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March 29th, 2015
TODAY’S AGENDA: Pride Celebrations This Weekend: Lafayette, LA; Lake Worth, FL. Other Events This Weekend: Los Angeles Leather Pride, Los Angeles, CA. 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 […]
March 28th, 2015
TODAY’S AGENDA: Pride Celebrations This Weekend: Lafayette, LA; Lake Worth, FL. Other Events This Weekend: European Gay Ski Week, Avoriaz, France; Los Angeles Leather Pride, Los Angeles, CA; AIDS WAlk, Orlando, FL; European Snow Pride, Tignes, France. TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: The Barracks was an old fleabag hotel located across the street […]
March 27th, 2015
I’ve been missing in action the past few months, working ten to eleven hour days at work and having just about every other minute outside of work consumed by other things. This pace is likely to continue at least through May. So I haven’t been able to keep up with the slew of right-to-discriminate bills […]
March 27th, 2015
TODAY’S AGENDA: Pride Celebrations This Weekend: Lafayette, LA; Lake Worth, FL. Other Events This Weekend: European Gay Ski Week, Avoriaz, France; Los Angeles Leather Pride, Los Angeles, CA; AIDS WAlk, Orlando, FL; European Snow Pride, Tignes, France. TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: The original location, in a light industrial area of Miami underneath […]
March 26th, 2015
TODAY’S AGENDA: Pride Celebrations This Weekend: Lafayette, LA; Lake Worth, FL. Other Events This Weekend: European Gay Ski Week, Avoriaz, France; Los Angeles Leather Pride, Los Angeles, CA; AIDS WAlk, Orlando, FL; European Snow Pride, Tignes, France. TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: The Club Turkish Baths is believed to have become San Franscisco’s first […]
March 25th, 2015
TODAY’S AGENDA: Pride Celebrations This Weekend: Lafayette, LA; Lake Worth, FL. Other Events This Weekend: European Gay Ski Week, Avoriaz, France; Los Angeles Leather Pride, Los Angeles, CA; AIDS WAlk, Orlando, FL; European Snow Pride, Tignes, France. TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: TODAY IN HISTORY: ► The Case of Thomas/Thomasine Hall: 1629. Virginia […]
March 24th, 2015
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, 2015
TODAY’S AGENDA is late. Our web server, Successful Hosting, hasn’t been so successful lately. Problems started on Saturday with intermittent access problems to the server that hosts BTB. When I first signed up for Successful Hosting ten years ago, they were an amazing company, with outstanding and responsive customer service. But in the ten years, […]
March 22nd, 2015
TODAY’S AGENDA: Events This Weekend: Amsterdam Bear Pride, Amsterdam, Netherlands; European Gay Ski Week, Avoriaz, France; Florida AIDS Walk & Music Festival, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Los Angeles Leather Pride, Los Angeles, CA; Elevation: Mammoth Gay Ski Week, Mammoth Lakes, CA; European Snow Pride, Tignes, France. TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by: “I have known […]
March 21st, 2015
TODAY’S AGENDA: Events This Weekend: Amsterdam Bear Pride, Amsterdam, Netherlands; European Gay Ski Week, Avoriaz, France; Florida AIDS Walk & Music Festival, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; AIDS Walk, Ft. Worth, TX; Los Angeles Leather Pride, Los Angeles, CA; Elevation: Mammoth Gay Ski Week, Mammoth Lakes, CA; Black Party, New York, NY; European Snow Pride, Tignes, France. […]
March 20th, 2015
TODAY’S AGENDA: Events This Weekend: Amsterdam Bear Pride, Amsterdam, Netherlands; European Gay Ski Week, Avoriaz, France; Florida AIDS Walk & Music Festival, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; AIDS Walk, Ft. Worth, TX; Los Angeles Leather Pride, Los Angeles, CA; Elevation: Mammoth Gay Ski Week, Mammoth Lakes, CA; Black Party, New York, NY; European Snow Pride, Tignes, France. […]
March 19th, 2015
Since our last update, the marriage situation in Alabama has continued to whirl and twirl to a wild caliope tune. Mobile County Probate Judge Davis, having been told by the Alabama Supreme Court that he was not exempt from their order to discriminate against same-sex couples, turned back to Federal Judge Granade. He noted that […]
March 19th, 2015
TODAY’S AGENDA: Events This Weekend: Amsterdam Bear Pride, Amsterdam, Netherlands; European Gay Ski Week, Avoriaz, France; Florida AIDS Walk & Music Festival, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; AIDS Walk, Ft. Worth, TX; Los Angeles Leather Pride, Los Angeles, CA; Elevation: Mammoth Gay Ski Week, Mammoth Lakes, CA; Black Party, New York, NY; European Snow Pride, Tignes, France. […]
March 18th, 2015
TODAY’S AGENDA: Events This Weekend: Amsterdam Bear Pride, Amsterdam, Netherlands; European Gay Ski Week, Avoriaz, France; Florida AIDS Walk & Music Festival, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; AIDS Walk, Ft. Worth, TX; Los Angeles Leather Pride, Los Angeles, CA; Elevation: Mammoth Gay Ski Week, Mammoth Lakes, CA; Black Party, New York, NY; European Snow Pride, Tignes, France. […]
March 17th, 2015
At some point in the late 80’s or early 90’s a friend and I ran into Steve Sheldon at a convention. “Hey” he said, “I’d like you to meet my father.” By that time Lou Sheldon, the founder of the Traditional Values Coalition, was pretty much known for his obsessive opposition to homosexuality. Well, that […]
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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