As I wrote ““Faggot,†“Nigger,†“Baby-Killer,†“Boo!†Welcome To The New GOP,” I had planned to do a follow-up, explaining why I used the actual slurs...
Editor’s Note: This is our fourth and, sadly, final post in honor of National Poetry Month, thanks to guest blogger Julia Garbowski, who conceived the idea...
As I stated in “Marriage Equality Through A Netroots Nation Looking Glass,” I was at Netroots Nation, a progressive conference, this past weekend in Las Vegas,...
Wrong Fight At The Wrong Time In The Wrong Place Surrounded By The Wrong People Editorial note: I published this piece on Tax Day, 2009, under...
I fell back in like with my President this week. Not back in love — there’s way too much for Obama to do, way too much...
You’ll remember “Section 8” most from the 1970s TV series M*A*S*H, when Corporal Klinger tried to use it to obtain a psychiatric discharge. Section 8, (the...
Now That Corporations Are People, Can They Marry Each Other? What If They’re Gay? Tales of the absurdity that is America. You cannot help but feel...
Military Still Kicking The Can Down The Road No doubt, the federal Proposition 8 trial in San Francisco is in the media spotlight this week. But...
Ted Olson, the Conservative attorney who, along with Democrat David Boies, are spearheading the battle to overturn Proposition 8, spoke today in federal court. Here are...
Citizens United. It’s not just a badly-decided right-wing activist U.S. Supreme Court decision. It’s actually a conservative political activist group, and they’ve come out (haha!) with...
“You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton: I never saved anything for the swim back.” https://youtube.com/watch?v=IYZ_77qxRr0%26hl%3Den_US%26fs%3D1%26border%3D1 Earlier today,...
Maggie Gallagher, who recently elevated herself to the board of the National Organization for Marriage, is a shameless, money-hungry bigot. On Tuesday, I wrote a piece...
Eric Alva is the first Marine injured in the Iraq War, the first American for that matter, and he’s gay. Alva won a purple heart but...
Pot. Kettle. Black. How in the world can anyone categorize Ted Kennedy as evil? In case you didn’t know this was Ted Kennedy (compiled via Wikipedia):...
With six you get eggroll, and with Republican Senators Brown, Snowe, Collins, and Murkowski you get sixty-one votes to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” That doesn’t...