April 2012
12 posts
The Resurrection Brings Gay Events App to iPhone
Wsup Co., the company behind WsupNow.com, today announced the release of the first comprehensive gay and lesbian event finder app for the iPhone.
Like the website, the Wsup Now app serves as a gay and lesbian event discovery tool, providing locals and tourists instant access to hundreds of LGBT-related events nearby, with just a tap.
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GLAAD supports lesbian mother ousted as den leader...
On Tuesday night protesters gathered in front of a Bridgeport church to let their local Boy Scout leaders know how they felt about a controversial decision. The controversy began just last week when a Tiger Scout leader had her membership revoked due to her sexual orientation. Jennifer Tyrrell said she was the den leader for Pack 109’s Tiger Scouts for a year before her orientation...
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Electronic Arts, Video Game Producer: Opposing...
Popular video game producer Electronic Arts (EA) is fighting back after facing an avalanche of rightwing criticism for its decision to include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) content in recent games.
Speaking to Games Industry International, EA’s Vice President of Corporate Communications Jeff Brown slammed criticism of the same-sex content — seen most notably...
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Straight, Gay, or Binary?: HAL Comes Out of the...
In this essay from his new collection I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts, cultural criticMark Dery contemplates the sexual orientation of one of science fiction’s most memorable machines: HAL, from 2001.
Now it can be told: HAL, the psychotic supercomputer in the sci-fi classic 2001, failed the Turing Test. Not Alan Turing’s classic blindfold test for artificial intelligence, which the...
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Most Powerful Gay Alive, Tim Cook, to Headline D10...
AllThingsD today announced that Apple CEO Tim Cook will be the opening keynote speaker at the D10 Conference scheduled for late May. Cook will appear in an evening interview session on Tuesday, May 29 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
Walt Mossberg and I could not be more thrilled to announce that Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, will be the opening-night speaker at our 10th D: All Things Digital...
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Insta-billion: Facebook buys Instagram for about...
Facebook just announced that it is buying Instagram. Mark Zuckerberg posted the announcement on Facebook.
A press release says the transaction is, “approximately $1 billion in a combination of cash and shares of Facebook.” The transaction is expected to close later this quarter, the release says.
Kevin Systrom, CEO of Instagram, sought to reassure Instagram fans who may be concerned...
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The real queer agenda..exposed
07:00–07:30 – Get up, get dressed.
07:30–07:45 – Breakfast.
07:45–08:00 – Walk to train station.
08:00–08:45 – Train to work.
08:45–09:00 – Get coffee.
09:00–11:00 – Work: answer e-mails, prepare reports, have meetings.
11:00–11:10 – Cup of coffee and a biscuit.
11:10–13:00 – More work.
13:00–14:00 – Go to washroom, get lunch.
14:00–17:00 – More work.
17:00–17:30 – Don pink jackboots,...
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Hollywood picks Kutcher to play Jobs? We've got 5...
When he heard the news that Ashton Kutcher would star in the upcoming indie pic about the life of Steve Jobs our colleague Chris Matyszczyk asked the right question, wondering whether “Mr. Two and a Half Men” will be able to muster the necessary rage and superior scowl that part calls for.
Obviously, central casting was looking for someone who would look good in a black turtleneck but...
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High-Profile Verdict Puts Much-Needed Spotlight on...
Bullies have been around since … well, Cain slew Abel. What’s changed is the exponential harm a bully can do today. The difference between 2012 and even 1992 is that with the stroke of a few letters on a keyboard and the “click” of mouse, a bully can electronically send Twitter the slur “fag” and put it on Facebook for all the world to snicker.
Many LGBT teens still...
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Pro Bar, a gay establishment in Atlantic City,...
How many times have you gone out to the bars and seen that ominous “orange/yellow” screen glowing off of someone’s face and not be able to talk to them? If so, it definitely may be a great time to check out Perfect Partners.co.
Entertainment Editor Cookie spoke with one of the founders of the site, Liz Mellon Ginocchio about how she got the idea for the new site, what it’s...
