One night in America, the death penalty was hard at work, and two men — Troy Davis and Lawrence Russell Brewer — were put to death...
If you were paying attention last week, you saw the offensive interviews by the National Organization for Marriage’s (NOM’s) Maggie Gallagher of candidates for the Chair...
First Lady Michelle Obama spoke at two Democratic fundraisers earlier this week and told audiences that her husband’s two Supreme Court appointees, Elena Kagan and Sonia...
Herman Cain speaking in front of a group of supporters in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was asked a question about Anita Hill. His immediate response, in a joking...
In Republican Rick Perry’s Texas, it’s OK to confuse children about something so basic as evolution — a science taught around the the world as fact...
President Obama today spoke to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (you know, those folks who are skirting the law regarding international donations to fund elections and...
In Troy, Michigan, two women and their kids confronted the mayor at a city council meeting. Last summer, that mayor posted to Facebook – will people...
Dear Herman Cain,  I’m writing this letter to you because you need to be told off, and I’m the one to do it. You see,...
 1 Troy Anthony Davis is dead, executed by the state of Georgia, September 21, 2011 at 10:00 pm. Ten days later, now that other stories...
There is…a myth about America to which we are clinging which has nothing to do with the lives we lead…this collision between one’s image of oneself...
Go back to Part II. 3 When I went to see Rise of the Planet of the Apes, I ran into a black gay friend of mine I...
Herman Cain is a re-enactment of Jim Carey’s “Liar, Liar” character and has told us over and over the past two weeks how much he disrespects...
Today’s Out October Project story comes from Phil Reese, writer and contributor for The Bilerico Project and writer for Ameriqueer, who explains that sometimes it isn’t...
Chris Armstrong is the student assembly president at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is also gay. Andrew Shirvell is an assistant attorney general...
Editor’s note: A wonderful reader, Julia Garbowski, contacted me via Twitter to tell me that April is National Poetry Month. She wanted to know how I...