Rachel Maddow shames Drudge Report readers, Sophia Bush makes the haters eat it, and Andrea Peyser invents some gay friends. Today’s AggreGAYtor knows that with great power comes great responsibility.
• As someone whose first crush was on the X-Men’s Nightcrawler, the AggreGAYtor is thrilled about the announcement of a queer comix grant.
• Michael Musto’s thought balloon considers the Sapphic leanings of Catwoman.
• Pant-suited super hero Rachel Maddow defeats the gelatinous hordes of the Drudge Report.
• Sacramento police look into apparent railway hate crime.
• Samurai sword–wielding assailant charged for assault of bisexual man.
• Distressing damsel Bristol Palin has the vapors over media coverage of her homophobia.
• Bristol may want to read this story to see what real discrimination looks like.
• Lesbians have traveled to space, racked up Olympic gold medals, and pioneered civil rights; but some gossip muckrakers still think it’s OK to use “lesbian” as a pejorative.
• Actress Sophia Bush throws some major shade to equality foes.
• Morded’s anti-gay army attacks author for imagining a bi Sir Lancelot.
• Soft-shelled crab and New York Post hate-ologist Andrea Peyser is deeply concerned about representations of gay men on television.
• Transgender man’s marriage questioned in Arizona divorce case.
• This video of Russian activists being defiantly queer in the face of oppression warms the AggreGAYtor’s heart.
• Reykjavik’s mayor dons balaclava and dress in support of Pussy Riot during Pride parade.
• Paul Ryan, America’s favorite Eddie Munster impersonator, gets cozy with the family Research Council.
• Long before Cosmopolitan Magazine became the sweaty, steamy repository of all ways to please a man, it revolutionized the way a generation of women thought about sex. It was also where the AggreGAYtor first caught a glimpse of a particular private part. Hat’s off to Helen Gurley Brown, the women who helped me realize I was queer.
• El Paso joins Travis County in offering benefits to same-sex couples.
• AGLIFF and AIDS Services of Austin announce the line-up for the Big Love 25th year anniversary mini-film fest – including the Austin premier of Vito and AggreGAYtor fave Paris is Burning.
This article appears in August 10 • 2012.