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Divorce Should be a Private Decision

February 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: human rights · LBGT

Keep The Mayor, Move On

January 28th, 2009 · 7 Comments

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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Tags: LBGT · politics

But it IS Stupid

July 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: sexism · sexuality

Point, Clinton

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: LBGT · presidential election