While America and the LGBT community are preparing to go to the polls tomorrow, the UN Human Rights Council today begins the Ninth Universal Periodic Review...
President Obama reaches out to LGBTQ youth and teens to say, “It gets better.” This is a very powerful message coming from the leader of the...
Igor Volsky in Thinkprogress’ The Wonk Room reports on yet another assault on the gay community by Tea Party-supported Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX): “During an appearance...
From its long history of slavery, suppression of women’s suffrage, and black and poor voter-disenfranchisement, to the George Rekers rentboy scandal, to last week’s racist epithets...
“Sexual orientation is a very vague word that could be extended to extremes like necrophilia.” Oklahoma Republican State Senator Steve Russell presented a bill yesterday in...
One year ago, I created FireFoxx, a Facebook group in direct response to Congresswoman Virginia Foxx’s despicable comments on the floor of the U.S. House of...
One Hundred Organizations. Just Hours Left. This one is easy, folks! Today is the last day to vote for your favorite LGBTQ charities in the Chase...
Gay Puerto Rican Teen’s Murderer Fit To Stand Trial. Just two weeks after President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention...
“We need a universal understanding of what it means to be gay in America today.” In July, 2007, Elizabeth Edwards, who passed away just this morning...
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...
Thank You, One And All    It’s been a great month for gay rights, gay marriage, and for The New Civil Rights Movement. The...
Gun Violence Constitutes A National Public Health Emergency The big news this weekend was Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s Sunday press conference during which she declared...
The Shape Of Things To Come   The way I see it, there’s so much gay marriage news happening right now that if even I,...
Hate Crime Bill Passes Committee. Just minutes ago, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 (H.R. 1913), better known as The Matthew Shepard...
Representative Steve King, Candidate For Governor, Stalls Matthew Shepard Act   The US House Judiciary Committee began work on the “Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes...