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....
“There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.” –...
The New York State Senate just voted against offering full marriage equality to millions of New Yorkers. There were 38 “nays” and 24 “yeas.” Thank the...
Mike Huckabee is the target of both the Left and the Right today, as news comes that nine years ago, as Arkansas Governor, he commuted the...
Today’s New York Times has a ground-breaking examination of the costs of being a same sex couple. As “The High Price of Being a Gay Couple,”...
Despite the 72 degrees here in Manhattan, there’s a crispness in the air. It’s fall, the season that is supposed to represent the beginning of dormancy,...
Those of you who use Twitter probably are familiar with #SameSexSunday. It’s a popular recommendation designation that tells people on Twitter who you suggest they “follow.”...
Our Nation’s Fine Heritage Of Protest Politics Editor’s note: I am honored to share with you William B. Turner’s latest contribution to The New Civil Rights...
Guess What? New York Governor David Paterson is calling an “extraordinary session” of the state Senate tomorrow, in hopes that they will address the dozens of...
States Offering Full Marriage Equality Have Lowest Rates Of Child Homelessness Editor’s note: This piece originally ran on Father’s Day, 2009. There are 2.9 million children...
“It is impossible to ignore how much of the glass is not full.” “Still, it is impossible to ignore how much of the glass is not...