A man whose homophobic rant against a bicyclist was recorded on film which subsequently racked up thousands of views on YouTube has now apologized. Ryan Lewis of Orange County, Calif. delivered his rant in a confrontation with a bicyclist after Lewis apparently failed to share the road which was a designated Share the Road lane….
In response to accusations of homophobia, the New York Mets announced Wednesday, in an exclusive statement to HuffPost Live, that the team would no longer include two opposing players on the Citi Field “Kiss Cam.” New York Mets Organization: “We have, on occasion, included players from opposing teams in our popular in-game Kiss Cam feature….
An iPad user tested Siri’s knowledge of gay nightlife in Russia after Apple’s rudimentary artificial-intelligence program learned to speak Russian. He found homophobia lurking in her code. The recently released Russian-speaking version of Apple Inc.’s voice-interactive personal assistant for iOS devices, such as the iPhone and iPad, was quite homophobic according to online media outlet,…
dvd of the week Alan Turing was the gay British man who broke the Nazi codes during World War II and more or less invented the computer. Despite his key role in winning the war, Turing was arrested for his homosexuality and forced to undergo chemical castration to avoid prison; he killed himself after a…
Ellen DeGeneres doesn’t often read press about herself, she explained this week on The Ellen DeGenerous Show. Yet, she made an exception after hearing about pastor Larry Tomczak’s op-ed in the Christian Post. The op-ed, titled “Are You Aware of the Avalanche of Gay Programming Assaulting Your Home?,” is a basic homophobic screed, which lists…
Let’s get this out of the way: Despite what you may have heard, read on Twitter, or seen ranted about on Facebook, The Imitation Game is a not a homophobic whitewash of Alan Turing, the gay British man who broke the Nazi codes during World War II and more or less invented the computer. Despite…
Mission: America’s Linda Harvey knows just the thing to get that gay or lesbian friend this year: her new book, Maybe He’s Not Gay. The homophobic pundit’s book urges people to “leave” the homosexual lifestyle. Right Wing Watch reported Harvey as saying, “If you were wondering what to get your teen or college student for…
As new reports surfaced indicating the Sultan of Brunei could still be in negotiations to purchase the Plaza Hotel, today the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) renewed its call to lawmakers, advocates and supporters of the rights of women and LGBT people in New York to speak out against any effort by the Sultan of Brunei to…
WASHINGTON –– The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), has renewed its call to lawmakers, advocates, and supporters of the rights of women and LGBT people in New York to speak out against any effort by the Sultan of Brunei to acquire a hotel in the city. The Sultan currently owns two in the United States—The Beverly…
A post by Jeremy Hooper, Special Projects Consultant on the GLAAD blog, reveals quite a line-up of anti-LGBT speakers at the forthcoming Family Leadership Summit and also some special comments from the Benham Brothers: This Saturday, Aug. 9, when they take the stage at the annual summit of Iowa’s leading anti-LGBT group, called The Family Leader, David and…
