David Badash

Out-Foxed and Out-Flanked: The Incredible Shrinking Obama Presidency

With each passing day, President Barack Obama’s once bright and shining star grows dimmer and dimmer as winter — and unemployment — casts its long shadow of...

Watch: HIV-Positive “John Lennon” Uses Anniversary To Fight AIDS

From our friends at New York City’s Housing Works, who, you’ll remember, last week brought us a bagel schmear campaign on NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg, comes...

Bagels Announce World AIDS Day Schmear Campaign Against NYC Mayor Bloomberg

The folks at at Housing Works, a NYC-based nonprofit that fights for the rights of low-income people living with HIV sent this along to me. Sadly,...

Poll: Would You Want To Get Married?

On The Anniversary Of JFK’s Death, Watch His Inaugural Address

JFK, President John F. Kennedy, the first American President born in the 20th century, the youngest elected to the office, and our only Catholic President, was...

Report: Gays “By Far, The Most Victimized By Violent Hate Crimes”

The FBI’s 2009 Hate Crime Statistics report was released today, and shows that “a pattern that has existed since the FBI started tallying these numbers remains,”...

UN Vote Allowing Gays To Be Executed Result Of Political, Religious Fundamentalism

Tens of thousands of readers of The New Civil Rights Movement over the weekend read, “UN General Assembly Votes To Allow Gays To Be Executed Without...

Why Is Jim DeMint On A Senate Human Rights Committee?

Editor’s note: The following open letter is by The New Civil Rights reader Scott Rose. Senator DeMint indeed is a member of the United States Senate...

Gates Speaks From The Heart On Repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

“One of the things that is most important to me is personal integrity. And a policy or a law that, in affect, requires people to lie...

UN General Assembly Votes To Allow Gays To Be Executed Without Cause

Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people were once again subject to the whims of homophobia and religious and cultural extremism this week, thanks to a United...

If The GOP Can Hold A Vote To Impeach Clinton In A Lame Duck Session, Why Can’t They Vote On Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal?

It’s really that simple. Some Republicans, like pro-“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Senator John McCain, are saying that the lame duck session should not be used to...

A-List: New York’s Reichen Lehmkuhl Joins LGBT Vets In NYC’s Times Square At DADT Repeal Rally

A-List: New York star and former Air Force officer Reichen Lehmkuhl joined other LGBT Veterans in New York City’s Times Square to honor LGBT Veterans and...

On The Eve Of Christmas, A Navy Rabbi And Lesbian Army Captain Reunite To Bear Witness To DADT’s End

Navy Chaplain Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff:  A Trumpet for Justice There is a synchronicity to the rhythm of life when justice finally arrives. And so it was...

Out, Gay, Black, Pro-Baseball Player?

There was one. Only one. Glenn Burke, who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Oakland Athletics, from 1976 to 1979. He died at the...

“The White House opposes any effort to strip ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ from the bill”

Fueled by a Wall Street Journal report this morning, the Internets today have been chock full of the news that “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is all...