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...
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...
Tim, Friday, October 1, 2010 - 5:58pm
Like many people, I have been deeply affected by the Tyler Clementi tragedy. I find I cannot stop thinking about that fateful series of events that led to a college freshman jumping to his death...
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...
Kitty Stryker, Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 2:15pm
During rush hour last Thursday night, an explosion erupted, and fire tore through a 10-acre section of the Glenview neighborhood of San Bruno. My boyfriend, grandmother and I watched, horrified, as...
Asher Bauer, Monday, September 13, 2010 - 3:15pm
Perhaps it is ironic to celebrate one’s 21st birthday by going to an all-ages punk club. To little straight-edge me, however, it made perfect sense. So it was that we found ourselves (“we” being my...
Arielle Loren, Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 1:16pm
Things have changed. The beloved hip hop of the eighties has gone on to inspire a new generation of music, affectionately calling itself by the iconic genre’s name, but truly a musical genus with...
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...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, August 30, 2010 - 8:00am
No, I'm not Shirley Sherrod, not anything like her. I don't work for the Department of Agriculture; I write porn. I'm a queer secular Jew, not a religious black woman. My dad wasn't killed by...
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...
Suzanne, Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 7:00pm
I heard the song on the radio before I saw the video. I was deeply unnerved when I heard Rihanna's voice singing, "Just gonna stand there and watch me burn. But that's alright because I like the...
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...
Chris Hall, Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 11:14am
Considering that Mormons have been at the forefront of fighting to keep men butch, women femme, and queers invisible, it's kind of ironic that one of the best pieces of genderfuck video to hit the...
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...
