var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true}; You may not remember Joel Burns. You may not have noticed the handful of stories noting that Burns, a 45-year-old Fort Worth,...
Virulently anti-gay bishop E.W. Jackson, who is now the Tea Party Republican nominee for Lt. Governor of Virginia, self-published a book in 2008 titled Ten Commandments To...
// <![CDATA[ // ]]> Sue Fulton was a member of the first class of women to graduate from West Point and was appointed to its Board...
Delegates from the Republican Party of Virginia officially nominated an anti-gay extremist, Tea Party candidate E.W. Jackson, as their Lt. Governor nominee after four ballot votes that...
Two years ago, the New York Times, as The New Civil Rights Movement reported then, “published a 1232 word glowing tribute to the anti-gay, anti-Islam SPLC-certified...
Research Medical Center is the hospital that had Roger Gorley, a gay man who was visiting his husband, Allen Mansell, handcuffed and arrested despite his having legal medical power...
A prominent voice of the wide-open poetry movement that began in the 1950s, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (image, above, 1959) has written poetry, translations, fiction, theater, art criticism,...
The State of the Union address has become the quintessential opportunity for the President — and the First Lady — to shape policy and perception. One...
Florida’s Republican Lt. Governor, Jennifer Carroll, just resigned amid a financial scandal including charges of money laundering. Not Carroll’s first scandal while she was in Governor...
Guest author Brynn Tannehill shares the stories of three transgender members of the U.S. military and how they hide in plain sight, especially as transmen Usually...
Today President Obama officially nominated Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense, and John Brennan as CIA Director. Below is the video of today’s event, and the...
This post is the eleventh in a series of Spilled Milk columns by Emmy Award-winning writer and producer William Lucas Walker that chronicle his journey through parenthood. Spilled Milk, which originates in The...
Joe Walsh, the Tea Party Republican U.S. Congressman from Illinois, says abortion should be illegal,  “without exception,†including in cases of rape, incest and health and...
The Catholic Church has revived a tradition originally begun in the 17th century and abandoned almost 100 years ago, to bash gay people. Following the Vatican’s’s...
Mitt Romney, as Massachusetts Governor in 2006, refused to distribute his state’s copious emergency funds to Lowell city residents who had lost their homes to “the...