What Happened Last Month Before Your Little Boycott? The DNC Raised $11.5 Million

October's just-announced $11.5 million take for the Democratic National Committee brings the party's year-to-date collection plate to a nice score of $66.
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Interview w/NGLTF Exec Dir Rea Carey (part two)

TThis is part two of an interview with Rea Carey, the Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
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AFA not happy with Gap "Christmas" commercial

After leading a failing boycott of Gap clothing (and their subsidiaries like Old Navy) for not saying the word "Christmas" in their advertising, the American Family Association got their wish.
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Oklahoma City Gays Boycott Flip's Restaurant

Flip's Wine Bar and Trattoria has found itself in a new battle after its owner Gail Vines a member of the Oklahoma City School Board voted twice to fire an openly gay teacher.
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She Voted to Fire a Gay Teacher. And Now the Gays are Boycotting Her Restaurant

When we learned the manager of Los Angeles restaurant El Coyote donated to Prop 8, there was outrage and boycotts from gay clientele.
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AFA: Gap Stores Support Witchcraft!!!

One day after I wondered if Gap's new holiday ad wasn't a giant "fuck you" to the American Family Association's boycott claim that the company was "anti-Christmas," the AFA has sent out an "action alert" describing the commercial as supporting witchcraft.
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Modern Warfare 2 Hidden Multiplayer Modes Could Be Future DLC

It's no secret that PC gamers are none too happy with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. While some saw boycotting the game as the solution, others have decided to take a much more productive approach and tear into the game's code for buried treasure.
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Video: Left 4 Dead 8-Bit In Development By Indie Dev; Left 4 Dead 2 8-Bit Boycott Forthcoming

As you can see above, some experiences only really pop with 16 colors and four-channel sound. Solo dev Eric Ruth of PixelForce is working on an 8-bit "demake" of the original Left 4 Dead, promising all four campaigns, all five special infected, and two-player cooperative action à la Smash TV.
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Is This GAP's "Fuck You" To The American Family Association?

After being targeted with a boycott by the American Family Association as an anti-Christian retailer, GAP began airing a commercial that does use the word "Christmas.
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AFA Expands "Christmas" Hit List

After last week announcing a boycott of all stores under the GAP umbrella because its three chains don't use the word "Christmas" in their holiday ads, this weekend the American Family Association published an expanded list of a national retailers "for and against Christmas.
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Weekly Reader: Fruit Bat Fellatio, Las Vegas, & Scaring Our Elders

While I took a few vacation days this week to travel to NYC, the Editorial Team kept things plugging right along and the great contributor content didn't stop for an instant.
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Gay-themed book ok'd for fair

School Library Journal Gay-themed book ok'd for fairQ-NotesWASHINGTON, DC — The Obama administration has published a new rule lifting the HIV travel and immigration ban by removing HIV from the list of communicable .
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Blender asks U.S. Senator about LGBT rights. Response: you're 'fortunate to have Obama in the WH'

Wow. Just Wow. With the naked drama and paranoia over Obama's senior domestic policy aide Melody Barnes's simple statement about marriage equality, and the slow movement on LGBT issues by the WH and Congress, I guess we should be happy that these nuggets of wisdom keep coming out that justify the DNC donor boycott/"pause".
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A vacation boycott for Maine

A North Carolina couple is putting their money where their mouth, heart and passion are. After the stinging defeat of marriage equality in Maine this election, this couple wrote into the Kennebec Journal Morning Sentinel.
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Gay Inc.'s 'low hanging fruit' that hasn't been picked

Earlier I had readers ponder whether the DNC boycott had merit or would be effective. Well, one measure to decide whether it's a worthy measure is the progress achieved by our own advocacy organizations' checklist of what was referred to as the "low-hanging fruit" that the Obama administration and/or Congress could achieve in short order, right?

Mike Signorile pulled the cache of a Blade article about a list of issues presented to the Obama admin by National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, and the Human Rights Campaign (which submitted its own 80-page report as well) as reps met with the the incoming admin during those heady days when "change" was in the air just before Barack Obama took office.
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DNC boycott update

Take the pledge. Don't ask, don't give. Here's why.FireDogLake's Jane Hamsher got a great interview with CBS News today about the gay-inspired boycott of the DNC, but also more generally about liberal angst with the Democratic party.
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What the Gay Boycott of the DNC Can Do

CBS News What the Gay Boycott of the DNC Can DoHuffington Post (blog)There is a gay boycott of the Democratic Party afoot, and it has the potential to turn into something that leads to real change in American politics.
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Why Won't HRC Jump On Board the DNC Boycott?

Often viewed, accurately, as an extension of the Democratic party, the Human Rights Campaign has gone back and forth with how much criticism it's willing to levy on the White House and members of Congress.
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Tuesday’s LGBT Headlines

Tuesday’s LGBT Headlines Include: A boycott of the DNC; Sweden’s Lesbian Bishop; The Dutch View on Marriage; Socialism and the gay struggle; A Survey on Gays in the Military; And more from Uganda.
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Chick's Got Balls

To call for a boycott or protest of columnist New York Post Andrea Peyser would probably only result in her getting a plum pay raise from boss Rupert Murdoch.
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