DADT Repeal, DOMA, and Gray Areas: It’s Still Not Easy Being Gay
This is what not-quite-equal looks like.
We Are the 53%. Or not.
“The problem is, Erickson’s campaign, asinine and divorced-from-reality as it might be, appeals to a lot of folks’ view of themselves as better than the next guy — harder-working, not looking for a hand-out, subsidizing all of Those People who are complaining whiners.”
Effort to Repeal California Gay History in Schools Officially Fails
The people trying to repeal SB 48, California’s gay history bill, aren’t going to be able to pull it off.
Ex-Ex-Gay Minister Has Never Met an Ex-Gay
The former leader of Love in Action comes out as gay and pretty cool.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron Comes Out In Support of Gay Marriage
Conservative British PM David Cameron supports gay marriage. What does this mean?
What Do You Think?: Racism in the Queerest, Most Feminist of Places
“Why on earth would any white girl want to hold up a sign with the n-word on it? …Did she just wake up and lose her damn mind?”
Rachel Maddow Talks Gay Marriage, Conflicted Feelings
Rachel Maddow is on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter, and on the inside she’s talking about her feelings.
Equality California Won’t Try to Put Prop 8 on the Ballot for 2012, But Other Activists Will
“If EQCA abdicates their responsibility to fight for equality for the LGBT Community in California and to honor their prior commitments, Love Honor Cherish will fill the void.”
Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Took to the Streets and I Was There
“Now that the movement is gaining some mainstream members beyond the ragtag band of activists who began the occupation three weeks ago, will the Occupy Wall Street movement galvanize real change impacting the economic disparities in the country they are protesting?”
Controversial New Study on Gay Conversion Therapy Claims It May Actually Work
“Jones and Yarhouse found that “23% of the remaining people in the study were successful in changing their sexual orientation toward heterosexuality.”
“The Rainbow Struggle” Brings Gay International News Home
Incredible things are happening in this world, gay things are happening in this world…
Bevan Dufty Reminds Us Gay Candidates Have Kids Too
This gay man thinks that watching him ride the train with his daughter will make you more likely to vote for him.
Lesbian Parents’ Lesbianism “Blamed” For 11-Year-Old Child’s Transgenderism
11-year-old Tammy Lobel begins Hormone Replacement Therapy, media begins slamming her lesbian parents for “human experimentation” and questioning the validity of her identity. Homophobia AND Transphobia! What fun!
We Are Super Close To Getting Our First Lesbian Federal Judge
“Alison J. Nathan has years of experience, and everyone she has worked with seems to have a friend crush on her.”
Educar, No Lucrar: Students In Chile Demanding Change
”We do not want to improve the actual system; we want a profound change – to stop seeing education as a consumer good, to see education as a right where the state provides a guarantee.”
If Gay Teen Jamey’s Suicide Hasn’t Stopped Bullies From Bullying Him, What Will?
“They have no heart, is what it basically comes down to for me.”
Gays May Win “Most Effective Activist” Award When It Comes to Obama
“Whatever it was, many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans had had enough.”
More Schoolgirls in India Might Be Lesbians
“The fact that they are mustering the courage to come for help on their own is indeed a paradigm shift.”
Obama is on Fire, Just Like Rick Perry’s Home State
“You’ve got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don’t have healthcare and booing a service member in Iraq because they’re gay.”
You Can Call Me “Fag”: American Teens Don’t Find Offensive Slurs Offensive
New survey shows that most US young people don’t find homophobic, racial or sexist slurs offensive. Is this a good or bad thing?