Many of your favorite sites on the Internet have gone dark today to protest legislation that could profoundly affect bloggers, social media mavens and those entities that believe in the free speech on the Web. The U.S. House’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation and the Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA) are the talk of the Internet [...]

You may have heard about Righthaven, LLC, the copytrolling-for-profit enterprise that forced a lot of blogs to either shut down, pay up or face lawsuits over alleged infringement. It hit plenty of legal skids (including a finding that it had no standing to sue) that has basically taken it down, but not before extracting settlements [...]

“We just lost two lesbian voices in the LGBT movement.” – joked your blogmistress at Netroots Nation 2011, when asked to comment on the unfolding LezGetReal “fake lesbian” scandal. In what was one of the more surreal online moments of 2011, two “lesbian” bloggers were exposed to be straight men — one pretending to be a Syrian [...]

Independent LGBT news and media outlets have been dropping like flies, and this is the latest casualty. (Bil Browning at The Bilerico Project): Another blow to the LGBT blogosphere… Activist meets pop culture hipster site The New Gay has closed up shop. The site suffered a serious setback when longtime editor Zack Rosen left earlier [...]

For the first time in a long time – I just bawled driving home; I’m not one to cry easily, either. The North Carolina General Assembly has declared that I’m subhuman – but they’ll gladly take my lesbian tax dollars, thank you very much. I just need some time to grieve for the state that [...]