In today’s New York Times was a full-page advertisement paid for by a group of religious leaders, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. It is titled...
Thursday’s historic passage of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is cause for celebration. The first federal legislation to provide inclusive...
2009 will surely be christened the year of gay rights. We’ve added four states to the same-sex marriage list, bringing the total to six, and the...
2010: The Year When Everything Could Change – For The Worse I’m often reminded of the late-90’s science fiction TV show, “Sliders,” in which a group...
Recent advances in gay marriage have created an interesting – and I use that term generously – cornucopia of marriage situations. In California, gay marriage was...
Sarah Palin got it right. Well, just one thing: Palin knows how to fill a void. Who else was able to upstage two solid weeks of...
My, how far we’ve come! Time was, a hundred years ago, being labeled a homosexual gave you a free pass – to go directly to jail....
Remember the adage, “The only place where success comes before work is the dictionary?” Well, Sunday’s New York Times’ Week in Review offers thirty-seven of “The...
The Empire State Pride Agenda, who have been working for equal rights for the LGBTQ community for two decades, produced this beautiful video to say, “thank...
HuffPo’s David Kaufman Needs To Learn How To Play In The Civil Rights Sandbox Let me make a few things perfectly clear: No one, and I...
Chris Matthews Thursday night, talking to New York Magazine’s John Heilmann, says he doesn’t consider Democrats who trash healthcare Democrats, “I consider them different. I consider...
Thanks, Joe! Joe Jervis, better known as Joe.My.God., is an awesome blogger and activist who has served our community well for many years. I had the...
Proof: New Yorkers “Disappointed” Gay Marriage Bill Failed In a just-released poll, Sienna Research Institute found that forty-seven percent of NY voters were “disappointed” that the...
“There is significant religious support for the legislation before us today. This actually expands religious freedoms.” — D.C. Councilmember Phil Mendelson Same-sex marriage won in Washington,...
BREAKING: NY Governor Paterson To Announce Policy On Transgender Rights. Via Empire State Pride Agenda: “This Wednesday, December 16 at the LGBT Center in New York...