As support for marriage equality has grown, more and more public figures who previously opposed it have decided that it is now safe to "come out" for it. The question now facing our community is whether we forgive them.
The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 03.02.2012
Ken Mehlman, the former Republican National Committee chairman and President George W. Bush re-election campaign manager who came out as gay in August...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 02.23.2012
WASHINGTON -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney and a group of Bush administration and campaign alumni are hosting a fundraiser for House Speaker John...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 01.07.2012
WASHINGTON -- A unlikely group of high-profile Republicans and Democrats is banding together for a new campaign aimed at swaying moderates in support ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.26.2011
WASHINGTON -- Republicans who support gay rights have seen their brief hopes for Rick Perry's candidacy dashed as old quotes surface, new pledges are ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 08.28.2011
Being gay, Republican, and a citizen of the overwhelmingly liberal state of New York has not always been an easy balancing act. But Friday's passage o...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.27.2011
WASHINGTON -- The passage of historic legislation legalizing same sex marriage in the state of New York last Friday was owed in large part to a compel...
Adrian Margaret Brune | Posted 08.07.2011
Today, Ken Mehlman is at the state capital in Albany trying to drum up support for gay marriage in NY. But he is not adding anything to the gay community; he is simply trying to pick up the pieces of his own mistakes.
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
Former RNC chairman Ken Mehlman, who announced earlier this year that he is gay, recently explained that members of the GOP need only to "look in the ...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011
Any pundit who advises Obama to "move to the center" must be required to define exactly what he or she means by "center." The political "center" of American politics is a moving target.
Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011
It takes some thinking to figure why the Republicans are so unified in opposing a pro-gay position. Because somewhere along the way, the American landscape shifted towards supporting gay marriage.
Ray Buckley | Posted 05.25.2011
If Republicans gain any sort of control in Congress, their nearly universal opposition to meaningful gains for LGBT Americans will rule the day and the progress that we are making will first be stopped and then rolled back.
Hans Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011
Not long ago, a passing familiarity with Bible verses, a flair for rhetoric, and hunger for a following could be enough to land someone in a small-tow...
Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011
What Barack Obama described in the 2008 campaign is what we are seeing unfold in the country. Guns and religion -- or, in other words, fear and intolerance.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
The notion that the gay rights community would abandon the Obama White House over its unwillingness to fully embrace their legislative priorities may ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
A major same-sex marriage fundraiser hosted by former RNC chairman Ken Mehlman and other Republicans provides one of the sharpest illustrations of how...
Bil Browning | Posted 05.25.2011
And so concludes another great week of LGBT news and opinions on Bilerico Project. This week we ranged from North Korea's gay Facebook page and Ken Me...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Former RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman's recent but not wholly unexpected admission that he is gay has been greeted with mixed reactions within the gay right...
Jim David | Posted 05.25.2011
When gay actually have the full equality supposedly guaranteed them as Americans, then maybe those who have survived the chaos Mehlman helped create might be cordial to him when they run into him at a cocktail party.
Steven Petrow | Posted 05.25.2011
We don't need to support him. We don't need to forgive him. But we do need to have some empathy and understanding of the closet he has just left. It's a closet every LGBT person knows all too well.
Posted 05.25.2011
During a live broadcast of CNN's "Larry King Live" in 2006, Bill Maher suggested to Larry King that Ken Mehlman, then-chairman of the Republican Natio...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
In an interview with the Huffington Post on Wednesday night, former Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman -- who announced earlier Wednes...
Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011
John Boehner, Republican representative from Ohio's eighth Congressional District and ironically the House minority leader, has told friends and famil...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
Ken Mehlman, who headed the Republican National Committee between 2005 and 2007, has come out in an interview with the Atlantic's Marc Ambinder: Me...
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.25.2011
Denying the long-standing link between white tribalism and conservatism may be "politically correct" within the DC bubble where press and politicians mingle, but denial is the opposite of truth.
Noah Baron | Posted 04.04.2012