A lawmaker in Tennessee, one day after the suicide death of fourteen-year old gay Tennessee teen Phillip Parker, wrote a constituent telling her that a gay person...
35 major organizations, from the AFL-CIO to the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, from  HRC and GLAAD to the ACLU and the National Center for Lesbian Rights,...
President Barack Obama today, in his first official re-election campaign kick-off speech, said that a return to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) “would be a betrayal...
This is Part II. Please click to continue to Part III. Now, just as there was in Teddy Roosevelt’s time, there is a certain crowd in...
Today, in Geneva, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered an amazing, beautiful, wise, and some say, historic, speech on LGBT rights around the world, acknowledging...
Tuesday night the GOP held the 14th Tea Party and Republican Party debate, this time sponsored by CNN, the very conservative Heritage Foundation and equally-​conservative American...
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three women advocates of non-violent action; UK’s Prime Minister endorses gay marriage to party loyalists– Tories and religious leaders protest strongly; the American”Occupy” movement exponentially explodes....
Rick Santorum is living in a world devoid of the real-life experiences of average human beings, especially minorities. Yesterday, Santorum classified as “bullying” a Saturday Night...
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 25, 2011 Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery State...
Would Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann choose Arizona’s (in)famous Sheriff Joe Arpaio as her Attorney General if elected? Bachmann met with Arpaio yesterday (photo, above,) to “discuss...
Ratko Mladic, the former commanding general of the Bosnian Serb Army during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995, having been a fugitive for 16 years, stood...
A great moment in Democratic Party politics occurred at ‘High Noon’ on Friday when the so-called “budget impasse” between the House, the Senate, and the White House was...
 NYC police aggressively arrest Occupy Wall Street activists, while the movement goes global with actions in Berlin, London, Rome & Tokyo; American jobs bill dies in Congress and a Ugandan lesbian activist honored by human...
The Amazingly Queer Race for Economic Justice, a “competitive, clue-based scavenger hunt across New York City,” takes place Saturday, May 14 — and if you’re in...
John Boehner, the Republican Speaker of the House, the man next in line for the presidency after the Vice President, the man who spent the better...