Ombudsman Andy Alexander of the Washington Post wondered this morning why women readers are abandoning the newspaper even faster than men.

Constance isn’t the first student to face discrimination at Itawamba Agricultural High School. Just before Constance spoke out about the discriminatory prom criteria, another student was forced to leave town.

California queer history is storied rich and before there was Stonewall there was the Black Cat riot in Silver Lake. On These Shoulders We Stand explores Los Angeles’ place in LGBT history from the mid-1960s through the 1980s, right before the AIDS crisis.

Using archival footage and interviews with pioneering activists, director/producer Glenne McElhinney takes us through One and the Mattachine Society, the lesbian controversy that disrupted the National Organization for Women.

A French video response from GayClic readers to the Stevie Bee Bishop’s “Big Fat Gay Collab” on the International Day Against Homophobia, May 17, 2009. Also an appropriate song for those 64 D’s who voted for the Stupak Amendment. And the Party of No GOP. Music: Fuck You by Lily Allen. Totally not safe for work.

What’s on your mind?

Barrt Stupak is about to be Santorum’d. Head on over to Urban Dictionary to vote up Stupak #2.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the powder room…

How about we take away your right to work, Douthat? In truth, the NYT readers would benefit from that.

Chuck Devore, for whom California Senator Barbara Boxer must thank her lucky stars, has a new ad that uses an out-of-context quote from US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that makes it seem that the Wymyn’s Ecology Collective will soon monitor every carbon-emitting male American citizen.

Liddy and all his sexist predecessors are actually claiming, against millennia of evidence to the contrary, that women can’t be trusted in any position of responsibility because for a few days every month, the PMS makes them so mean and irrational that they forget all their knowledge, all their experience, and make decisions based solely on rage. And that it’s only a matter of time before this breakdown of mental discipline leads to unthinkable disaster.

No one could have anticipated that Wingnuttia would spontaneously combust over Obama’s SCOTUS pick. But who knew they’d have such empty arguments?