Rep. Barney Frank yesterday married his long-time partner, James Ready, in the historic first same-sex marriage of a sitting member of the House of Representatives. Congressman Frank,...
In what may be forever classified as the most persistent childish do-nothing Congress ever, today House Republicans led by Speaker John Boehner voted to repeal the...
var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true}; One of America’s top experts on Uganda‘s “Kill The Gays” bill, Box Turtle Bulletin‘s editor, Jim Burroway, is now calling out journalists...
Joel Osteen, the popular megachurch pastor, talked with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien this morning and admitted that he had never “chosen to be straight,” and acknowledged he...
Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson freaked out last night on Hannity’s Fox News show, teaming up to whip themselves into a frenzy over a 2007 video...
Michelle Obama said voting rights are “the movement of our era,” and that “casting our ballots… must be all of us,” in a speech at yesterday’s Congressional Black Caucus...
Last night, Bill Maher told his two GOP guests that their attitude is “fuck facts.” The Republican guests, John Fund and Boris Epshteyn — or, as...
 “Take it from me, someday we’ll all be free.” – Donny Hathaway 1 After watching Paul Ryan give his speech at the Republican National Convention,...
The Drudge Report, a right wing aggregator and extravaganza of innuendo, hype, and conservative news, recently strongly suggested Condoleezza Rice would be Mitt Romney‘s pick to be his vice...
The National Organization For Marriage‘s co-founder Maggie Gallagher says laws are really, really “hard to undo,” and therefore gay people should be “gently” told, “not this, not now.â€...
As reported by Keph Senett in the The New Civil Rights Movement on July 19: United States Olympic soccer midfielder Megan Rapinoe’s plain language announcement (“For the record: I...
Will he or won’t he? Anderson Cooper covered the Republican National Convention from afar as Hurricane Isaac bore down on New Orleans and other parts of...
“They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.â€Â Mahatma Gandhi Mississippi 1955....
Congressman Todd Akin, who told a Fox reporter in an 18-minute interview that women’s bodies have the ability to determine if a rape was “legitimate” and...
Congressman Todd Akin, running to take Senator Claire McCaskill‘s seat, minutes ago told Mike Huckabee that he meant “forcible rape,” and not “legitimate rape,” when he...