Pgh Lesbian Correspondents

Opens in Pittsburgh on 1/13/2005.  Sue

From Pam's House Blend and GLAAD Gene Shalit of the Today show offered a strange review of Brokeback Mountain, characterizing Jake Gyllenhaal's character as a sexual predator because he's gay.  He dredges up a classic predator/victim gay stereotype that indicates, IMHO, that Shalit was uncomfortable with the movie.  Homophobic?  Yes.  Should GLAAD have called him […]

Caught this little tidbit in Newsweek Katrina—Welcome: 'White Couple' Newsweek Jan. 9, 2006 issue – As Katrina evacuees scrambled to find homes, whites were given incentives to rent in some places, while blacks were charged extra or politely turned away 66 percent of the time, according to a five-state report by the National Fair Housing […]

This from 365gay.com (Terre Haute, Indiana) NBC affiliate WTWO has become the first station to announce that it will not carry the program “The Book of Daniel” following pressure from the American Family Association. <snip> The American Family Association has been calling for its members to complain to NBC affiliates about the show which features […]

The women at Penn State aren't fairing well in the hands of the current Administration.  Women basketball players have been enduring the homophobic tyranny of Rene Portland for years.  and this from today's Post-Gazette … The only sour note is that JoePa appears not to have understood the seriousness of a sex assault charge made against a […]

From the Washington Blade EDITORS’ NOTE:As 2005 draws to a close, many media outlets will announce their selections for person of the year. In past years, Blade editors have selected a Story of the Year instead. This year, the Story of the Year was, in our view, the extraordinary efforts of one individual to not […]

My favorite line of the morning thus far from 2 Political Junkies Rick Santorum – a man of strict principles, until he needs to win an election. This calls for full confession — in 1991, I spent six months as a legislative intern for then-Congressman Rick Santorum.  I was 20 years old and hopelessly heterosexual.  […]