Putting people like Pat Buchanan on television legitimizes their hateful worldview and make it much easier for like-minded bigots to find wider social acceptance. I’m not...
On October 12, 2011, 86 year-old Frank Kameny died. It cannot be overstated what an incredibly brave man he was, and the extent to which the...
Yom Kippur is the most important holiday in the Jewish calendar. It is a day when you can find even the most secular of Jews in...
President Barack Obama addressed the 15th Annual Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Dinner Saturday evening, to mixed reviews and to disappointment from many LGBT activists and journalists...
Jane Lynch hosted the 63rd Annual Emmy Awards Sunday night, and opened the show with an eight-minute tribute to television and pop culture, including a call-out...
As gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Americans — and their news — become mainstream, will the gay news sites that have supported them be able to...
Kentucky religious Republican lawmaker Mike Harmon is pushing a bill that would allow students to bully other students for their sexual orientation or for their support...
“The only thing the repeal of DADT changes is that LGB folks can now fight and possibly die for this country. It does not allow for...
This is President Obama’s Jobs Speech, as prepared for delivery — complete text. Â THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary September 8, 2011 Remarks...
Nationalism isn’t just about Us vs. Them, it’s reliant on the marginalized and the “deviant.” They help us define who “we†are, and it comes at...
Lt. Dan Choi, who became the poster boy for DADT, the unconstitutional law known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” is on trial this week for chaining...
“Week in Review” is a new addition to the New Civil Rights Movement by Tanya Domi, which presents a review of top news throughout the world and...
Leading Republican presidential candidate and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has hired as a senior staffer an Evangelical extremist who sees her rise to the presidency as fulfilling...
A top conservative pundit has come out in support of same-sex marriage, stating that divorce, not same-sex couples marrying, is the real threat to the American...
  Go back to Part I. Continue to Part III. 2 My first real introduction to the film The Help was a movie poster I saw at a bus stop:...