Tonight in Manhattan’s LGBT Community Services Center, the heart of New York City’s gay community, former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. spoke before a raucous crowd...
This morning, at Day II of CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) ironically quoted Sun Tzu‘s 2500 year old “The Art of...
Let’s be totally honest here. The National Organization For Marriage (NOM) hates us. I don’t use the word “hate” lightly. But, as I wrote last week,...
You Should, Too. A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court declared that money is speech. Well, finally, LGBTQ groups have decided to stop “speaking,” as it...
Conservatives See Court Case As Invitation To Further Bigotry Agenda In his weekly newsletter (read: donation-shilling email) National Organization for Marriage Executive Director Brian Brown writes,...
All politics may be local, but political donations are anything but. I’ve often wondered if he should be a law prohibiting out-of-state money in local politics....
Welcome to the New GOP, and to the New America. It’s not your father’s GOP, it’s not your father’s America. It’s your grandfather’s. Let’s take a...
Here are links to some of the stories I wish I could write about, or write even more about, but just don’t have the time… Much...
This morning I went down to the U.S. Supreme Court in Brooklyn to watch a remote feed of the Perry v. Schwarzenegger challenge to California’s Prop...
Like so many of us, I spent much of the latter part of this week focused on the closing arguments of Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the federal...
How To Make Good Use Of A Bad Year And A Bad Decade It seems appropriate that 2009 would be a terrible year, to top off...
The Shape Of Things To Come   The way I see it, there’s so much gay marriage news happening right now that if even I,...
Representative Steve King, Candidate For Governor, Stalls Matthew Shepard Act   The US House Judiciary Committee began work on the “Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes...
Gay Marriage in Vermont is “This Close” Rejoice! Vermont’s Senate just approved gay marriage! The gay marriage bill is expected to pass Vermont’s House this week....
The passage of Proposition 8 in California’s 2008 election achieved many results. First, it effectively banned same-sex marriage. Second, it united and mobilized millions of gay...