Politics: March 2010
Should we be counting the queers?
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 31, 2010 5:00 PM |The Task Force realized that not every gay person is in a couple, and not every queer person can be found by asking about relationships, so they're protesting the fact that there's no question about sexuality or gender identity by...Read More
Jared Polis Says ENDA Will Become Law
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 31, 2010 4:00 PM |In an interview in LGBT POV, Congressman Jared Polis said that ENDA will pass the House by a "substantial margin" in a few weeks, that President Obama will help shepherd it through the Senate, and that it will be signed...Read More
Jared Polis Says ENDA Will Become Law
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 31, 2010 4:00 PM |In an interview in LGBT POV, Congressman Jared Polis said that ENDA will pass the House by a "substantial margin" in a few weeks, that President Obama will help shepherd it through the Senate, and that it will be signed...Read More
Please Mr. Politician, Separate Your Church from My State
Filed by Keri Renault | March 31, 2010 1:00 PM |In 2007 Delegate Ron George was elected to represent "We the people" of Maryland's 30th District. We're still waiting for him to vote like it. Last week in Annapolis, George voted to represent his brand of extremist ideology, dissenting on...Read More
Click Here For 27 ENDA Unconfirmed House Members
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 31, 2010 12:00 PM |The map on the right shows states with U.S. House Members unconfirmed on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. (Click on it to enlarge.) ENDA is poised to move immediately after the Easter Congressional recess now under way. Congressmembers are back in...Read More
Click Here For 27 ENDA Unconfirmed House Members
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 31, 2010 12:00 PM |The map on the right shows states with U.S. House Members unconfirmed on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. (Click on it to enlarge.) ENDA is poised to move immediately after the Easter Congressional recess now under way. Congressmembers are back in...Read More
Join The Club, Lt. Choi
Filed by Monica Roberts | March 30, 2010 6:00 PM |DADT repeal activist and founder of the West Point GLBT group Knights Out Lt . Dan Choi was recently quoted in a Newsweek interview as saying he felt "so betrayed" by HRC. I have great respect for her (Kathy Griffin)...Read More
Dove 'No Homo Mayor' Ministries: "Homosexuals Hate Free Speech"
Filed by Waymon Hudson | March 30, 2010 3:00 PM |More crazy ranting from a pastor at Gainesville, Florida's Dove World Outreach Center, the church that is on a mission to oppose openly gay Mayoral Candidate Craig Lowe. Pastor Luke Jones is mad that the church's "No Homo Mayor" video...Read More
Organizing from Margin to Center
Filed by Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz | March 30, 2010 12:00 PM |Over the weekend I read a very moving column in the Washington Post by Colbert King entitled "In the faces of Tea Party shouters, images of hate and history" about the passage of the health care reform bill and the...Read More
Republicans love lesbian sex
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 29, 2010 5:00 PM |so long as it's about serving straight men's sexual appetites. This is the real sexual hypocrisy. Those family values Republicans who out to be getting a little love on the side in the bathrooms? That's nothing. At least those folks...Read More
Lesbian Law Professor Appointed to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 29, 2010 4:00 PM |On Friday, President Obama announced three appointments to the 5-seat Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), an organization tasked with ensuring the fairness of the American labor market, a vast beast with 5 million employers and 130 million workers. One of...Read More
Americans United Calls on IRS to Investigate "No Homo Mayor" Church in Gainesville, FL
Filed by Waymon Hudson | March 29, 2010 3:00 PM |Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a religious liberty watchdog group based in Washington D.C., has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, FL that posted a sign reading, "No Homo...Read More
Learning How to Talk about Gay Adoption in Florida
Filed by Father Tony | March 29, 2010 11:00 AM |On Saturday March 20th, at the Hagen Park Community Center in Wilton Manors, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) in partnership with the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida's LGBT Advocacy Project (ACLUFL) presented the four-hour workshop Adoption...Read More
DADT is more "humane"?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 28, 2010 1:00 PM |I haven't followed the DADT repeal situation that closely, though I have long been in support of those working on it. But I was blown away when I heard about the steps that Secretary Gates is taking to make the...Read More
Sunday Funnies: InfoMania's Bryan Safi Gives Tips To Closeted Politicians
Filed by Waymon Hudson | March 28, 2010 11:30 AM |The brilliant and irreverent satirist Bryan Safi, from my favorite nerdy show on my favorite nerdy channel - InfoMania, is back exploring more LGBT issues and stereotypes as they are portrayed by the clueless media and pop culture. This week's...Read More
Johnny Weir and the Ari Fleischer Effect
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | March 26, 2010 4:00 PM |After his debut on "Dancing With the Stars" the other night, Evan Lysacek was asked about Johnny Weir... and skated down the middle with his answer. He said, "We're just acquaintances really. I think I've only had two personal conversations...Read More
Democrats Find Their Mojo
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 26, 2010 3:00 PM |Democrats seem to have suddenly realized that they are the majority party. The 99-pound weakling party of the past year and a half suddenly grew into muscular, beefy adulthood yesterday, and they're not going to take it anymore. That's the...Read More
Democrats Find Their Mojo
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 26, 2010 3:00 PM |Democrats seem to have suddenly realized that they are the majority party. The 99-pound weakling party of the past year and a half suddenly grew into muscular, beefy adulthood yesterday, and they're not going to take it anymore. That's the...Read More
Against Equality Launches Book Project!
