fared in the Human Rights Campaign's 2010 Healthcare Equality Index, which rates hospitals on their policy toward LGBT...
View ArticleThe Morning After: Stay Puft Edition
[youtube:v=fQcHrMlQlrs] Burlesque marshmallow man, via The Candy Pitch * Seventy-five-year-old Mamie "Peanut" Johnson, the "first and only woman to pitch in the Negro American League," is set to be...
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Kink In D.C., From Oral Herpes Orgy Etiquette to Erotic Harry Potter Fan-Fic
Last week, I wrote about the second KinkForAll unconference to bring ad-hoc alternate-sexuality education to the D.C. area. Below, some video evidence of kink educators from around the country talking...
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Beauty Pageants Meet LGBT Activism
I've never been a big fan of one way beauty pageants choose to award scholarship money to young women (Swimsuits! Why did it have to be swimsuits!). But pageant contestants using the competition to...
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The Morning After: Pocket Full of Rubbers Edition
* Some douchebag slapped the ass of a local female DJ; she recounts her experience on Holla Back DC: [I] was doing a gig in a bar in Adams Morgan when an older guy came into the DJ booth . . .The guy...
View ArticleHIV in D.C., By the Numbers
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control released a new report on HIV in D.C. including numbers through 2008. Here's a look at the extent of the epidemic, according to the CDC's findings: *D.C.'s...
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The Morning After: Silent Duct Tape Edition
* Via Vox Populi, Georgetown student Julia Shindel talks to the Chronicle of Higher Education about her reproductive health activism on campus, which included chaining herself to a statue of...
View ArticleProtecting LGBT Victims of Domestic Violence
Tomorrow, the D.C. Council will hold a public hearing [PDF] on the "Protecting Victims of Crime Amendment Act of 2010." The legislation would amend the D.C. Human Rights Act to "protect victims and...
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The Morning After: Phyllis Schlafly’s Money Edition
* D.C. Mayoral candidate Leo Alexander only has 700 bucks in the war chest, and $200 of it came from Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum. That's rough, dude. * Woman marries her partner in D.C., but is...
View ArticleD.C.’s Transgender Community Suffers from Lack of HIV Statistics
After this week's post on the state of HIV in D.C., a commenter asked for some current statistics on the HIV/AIDS rate in the District's transgender population. Good luck. D.C.'s Department of Health...
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The Morning After: Grainy Masturbation Photo Edition
* In the City Paper this week, Kim Chi Ha writes about the regulatory spotlight on Ziegfeld's/Secrets, the lone SW gay club to survive the construction of Nationals Park. Post-baseball, the D.C....
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