10 Worst Moments In New York Politics

Dan Collins, 12.31.2009

New York Editor-At-Large of The Huffington Post

Joe Bruno, Pedro Espada, Hiram Monserrate and the Caroline Kennedy for Senate debacle are among those who made the bottom 10.

Nicholas Hoult of A Single Man: About a Boy Who's Become a Man -- With Oscar Prospects!

Michael Russnow, 12.31.2009

Screenwriter, former Member Writers Guild West Board of Directors

For most of us in America it's startling not only to see the physical change to manhood in Nicholas Hoult, but to remark how intriguing and comparable his roles are in About A Boy and A Single Man.

Out And About: LGBT Legal -- The Call of the New Decade

Lisa A. Linsky, 12.30.2009

Partner, McDermott Will & Emery LLP

As this decade ticks to its close, I am left thinking about fear. Racism, heterosexism, misogyny and xenophobia are still fueling our lives and shaping our world, and the common denominator is fear.

Obama Won't Push Equal Rights Law in the Right Direction

Emma Ruby-Sachs, 12.25.2009

Lawyer

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's Misguided, Race-Based Rant on LGBT Rights -- and 'Homo-Toms'

Pam Spaulding, 12.21.2009

Head Barista at pamshouseblend.com

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.

Gay Rights and the Natural Law Farce

Nathaniel Frank, 12.22.2009

Author, "Unfriendly Fire" and Senior Research Fellow, Palm Center

Yes Robert George, reason plays a role in deciding natural rights. But if we're going to use reason, let's use real reason, and not lean on our ivy-league credentials to pass off homophobia as genuine rationality.

National Organization for Marriage Donor Names Kept Secret

Fred Karger, 12.21.2009

Founder, Californians Against Hate

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has committed possibly the most blatant disregard of a state election law since records have been kept.

Why I'm (Still) Auctioning Off My Right to Marry

Jamie Frevele, 12.21.2009

Your biggest fan

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.

Why the Left Fails

Vanessa Carmichael, 12.17.2009

A writer who resides in Los Angeles

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.

A Test for LGBT Equality: Why I Support Dan Hynes for Illinois Governor

Tobias Barrington Wolff, 12.16.2009

Chief advisor on LGBT issues for 2008 Obama campaign

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.

Portraits of longstanding queer couples

Nancy Goldstein, 12.15.2009

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 ...

Magi 2009

August J. Pollak, 12.15.2009

O. Henry meets Obama. To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website," check out the archive....

Gay Marriage's Big Problem

Peggy Drexler, 12.14.2009

Author, assistant professor of psychology at Cornell Medical School

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?

New Jersey, Just Say No

Sara Haile-Mariam, 12.11.2009

Communications and Outreach Associate of Campus Progress

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.

Interview: Colin Firth on A Single Man and gay rights

Marshall Fine, 12.11.2009

Author and film critic, hollywoodandfine.com

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 ...

Manhattan Declaration Unlikely to Inspire Young Christians

Jonathan Merritt, 12.10.2009

Faith and Culture Writer; Author of "Green Like God: Unlocking the Divine Plan for Our Planet"

This piece was recently posted on the Newsweek / Washington Post "On Faith" blog regarding the Manhattan Declaration and the possibility of it inspiri...

The Death Penalty as Punishment for Being Gay - Apparently Uganda Doesn't Know it's 2009

Jenny Block, 12.10.2009

Writer and Author

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.

Out and About: LGBT Legal -- A Message to 38 NY State Senators: Shame On You

Lisa A. Linsky, 12.10.2009

Partner, McDermott Will & Emery LLP

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?

Equality - What Are We So Afraid Of?

Douglas Forbes, 12.09.2009

Public Relations Consultant and Writer

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.

Do You Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident?

Cindy Handler, 12.09.2009

New Jersey-based writer

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.

Stupidity, Gay Marriage, and the Evolution of Religion

Dan Agin, 12.09.2009

Author/Neuroscientist

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.