Filed by Yasmin Nair | March 26, 2010 2:00 PM |As some of you know, Ryan Conrad and I are part of the editorial collective of Against Equality, a web-based archive of material that interrogates the mainstream gay movement and explores queer possibilities for a radical new future. While the...Read More
Video: Pastor 'No Homo Mayor' Sapp Spews Hate against Out Florida Candidate
Filed by Waymon Hudson | March 26, 2010 11:30 AM |I posted earlier about Dove Ministries, a church in Gainesville Florida known for jumping into the political arena with buckets of crazy, putting up a sign in front of their church that said "No Homo Mayor." They are referring to...Read More
What Do We Want? And When Do We Want It? ENDA NOW
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 26, 2010 10:00 AM |The media and the blogosphere are starting to blossom with stories about ENDA on speculation that it will come to a vote in the House in two weeks. Compared to other LGBT issues, there have been very few stories about...Read More
What Do We Want? And When Do We Want It? ENDA NOW
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 26, 2010 10:00 AM |The media and the blogosphere are starting to blossom with stories about ENDA on speculation that it will come to a vote in the House in two weeks. Compared to other LGBT issues, there have been very few stories about...Read More
First Ever: LGBT Equality Bill Set to Go Before Florida Senate Committee
Filed by Nadine Smith | March 26, 2010 9:30 AM |This Friday, March 26th, the Florida Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a workshop on the Florida Competitive Workforce Act - SB 798 (FCWA). This is a breakthrough moment for a fully inclusive bill made possible by Equality Florida's grassroots activist...Read More
You Say You Want a Revolution?
Filed by Rebecca Juro | March 25, 2010 7:00 PM |Looks like the movement for LGBT equality is finally getting interesting again. Last Thursday, we saw two gay soldiers chain themselves to the White House fence to protest DADT, dual sit-ins staged at both the DC and San Francisco offices...Read More
You Say You Want a Revolution?
Filed by Rebecca Juro | March 25, 2010 7:00 PM |Looks like the movement for LGBT equality is finally getting interesting again. Last Thursday, we saw two gay soldiers chain themselves to the White House fence to protest DADT, dual sit-ins staged at both the DC and San Francisco offices...Read More
The actual death threats come from the right
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 25, 2010 5:00 PM |After watching the Prop 8 trial and any attempt to make the identities of people testifying in a court of law more public were thwarted by the right arguing that the gays could get overly nasty and mean, these voicemails...Read More
Poly Households Can Be Reported in the Census
Filed by Tobi Hill-Meyer | March 25, 2010 1:00 PM |That's right. There's been minimal information on this topic. I've asked the folks at Our Families Count, who could not answer if such a thing would be possible. I've googled polyamory and census only to come up with a couple...Read More
Will the Supreme Court of Virginia Save the State's Image?
Filed by Michael Hamar | March 25, 2010 9:30 AM |On March 31, 2010 at 1:00 PM, the Supreme Court of Virginia will hold oral arguments on the case of Michael Moore v. Virginia Museum of Natural History. Moore is a former employee of the Virginia Museum of Natural History...Read More
ENDA Petition Drive: Cleve Jones, GetEqual and the Courage Campaign
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 24, 2010 7:00 PM |The news out of DC is that, according to Rep. Frank, ENDA will go for a markup the first week that Congress is back after the Easter break, and thence to a House vote shortly thereafter. That's great news, but...Read More
ENDA Petition Drive: Cleve Jones, GetEqual and the Courage Campaign
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 24, 2010 7:00 PM |The news out of DC is that, according to Rep. Frank, ENDA will go for a markup the first week that Congress is back after the Easter break, and thence to a House vote shortly thereafter. That's great news, but...Read More
On Email Gay Bashing, Or, ENDA's Already Getting Ugly
Filed by Don Davis | March 24, 2010 3:00 PM |It wasn't but a couple of days ago that we had a conversation about The Fear and the emails that are used to spread it, and I figured we had dealt with the topic, and that we'd move on to...Read More
Freedom for Women Everywhere!
Filed by Keri Renault | March 24, 2010 11:00 AM |"No to war, poverty and militarism". That was the first sign I spotted a block or so away. It seemed oddly reminiscent of late 1960's America. The tense days of the Vietnam War protest movement. I couldn't help but push...Read More
Freedom for Women Everywhere!
Filed by Keri Renault | March 24, 2010 11:00 AM |"No to war, poverty and militarism". That was the first sign I spotted a block or so away. It seemed oddly reminiscent of late 1960's America. The tense days of the Vietnam War protest movement. I couldn't help but push...Read More
Judge Walker Rules EQCA and ACLU Must Turn Over Documents in Federal Prop 8 Trial
Filed by Karen Ocamb | March 23, 2010 5:30 PM |In a 24-page ruling issued Monday afternoon, Judge Vaughn Walker denied motions by the ACLU and Equality California to overrule an order to turn No on Prop 8 campaign documents to Prop 8 proponents in the federal Prop 8 trial....Read More
Judge Walker Rules EQCA and ACLU Must Turn Over Documents in Federal Prop 8 Trial
Filed by Karen Ocamb | March 23, 2010 5:30 PM |In a 24-page ruling issued Monday afternoon, Judge Vaughn Walker denied motions by the ACLU and Equality California to overrule an order to turn No on Prop 8 campaign documents to Prop 8 proponents in the federal Prop 8 trial....Read More
Gay Gainesville Mayoral Candidate Advances in Race, Faces More Homophobic Attacks
Filed by Waymon Hudson | March 23, 2010 2:00 PM |We've written quite a lot here about Craig Lowe, the openly gay candidate for Gainesville, FL Mayor. He was Chair of the successful campaign to stop the repeal of the Gainesville Human Rights Ordinance, which included sexual orientation and gender...Read More
Can We Keep Our Gay Eyes on the Prize?
