Blurbal Perspective

Photo Credit: Pride Sad news for AfterEllen fans: the leading lesbian news and culture blog published by Evolve Media, will end operations this week. AfterEllen began in 2002 and was named after Ellen DeGeneres. The Editor-In-Chief of the site, Trish Bendix, confirmed the sad news on Tumblr, saying: "Here are the facts: Evolve Media purchased AfterEllen from Viacom two years ago. They gave us two fiscal years to become their LGBT property and profit in that space, and they found we are not as profitable as moms and fashion. And, yes, ‘they’ are mainly white heterosexual men, which is important to note because not only is this the story for us, but for a lot of other properties—large-scale media outlets, lesbian bars out-priced by neighborhoods they helped establish, housing in queer meccas like Portland that is being turned into condos and AirBnBs. At the very same time, queer women and culture is being celebrated on the Emmys, in the legalization of both mothers being ...

Earlier this week, conserva-turd radio host Rush Limbaugh suggested that lesbian farmers were invading rural America. He suggested that the USDA and NCLR were holding meetings to "focus on the unique needs of the rural LGBT community." Limbaugh stated that these meetings and gatherings were an "affront to the real values of rural America." "Rural America happens to be largely conservative. Rural America is made up of self-reliant, rugged, individualist types." The disgraced radio host said this: "They are trying to bust up one of the last geographically conservative regions in the country; that’s rural America … So here comes the Obama Regime with a bunch of federal money and they’re waving it around, and all you gotta do to get it is be a lesbian and want to be a farmer and they’ll set you up … apparently enough money it make it happen (sic), and the objective here is to attack rural states." Yeah. So the LGBT community is federally f...