Heehee.

[h/t David Badash]

Haha, this is amazing. Kathy Griffin recounts on stage her chance meeting with Minnesota Congresswoman and presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann. I’m working on a piece right now about her, using Matt Taibbi’s terrifying article as a springboard, but until that’s up, enjoy this. In the confrontation, Kathy asked: “Were you born a bigot or did you grow into one?” YES.

[h/t Jezebel]

UPDATE: Ugh, I hate it when blogs have their own unembeddable videos that look embeddable but then don’t work.  So, until I find a version of this video that is not in Gawker format, click the “Jezebel” link to watch it, because that’s obviously what they want.

I’ve only seen the Glee program once, because I am a bad gay and my card is going to be revoked, but Kathy Griffin guest-starred last night, playing a Sarah Palin/Christine O’Donnell anti-gay teabaggerista, or whatever the correct term is.  Enjoy!

Oh, and also some boys kissed, on the Glee program last night.

Awwwww.

[h/t Towleroad]

The key moment comes a little after 3:00 when Kathy Griffin says “Look, let’s cut the crap!”  She’s easily the most powerful voice in this segment.  People can agree or disagree over how effective celebrities are when they speak out, but when they’re as informed and on point as Kathy Griffin is in this segment, I’m cheering.

[h/t HuffPost]

When Lance Bass talks about how he used to make fun of gay kids in order to hide his secret, I understand what he’s talking about.  That’s something that hasn’t been discussed much in the past week — the likelihood that at least some of those doing the bullying are doing so because the gay kid who is either out of the closet or perceived as gay by others threatens their own secrets.

When I was younger, I didn’t do precisely the same thing, having been bullied myself, but I sure did adopt the Evangelical Christian judgment of gays hook, line and sinker.  It was never because it made any logical sense — because anti-gay beliefs are not, at heart, about logic, nor are they arrived at by deep thought — but because I psychologically felt that if I was standing in judgment of gay people, then surely my secret attractions to guys couldn’t be real in any way.

So that’s another interesting angle.  Often the bullies are victims of the same bigoted climate the bullied kids are.  They’re just reacting to it in a different way.

Let’s see, what’s he mad about?

Enough is enough: from my Facebook page: No shame: HRC and other homosexual groups are exploiting the tragic suicides of sexually confused kids to attack religion.

Oh.

Peter LaBarbera is mad at the Human Rights Campaign for telling the truth and drawing the very short line between churches and politicians [and the blurry line between] who spend their lives engendering hatred against gay people among the most easily led, least educated members of our society, and the easily predictable result — that gay kids end up getting the message very early, and so do their bullies, that they’re worth less than the rest of the population, that God made them evil, etc., which leads to a much higher depression and suicide rate among gay teens.

So, I’m guessing Peter is saying he doesn’t like having this blood on his hands?

Well, there’s one simple solution for that:  Millions have left the fundamentalist Christian lifestyle, and they’re happier, more well-rounded, more loving, and simply better people for it.  Just pray this simple prayer:

“If I only had a brain…”

God I’m sorry, that’s a song from The Wizard of Oz, not a prayer.

My bad.

Here’s Kathy Griffin explaining how the bigotry and hatred that comes from places like the Mormon church turns into “trickle down homophobia,” which ends with dead children’s bodies.  It’s very simple, and unlike “trickle-down economics,” it actually exists!

I’ve always liked Kathy Griffin, but I’m actually a bit impressed by the serious tone she takes in discussing the Prop 8 case, and moreover, her willingness to call President Obama’s unwillingness to stop DADT discharges by executive order a “cop-out.”

I know sometimes people are reluctant to put celebrity activists on a pedestal, but after watching this interview, my feeling is more that Kathy Griffin actually Gets It, and not just because she has a lot of gay friends.

Video of Lt. Dan Choi speaking at the Human Rights Campaign’s rally to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell today.

Video by AmericaBlog

Pictures by Mike Airhart at the Human Rights Campaign’s noon rally to repeal the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy against LGBT servicemembers.