Filed by Michael Crawford | March 23, 2010 11:30 AM |To those claiming that nothing but a "storm the barricades" approach to LGBT activism will work, take note of these actions generated by Organizing for America in just the last ten days of the push for health care reform: Made...Read More
Now That Health Reform Is Complete, We'll Get To ENDA In A Month Or Two
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 22, 2010 3:30 PM |UPDATE: Rep. Frank says ENDA's going as soon as Congress gets back from recess. Word out of DC this morning is that now that health care reform is on its way, we may or may not be having a vote...Read More
Now That Health Reform Is Complete, We'll Get To ENDA In A Month Or Two
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 22, 2010 3:30 PM |UPDATE: Rep. Frank says ENDA's going as soon as Congress gets back from recess. Word out of DC this morning is that now that health care reform is on its way, we may or may not be having a vote...Read More
FL Congresswomen Flex Bipartisan Support for LGBT Equality
Filed by Nadine Smith | March 22, 2010 1:00 PM |Congresswomen Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R) taped a special joint video message affirming their commitment to LGBT Equality including putting an end to Don't Ask Don't Tell and the helping repeal of Florida's anti-gay adoption ban. Debbie...Read More
FL Congresswomen Flex Bipartisan Support for LGBT Equality
Filed by Nadine Smith | March 22, 2010 1:00 PM |Congresswomen Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R) taped a special joint video message affirming their commitment to LGBT Equality including putting an end to Don't Ask Don't Tell and the helping repeal of Florida's anti-gay adoption ban. Debbie...Read More
"Dems" and We
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | March 22, 2010 9:30 AM |The Dolphin Democrats are South Florida's oldest, largest and most successful LGBT political organization. Founded in 1982 by Karl Clark, Tom Bradshaw, Jamie Bloodworth and other activists, the Dolphins have made Broward County the most gay-friendly county in a still-homophobic...Read More
Rep. Tammy Baldwin Says She Has Counted The Votes On ENDA, And There Are Enough
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 21, 2010 5:30 PM |After the sit-in at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office by GetEqual activists protesting inaction on ENDA, the Speaker's press secretary said, according to The Advocate, as he had told me the previous week: "The Speaker believes passing ENDA is a...Read More
Rep. Tammy Baldwin Says She Has Counted The Votes On ENDA, And There Are Enough
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 21, 2010 5:30 PM |After the sit-in at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office by GetEqual activists protesting inaction on ENDA, the Speaker's press secretary said, according to The Advocate, as he had told me the previous week: "The Speaker believes passing ENDA is a...Read More
Cuccinelli: Gay acts are a 'detriment' to society and sodomy is still illegal in Virginia
Filed by Michael Hamar | March 21, 2010 4:00 PM |Things just get stranger and stranger here in Virginia. The other day I did a post with respect to Equality Virginia's ongoing efforts to engage Virginia's public colleges and universities in pressuring Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and the Virginia...Read More
On Selling Paranoia, Or, Conservative Emails, Examined
Filed by Don Davis | March 20, 2010 4:00 PM |It seems that many of those who are regular guests of this space are committed to a worldview based on some degree of reason and rationality. That's a handy thing if the "Covert Alarm Locator Apparatus" in your Isaac Daniel®...Read More
Rock for Equality: Social Security discrimination
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 20, 2010 12:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Tanner Effinger is a new activist from in the wake of Proposition 8 in California. He founded the Postcards to the President Campaign, was on the Executive Committee for the National Equality March, is on the...Read More
The birth of a movement: LGBTQ rights become civil rights
Filed by Phil Reese | March 20, 2010 10:00 AM |Thursday was a crazy day for me. I woke up late. I had a ton of homework to finish. I had a coming out panel. I had a work meeting and my regular work hours. I hadn't scheduled in a...Read More
The New Narrative in DC Politics: Newsweek and the Art of the Protest
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 19, 2010 4:00 PM |Yesterday's blogswarm on ENDA generated dozens of blog posts and hundreds of calls to Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office and a piece in The Advocate, a national LGBT magazine with a circulation of 175,000. On the other hand, the nonviolent sit-in...Read More
The New Narrative in DC Politics: Newsweek and the Art of the Protest
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 19, 2010 4:00 PM |Yesterday's blogswarm on ENDA generated dozens of blog posts and hundreds of calls to Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office and a piece in The Advocate, a national LGBT magazine with a circulation of 175,000. On the other hand, the nonviolent sit-in...Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Letter from Peter N. Yacobellis moments before yesterday's arrests
Filed by Joe Mirabella | March 19, 2010 3:00 PM |I received this communication from. Peter Yacobellis. He released it moments before yesterday's action resulting in the arrest of several GetEqual activists including, Lt. Dan Choi. Who is Peter Yacobellis? He is another victim of Don't Ask Don't Tell and...Read More
Civil Disobedience of Trans in LGBT+ efforts
Filed by Antonia D'orsay | March 19, 2010 1:00 PM |I've been arrested before. I have a record of arrests -- a "rap sheet". I even have court records against me -- several, all of which are for the most part "expunged", which means they'll only come up when I...Read More
Civil Disobedience of Trans in LGBT+ efforts
Filed by Antonia D'orsay | March 19, 2010 1:00 PM |I've been arrested before. I have a record of arrests -- a "rap sheet". I even have court records against me -- several, all of which are for the most part "expunged", which means they'll only come up when I...Read More
Will Health Care Reform Resuscitate ENDA?
Filed by Keri Renault | March 19, 2010 12:00 PM |Transgender advocates and allies across America gathered Tuesday on Capitol Hill in support of ENDA while opponents of Health Care Reform sounded an entirely different alarm. Both may see action as early as Sunday. The ENDA support coalition was organized...Read More
Will Health Care Reform Resuscitate ENDA?
Filed by Keri Renault | March 19, 2010 12:00 PM |Transgender advocates and allies across America gathered Tuesday on Capitol Hill in support of ENDA while opponents of Health Care Reform sounded an entirely different alarm. Both may see action as early as Sunday. The ENDA support coalition was organized...Read More
A New Queer Order?
