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Update: The Dallas Voice - Instant Tea is reporting that "The director of the [Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission] TABC tonight issued a statement acknowledging that Chad Gibson [who has been hospitalized with a head injury since the incident] was injured while in TABC custody."

"On Sunday morning, June 28,... [sometime after 12:30a.m.], six (6) Police Officers, two (2) TABC agents and a supervisor...arrived...to c… Continue

Update: Pam's House Blend is reporting some possible funny business surrounding the $1M dollar donations for last nights fundraiser. So we'll have to wait to find out whether that total really includes donations from the LGBTQ community or whether it's been inflated by DNC insiders.

If you haven't heard the sickening news,… Continue

I know there have been many posts on the blogosphere about this march on Washington organized by Cleve Jones of Project AIDS Memorial Quilt including criticisms from Bil Browning of The Bilerico Project and Pam Spaulding of Pam's Houseblend, but I think it's worth continued discussion and criticism.

First, le… Continue

Despite the claims of a post-racial America, the presidential campaign of Barack Obama did more than stir latent racism out into the open. Cries of ‘kill him’ and ‘terrorist’ during the McCain/Palin rallies, effigies of Obama hanging by a noose, and general noose imagery surfacing across the country suggest something more pernicious is rising out of the muck stirred by those persons antagonistic about an African American President taking root in the White House. White racists (and some non-white… Continue

I’ve spent the last week researching on-line social networks(ing) and how to better utilize them for political organizing and mobilizing the grassroots. My goal was to write a post outlining some ideas for improving our organizing efforts at Queertoday using social networks like Ning along with ‘Web 2.0’ technologies. Unfortunately, I’m coming away from this research feeling completely overwhelmed. Social networks have become increasingly complex (not that they weren’t when they started) and cus… Continue