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April 6th, 2016
TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: Seattle’s Trojan Shield I held its first Closet Ball in 1974, an event that proved so popular they revived it again 40 years ago today. Here’s how the event was introduced in 1974: You’re probably asking yourself, “What in the queen’s realm is a ‘Closet Ball’?” Well here it […]
April 4th, 2016
TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: TODAY IN HISTORY: ► Anita Bryant Suggests Sending Gay People To Prison For 20 Years: 1978. Newspapers across the country got a bit of a tease from Playboy, which released a couple of tantalizing tidbits from an interview with anti-gay activist Anita Bryant that would appear in its May […]
April 3rd, 2016
TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: TODAY IN HISTORY: ► University of Florida Dismisses 14 Employees, 50 Students for Homosexuality: 1959. Florida had its own home-grown version of the McCarthyesque Red and Lavender Scares that lasted from 1956 to 1964. Filling the role of McCarthy was State Sen. Charley E. Johns, who led the Florida Legislative […]
April 2nd, 2016
TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: Thanks to ongoing bar raids, entrapment operations and general police harassment, the risk of arrest was an ever-present worry in the gay community, making ads for bail bond agencies a not altogether uncommon feature in gay publications of the 1960s and into the early 1970s. THIS MONTH IN […]
April 1st, 2016
TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: In 2006, Canada’s Daily Xtra published a walking tour of Vancouver: In the 1960s, the Castle Pub was an important gathering place for gay men seeking community. “But the owners had no tolerance for visible homosexuality,” remembers Don Hann. “I was thrown out of it one Saturday afternoon […]
March 31st, 2016
TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: TODAY IN HISTORY: ► Off-Duty SF Police Officers Assault Lesbian Bar: 1979. A group of burly young men, most of them drunk, had gotten off a streetcar at 11th Avenue and Gear in San Francisco’s Richmond neighborhood. They were loud and obnoxious, some of them were carrying open beer containers — […]
March 30th, 2016
TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: It was a women’s bar, but Dan liked it too: There was kind of a crossover. Androgyny was being played with a lot at that time. “Oh he’s the straightest guy there is, but he likes to look like Eno!” There were all these weird crossed signals, and […]
March 29th, 2016
TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: Dick’s opened in 1982 in a portion of the historic and industrial Model Diaries building. It was most definitely a men’s bar with a very masculine vibe. But when other popular gay bars started opening up to cater to the city’s gay male population, Dick’s popularity declined. It then […]
March 28th, 2016
TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: The Barracks was an old fleabag hotel located across the street from the Gold Coast bar, of the original International Mr. Leather fame.” Chuck Renslow, who ran a number of gay-oriented businesses in Chicago including the Gold Coast, remembered taking the Barracks over in 1975: “It was at […]
March 27th, 2016
TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: The original location, in a light industrial area of Miami underneath the flight path for Miami International, is gone, replaced with a parking lot for an auto paint shop. The Ft. Lauderdale location is now a strip mall. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY: ► Miami Bar Posts House Rules: […]
March 26th, 2016
TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: The Club Turkish Baths is believed to have become San Franscisco’s first gay bathhouse when it opened in 1935. Located on the same block as Compton’s Cafeteria, scene of perhaps the first true riot in response to police operations against gays, drag queens and transgender people (see Aug 21), […]
March 25th, 2016
TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: TODAY IN HISTORY: ► The Case of Thomas/Thomasine Hall: 1629. Virginia Colony Court records describe the case of a servant, Thomas or Thomasine Hall, who claimed to be “both a man and a woman.” Hall testified that he was born at or near Newcastle Upon Tyne and recalled being […]
March 24th, 2016
TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: Harry’s Back East was a longtime gay bar whose origins went back to at least 1968. It probably owed its longevity to its reputation for being a simple, laid-back and friendly place. At least one story has it that Judy Garland paid a visit there in 1969 shortly […]
March 23rd, 2016
TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: This is one of those clubs that came and went in New York City, more or less without a trace. The only bit of info that I can find on it is that the space had originally been a club called Stage 45 until the Lib came along […]
March 22nd, 2016
TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: “I have known Tom since 1984 when I first moved to Baltimore and discovered a row of gay bars on Boston Street in Canton. There were two dance clubs: Numbers and Masquerade and a festive smaller bar called The Unicorn. Tom informed me that he has been involved […]
Featured Reports
In this original BTB Investigation, we unveil the tragic story of Kirk Murphy, a four-year-old boy who was treated for “cross-gender disturbance” in 1970 by a young grad student by the name of George Rekers. This story is a stark reminder that there are severe and damaging consequences when therapists try to ensure that boys will be boys.
When we first reported on three American anti-gay activists traveling to Kampala for a three-day conference, we had no idea that it would be the first report of a long string of events leading to a proposal to institute the death penalty for LGBT people. But that is exactly what happened. In this report, we review our collection of more than 500 posts to tell the story of one nation’s embrace of hatred toward gay people. This report will be updated continuously as events continue to unfold. Check here for the latest updates.
In 2005, the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote that “[Paul] Cameron’s ‘science’ echoes Nazi Germany.” What the SPLC didn”t know was Cameron doesn’t just “echo” Nazi Germany. He quoted extensively from one of the Final Solution’s architects. This puts his fascination with quarantines, mandatory tattoos, and extermination being a “plausible idea” in a whole new and deeply disturbing light.
On February 10, I attended an all-day “Love Won Out” ex-gay conference in Phoenix, put on by Focus on the Family and Exodus International. In this series of reports, I talk about what I learned there: the people who go to these conferences, the things that they hear, and what this all means for them, their families and for the rest of us.
Prologue: Why I Went To “Love Won Out”
Part 1: What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Part 2: Parents Struggle With “No Exceptions”
Part 3: A Whole New Dialect
Part 4: It Depends On How The Meaning of the Word "Change" Changes
Part 5: A Candid Explanation For "Change"
At last, the truth can now be told.
Using the same research methods employed by most anti-gay political pressure groups, we examine the statistics and the case studies that dispel many of the myths about heterosexuality. Download your copy today!
And don‘t miss our companion report, How To Write An Anti-Gay Tract In Fifteen Easy Steps.
Anti-gay activists often charge that gay men and women pose a threat to children. In this report, we explore the supposed connection between homosexuality and child sexual abuse, the conclusions reached by the most knowledgeable professionals in the field, and how anti-gay activists continue to ignore their findings. This has tremendous consequences, not just for gay men and women, but more importantly for the safety of all our children.
Anti-gay activists often cite the “Dutch Study” to claim that gay unions last only about 1½ years and that the these men have an average of eight additional partners per year outside of their steady relationship. In this report, we will take you step by step into the study to see whether the claims are true.
Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council submitted an Amicus Brief to the Maryland Court of Appeals as that court prepared to consider the issue of gay marriage. We examine just one small section of that brief to reveal the junk science and fraudulent claims of the Family “Research” Council.
The FBI’s annual Hate Crime Statistics aren’t as complete as they ought to be, and their report for 2004 was no exception. In fact, their most recent report has quite a few glaring holes. Holes big enough for Daniel Fetty to fall through.
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