Filed by Michael Crawford | March 19, 2010 10:30 AM |With yesterday's explosion of activist energy, the LGBT movement may finally be shaking off its slumber and upping its game to win full LGBT equality. People in the community are mad as gay hell and not going to take it...Read More
Photos from GetEqual's ENDA sit-in at Pelosi's office
Filed by Bil Browning | March 19, 2010 9:30 AM |Thanks to GetEqual for sending us these photos from yesterday's ENDA sit-in at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office. Photo credit: Omar Clarke. 7 more photos after the jump. Notice the last couple of photos. Do cops in DC still wear...Read More
Photos from GetEqual's ENDA sit-in at Pelosi's office
Filed by Bil Browning | March 19, 2010 9:30 AM |Thanks to GetEqual for sending us these photos from yesterday's ENDA sit-in at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office. Photo credit: Omar Clarke. 7 more photos after the jump. Notice the last couple of photos. Do cops in DC still wear...Read More
Wrap Up: Online/Offline Distinction Blurs As Bloggers Generate Both Light And Heat
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 18, 2010 7:30 PM |Today began with dozens of blogs and media sites participating in a blogswarm, directed at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, asking that she move the long-stalled Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). A full list can be found after the jump. The major...Read More
Wrap Up: Online/Offline Distinction Blurs As Bloggers Generate Both Light And Heat
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 18, 2010 7:30 PM |Today began with dozens of blogs and media sites participating in a blogswarm, directed at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, asking that she move the long-stalled Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). A full list can be found after the jump. The major...Read More
Why The Transgender Community Had To Take Out Susan Stanton
Filed by Rebecca Juro | March 18, 2010 6:00 PM |It's something you hope you'll never have to do, but you do it when you have to. I watched "Her Name Was Steven" on CNN Saturday night, and it's taken me until now to decide how I want to discuss...Read More
Why The Transgender Community Had To Take Out Susan Stanton
Filed by Rebecca Juro | March 18, 2010 6:00 PM |It's something you hope you'll never have to do, but you do it when you have to. I watched "Her Name Was Steven" on CNN Saturday night, and it's taken me until now to decide how I want to discuss...Read More
Push for same-sex marriage on again in New York State
Filed by Donna Pandori | March 18, 2010 4:00 PM |Reuters reports: A group called Fight Back New York, created with money from software entrepreneur and openly gay philanthropist Tim Gill, is pledging to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to get pro-gay marriage candidates elected to the state Senate...Read More
Family Research Institute deemed obscene and insufficiently patriotic
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 18, 2010 3:00 PM |Hahahahahahahahaha...Read More
Equality Virginia Keeps Up the Pressure on McDonnell
Filed by Michael Hamar | March 18, 2010 11:30 AM |Equality Virginia is continuing to keep the pressure on Virginia GOP Governor Bob McDonnell and the gay haters in the Virginia General Assembly by urging the leaders of Virginia's colleges and universities to lobby for the amendment of the state's...Read More
Blogswarm: Demand LGBT Employment Rights Today
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 18, 2010 9:30 AM |Note from Bil: The Bilerico Project is participating in a blogswarm today with Daily Kos, Open Left, Americablog, Towleroad, Pam's House Blend, Joe My God, Michelangelo Signorile, David Mixner, Daily Gotham, Culture Kitchen, Taylor Marsh, PageOneQ, Dan Savage, GoodAsYou, and...Read More
Blogswarm: Demand LGBT Employment Rights Today
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 18, 2010 9:30 AM |Note from Bil: The Bilerico Project is participating in a blogswarm today with Daily Kos, Open Left, Americablog, Towleroad, Pam's House Blend, Joe My God, Michelangelo Signorile, David Mixner, Daily Gotham, Culture Kitchen, Taylor Marsh, PageOneQ, Dan Savage, GoodAsYou, and...Read More
Jamaica's Gay Underground Christians
Filed by Rev Irene Monroe | March 17, 2010 4:30 PM |Sometime in the late hours of Saturday night the call will come in. Philbert (not his real name), like many of his Christian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) buddies, wait anxiously for the call in order to know...Read More
No Job Protections For LGBT Americans: Are You Angry Enough Yet To Take Action?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 17, 2010 3:30 PM |Tomorrow, many blogs and journalists will be asking readers a question: Are you at all bothered by the fact that LGBT Americans have no job protections, and can be tossed from jobs even they are even suspected of being gay,...Read More
No Job Protections For LGBT Americans: Are You Angry Enough Yet To Take Action?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 17, 2010 3:30 PM |Tomorrow, many blogs and journalists will be asking readers a question: Are you at all bothered by the fact that LGBT Americans have no job protections, and can be tossed from jobs even they are even suspected of being gay,...Read More
Glenn Beck: Conservatism's Snake Oil Salesman
Filed by Terrance Heath | March 17, 2010 2:00 PM |The circus sideshow that was CPAC folded its tent and left Washington weeks ago. However, its apparent ringmaster and chief snake oil salesman still sweats, struts, and sobs across the “stage” of conservative media -- that medicine show never stops...Read More
Out, Proud & in Elected Office One Year Later: What a Difference an Activist in Office Makes
Filed by Waymon Hudson | March 17, 2010 1:00 PM |Bilerico Contributor, Out Elected official, and my husband Anthony Niedwiecki gets sworn in as Vice-Mayor Of Oakland Park, FL this evening. He was elected in a landslide victory last year, all the while running as an out and proud LGBT...Read More
LGBT New Yorkers Fight Back and Win
Filed by Michael Crawford | March 17, 2010 10:30 AM |In what should become a model for how LGBT activists deal with elected officials who vote against equal rights, Fight Back New York's campaign to defeat former State Senator Hiram Monserratte paid off big. Monserratte was defeated easily by Jose...Read More
Ken Cuccinelli - The Virginia GOP's Gift That Keeps on Giving
Filed by Michael Hamar | March 16, 2010 6:00 PM |In the lead up to last November's elections in Virginia, I warned people as to just how crazy Ken "Cooch" Cuccinelli is if one has followed his career in the Virginia General Assembly. Moreover, he provides a wonderful window into...Read More
The reality of a gay candidate
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 16, 2010 4:00 PM |We hear every now and then about what percentage of Americans are willing to vote, in the abstract, for a gay candidate for president. I always have to wonder how inflated those numbers are by people's unwillingness to confront their...Read More
BREAKING NEWS: Florida House & Senate Set to Debate Adoption Ban
Filed by Nadine Smith | March 16, 2010 2:00 PM |For the first time in 33 years, the Florida Legislature is scheduled to debate whether people should be asked about their sexual orientation when applying to adopt. The bill would prevent people from being asked if they own guns. Our...Read More
Blogswarming ENDA
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 16, 2010 12:00 PM |Today is ENDA lobby day in DC, where hundreds are converging on their legislators' offices. It's a beautiful Spring day in Washington DC, and the flowers are blooming and the bees are buzzing. (I wouldn't know, though, because I'm laid...Read More
Blogswarming ENDA
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 16, 2010 12:00 PM |Today is ENDA lobby day in DC, where hundreds are converging on their legislators' offices. It's a beautiful Spring day in Washington DC, and the flowers are blooming and the bees are buzzing. (I wouldn't know, though, because I'm laid...Read More
Hate Crimes, Kabuki, and Oklahoma Politics
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 16, 2010 11:00 AM |Editors' note: Laura A. Belmonte, Ph.D., is the Vice President and Co-Founder of The Equality Network, an organization dedicated to LGBT equality in Oklahoma. In October 2007, Darrell Lynn Madden kidnapped, tortured, and murdered Steven Domer, a 62 year-old Oklahoma...Read More
"I played by 'don't ask, don't tell'": Police and privacy
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 15, 2010 6:00 PM |A USAF sergeant lost her job when the police, investigating her partner, looked through the window of their house and saw their marriage license from Iowa. So, just for fun, they called up the Air Force and turned her in....Read More
Why do I have to wait to get married?
