B. Frank’s Greatest Hits

By now you’ve heard the news that newly retired Massachusetts House Representative Barney Frank has asked Gov. Deval Patrick (D) if he could (temporarily and just until a special election is held) fill United States Senator John Kerry’s seat after his current term ends and Sen. Kerry begin the process of becoming our next Secretary of State. Barney Frank will be remembered for the many bills and many battles he willing engaged to ensure that the queer among us are... Read More

Comparing Apples to Assholes: Rick Perry’s Desperation

Perhaps as a queer or queer-affirmative person, you’ve been feeling like me – ignored at the start of the 2012 election cycle. Sure, Michelle Bachman’s “hey gurl” husband provided a moment of pathetic tragi-comedy befitting a Samuel Beckett play. Or, maybe you’re teaching  logical fallacies in a logic class and you were thinking to yourself, “gosh, I wish I had a contemporary example of a false analogy or a faulty comparison to show... Read More

Afghani Police Shame Cross-dresser – Video goes “viral”

I’m not exactly comfortable with the adjective “viral” outside a biological context, but that’s another post for another time. But until that time, here’s a graphic reminder of what your college courses on gender and/or what your lived experience has probably taught you: all-male coteries + unchecked power = trouble for the other. Read More  Read More

In HIV research as in life, free and open information wins. Every time.

Various labels describe it: open-sourcing,  the hive-mind, crowd-sourcing. Take your pick but in the end, the idea is this: by increasing the availability of information and thereby increasing the number of people who access it, you simultaneously increase the probability of and shorten the time necessary to solving a problem. What’s this got to do with HIV research? Gamers solved a riddle that scientists and even the world’s most sophisticated computers hadn’t... Read More

Civil rights hero Frank Kameny dies at 86

I admit it. I had no idea. For all the courses and readings in my past on all things queer, I felt pretty confident in my historical knowledge of the LGBT rights movement. But thankfully, stories like this kick me in the self-confident ass and remind me, there’s always more to learn and always more to be thankful for. Thank you Frank Kameny. I never knew anything about you during you life even though I benefit from your sacrifices everyday. But now I know and it’s... Read More

Had they been Christian, I bet we would have said something.

Who knows? Perhaps the United States government might have said something had the two men recently executed in Iran been killed for their religious beliefs. Or perhaps not. Either way, I hope we never have to find out. It’s a fate no one deserves for the religion they choose nor the persons they love. Read More  Read More

What do Al Franken and Chuck Norris have in common?

You don’t fuck with ‘em. Watch Al Franken get all ninja on this witness (with rhetoric and logic, naturally). Read More  Read More

Relax, relax. Maybe Bachmann’s husband thinks we all play rugby? Thanks #asshole.

This story’s rich. No, not as in cash money, but rather “rich” with irony and hypocrisy. Even though it’s been public knowledge for-ever, it’s just now being picked up by the “lame-stream” media (remember how liberal they are?). Thus, I doubt we’ve heard the last of it. So just how deep will the rabbit hole go? Pretty fucking deep. But here’s what we know for sure as of now: Michelle Bachmann’s got a gay son who was... Read More

Whore, schmore. At least I can vote. I think…?

More proof positive, Keith Olbermann’s return to television couldn’t have happened a day too soon. Enjoy this Friday frolic in hypocrisy courtesy of Olbermann’s Worst Persons segment (that is, if you can call downloading copyrighted material and slicing it up “courtesy of…”). Meet Republican Ohio State Rep. Robert Mecklenborg, the man behind the Ohio bill that requires people show their driver’s licenses before they can vote. Which seems... Read More

See. Who says the GOP doesn’t pitch a big tent?

The Republicans have always claimed to be a political party with a big tent (i.e. people from all walks of life with different beliefs are welcome), and perhaps today they proved themselves right. Racists and homophobes no longer have to pine for a party they can call their own for the GOPs laid out the welcome mat. David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the KKK (that’s him beside the burning cross), who is fondly remembered for strutting around his college campus in a Nazi... Read More