This isn't the first time the NAACP has stepped out on principle on an issue that affects the lives of LGBT people. Nor is it the first time they will experience a predictable, orchestrated backlash. Those of us celebrating their decision to support marriage equality must...
(17) Comments | Posted March 26, 2012 | 6:22 PM
Big news for gay couples returning from travel abroad: the days of being being humiliated at the border may soon be over. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is proposing a revision to its regulations that would allow gay couples to fill out a single form as a family.
(66) Comments | Posted March 15, 2012 | 6:51 PM
Betsy and Ron, friends of mine who are also members of Equality Florida, were up north late last year visiting family when they stopped for a meal at a roadside diner. Behind their booth they could hear a woman berating her child for identifying as transgender. Betsy and Ron are...
(31) Comments | Posted February 7, 2012 | 5:00 PM
A movement is building across the country as more and more gay people get legally married in the U.S. or abroad. Whether on tax returns or customs forms, in the muddle of contradictory, nonsensical, and infuriating laws, married gay couples are refusing to identify as "single." Quietly, from California to...
(6) Comments | Posted January 9, 2012 | 5:00 PM
Floridians still celebrating the end of the anti-gay adoption ban can hail another huge victory for gay parents and their children.
On Dec. 23, 2011, Florida's 5th Circuit Court of Appeal ruled that the state of Florida must recognize the parental rights of two lesbian moms, one the biological...
(7) Comments | Posted December 19, 2011 | 5:14 PM
How is it that a man dismissed as a buffoon in his own community came to be a household name blanketing the national media?
In the answer to that question lies a challenge to the media, to corporations and to all of us who have ever been bystanders to bullying.
...(7) Comments | Posted September 28, 2011 | 12:05 AM
At a recent speaking engagement, I asked a group of people what the world would be like if, from the day they were born, prejudice had never touched their lives. No homophobic bullying in school. Supportive families at home. No trans-bashing humor on TV. No workplace discrimination. Equal treatment of...
(20) Comments | Posted September 26, 2011 | 10:39 AM
Many years ago I had a teacher who assigned our class the task of answering the question: "How has slavery benefited black people by bringing them to the New World?" He was a popular coach who was also known to use ugly racial slurs while chastising black athletes. If the...
(26) Comments | Posted May 22, 2012 | 10:09 PM