Filed by Joe Mirabella | March 15, 2010 5:00 PM |My partner and I are trying to decide when we should get married. We have a Domestic Partnership from Washington State, so we have some basic protections at the state level. Our home state of Iowa opened the door to...Read More
Radical Queer Semaine Wrapping up in Montreal
Filed by R Conrad | March 15, 2010 4:00 PM |From March 5th to 15th rowdy and radical queers have been gathering in Montreal to share information, learn from one another and to celebrate our queerest selves in the highest of low fashion. Radical Queer Semaine is an annual gathering...Read More
In binary-deconstructing news
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 15, 2010 2:00 PM |Last year we saw Pakistan approve a new gender class on its ID's for hijras and India allow voters to declare themselves "O" for "Other." Now NSW, Australia, has changed its records on someone to identify hir as nongendered: The...Read More
Why I want to drop the healthcare bill
Filed by Joe Mirabella | March 15, 2010 1:00 PM |I'm over it! The bill the President is pressing forward is not at all what progressives hoped for when we elected Obama, so I'm not going to pretend to support it. If the Democratic Party were interested in supporting meaningful...Read More
When queer meant no war and fighting against the body police
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 15, 2010 11:00 AM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Susan Raffo lives in Minneapolis where she writes, is a bodyworker, parents, lives in communal housing, organizes and, when the weather permits, gardens. She is planning on going to Detroit for the US Social Forum. She'll...Read More
When queer meant no war and fighting against the body police
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 15, 2010 11:00 AM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Susan Raffo lives in Minneapolis where she writes, is a bodyworker, parents, lives in communal housing, organizes and, when the weather permits, gardens. She is planning on going to Detroit for the US Social Forum. She'll...Read More
Time to Get Serious About ENDA, Speaker Pelosi
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 15, 2010 9:30 AM |Speaker Pelosi, we have been promised a vote on ENDA in the House in March. And we mean to get it. Tomorrow is lobby day for ENDA, and a couple hundred people are expected in DC to go talk to...Read More
Time to Get Serious About ENDA, Speaker Pelosi
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 15, 2010 9:30 AM |Speaker Pelosi, we have been promised a vote on ENDA in the House in March. And we mean to get it. Tomorrow is lobby day for ENDA, and a couple hundred people are expected in DC to go talk to...Read More
Beyond Gay Marriage - A Radio Documentary
Filed by R Conrad | March 14, 2010 4:30 PM |The lovely Lisa Dettmer has produced a fantastic community radio documentary for KPFA on the historic shift from the radical gay liberation politics of the 1960's to an assimilationist neoliberal gay politic of our dismal present titled: "Beyond Gay Marriage:...Read More
Transformational Ties
Filed by Terrance Heath | March 14, 2010 1:30 PM |Originally published in MetroWeekly. It's funny, and often fascinating, how so much can change in such a short time — and yet change so little. When our family arrived back home on Tuesday evening, we were the same family...Read More
Transformational Ties
Filed by Terrance Heath | March 14, 2010 1:30 PM |Originally published in MetroWeekly. It's funny, and often fascinating, how so much can change in such a short time — and yet change so little. When our family arrived back home on Tuesday evening, we were the same family...Read More
Could Anyone This Cute Be Wrong?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 14, 2010 1:00 PM |Could Muffin and her new baby Precious possibly be wrong? No way. And they are planning on having a puppy fit tomorrow. Because Monday they're going to call that Nancy Pelosi person and tell her to let their friend ENDA...Read More
Could Anyone This Cute Be Wrong?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 14, 2010 1:00 PM |Could Muffin and her new baby Precious possibly be wrong? No way. And they are planning on having a puppy fit tomorrow. Because Monday they're going to call that Nancy Pelosi person and tell her to let their friend ENDA...Read More
In the Stupak pits
Filed by Kate Clinton | March 14, 2010 12:00 PM |The Oscars made me sick. Not because my George Clooney did not win and attended with that faux galpal arm-candy instead of me. Not because Kathryn Bigelow the first woman to win best director was so ditzily girly in such...Read More
Sunday Funnies: Jon Stewart Smacks Virginia, InfoMania on Gays & Award Shows, & Colbert on DADT!
Filed by Waymon Hudson | March 14, 2010 11:30 AM |So much funny video from this past week! Let's get right to the satire! In The Daily Show's "GayWatch: Virginia Edition", Jon Stewart takes on Virginia's recent anti-gay actions, like Governor Bob McDonnell's stripping LGBT protections from anti-discrimination policies and...Read More
Duchess, the Policy Puppy, Says No
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 13, 2010 1:00 PM |Why is Duchess the Policy Puppy so sad? Because it's the weekend, and yet she has to work her paws to the bone to get the message out about her friend ENDA. Seems that the dastardly Speaker of the House,...Read More
Duchess, the Policy Puppy, Says No
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 13, 2010 1:00 PM |Why is Duchess the Policy Puppy so sad? Because it's the weekend, and yet she has to work her paws to the bone to get the message out about her friend ENDA. Seems that the dastardly Speaker of the House,...Read More
On The Fear Of Government, Or, Let's Get Back To Basics
Filed by Don Davis | March 13, 2010 10:00 AM |It seems like everywhere you look these days, someone's trying to spread... The Fear. All around us... in every town... on every corner... a massive Army Of Fear is standing by, according to the Messengers, ready at a moment's notice...Read More
What is wrong with us?
