Yet another reason to go to the candy-free checkout lane in the grocery store: Mars, Inc./Masterfoods has decided that homophobia sells Snickers bars. In a new clip from AMV BBDO London, an effeminate speedwalker is chased by Mr. T, who shoots Snickers bars at him with a Gatling gun, shouts “It’s time to run like […]
Alan O’Brien-Myers is a rising senior at Holyoke High School in Massachusetts, where he lives with his two moms and younger brother. He posted on Bilerico today in response to John McCain’s statement that he doesn’t believe in gay adoption. He says, in part: What’s not to believe in? Many gays and lesbians adopt children
OK, I need a break from the serious posts, and I suspect you do, too. Here’s a clever little online app that’s been taking too much of my attention: Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game is exactly that. Add rods and rotating wheels to move a ball from one part of the screen
Both the Washington Post and Newsweek last week published articles about children who are coming out in middle school or high school, younger than ever before. Both focus on the dangers faced by these youth; Newsweek’s story, which made the cover, centers on Larry King, the eight-grader in Oxnard, CA, who was shot to death
Is the mega-retailer playing doctor with all of us? Bil Browning of Bilerico fowarded me an interesting article from Forbes that asks this question in relation to Wal-Mart’s announcement that it will stop selling baby bottles containing the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA). BPA has been linked in some studies to cancer and other medical problems. If
After Ellen brought us news late last week that there is an L Word spinoff in development. After the show finishes its sixth and final season next year, one storyline will be carried into an online series that will then segue into the new series, if Showtime approves it. The new show will star one
The U.S. Senate voted to drop travel and immigration restrictions on persons who are HIV-positive. The House Armed Services personnel subcommittee has scheduled a hearing on the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy for July 23. The Washington Blade reports, though, that “as of Wednesday, the subcommittee was not scheduled to hear from even one
Here are a few pieces related (directly or indirectly) to John McCain’s foot-in-mouth comment on adoption by same-sex couples: Terrance’s post, about finalizing the adoption of his son just days after McCain’s remarks, is especially moving. Keli Goff at HuffPo notes that the uproar about the adoption comment highlights a basic problem for McCain: “How
Helen and I highlight a new guide for parents of transgender kids and, on the other side, one for kids of transgender parents. (Regular readers may have seen my written piece on these books earlier in the week. It’s only the first couple of minutes of the vlog, though, so you won’t get bored if
Last Sunday, presidential candidate John McCain told the New York Times, “I think that we’ve proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no, I don’t believe in gay adoption” (which, like “gay marriage,” is a misleading term implying there is something so fundamentally different about the act when it
