The Constitutional Court of Uganda has just struck down its controversial "Jail the Gays" law -- but only on procedural grounds.
Dan Savage apparently isn’t very happy about the Louisiana House vote last night to keep anti-sodomy laws on the books. Those laws were deemed unconstitutional eleven...
In February, President Yoweri Museveni signed into law Uganda‘s infamous “Jail the Gays” bill, which mandates sentences up to life in prison for being gay, or even...
Perhaps a few decades ago, politicians could deny they had made vicious remarks and get away with it. But ever since the internet came into being,...
var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true}; Like so many of us, I was dismayed last week after Uganda president Yoweri Museveni announced that despite international pressures and the...
By now you’re probably aware of SF Pride’s controversial decision to rescind the selection of Bradley Manning as one of the Grand Marshals of the annual...
Aaron Swartz was found hanging by a rope Saturday, having committed suicide at the young age of 26. Swartz was brilliant — called a “boy genius”...
Pope Francis gave hope to millions of progressives worldwide, including the LGBT community and our allies, that the Roman Catholic Church would change into the religious...
Guest Author Derek Penton gives us his personal story – why he and husband Jon are suing to force the state of Louisiana to recognize their...
STANDING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY examines ideas, events, places and people standing on the wrong as well as the right side of history. I...
212, or forty percent of the 535 voting members of Congress — House and Senate — today signed onto an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court...
Immediately after Mitt Romney addressed the NAACP today, the NAACP addressed Romney’s speech as “just throwing out buzzwords,” “misunderstanding of the needs of many African Americans,”...
var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true}; In lengthy statement, LGBT activists label Anti-Homosexuality Bill “colonial homophobia,” and link its creation to American Evangelicals GetEQUAL has just issued a...
Ernest Borgnine, an Academy-Award winning actor, long-time Freemason, and one-time husband to iconic actress Ethel Merman, died today at the age of 95 in Los Angeles....
ACTION ALERT — FURTHER DOWN IN THIS STORY! YOU WILL BE INSTRUCTED ON HOW TO E-MAIL AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY PRESIDENT — DR. ERIC OLIN WRIGHT A...