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 12, 2010 2:30 PM |I was in Athens last week, and on Friday there were massive protests against the proposed austerity package the socialist government proposed in order to get Germany and France to back their outstanding debt. People demonstrated in the street, all...Read More
Instruments of Injustice: Why Bans On Marriage Are Unconstitutional
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 12, 2010 1:30 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Ryan Secord is a recent graduate from Michigan State University where he studied political science and journalism. He worked for the Capital News Service as a state and federal government correspondent, the Hillsdale Daily News, and...Read More
Instruments of Injustice: Why Bans On Marriage Are Unconstitutional
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 12, 2010 1:30 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Ryan Secord is a recent graduate from Michigan State University where he studied political science and journalism. He worked for the Capital News Service as a state and federal government correspondent, the Hillsdale Daily News, and...Read More
Housing anti-discrimination bill introduced in House
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 12, 2010 11:30 AM |Good news is that this is being introduced. Let's see if, unlike ENDA, DADT repeal, and the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act, this one actually gets a vote in the House: Two House Democrats are backing a bill that...Read More
Speaker Nancy Pelosi: We Don't Have The Votes And I'm Not Helping
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 12, 2010 10:30 AM |We have a new ENDA co-sponsor in the Senate: Senator Jim Webb of Virginia. This confirms the previous information we had that he would be supporting the bill. Our Senate count remains at 55. Meanwhile, out of DC comes the...Read More
Speaker Nancy Pelosi: We Don't Have The Votes And I'm Not Helping
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 12, 2010 10:30 AM |We have a new ENDA co-sponsor in the Senate: Senator Jim Webb of Virginia. This confirms the previous information we had that he would be supporting the bill. Our Senate count remains at 55. Meanwhile, out of DC comes the...Read More
ABC News Traces Link Between Uganda "Kill the Gays" Bill & American Anti-Gay Movement
Filed by Waymon Hudson | March 11, 2010 6:00 PM |ABC Nightline News has a good piece up on the Ugandan "Kill the Gays" Bill and the direct connection to the rabid anti-gay movement in the US. They focus on Scott Lively- professional gay-hater, holocaust revisionist, and recognized hate group...Read More
H8 Me No More, For I Only Wish To Love
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 11, 2010 4:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Ryan Secord is a recent graduate from Michigan State University where he studied political science and journalism. He worked for the Capital News Service as a state and federal government correspondent, the Hillsdale Daily News, and...Read More
Bob McDonnell's Meaningless Gesture
Filed by Michael Hamar | March 11, 2010 1:00 PM |Last evening I wrote about Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell's desperate attempt to douse the political firestorm that he and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (who took McDonnell's Attorney General Opinion No. 05-094 one step further and applied it to Virginia's public...Read More
Calling Speaker Pelosi: Time to Move ENDA
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 11, 2010 11:30 AM |We in the LGBT community have been made many promises. We have been patient, more or less, although somewhat mystified as to why our legislative agenda has not really moved much beyond passing ONE bill (the hate crimes bill, which,...Read More
Calling Speaker Pelosi: Time to Move ENDA
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 11, 2010 11:30 AM |We in the LGBT community have been made many promises. We have been patient, more or less, although somewhat mystified as to why our legislative agenda has not really moved much beyond passing ONE bill (the hate crimes bill, which,...Read More
Let them eat cake
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 10, 2010 7:00 PM |I don't live under any pretense that Americans don't have a single payer health care system or even a public option or the right to buy into Medicare because we're morally inferior to other countries that have such systems. Indeed,...Read More
Bob McDonnell beginning to flinch?
Filed by Michael Hamar | March 10, 2010 6:00 PM |With all Hell breaking loose at colleges and universities and even some Republican members of the Virginia General Assembly seeking to insert gay non-discrimination protections in pending legislation, Bob "Taliban Bob" McDonnell has issued what some are calling an edict...Read More
Drag queens and transgender activists
Filed by Antonia D'orsay | March 10, 2010 5:00 PM |Hello Citizens of Bilerico. I'm coming to you, by delay, from the realm of personal martyrdom and finance calling known as TVC land. Yes, that's right -- your SPLC-identified Hate Group has begun the battle against ENDA. They want to...Read More
Despite reputation, Kissimmee adds Domestic Partnership Protections
Filed by Nadine Smith | March 10, 2010 4:30 PM |Last night, a fairly conservative area of Florida took a huge step toward equality despite a great deal of far right sabre rattling. Kissimmee (it's near Orlando) is the latest Florida city to adopt domestic partnership protections. Below is the...Read More
Illinois discriminatory anti-gay, anti-jobs bill gone but not forgotten
Filed by Phil Reese | March 10, 2010 4:00 PM |Last week I told you about the urgent action needed to stop a bill seeking to water down Illinois' potent gender identity and sexual orientation inclusive employment non-discrimination law. Republican gubernatorial front-runner, Bill Brady, had quietly introduced a bill to...Read More
Homophobic Smears Continue in Gainesville, FL Mayor's Race
Filed by Waymon Hudson | March 10, 2010 3:00 PM |A few weeks ago, I covered the transphobic and homophobic scare tactics being used in the Gainesville, Florida Mayor's race. Craig Lowe was Chair of the successful campaign to stop the repeal of the Gainesville Human Rights Ordinance, which included...Read More
History: The Furnished Means By Which We Suffer
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 10, 2010 11:30 AM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Ryan Secord is a recent graduate from Michigan State University where he studied political science and journalism. He worked for the Capital News Service as a state and federal government correspondent, the Hillsdale Daily News, and...Read More
A Call to Action in Virginia - and to Virginia College Alumni
Filed by Michael Hamar | March 10, 2010 10:30 AM |In the wake of Uber-Christianist Virginia Attorney General Ken "Cooch" Cuccinelli's directive to all Virginia public colleges and universities to rescind their non-discrimination policies insofar as they include "sexual orientation" as a protected class, Equality Virginia is asking Virginia residents...Read More
