Current Affairs
Corey Stewart, you’re an idiot!
Who is today’s winner of the “You’re an idiot!” rant from “Six Degrees of Separation,” featuring “The Force Awakens” director J.J. Abrams? Why, none other than Confederate wannabe Corey Stewart,…
April 28 – Report Card on Trump’s First 100 Days
FRIDAY 6p ET LIVE SiriusXM Radio Progress 127 #Trump100Days Town Hall | Tune in or join live audience! SiriusXM Politics I plan to attend this event at D.C.’s historic Metropolitan…
Richard Grenell as NATO Ambassador?
Jonathan Merritt writes in The Atlantic that President* Trump is reportedly considering naming gay conservative Richard Grenell as his ambassador to NATO. Interestingly, many anti-gay evangelical Christians are not squawking…
He’s just my Bill
P.G. Wodehouse and Jerome Kern may roll in their graves, but I love this parody by Randy Rainbow.
US drops largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan
Barbara Starr and Ryan Browne report at CNN. The bomb is called MOAB. It is 21,600 pounds and is GPS-guided, dropped by an MC-130 aircraft on ISIS targets in Afghanistan….
Out: How to Help Stop Chechnya’s Gay Concentration Camps
The persecution of gay people in Chechnya has only worsened since I wrote about it in my Blade column last week. Hilton Dresden at Out magazine lists several things you…
Blade QUEERY: Rev. Cedric A. Harmon
(Washington Blade photo by Michael Key) One of GLAA’s honorees for our reception on April 20, my esteemed friend Rev. Cedric Harmon of Many Voices, answers 20 gay questions for…
Cosby’s books join ‘most challenged’ list
Graham Bowley reports at NYT: Bill Cosby’s “Little Bill” children’s book series was among the 10 “most challenged” books in 2016, according to a list compiled by the American Library…
Service with a Smile
The attorney for Dr. Dao of the United Airlines “Rhapsody in Black and Blue” incident invoked this classic scene from “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.” It is apt. Trigger warning: lots…