“…It’s just not a daily occurrence throughout the US.” If only. In a post I wrote on Friday, “The Embodiment Of Religious Bigotry,” a reader responds...
Poll Finds NJ Voters Favor Gay Marriage Despite a November, 2009 poll clearly showing New Jersey voters favor legalized same-sex marriage, today the New Jersey Senate...
Overrides Governor’s Veto Of Funeral Rights For Unmarried Couples Amazingly, while all of New England was moving toward marriage equality last year, Rhode Island – in...
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...
Obama’s Call For 21,000 Troops To Afghanistan Makes Gay Troops Indispensable  Today, President Obama announced far-reaching plans that commit the United States to aggressive action...
Feds May File Hate Crime Charges Against Puerto Rican Teen’s Murderer. When President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act...
“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,...
Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado’s Killer To Remain Under Observation On November 13, you’ll remember, Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado was murdered, his body decapitated, dismembered, and burned...
Nearly Half Of New Jersey’s Catholics Support Marriage Equality. A just-released Rutgers poll finds forty-eight percent of New Jersey’s Catholics are in favor of same-sex marriage,...
Tomorrow, December 1, 2009, is once again World AIDS Day. This year, “Light For Rights” is holding twenty rallies around the world, “to honor those we...
The most recent news that has taken over America is that the Roman Catholic Church, via Providence, Rhode Island Bishop Thomas Tobin, told U.S. Representative Patrick...
Is “Gay” Gone? Michael Petrelis thinks we need to embrace the word we fought so hard to win. “Gay, the word we fought so hard and...
“More than 80 percent of the participating [law enforcement] agencies reported no hate crimes in their jurisdictions in 2008.” (via The Raw Story.) Oh really? That...
America’s Largest Newspaper Misreads Severity, Doesn’t Report On LGBTQ Hate Crime The title of USA Today’s article, “Hate crimes against blacks, religious groups rise,” doesn’t begin...
New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn spoke tonight about the brutal decapitation, dismemberment, and burning of nineteen year old Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado in Puerto...