For all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 09, 2010 6:00 PM |While I was gone last week, another conservative Republican who votes against LGBT rights turned out to be gay. I'm sure you've heard already how California senator Roy Ashburn was caught drunk-driving home from a gay bar and then came...Read More
Virginia and D.C. - Two Worlds Only A River Apart
Filed by Michael Hamar | March 09, 2010 4:00 PM |In Washington DC, on the north side of the Potomac River, LGBT people have employment discrimination protections and, starting today, will begin getting married. In Virginia on the south side of the Potomac, same sex couples are barred by a...Read More
Uganda's Trade Status to be Reviewed by State Department and the Pope Turns a Blind Eye to "Kill the Gays" Bill
Filed by Waymon Hudson | March 09, 2010 11:30 AM |The international pressure continues to mount on Uganda over the odious Anti-Homosexuality "Kill the Gays" Bill. The US State Department is responding to a letter by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) about the Bill currently in the Ugandan Parliament by saying...Read More
Following DC: What the Freedom to Marry in Our Capital Means Nationwide
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 09, 2010 9:30 AM |Editors' note: Evan Wolfson is founder and Executive Director of Freedom to Marry. In 2004 TIME magazine named Evan one of the "100 most influential people in the world." Today, surrounded by friends and family, the first same-sex couples in...Read More
Following DC: What the Freedom to Marry in Our Capital Means Nationwide
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 09, 2010 9:30 AM |Editors' note: Evan Wolfson is founder and Executive Director of Freedom to Marry. In 2004 TIME magazine named Evan one of the "100 most influential people in the world." Today, surrounded by friends and family, the first same-sex couples in...Read More
A Tale of Two ENDAs: Time For Direct Action
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 08, 2010 6:00 PM |It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season...Read More
A Tale of Two ENDAs: Time For Direct Action
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 08, 2010 6:00 PM |It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season...Read More
Class and Race and Raising Boys
Filed by Sara Whitman | March 08, 2010 3:00 PM |We talked to Jake and Zachary last night extensively about class and race. They did not understand why my parents had great educations, and Jeanine's parents never went to college. It started with the story of Ruby Bridges. She had...Read More
Karl Rove: Dad wasn't gay he just liked pierced dicks
Filed by Bil Browning | March 08, 2010 1:00 PM |Just when you think Karl Rove couldn't get any douchier, he goes and raises the bar. In a recent Today Show interview with Matt Lauer to promote Rove's new book, the former presidential adviser claims that he had no clue...Read More
Our politics is more important than your health
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 08, 2010 12:00 PM |Here's the former COO of Catholic Charities, which just decided to stop giving everyone health care benefits because of same-sex marriage and anti-discrimination legislation: Some, including the archbishop, have argued that by providing health care to a gay or lesbian...Read More
Florida "Family-Friendly" Film Tax Credit Would Exclude Movies with Gay Families
Filed by Dana Rudolph | March 08, 2010 11:00 AM |Watched the Oscars? Here's some filmmaking news that will have you seething: Florida lawmakers are considering an incentive package to attract film and entertainment jobs to the state. Productions with "nontraditional family values," however, would be ineligible. State Rep. Stephen...Read More
Equality Virginia Issues a Challenge to Gov. Bob McDonnell
Filed by Michael Hamar | March 08, 2010 9:30 AM |Since his time as attorney general, now Governor Bob McDonnell has taken the lazy way out and mouthed platitudes about not condoning discrimination with respect to state employees. More recently, during his campaign for governor, McDonnell claimed that he had...Read More
My Civil Rights Are Different Than Yours
Filed by Keri Renault | March 07, 2010 7:00 PM |An ominous undertone pervaded hearings on Civil Marriage and Anti-Discrimination in Maryland last week. Gloomy gray skies and rain prevailed outside the Miller Senate building. Inside the Judicial Proceedings Committee a storm of hateful discrimination raged. Let me assure you...Read More
Virginia Attorney General Moves Against Gay Employees
Filed by Michael Hamar | March 07, 2010 5:30 PM |In the wake of his letter to the public colleges and universities in Virginia directing them to strip gays and lesbians of employment protection policies, the reaction has been loud and one of universal condemnation - except of course for...Read More
Making It Legal
Filed by Terrance Heath | March 07, 2010 4:00 PM |I suppose it’s no secret anymore. We went down to the courthouse Wednesday morning, and got a place in line. At least 16 couples were waiting at 7:15 a.m. inside the city’s Moultrie courthouse, which houses the marriage bureau and...Read More
The Cautionary Tale of the Salty Seaman
Filed by Sean Bugg | March 07, 2010 10:00 AM |I am one foul-mouthed motherfucker. I am not alone in this. In my two decades in Washington I've worked closely with people who spew some pretty goddamned vulgar language every fucking minute of the day. I know bureaucrats, executive directors...Read More
Wedding bells in the US and Mexico's capital cities!
Filed by Davina Kotulski | March 06, 2010 10:00 AM |Spring weddings are on tap for our nation's capital. While our elected officials fight over health care reform, marriage is getting a make-over in DC. On Tuesday, after years of waiting, same-sex couples in our nation's capitol got ready to...Read More
What's wrong with America?
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 06, 2010 8:00 AM |Editors' note: Guest blogger Carlos Mock has published three books and is the Floricanto Press editor for its GLBT series. He was inducted in the Chicago Gay & Lesbian Hall of Fame in October of 2007. He grew up middle-class...Read More
Compromise
Filed by Sara Whitman | March 05, 2010 4:00 PM |Compromise. I realize that is the name of the game these days. LGBT issues are now the third rail of politics, right along with abortion. I'm not against it, it's just that there are times I think you cannot compromise...Read More
Our world got better, way better, this week
Filed by Gloria Nieto | March 05, 2010 2:00 PM |The world has significantly changed this week for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender population. Some significant events to note: Wedding licenses were issued to same sex couples in Washington D.C. Mexico City allowed same sex marriages to begin there....Read More
Will the Pentagon finally condone gay sex?
