Mike Tidmus

Columnist and ladies man … not! Dan Savage appeared on Countdown to discuss Maine, our so-called fierce advocate, and why the Democratic party is a bunch of pathetic poodles (video: Countdown with Keith Olbermann) The educated, urban-dwelling Mainers who turned out in droves this past Tuesday to support the right of same-gender-loving Mainers to enter [...]

(graphic: via The Stranger) If you have a pulse you’re undoubtedly aware that Protect Marriage in Washington state got a hand up in their smarmy attack on the state’s domestic partnership law from the US Supreme Court, which intervened to allow petition signers in the state to hate on the gays and still enjoy the [...]

Anderson Cooper and Panel Discuss Obama’s Gay Rights Record and Hate Crimes Act (video: CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360º via News1News at YouTube) In the video clip above CNN’s Anderson Cooper hosts writer, editor, activist Dan Savage and Towleroad’s roving reporter Corey Johnson for a discussion of the state of LGBT rights and the passage — at [...]

Part 1| Gay Activists Heated Debate about Obama’s Gay Rights Speech (video: News1News at YouTube) CNN anchor Don Lemon hosted an après-speech debate with guests Dan Choi, Hillary Rosen, Mike Signorile and Dan Savage that at times got a little testy. In case you missed the speech, which was broadcast live on C-SPAN and CNN yesterday, Steve [...]

This is brilliant! This commentary by blogger, editor, pundit, advice columnist Dan Savage, in The Advocate, is bound to rub some people the wrong way. So what? Read it. Dan Savage: Was Obama a One-Night Stand? It wasn’t love at first sight, but author Dan Savage warmed up to Barack Obama. Now he’s wondering if all [...]

“[O]ur equality isn’t going to deprive you of anything. The coming of legal same-sex marriage will not result in “traditional” marriage—opposite marriage—perishing from the face of the earth. That’s seriously not our goal—heck, most of us our products of “opposite marriage.” Once we’ve achieved full marriage equality you can go right on having your “traditional” [...]

Countdown on 30 June 2009 (video: Countdown with Keith Olbermann) In case you missed this, here’s MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann taking on President Obama with Dan Savage in tow. Says Olbermann, “We need all of the Arab linguists we can find. I don’t care what they look like or what they do. The president is god damned [...]

With fierce advocates like this, who needs enemies? (Photo: via Second Floor) Veteran reporter Rex Wockner has the definitive round-up of GLBT reactions to President Obama’s ongoing screw-ups on GLBT issues. If Obama pulled this kind of shit on any other minority community … you can imagine the consequences. Obama’s supporters in the GLBT community [...]

Dan Savage: “President gets ‘F’ on gay rights issues” (video: MSNBC, via NewsPoliticsNews at YouTube) Dan Savage’s Love Letter of the Day was addressed to the President formerly known as our “fierce advocate of equality for gay and lesbian Americans.” Savage had been invited to speak to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell about “the controversy surrounding Obama’s [...]

Lt Dan Choi kicked out of US military after outing himself on TV (video: The Rachel Maddow Show, via NewsPoliticsNews at YouTube) As a matter of honor, West Point graduate Lieutenant Dan Choi courageously came out of the closet on The Rachel Maddow Show. Now he’s been dismissed for “homosexual conduct” with a letter that, in [...]

Thanks to a unanimous decision by Iowa’s Supreme Court, GLBT couples are no longer singing the Wedding Bell Blues in the Hawkeye State. Today is officially the first day all Iowa couples can apply for a marriage license. The National Center for Lesbian Rights points to this splendid photo gallery of the historic arrival of [...]

“Religious bigots point to higher suicide rates among gays and lesbians as evidence that the “gay lifestyle”—or the “homosexual deathstyle” as they prefer to call it—is inherently dangerous and unhealthy. It’s a pretty neat trick: persecute gay teenagers until they kill themselves and then claim that homosexuality is the problem and not bigotry. Assholes.” — Dan Savage, [...]

Had you tuned in to HBO’s coverage of the pre-Inaugural concert, with its star studded line up at the Lincoln Memorial, hoping to catch a glimpse of Episcopal Bishop V Gene Robinson, who was hand-picked by President-Elect Barack Obama to deliver the event’s invocation, you were sorely disappointed. There was no gay bishop. After a [...]

Rick Warren Urges Followers To Emulate Hitler Youth  (Video: The New Apostolic Research Team, via YouTube) Jim Burroway, of Box Turtle Bulletin, has uncovered this delightful little video of pop-pastor Rick Warren enjoying a Leni Riefenstahl-worthy moment, which might explain Dan Savage’s dedication of another video gem at his blog.

Eleven gay bars in Seattle received letters threatening attacks with the deadly poison ricin. The Seattle Police Department has taken possession of the letters and is working with the FBI to track down the perpetrators. Dan Savage has posted a copy of one of the letters at The Stranger. From The Seattle Times: 11 gay [...]