On Tuesday I went on the Michelangelo Signorile Show on Sirius XM Satellite Radio to talk about the upcoming close of the coffeehouse on July 1. I am honored to call Mike — a legendary LGBT activist and journalist — a dear friend and he’s been a big booster of the Blend over the years. [...]

It’s as good as any time to share this; the blog started without any fanfare back in 2004, so why not drop the news when people should be out (hopefully) enjoying life offline, and fellow bloggers are heading off to Netroots Nation. It’s also only fitting that this occurs as major Supreme Court decisions on [...]

UPDATE: The audio of my interview is up. My hour-long interview with Frank Stasio at The State of Things went well. He covered a lot of ground. Spent a good amount of time talking about the Newtown tragedy and the need to focus on mental health issues; we also chatted about race relations, LGBT issues [...]

Note to North Carolina elected officials and its tourism industry – this question is for you as well. Hit me up with your best case explaining why my birthday should be celebrated here on Facebook or pam at firedoglake dot com and I’ll be happy to share your perspective with readers. It’s a relevant question that [...]

Quoting Jos at Feministing from her post entitled Netroots ’12: watch Blogging for Transgender Equality: I’m on a panel at Netroots Nation this morning about blogging on transgender issues, and you can watch the panel right here – it’s streaming live at 10:30am. The panelists are a badass group I’m proud to be a part [...]

The countdown to the move to Firedoglake is coming down to the final count… the countdown starts watching in a trance the crew is certain nothing left to chance all is working trying to relax up in the capsule “send me up a drink” jokes Major Tom the count goes on 4…3…2…1… Earth below us [...]