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 05, 2010 11:30 AM |Fresh off the wires comes news that, in light of the recent study on gays in the military, the Pentagon plans to review its policies on sodomy and oral sex. Speaking as a sexologist and sex historian, this is HUGE...Read More
Spill-Over Love: Building a Just and Multi-Racial LGBT Movement
Filed by Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz | March 05, 2010 9:30 AM |Are we building a movement that is about JUST US or JUSTICE? Thank you, Mandy Carter, for asking us this important question. For the past forty years, she has challenged us to intentionally commit to justice while doing the hard...Read More
Help Wanted: Clinical Psychologist - No Experience Necessary
Filed by Keri Renault | March 04, 2010 7:00 PM |Lobby Day arrived in Maryland on the 22nd of February. It's fitting this blog is posted two weeks late. The Blizzard of 2010 postponed the annual advocacy by 14 days. But on this lobby day of days, neither sleet nor...Read More
I Quit: Palinitus Strikes 3 Times
Filed by Bil Browning | March 04, 2010 5:00 PM |There's been an epidemic of Palinitus sweeping the nation this week. Conservatives and politicians are dropping like flies. First, Representative Eric Massa (D-NY) announced he wouldn't seek re-election after allegations of sexually harassing a male staffer surfaced. Then anti-gay Republican...Read More
Scholarships Available: ENDA Lobby Day in DC March 16
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 04, 2010 2:00 PM |On Tuesday, March 16, there will be a lobby day specifically for ENDA in Washington, D.C.. LGBT people and allies from around the country who support ENDA will be there. I will be there. Will you? It is particularly important...Read More
Scholarships Available: ENDA Lobby Day in DC March 16
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 04, 2010 2:00 PM |On Tuesday, March 16, there will be a lobby day specifically for ENDA in Washington, D.C.. LGBT people and allies from around the country who support ENDA will be there. I will be there. Will you? It is particularly important...Read More
Photos: DADT discharges still happening
Filed by Jeff Sheng | March 04, 2010 10:30 AM |While all of the photographs published in my first photobook "Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Volume 1" are of closeted service members currently serving, I was recently approached by a cadet who is now facing discharge for coming out, and I...Read More
Virtual Lobby Day: Tell Congress to Repeal DADT NOW
Filed by Michael Crawford | March 04, 2010 10:00 AM |Today hundreds of volunteers with the Human Rights Campaign are on Capitol Hill meeting with members of Congress on an array of LGBT issues including ENDA and repeal of DADT. You can join the action no matter where you're located...Read More
DC Gay Couples Celebrate First Marriages
Filed by Michael Crawford | March 03, 2010 6:00 PM |Today was quite a big day in D.C. This morning, more than 100 same-sex couples went to the H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse for the first day gay couples could apply for a marriage license in the city. Among those couples...Read More
Lake Worth to Tallahassee: "Repeal Anti-Gay Adoption Ban"
Filed by Nadine Smith | March 03, 2010 3:00 PM |By a unanimous vote yesterday, the Lake Worth City Commission passed a resolution calling for repeal of Florida's adoption ban - the most notorious anti-gay state law in the country. Kudos to Allan Hendricks who led the effort for Equality...Read More
Ugandan Pastor Martin Ssempa Reads Bilerico and Responds
Filed by Waymon Hudson | March 02, 2010 7:00 PM |Who knew Uganda's main proponent of the "Kill the Gays" bill read our blog? Pastor Martin Ssempa, who I have written about extensively, left this comment on my post "Uganda's Porn Peddling Pastor Ssempa Responds to Critics" (note- I'm assuming...Read More
Florida Lawmaker Introduces "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Repeal Measure
Filed by Nadine Smith | March 02, 2010 12:00 PM |One of Equality Florida's strongest champions in the Florida Legislature, Rep. Rick Kriseman, has just filed a measure called a House Memorial (HM 1459) urging Congress and the President to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Take a moment to sign...Read More
GOProud: Stockholm syndrome or sheer genius?
Filed by Austen Crowder | March 02, 2010 11:00 AM |Okay, show of hands: who laughed when they heard that GOProud was going to attend CPAC? I know I did. The story couldn't have been more nonsensical: a gay group attending one of the foremost rally points of the anti-gay...Read More
Catholic Charities chooses worst option for complying with DC law...and pretends it has no choice
Filed by Nancy Polikoff | March 01, 2010 8:00 PM |The long wait is over. Catholic Charities of Washington, DC has settled upon its response to the District of Columbia's approval of marriage for same-sex couples. Effective March 2, its employees will no longer be able to add a spouse...Read More
Prop 8 trial: At least they admit they aren't the "reality-based community"
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 01, 2010 6:30 PM |Final briefs were filed in the Prop 8 trial, and we also found out that, despite the judge's suggestion otherwise, closing arguments won't be televised. You can read more about Olson and Boies's arguments at Karen's place, which are really...Read More
Where is ENDA?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 01, 2010 2:30 PM |We have been promised a markup and vote on ENDA in March. It's the first of March today. After the markup, it has to be scheduled on the House floor for a vote. Ideally, there will be some time for...Read More
Where is ENDA?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 01, 2010 2:30 PM |We have been promised a markup and vote on ENDA in March. It's the first of March today. After the markup, it has to be scheduled on the House floor for a vote. Ideally, there will be some time for...Read More
Take Action: Illinois rightwingers want to gut LGBT protections
Filed by Phil Reese | March 01, 2010 2:00 PM |In 2005, a broad coalition of labor, LGBT, and progressive activists from across the state of Illinois joined together to form "The 85% Coalition" to pressure the legislature to pass an inclusive amendment to the Illinois Human Rights Act [IHRA]...Read More
US Ambassador David Huebner preparing for tsunami in Samoa
Filed by Karen Ocamb | March 01, 2010 9:30 AM |Following the devastating 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile, a tsunami watch was initiated along the entire West Coast and out to Hawaii, Australia, Samoa and the territories. I emailed openly gay U.S. Ambassador David Huebner to see what was happening there...Read More
