Birth Tourism: The Newest Red Herring in the Anti-Immigration Arsenal
First published on Global Comment on July 23, 2010. Read the original with comments here.
Earlier this year, The Marmara Manhattan, part of a Turkish hotel chain, began offering a package to expectant mothers. For between $5100 – $15000, visitors got a two-month stay, prenatal consultation, crib, and items for both mother and newborn. They say [...]
Pigs’ Blood in Cigarettes?
This gallery was originall published on The Daily Beast on 5/25/2010. Read it in its entirety, with comments, here.
As Vegetarian Week kicks off in the U.K., it’s more difficult than ever to observe it faithfully. From horse fat in fabric softener to crushed insects in fruit juice, Hugh Ryan locates animal products in 11 unlikely [...]
The Problem With Pro-Choice Men
Originally published on The Daily Beast on 2/5/2010. Read it in its entirety, with comments, here.
This weekend, Tim Tebow, the Florida Gators quarterback, will star in a contentious anti-abortion Super Bowl ad sponsored by the conservative Christian group, Focus on the Family. The ad comes just over a week after another man, Scott Roeder, was [...]
I’m a Hustla
Originally published in The Advocate on 10/14/2009. Read the article in its entirety, with comments, here.
On October 11 the Hustlaball returned to New York, the city where it began. Now in its 12th year, the Hustlaball, according to its organizers, “brings the world of porn stars, hustlers, hookers, pimps, streetwalkers, flesh-peddlers, and other scandalous sorts [...]
Linday Lohan’s Fight for Marriage Equality
Originally published in The Advocate, 4/25/2009. Read the original (w/ comments) here.
Lindsay Lohan’s recently released faux eHarmony profile is perhaps the most brilliant 90 seconds in the young actor’s career. She simultaneously manages to poke fun at herself, her relationship with Sam Ronson, and eHarmony — a homophobic dating website that would never allow her to [...]
