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Dan Choi: The Myth, The Man, The Hero. Except When He Offends White Lesbians (Oh Yeah, And C.D. Kirven)

So we guess everyone got the news about poor Dan Choi. Pam Spaulding certainly wasted no time gettin’ the word out that’s for sure.  Just to reiterate for folks who don’t hug the Net every second of their lives, Choi had a breakdown. Like, a nervous breakdown of sorts. Here’s the contents of an email [...]

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Wednesday December 15th, 2010 in , , , , , , | No Comments »

Get Equal’s Latest: President Obama, Can You Make It Better For Gay White Kids ‘N’ The Gay White Folks Who Love Them?

Guess that vid’ Obama made contributing to the It Gets Better campaign didn’t quite do the trick for Robin McGehee. No sireee. So she rounded up a trio of her favorite LGBT white chilluns just to make sure that the president understood who exactly he should be aiming any efforts towards should he take her [...]

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Tuesday October 26th, 2010 in , , , , | 6 Comments »

Get Equal And Equality Across America In Nasty Cat Fight Over Cash

From New Gay (Never heard of ‘em) Aiyi’nah Ford, former member of the Interim National Governing Board for Equality Across America (EAA), is a little more than perturbed over monetary complications concerning the newly defunct organization. According to a press release sent from Ford Monday night, a third of the EAA’s  $70,000 funding was given [...]

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Thursday October 21st, 2010 in , , , | No Comments »

Private Brad Manning: Gay Rights Orgs, Activists For DADT Repeal, Ignore Elephant In The Room

RENWL wrote about Brad Manning’s arrest back in early July (Army Whistleblower Brad Manning And The Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Transgender Question). The post by far has been the most widely-read item on RENWL to date. At that time there were only three LGBT news related blogs in the gayosphere who had the balls to [...]

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Monday August 9th, 2010 in , , , , , | 4 Comments »

Obama Chumps Yet Another Heckler; This Time At White House HIV/AIDS Reception

Account of events during reception from the White House Media Affairs Office: President speaks at reception in East Room of HIV/AIDS activists. Tonight the president hosted a reception in the East Room for HIV/AIDS activists. The room was full of guests in business attire, tables were set with yellow tablecloths and bowls of yellow roses, [...]

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Tuesday July 13th, 2010 in , , , , | 2 Comments »

Dan Choi Snaps: Breaks From Get Equal, Subpoena’s Obama For CD Handslap

We knew  Choi was losing it. We just didn’t realize it would happen so soon before DADT was actually repealed. That’s too bad. He’s gonna miss the ticker tape parade the White House is secretly planning on his behalf. For folks not in the know, Get Equal and Dan Choi have parted ways. We’ll go [...]

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Wednesday June 30th, 2010 in , , , | 13 Comments »

Black Gay Activists Break From Get Equal; Forms Get Equal In Blackface

So anybody read Queerty’s post on African American LGBT activists C.D. Kirven and Michael Robinson breaking off from Get Equal and forming their equality group Get Equal Now? You should read it. Very interesting how that all came about.  And we love Queerty’s title for the post: Can GetEQUAL NOW Make the LGBT Rights Movement Less [...]

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Thursday June 17th, 2010 in , , , , , | 9 Comments »