Often what passes for political debate in America reminds me of two kids shouting at each other "I know you are but what am I?" across the playground -- except that playground happens to be Washington, D.C. While the nation faces an economic downturn the likes of which we have...

Sometimes you come across ideas that are definite "no-brainers." The latest example is www.OneMillionNewJobs.org.

As you may know, youth un- and under-employment is an epidemic in America. A third of high school graduates today are not in college or are unemployed -- the highest level since...

I remember graduating from high school in 1981. There was this sense of possibility, of beginning, of hope, a bedrock belief that my future was bright and limitless, that my generation would soar higher and farther than any before.

Times have changed.

Recent high school graduates in the U.S....

It's Commencement Season! Across America young people are sweltering in polyester robes as they celebrate the completion of their high school or college careers. Millions of American families are beaming with pride as the next generation tosses its caps in the air and completes this rite of passage.

There's only...

I turned 49 on May 8. Happy Birthday to me!

To celebrate, my partner and I went with 10 of our friends back to North Carolina's "Triad" (Winston-Salem-Greensboro-High Point) area, where I grew up. There are many things to see in the Triad area -- the International Civil Rights Museum...

It's back to school time and religious fundamentalists in Texas are salivating. Why? Because of what the Houston Chronicle terms the "insidiously named Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act," which has given them a license to recruit new believers in schools.

This new law requires Texas school districts to adopt...

So it's 2007 and people in blue states like New Jersey and New York say it's fine to be gay. Well, don't tell that to Andre Jackson.

Apparently, Andre Jackson is a pretty typical, normal high school kid. A senior at Newark's East High,...

"To equate Bible study groups and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes with Gay-Straight Alliances is tantamount to comparing the Sistine Chapel with a strip joint." - Kenric Ward, opinion page editor of the Vero Beach Press Journal, in TCPalm.com

Oh my.

For the past several months in...

I spoke yesterday at a memorial service for Barbara Gittings in Philadelphia. Many of you may not recognize the name of this legendary activist, which is too bad because, as he put it in his remarks, my friend Matt Foreman (Executive Director of NGLTF, the National Gay & Lesbian Task...

A further insight into Cho's background comes from high school classmates in suburban Washington who say he was bullied and laughed at over his Korean accent and shyness. When called on in class, they say, he would hang his head in silence.

-MSNBC report

Leave it to a...

Six students followed 15-year-old Anthony Hergesheimer as he walked home from school two weeks ago in Pueblo, Colo. After yelling anti-gay slurs at him during several passes in their car, one of the six students got out of the car and threw an object, breaking...

"We're not trying to downgrade anyone else."

Indianapolis Colts Coach Tony Dungy trying to explain why his active support for a same-sex marriage ban is OK is somehow not a statement against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in USA Today.

I've always been a New...

"History repeats itself: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."--Karl Marx

They're baaack!

Ten years ago, Utah's legislators had an apoplectic fit and tried to ban all student clubs when students at Salt Lake City's East High School started a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) student club...

Earlier this week, some Florida high school and college students, many of them LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender), went to Tallahassee to make the case for the "Jeffrey Johnston Stand Up For All Students Act," which takes aim at harassing and bullying behaviors in the state's schools. One...

Judge not, that ye be not judged... Why beholdest thou the mote that is in they brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?... Thou hypocrite, first cast the beam out of thine own eye."

Matthew 7: 1, 3, 5

A lesbian couple named...

"'Faggot isn't offensive to gays; it has nothing to do with gays...It's a schoolyard taunt."

Ann Coulter on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, March 5, 2007

"What do you expect from a pig but a grunt?"

Alice Jennings (1925-2002), innumerable occasions

Oh Ann. You've got to be kidding....

"He [Reverend Ted Haggard] is completely heterosexual."
--Rev. Tim Ralph to the Denver Post

So Ted Haggard is completely heterosexual. And I am the Queen of England.

I'm sorry, you don't have a three-year affair with another man if you are "completely heterosexual." Mr. Haggard cannot use...

"This is a baby. This is a blessing from God. It is not a political statement." Mary Cheney on the subject of her pregnancy, New York Times, February 2, 2007

Poor Mary. Poor, poor Mary. So deluded. So much in denial.

Mary Cheney, the expecting lesbian daughter of...