One step forward, two steps back. Literally. Virginia gay state workers’ anti-discrimination protections were stripped away just days after newly-elected Governor Bob McDonnell took office. McDonnell...
One year ago, President Barack Obama delivered an address full of hope and promise at the Human Rights Campaign’s 2009 Annual Dinner, saying, “I’m here with...
My friend Dan Choi uttered a truly despicable analogy of Harry Reid, Majority Leader of the Senate, last week by likening him to a “pussy” that...
After fending off a recently-reported bombshell rumor, New York’s Governor David Paterson, the man who succeeded Eliot Spitzer after a sex-scandal resignation, has decided to not...
Wrong Fight At The Wrong Time In The Wrong Place Surrounded By The Wrong People Editorial note: I published this piece on Tax Day, 2009, under...
You’ll remember “Section 8” most from the 1970s TV series M*A*S*H, when Corporal Klinger tried to use it to obtain a psychiatric discharge. Section 8, (the...
Now That Corporations Are People, Can They Marry Each Other? What If They’re Gay? Tales of the absurdity that is America. You cannot help but feel...
First, let me start by saying how much I love New York Times columnist (and Nobel Prize winner!) Paul Krugman. He’s wonderfully intelligent and is one...
Happy Valentine’s Day! Today, in honor on Valentine’s Day, I decided to open up the blog to readers’ stories. In, “Your Turn To Show Your Love,...
Sixty-five percent of Americans — a vast majority — blame churches for “higher rates of suicide among gay and lesbian youth,” such as the suicides that...
Peter. LaBarbera. I probably could make this a two-word post, just leaving it at that, and you’d have enough information. But for those of you who...
Reports of the death of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” are greatly exaggerated. Despite yesterday’s historic passage in the U.S. House of Representatives of the Murphy Amendment,...
Dan Choi, the poster child for repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” who recently, albeit unsuccessfully, tried to be re-instated in the Army, is a hero...
Editor’s note: J. Rudy Flesher is a Philadelphia based actor, blogger and college student. After a three-year detour working in health care he recently returned to...
Closing arguments in the federal Prop 8 trial, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, begin tomorrow, after several months of hiatus, investigation, and a lot of questions from Judge...