Results for: be the change
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Listicle Without Commentary: Puzzling References to Homosexuality From Journals Found in My Room While Packing to Move to San Francisco
“I was watching The L Word first season and thinking about how my heart is dead.”
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DADT Hearings and Life Story Reveal John McCain is Bad for Unit Cohesion
Harry Reid compares McCain to Lucy from Peanuts. Jon Stewart rips McCain a new one. An actual Marine who served openly for 4 years comes forward to say a repeal “will work.” But above all, for a ‘lousy student’ and ‘misogynist’ who used nepotism to get into the army and, once there, was not quite the hero he says he was — McCain sure claims to know a lot about unit morale.
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The Perks Of Being A College-Bound Gay (Kinda Sorta Maybe)
Are you going to college? Is it because you’re gay? Are you sure? No, neither are we.
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Doctor Finds Homosexuality Cure, Involves A Better Diet, Less Alcohol, Exercise
A dude in Serbia thinks homosexuality can be “cured” if you drink enough water and think good thoughts! Also: put your purple on people, Hillary Clinton says it gets better.
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If Lindsay Lohan is “Pathetic,” Then So Am I: What It Feels Like for a Drug Addict
If Lindsay Lohan is the ‘most pathetic person alive’ then I must come in at a close second. After all, I’ve been in and out of rehab twice as many times. And the way the media is talking about Lohan is really pissing me off.
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17-Year-Old Gay Teen Terrel Williams Kills Himself* Following After-School Attack (UPDATED)
Life it seems, will fade away, drifting further every day
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10 Days of Top 10s: 10 Things That Took Forever & Things You A**holes Didn’t Appreciate
Remember that time that post took forever and then we made that other post that was really awesome and you were like whatever. Yeah well WHATEVER
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Out 100 Features Rachel Maddow, Others (Mostly Gay Guys).
The OUT 100 debuts — what straight girl will make the cover? How hot is Rachel Maddow in her photo exactly – is she ‘Rachel Maddow in Iraq’ hot? Amos Mac! Chely Wright! Katie Miller! Wow. So much more. I mean you’ve just got to see this. Bang-able.
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Are You Ready (For the World to Change)? I Don’t Think You’re Ready : Sunday Funday Daily Fix
We promise this will be our last non-SEO-friendly headline. Tomorrow the redesign launches. Today; we will ‘laugh’ & feast – kids can’t handle the transgendered truth, MIT studies facebook gays, The Office & Gay Panic TV, Three Rivers sneak peak, and NSFW Sunday.
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Editor’s Team Pick: Typical Incendiary Blog Post
“This sentence contains a provocative statement that attracts the readers’ attention, but really only has very little to do with the topic of the blog post. This sentence claims to follow logically from the first sentence, though the connection is actually rather tenuous.”
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Neil Patrick Harris, Lance Bass, Sarah Silverman & More Speak Out Against Gay Bullying
Neil Patrick Harris, Lance Bass, Sarah Silverman, Nicki Minaj, Michael Urie, Brittany Snow, Eve and AJ McLean are just some of the people who have contributed to the “It Gets Better” project for gay youth.
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Superstars of Butch Voices LA 2010: Nine or Ten We’d Like to “Know” For Sure
Butch Voices is this super awesome conference happening in LA this weekend, and Autostraddle thinks you should go. It’s all about unifying and discussing all the various rainbow of butch identities. Plus, there will be some super awesome people there. Seriously. Go.
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Facebook’s Gay-Targeted Ads Are Confusing, Patriarchal, Pointless
Sometimes you stalk people on Facebook, sometimes Facebook stalks you with targeted ads based on outdated stereotypes and doesn’t tell you.
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Gay Teens Continue Getting Bullied, Committing Suicide: Seth Walsh, 13 and Tyler Clementi, 18, September’s Latest Victims
Two more gay teens commit suicide this week: an 18-year-old college freshman jumps off a bridge after finding his roommate secretly recording and transmitting his sexual encounters over the internet and 13-year-old gay-bullying victim Seth Walsh is taken off life support 9 days after he hanged himself.
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How I Turned Straight Actors into Badass Butch Queers in Three Days Flat
Gabrielle Rivera wanted an all-queer cast for her first short film. When she ended up with straight girls in her three butch/AG leads she found herself giving them a crash-course in abandoning gender norms, taking up space and playing gay. And then everything changed, forever.
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Excuse Adam Lambert While He Kisses the Sky (and, more importantly, This Guy)
Remember that time you got high and watched Adam Lambert’s E! True Hollywood story and had a lot of feelings about gender, boy-on-boy onstage kissing, the history of counterculture/glam rock, American Idol itself and Adam’s hypothetical second album? Luckily I wrote that all down for you.
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Can Nicki Minaj Fix Homophobia in Hip-Hop Without Labeling Herself?
Nicki Minaj graces the cover of OUT magazine and wants to fix hip-hop’s homophobia, though she eschews labeling herself despite much talk of bisexuality. Lady Gaga’s DADT activism resulted in a bunch of people googling things like “SLDN” for the first time ever. What do we make of all this?
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Portia de Rossi Officially Portia DeGeneres, Takes Ellen’s Last Name
Portia de Rossi reinvents herself once more as Portia DeGeneres, officially taking Ellen’s last name. Also Rosie O’Donnell really liked Portia’s book and we think you will too.
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Autostraddle Book Club Reads Inferno: It’s All Happening on November 19th
In perhaps the most unsurprising move of 2010, we have chosen Eileen Myles’ ‘Inferno’ as our first official book club pick. Get excited!
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Takin’ it Back Day: Anti-Gay Politicians ‘Apologize’ For ‘Queers Should Commit Suicide/Get AIDS’, ‘Can We Marry Dogs?’, etc.
An Arkansas school board member responded to a call to fight homophobic bullying with, surprise, homophobic bullying. Good thing he resigned last night? Sort of. And while we’re on topic; apologies for comparing gay marriage to marrying tables/dogs and predicting homo-apocalypse.