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Did the Obama Campaign Just Snub Barney Frank?
Filed by Bil Browning | May 24, 2012 3:10 PM |The blogosphere is alight today with the new video from the Obama campaign to kick off their LGBT outreach efforts for pride month. But did the campaign snub retiring gay Congressman Barney Frank in the process? Read More
Even Colin Powell Supports Marriage Equality
Filed by Bil Browning | May 24, 2012 1:00 PM |Moderate Republicans like Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor (and former Senator) Lincoln Chafee, Rep Illeana Ros-Lehtinen, and even super conservative former Vice President Dick Cheney all support marriage equality. Now former Secretary of State and Republican statesman Colin Powell has joined their ranks.Read More
Did My Marriage Cause Obama's Evolution?
Filed by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer | May 23, 2012 5:30 PM |We so wanted our marriage not to be a political event, so it was almost comical on our honeymoon cruise to read that Chan's home state of North Carolina voted to extra-double-duty outlaw gay marriage and a day later President Obama came out in favor. Read More
Newt Gingrich & Cory Booker: Dragged Into A Conversation They Can't Hold
Filed by Terrance Heath | May 23, 2012 4:30 PM |This strange political season gets stranger by the day. The song that comes to mind is from Culture Club's 1984 single, "Mistake No. 3," when Boy George sings of people getting "dragged into a conversation they can't hold."Read More
What the Bain Argument Is Really About
Filed by Terrance Heath | May 23, 2012 12:30 PM |The 2012 presidential election may go down as one of the strangest political seasons in recent memory, because the influence of the financial sector in politics, policy and the economy has caused Republicans to sound like Democrats and Democrat to sound like Republicans.Read More
White House LGBT Pride Reception: I'm on the List
Filed by Bil Browning | May 23, 2012 10:00 AM |Yesterday I was honored to discover that I've been invited to the White House on June 15th to celebrate LGBT Pride Month with President Obama.Read More
The Plight of Gay Republicans in 2012
Filed by Bil Browning | May 22, 2012 5:00 PM |Yesterday, Bilerico co-founder and National Stonewall Democrats Executive Director, Jerame Davis, appeared on the Thom Hartmann Program to talk about the plight of gay Republicans in the 2012 presidential election cycle.Read More
Assistant Secretary of State on Protections for LGBT Refugees
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 22, 2012 12:30 PM |Last Thursday, Anne Richard, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for population, refugees and migration, was among those who participated in an event at the Human Rights Campaign headquarters marking the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.Read More
Gay Heresy & Political Reality
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 20, 2012 1:30 PM |Guest blogger Jim Toevs admits he will gladly trade continued Democratic control of the United States Senate, in exchange for not including a marriage equality plank in the National Democratic Platform, any day of the week.Read More
The NAACP Endorses Marriage Equality
Filed by Viktor Kerney | May 20, 2012 12:30 PM |Yesterday, the NAACP made history. During a meeting in Miami, the board of directors passed a resolution that will wholeheartedly endorse marriage equality.Read More
Justice Department Issues New Rules on Sexual Assault of LGBT Inmates
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 18, 2012 3:00 PM |This is a big deal. The US Justice Department released a new set of rules on Thursday in conjunction with a new Memorandum from President Obama to address the epidemic of sexual assaults in prison that particularly impacts LGBT inmates. Read More
The Return of the Man from Bain
Filed by Terrance Heath | May 18, 2012 2:00 PM |It looks like the Man from Bain is back. The truth is, he never left. Obama and the Democrats have every reason to make sure he sticks around for the duration of the campaign.Read More
Black Pastors: Getting On the Right Side of History
Filed by Viktor Kerney | May 18, 2012 10:00 AM |After President Obama made his gay marriage announcement, it seemed that everyone looked to the black churches for their reaction. As some pastors shrugged it off and went about their business, several pastors and church leaders fell into the classic stereotypical trap.Read More
GOP Bigotry Against Tracey Thorne-Begland Bites VA Governor
Filed by Michael Hamar | May 16, 2012 5:30 PM |Taliban Bob worked hard over the years constantly kissing up to the Christian Right and pushing the backward thinking, theocratic agenda of Pat Robertson and The Family Foundation. Now that it's biting him in the ass, I cannot find a single tear to shedRead More
America Is 'Evolving' Towards Justice
Filed by Terrance Heath | May 16, 2012 2:00 PM |President Obama nearly cost me five bucks. In the build-up to his historic interview, a co-worker announced that he would bet $5 that Obama would end of his evolution on same-sex marriage and announce his support of marriage equality.Read More
