Chris Hall, Monday, October 11, 2010 - 12:48pm
If you're a bank or a school, today is Columbus Day, which celebrates the day hundreds of years ago when Christopher Columbus came across the American continent thinking it was India. For the rest...
Simon Sheppard, Friday, October 8, 2010 - 4:21pm
I guess a lot of us hanker to be around to witness a cosmic turning point in history. That would explain why, for a good 2,000 years, Christians have been saying, "Today is the first day of the End...
Margaret Wade, Monday, October 4, 2010 - 4:56pm
Once upon a time, I lived in Japan and worked with junior high school students. Every week or so, I would hear someone repeat a Japanese saying: “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” It was...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, October 4, 2010 - 9:00am
Sorry to be a buzzkill, but sometimes it's hard to be witty, or snarky, or much of anything but sad.
And it's been a depressing, deadly month.
See, this gay kid named Asher Brown, tired of...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, September 27, 2010 - 9:55am
It's not that I'm hopelessly nostalgic for the 1960s—sorry, aging Deadheads, but I got rid of my last tie-dyed T-shirt long ago. (Though I do have a fetching Nehru-collared day-glo paisley shirt I...
Chris Hall, Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 5:02pm
Seattle-based advice columnist and writer Dan Savage joined anti-bullying efforts this week by launching a YouTube channel dedicated to hosting videos that tell LGBT youth that "It gets better."...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, September 20, 2010 - 10:07am
Well, well, well. It comes as no surprise that the Director of Issues Analysis of the frothingly anti-queer American Family Association, one Bryan Fischer, hates Muslims, as well.
Well, not "...
Tim, Friday, September 17, 2010 - 12:13pm
Lady Gaga is militant about gays and lesbians being able to serve openly and honorably in the United States military. Last Sunday, the provocative performer attended the MTV Video Music Awards with...
Simon Sheppard, Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 3:30pm
No upstanding white leftist guy wants to call a middle-aged black woman an asshole, at least not publicly, but…well….
Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther, had this to say when she recently...
Simon Sheppard, Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 11:13am
Back in the W. Days, President Bush had no problem coming up with a simple—not to say simple-minded—reason why Islamic militants were jihading against us virtuous 'Murricans: They hate us for our...
Kitty Stryker, Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 12:15pm
I got my Hookers For Jesus shirt today, along with a letter from the woman who left her life as a sex worker and gave her all to Jesus. Now, I can respect leaving the corporate working world and...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, August 23, 2010 - 10:49am
Yes, as we ruefully all know, there's a hardy streak of anti-intellectualism in American life. Still, those anti-gay-marriage folks seem to be hell-bent on proving it past reasonable doubt.
After...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, August 16, 2010 - 11:16am
I've always been a tad suspicious of secretly queer homophobes who get outed, only to then morph, hey presto, into crusaders for gay rights.
Take Roy Ashburn, for instance. As we all no doubt...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, August 9, 2010 - 11:55am
Way back over a half-year ago, when I started writing for CarnalNation, my very first column, "Marriage, Shmarriage," bemoaned the queer movement's glorification of the bourgeois model of...
Paul Krassner, Friday, August 6, 2010 - 9:00am
To read Part 1 of this 1962 interview with an underground abortion provider, go here.
Q. Do you find that many patients, after an abortion, have feelings of guilt or regret?
A. Yes, I generally...
Paul Krassner, Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 3:22pm
The following interview is a very important piece of history. When Paul Krassner first published it in the June, 1962 edition of his underground newspaper, The Realist, the Roe v. Wade decision was...
Tim, Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 1:56pm
U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker announced today his ruling on the constitutionality of California's Prop. 8, which banned gay marriage. In a 136-page ruling, Judge Walker found Prop 8...
Suzanne, Friday, July 30, 2010 - 2:06pm
On July 27th Violet Blue received an email from Facebook informing her that the 3,000+ member sex-positive women's empowerment community she founded on her "Our Porn, Ourselves" page had been...
Chris Hall, Friday, July 30, 2010 - 1:27pm
Apparently Hitler thought so. In this interview with The Daily Show's Jason Jones, Scott Lively, president of Defend the Family, reveals the real reason that the United States can't afford to let...
