Dear LGBT supporters of Mitt Romney,

A recent report by the Williams Institute at UCLA found that approximately 22 percent of LGBT registered voters support former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. I'm not in that 22 percent, but you are. I want to discuss a few issues to explain...

Given my position as Director of the Business Law Center at the oldest law school in Orange County; as someone who has studied business and law beyond the J.D. and M.B.A. levels; and as a published author on business, law, and religion, a number of people recently have asked why...

In many cities across the nation, June is LGBT Pride month. As we wind down another Pride Month, yesterday and today -- June 27 and 28, 2012 -- mark especially important days in the history of being proud of who we are as members of the LGBTQIA(etc.) community.

Judy Garland,...

Oh, I get it. Mitt Romney was only "pulling pranks" when he layed the smackdown and forcibly cut the colored blonde hair of high school classmate John Lauber, who was perceived to be gay, at the prestigious Cranbrook School in the mid-1960s, during the reign of...

Today, in 2012, President Barack Obama told us that he has evolved to the point that former Vice President Dick Cheney had in 2004 regarding equal civil marriage rights for committed gay and lesbian couples.

The president's remarks today serve as a statement that he personally supports equal...

As IndyStar.com first reported last week (followed by The Huffington Post), teen Darnell "Dynasty" Young, a student at Arsenal Tech High School in Indianapolis, faces expulsion for firing a stun gun at bullies who threatened to attack him. Arsenal Tech is a public school...

My national reputation on gay rights law seems to stem from having written a provocative law journal article and appearing at an East Coast law school's symposium on anti-LGBT bullying, suggesting provocative ways for bullied and bullycidal queer youth to combat the hostile violence they face...

Since his Seattle grunge days teaming with eventual Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder in the early 1990s as a member of the band Temple of the Dog, rock vocalist Chris Cornell, who has also fronted for Soundgarden and Audioslave, has been one of...

While many people are celebrating the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in the Prop 8 case, I'll take this opportunity to use my platform for the usual buzzkill for a while, since a stay of this decision is in place until at least the end of this...

While at least 12 queer teens succumbed to hostile schoolground violence (HSV)-induced bullycide (bullying that leads to suicide) in the final four months of 2010, the anti-queer HSV-motivated bullycides rolled right into 2011.

A year ago this week, in mid-January 2011, after suffering HSV that included (but...

For decades civil liberties advocates fought to decriminalize private, consensual sexual behavior among those above the legal age of consent. In the infamous 1987 Bowers v. Hardwick Supreme Court case, police entered Michael Hardwick's home based on an invalid warrant, observed him engaging in consensual adult...

Reflecting on the just-passed holiday season, slightly over a week ago on Christmas day, I failed Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan's test by not eating at a Chinese restaurant. Instead, my husband and I stayed home. With him in the kitchen cooking a delightful dinner, I took the...

In the interest of full disclosure, I avow that I have not directly contributed funds to any candidates or political parties during this election cycle. All my prior campaign contributions should be available online.

With the Iowa caucuses less than a week away, with many legal issues affecting the queer...

Fairly predictably, earlier today, California's Supreme Court issued a "loss" for those of us who oppose continuing the discriminatory effects of California's Proposition 8 ("Prop 8").

By way of a confusing background, in May 2008, the state supreme court struck down the law prohibiting queer couples from marrying, based...

Disclaimer: Before discussing my controversial legal analysis and claim, please understand -- explicitly -- that I am not advocating for anyone to bring guns to school, let alone to use those guns there. Instead, I am making a legal analysis that is, in part, a satirical parody, and, in part,...