Lawyer for accused Florida teenager says client cannot receive a fair trial because the judge has sided with prosecutors in the high-profile gay sex case.
Vero Beach PFLAG says ‘the cry of discrimination … does not seem to apply’ to the sex crime case of a Florida teen charged with a felony for her relationship with 14-year-old girl.
Someone at the IRS gave the National Organization for Marriage’s confidential tax information to a liberal opponent, the Human Rights Campaign. Now that the IRS has admitted targeting conservative groups, NOM is demanding answers.
NBA center, Jason Collins has announced that he is coming out. In a story that will appear in the May 6 Sports Illustrated Collins writes that he will be the first openly gay professional male athlete in a major sport.
FEMEN has struck again. Every heterosexual male’s favorite female activist troupe doffed their tops (as usual) and attacked Archbishop Andre-Jozef Leonard, the head of the Catholic Church in Belgium, by showering him with water from Virgin Mary-shaped water bottles.
Whether you are against it or for it, there is little doubt as to which side of the same-sex marriage debate is winning the new media battle. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts all over the nation are lighting up in support of same-sex marriage as the Supreme Court listens to arguments over the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Junior U.S. Senator from New […]
It was the tweet heard ’round the world. BuzzFeed Senior Copywriter, Josh Fjelstad, vulgarly tweeted for a gay conservative Republican group to “suck his dick.” Fjelstad dug his heels in then later deleting the tweet. BuzzFeed employees should know that scrubbing the internet and not apologizing only makes it worse. We decided to round up some of the reactions: Chris Barron is a Co-Founder and the Board Chairman Emeritus of […]
Yesterday Viral Read was the first to report the crude tweets Josh Fjelstad, BuzzFeed’s Senior Copywriter, tweeted out to the world. Enraged by news that the gay conservative Republican organization, GOProud, is back to backing gay marriage (but now more formally) he mentioned the group and tweeted for it to, “SUCK MY DICK.” They were obviously too late in sharing Fjelstad’s same political position for him. Coverage followed our story over […]
An article from his colleague promoted BuzzFeed Senior Copywriter, Josh Fjelstad to tweet “WOW GOPROUD FINALLY CAME OUT IN SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE. SO PROGRESSIVE. SO PROUD OF YOU. SUCK MY DICK.” Chairman Emeritus Chris Barron retweeted the tweet, adding Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith to the tweet. GOProud’s Executive Director Jimmy LaSalvia told Viral Read, “It is not an appropriate tweet from someone who is a senior copy writer at BuzzFeed. […]
