As many of you know, earlier this month the New York State Legislature failed, yet again, to allow LGBT people to get married in NYS. Fortunately the NYS courts ruled in April of 2008 to acknowledge same-sex marriages performed legally elsewhere, which is why my MA marriage is...

Cross posted from Salon's Broadsheet

For all the ink that's been spilled on the Madoff investment scandal, I've read nothing about its impact on funding for progressive women's causes -- which is considerable. Simply put, only a small pool of foundations are funding litigation and advocacy work related...

Cross-posted from Daily Kos

Harvey Milk deserved a better film than this.

Director Gus Van Sant's hagiography remains true to the facts of its subject's life while backing away from invoking the full-on, living color injustice, violence, passion, nerve, and sheer scruffy grassroots rage that fueled Milk and the...

Cross-posted from the Feministing Community site:

For the record, I was determined not to write about Proposition 8 passing in California. (Because really, how many times and in how many ways can you say, "I hate you, 52% of California. I hate you. I hate you"?) But then I...

Every year Gay Pride month begets an obligatory stream of mainstream non-news, and this one has been no exception. "Democrats Cautious on Gay Rights Issues" from this past Sunday's Washington Post must have had queers involuntarily spraying orange juice through their nostrils from Seattle to Springfield.

I mean,...

Note to self: I will never, ever again put my head down while a photographer is in the room, because it makes me look like I have a double chin. Yesterday my wife, Joan, and I were featured in a story on the front page of the New...

The governmental and media response to the Walter Reed scandal scratches only the most visible layer of the larger crisis in the US military's healthcare system. The fact remains that the majority of servicemembers -- whose injuries in the course of duty do not necessitate being airlifted into Reed --...