While the Obama administration pretends that the law is a concrete inflexible animal incapable of multiple interpretations, LGBT rights in this country continue to languish. Strong leadership is needed.
David Kaufman, like most of us, assumes way too much about race and sexuality without acknowledging all of the picture. That's something we can be proactive about addressing, rather than unproductively ranting about.
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has committed possibly the most blatant disregard of a state election law since records have been kept.
So, a couple of weeks ago, after the NY State Senate voted down marriage equality, I put my legal right to marry up for auction on eBay. My symbolic auction had raised $327 for the Point Foundation.
The Left loses key battles because most Americans don't understand the very basics of American democracy--especially that we do not have a parliament.
Pat Quinn opposes marriage equality, and LGBT people and issues are nowhere to be found on his campaign website. The choice in this race was a clear one for me.
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 ...
O. Henry meets Obama. To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website," check out the archive....
The open question in an age of polarization is this: have all those prepared to change their minds on the issue of gay marriage already done so?
We must ask why the same freedom that enables a State Senator to say "no" in Albany prohibits a same-sex couple from saying "I do" in Brooklyn.
The timing couldn't have been eerier, Colin Firth recalls. It was Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, and Firth was filming a scene for Tom Ford's film, A Single ...
This piece was recently posted on the Newsweek / Washington Post "On Faith" blog regarding the Manhattan Declaration and the possibility of it inspiri...
In television and film they call it jumping the shark. In real life we generally call it ridiculous. In this case the only word is appalling. On second thought, disgusting fits too.
What do I tell my daughter about these injustices, and now the actions of the 38 New York State Senators who had no compunction relegating me and my family to something less than other families?
How can it possibly not be time that America acknowledges marriage for one and all? Otherwise, the people of this nation must exercise their right and responsibility to abolish this failed form and reinstitute it altogether.
It's official: New Yorkers aren't entitled to the same freedoms that residents of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and after New Year's, New Hampshire can take for granted.
Nowhere is the gulf between science and religion more evident and more enormous than when we confront the issues of sexuality, sexual orientation, gender identity, and homosexuality.
Is it is really acceptable to start putting human rights up for a vote, either on the Senate floor or the public voting booth?
Your weekly check on how your marriage has been protected. To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website," check out the arc...
Which is the lesser of two evils: accommodating a few gays and lesbians while providing for 68,000 needy people, or leaving all of those needy people high and dry for the sake of making a statement against gay marriage?
The freedom riders didn't wait for the laws against segregation to be changed before integrating public facilities, and neither should gays wait for marriage laws to change before getting married.
