This 2006 BBC documentary (which the blogosphere erroneously has been saying is airing tonight) reveals how then Cardinal Ratzinger, who was “the Vatican’s chief doctrinal enforcer,â€...
Hiram Monserrate, the former New York State Senator expelled after his criminal domestic abuse conviction, was booed and heckled Thursday night as he debated his Democratic...
Prop 8, the 2008 ballot measure that declared, “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California,” is dead! In an...
After Judge Vaughn Walker released his Prop 8 ruling last week, I was contacted by a reporter for the Washington Examiner, and asked how the decision...
Last week was the perfect storm of Conservative carnival cacophony. “Ladies and Gentlemen, Children of All Ages….” should have been the rallying cry, starting on Valentine’s...
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Based on my Twitter stream, the vast majority of the ads from last night’s Superbowl were perceived as poorly done, sexist, and just plain disappointing. Of...
I’ve been working to try to understand the recent arguments America’s Right Wing has been trying to make against marriage equality. If you have been following...
On CNN on Saturday night, the first Marine discharged under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Justin Elzie, and AmericaBlog Deputy Editor, Joe Sudbay, talk with CNN’s Don...
I’m pretty sure it can’t get any worse than this, even in New York politics. Expelled and now-former New York State Senator Hiram Monserrate, who was...
Today’s Out October Project story is a little different. We began planning the Out October Project even before news of the most-recent anti-gay bullying teen suicides....
“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...
Via The New York Times (no link) and several others. Editorial note: As pointed out in the comments, the New York Times’ graphic contains an error:...
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...
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