Archive for June, 2005

Your Weekend Plans: America the Beautiful Edition

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Thursday: Quarterly, brainy mag Queer Ramblings presents a reading tonight at Dixon Place in honor of their Summer ‘05 issue, starring QR authors Danielle Abrams, Felice Shays, Stephanie Alexis Bonvissuto, Sandra R. Garcia, and Joan Roney. It’s only five dollars, but reservations are “strongly” recommended.
Friday: Go see Shakespeare In The Park’s production of As You […]

Gay Marriage in Spain

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

It’s a two-fer! Hot on the heels of Canada, Spain’s parliament approved a bill today that changes the definition of marriage to include gay couples. Considered to be one of the most liberal marriage laws in the world now, the bill adds a single sentence to the existing law: “Marriage will have the […]

Fred Phelps in Massachusetts

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

Via Andrew Sullivan we read news that on Monday, the notorious Kansas preacher Fred Phelps, with his “God Hates Fags” band of followers, picketed the Marblehead, Mass. funeral of a Green Beret who was killed in Iraq. Weirder still, the soldier wasn’t even gay. Phelps has recently targeted the entire state of Massachusetts, […]

Canada Legalizes Gay Marriage

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

It’s official. We saw the news on Daily Kos that Canada legalized same-sex marriage last night with a decisive vote in the House of Commons. That makes our neighbor to the north only the third country in the world to recognize civil ceremonies for gay couples after the Netherlands and Belgium.
Canada legalizes […]

Hillary in The New Yorker

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

OK, this is the last Hillary-as-lesbian post for awhile, but we just wanted to share a little of David Remnick’s “Talk of the Town” piece on Edward Klein’s The Truth About Hillary:
Throughout, Klein’s obsession with the girl-on-girl theme is equal to anything in The Well of Loneliness or on The Howard Stern Show. Take […]

Death of a Supermodel

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

Domino Harvey, the lesbian supermodel-turned-bounty hunter was found dead in her West Hollywood home on Monday. Harvey, you’ll recall, had sold the rights to her colorful life story to New Line Cinema which will be releasing the movie Domino starring Keira Knightley this fall. She was reportedly upset that the film de-lesbianized her […]

New Sappho Poem in Stores Now!

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

Well, not exactly, but it did make the Times Literary Supplement. Ancient Greek poet Sappho, originator of all things, um, Sapphic, probably penned (or whatever they did back then) the love poem 2,600 years ago. Even better, the 12-line verse was rediscovered on a scroll that had previously been wrapped around a mummy! […]

Hillary in the Voice

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

The Village Voice’s Kristen Lombardi offers her take on the poorly-reported gay-baiting in Edward Klein’s new book The Truth About Hillary. The piece doesn’t add much in the way of new ideas—it seems that strong American women in the public eye often have to contend with dyke-mongering. Who knew? On the plus […]

Pride in the Times

Monday, June 27th, 2005

For general coverage check here. Count the number of times you read “boa,” “leather,” or “motorcycle.”
Then go here to read how the theme of the parade, “Equal Rights: No More, No Less,” and the looming gay marriage issue played out this year. Catch the roll call of politicians who marched, then go […]

How Movie Stars Are Like Lesbians

Monday, June 27th, 2005

We caught this Lindsay Lohan quote from a press conference promoting her new movie Herbie: Fully Loaded:
“It’s very weird in LA. You’ll go out and see someone that you dated and they’ll be with an ex-girlfriend and then you’ll run into the ex-girlfriend and you’ll like a person who dated this […]