People — queer or straight — who support social equality for sexual and gender minorities tend to consider the subjects of their advocacy as whole people. For instance, one might think of a married couple of gay men as two goofy dudes who listen to Heavy Metal and play video games, like Brian and Steve [...]

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QScribe over at Pam’s House Blend takes on charges that criticism of Christianity and its role in homophobia is “uncivil.” Whether people want to admit it or not, the way Fred Phelps and Benedict XVI talk about [lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered] is consistent with the way we’ve been treated by the Christian church for [...]

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I have been trying to ignore this woman, but… Miss California Carrie Prejean is under the impression that released photos of her topless are political retribution: “My comments defending traditional marriage have led to intimidation tactics that seek to undermine my reputation and somehow silence me and my beliefs, as if opinion is only a [...]

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Click the image to read the cartoon at full size. And, yes, despite the title, it is safe for work.

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Jim Brown at OneNewsNow, a conservo-christian news portal, reports that some folks recently connected with Senator John McCain’s presidential bid are going to speak before a group of Log Cabin Republicans. So that sound you hear? Not a car alarm going off. It’s Gideon’s trumpet calling the armies of God to assemble on the Day [...]

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Kenn Starr and the Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund will be in front of the California Supreme Court on May 5, attempting to nullify the marriages of same-sex couples who got hitched before the voters narrowly passed the ban on same-sex marriage in California. To fight this, the Courage Campaign is attempting to get 300,000 [...]

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The recent bad news that the newly elected mayor of Portland lied to cover up an affair with a much younger man has drawn national attention, including a few lame Jay Leno jokes. (As if there were any other kind.) While the rest of the country indulges its need to crack wise at a train-wreck [...]

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Ezra Caraeff addresses the question, “Is this ad homophobic?” I agree with his negative assessment: Now if the campaign focused on any of the other hundreds of outlandishly gay moments in sports (a quarterback’s hands delicately placed beneath the ass of his bent over center while awaiting a snap, baseball’s dugout buttslaps of approval, or [...]

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Senator Hillary Clinton scores a point in the LGBT column for her public appearance (albeit via satellite transmission) with openly lesbian icon Ellen Degeneres on the campaign trail. As Scott Shrake reports, the crowd was pretty openly gay, too. Good for Clinton. Some may scoff that Ellen is the most mainstream-friendly gay icon, not exactly [...]

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