May 13, 2009
Florida recognizes second-parent adoption from elsewhere
Filed by Nancy Polikoff | May 13, 2009 6:00 PM |There's little I hate more in our community than a lesbian mom who creates a two-mother family and later decides to pretend there was only one mother. Well today Florida, of all places, has ruled that she can't -- not...Read More
Deep thought
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 13, 2009 5:00 PM |After watching the mainstream media's reaction to Outrage, the movie about outing homophobic gay politicians, with the journalists wanting to beat up Mike Rogers and NPR censoring reviews of the movie, and reading up on the trans panic defense, the...Read More
Your Healthcare Stories Are Needed
Filed by Jeremy Bishop | May 13, 2009 4:00 PM |The AFL-CIO is doing a health care survey to help determine priorities as they move forward, working with the administration to push through health care reform. Last year, there was a good response from the LGBT community telling the stories...Read More
A lesson in "spoonfuls of sugar"
Filed by Austen Crowder | May 13, 2009 3:30 PM |I always keep my eye out for positive stories of transition. While this may not be the most, say, "realistic" portrayal of that terrible coming-out moment, I do want to post it here for one simple reason. Sometimes, when trying...Read More
Would Jesus torture? What if He was really, really scared?
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 13, 2009 3:00 PM |From Sarah Posner: Last month's Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life poll showed that the more religiously observant one is, the more likely one is to justify torture. In response to the finding, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture...Read More
Telling the Story... Finally
Filed by Sara Whitman | May 13, 2009 2:00 PM |Yesterday, as Beanie and I walked down to the pump with our wagon and container for water (our well is very shallow and not drinkable), we passed a man in a truck. He was working on one of the cottages,...Read More
Same-sex marriage - it's nothing new
Filed by Father Tony | May 13, 2009 2:00 PM |Jennifer Finney Boylan of Maine teaches college English and has a remarkable op-ed piece in the New York Times making a fine point about same-sex marriage that has been mostly overlooked: it's been around - legally - for years. Ms....Read More
Who has better sex? Republicans or Democrats?
Filed by Bil Browning | May 13, 2009 12:30 PM |This is a hilarious outtake from the movie OutRage. So what do you think? Who has better sex? Republicans or Democrats?...Read More
What the world needs now is empathy
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 13, 2009 11:30 AM |I didn't think that the right-wing would actually declare war on "empathy," but, as Dahlia Lithwick points out, they have, mainly because Obama has said that empathy is a characteristic to look for in judicial nominees and the GOP has...Read More
Texting Boston trolley driver is transman
Filed by Bil Browning | May 13, 2009 10:30 AM |The texting trolley driver that caused an accident in Boston is transgender. Forty six people were injured in the crash. He was texting his girlfriend at the time of the collision. ...Aidan Quinn, is a female-to-male transsexual, according to a...Read More
I'm Here
Filed by Sara Whitman | May 13, 2009 9:30 AM |I'm here. Finally. I thought I was coming into major fog season but in fact, the sun is out, the sky almost clear, and it feels like it might get to a rockin' 60 degrees today. I won't mention how...Read More
An 82 year old monk comes out of the closet and we....
Filed by Father Tony | May 13, 2009 9:00 AM |An 82 year old monk comes out of the closet, and we cry applaud spit yawn. Retired Milwaukee Archbishop and Benedictine monk Rembert Weakland has written his memoirs. I will read his book for only these reasons: to see if...Read More
The Ascension of Weather Reporting
Filed by Storm Bear | May 13, 2009 8:00 AM |click to enlarge When Iowa takes the lead in civil rights in the 21st Century, when New England (the spot in America where that Revolution thing started) becomes the hotbed of Gay marriage, when states approve of Gay marriage...Read More
Humanity First
Filed by Ed Team | May 13, 2009 7:30 AM |"You know, gay people are seen as people first and then as gay or lesbian later, that's the way it should be. The same as African Americans. The same as Hispanics. The same as everybody who is a member of...Read More
Same-sex marriage music video
Filed by Bil Browning | May 13, 2009 7:00 AM |Oh, the power of the internets. I watch stuff like this same-sex marriage music video and think back just a few years ago when organizations were desperately trying to come up with something cool to motivate the average American...Read More
