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American Dream on Bargain Discount

By Tanya Paperny - Dec 15th, 2008 at 10:12 am

These coupons were stuffed into newspapers all over Ohio.  Check out more from Columbus-based artist Vinchen. There’s a quick Q&A with the artist up at…

Bill Moyers Interviews Michael Pollan

By Tanya Paperny - Dec 5th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

If Michael Pollan had five minutes with Barack Obama to talk about some of the most pressing issues facing our generation, Pollan would talk about……

Undeserving Gay Videos Win Award

By Tanya Paperny - Dec 4th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

The Ad Council has just awarded the “That’s So Gay” PSAs with the Gold Bell Award for creative excellence, one of their highest awards for…

Why Are We Still Silent About Duanna Johnson?

By Tanya Paperny - Nov 20th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

With yesterday’s news that the California Supreme Court has agreed to settle the question over the legality of Proposition 8, a major incident in the…

Why Can’t Progressives Celebrate for Now?

By Tanya Paperny - Nov 6th, 2008 at 11:23 am

When Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore wrote her anti-celebratory post entitled “Why One Queer Person Is Not Celebrating California’s Historic Gay Marriage Decision” back in May, I…

UPDATE: New Data on LGBT Hate Crimes

By Tanya Paperny - Oct 29th, 2008 at 6:13 pm

To follow up on my earlier post, it seems relevant to add that the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition just released its 2008 GENIUS Index, which…

New Data on LGBT Hate Crimes

By Tanya Paperny - Oct 29th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

Following up on my last post, the FBI’s recently released hate crime data confirm that while hate crimes were down overall for 2007, anti-gay crimes…

Come Out Against LGBT Hate Crimes

By Tanya Paperny - Oct 10th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

This Saturday is the 20th annual National Coming Out Day.
The day was founded in honor of 1987’s Second National March on Washington for Lesbian…