Spencer Ackerman flags a "curious choice of words" from Defense Secretary Bob Gates, apparently bravely stating the case that maybe, someday, someone ...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics
Keith Olbermann brought on author and noted gay rights activist Dan Savage to discuss whether President Obama is stonewalling on "Don't Ask, Don't Tel...
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 07.31.2009 | Home
If the Obama administration can't pass a comprehensive overhaul of health care, then how is it going to repeal laws that a large proportion of Americans don't care about or to which many don't object?
The Hill | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
President Obama, under fire from some gay and lesbian groups for what they see as slow movement on two of their most important issues, is taking steps...
Michael Rowe | Posted 07.29.2009 | Politics
What if, instead of giving out a million dollar booty-call, the LGBT donors had suddenly crossed their collective political and economic legs, and told the DNC "No more freebies. Not without that ring."
Kate Clinton | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
As much as I was fully prepared to be disappointed in the Obama administration, I am surprised by my disappointment. They seem to have other priorities than full civil rights for LGBT people.
Center for American Progress | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
Then-Senator Barack Obama pledged during the 2008 presidential campaign that he would work with military leaders and Congress to repeal the law that b...
Queerty | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
In a revealing letter to the Human Rights Campaign obtained by Queerty, a donor to the organization reveals he's withdrawing his financial support for...
Aaron Belkin | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
Today, 77 members of Congress sent a letter to the White House urging President Obama to take the lead on "don't ask, don't tell" by issuing an immediate moratorium on further gay discharges.
Carlos Watson | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
It's easy to fall into the trap that LeBron James' teammates often do -- we get so used to watching him put up fantastical stats each night, we assume he can do anything. The same is true of Obama.
Wayne Besen | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
The Democrats took our money, our votes and our volunteer hours and now they tell us to wait patiently, like good little gays.
Kase Wickman | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
A gay Starbucks barista's wife gets better medical benefits than if she was married to a female senator.
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
The political reality is that -- especially for contentious issues -- there is a very small window for presidents to get things done.
Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
A week after the Justice Department filed a motion in support of the Defense of Marriage Act, White House Press Secretary reiterated the president's c...
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
I hate to be the one to explain this struggle to the first black president, but the equality movement is not a grab bag of rights. You don't get to reach in and see which prize you've won.
AMERICAblog | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
It's over, folks. A lot of us have been saying that if the Human Rights Campaign, the largest gay civil rights group in Washington, were to pull its a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media
Just so everyone knows: The American Jewish Committee's Washington DC chapter has established a memorial fund for Stephen Tyrone Johns, who was killed...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
Yesterday afternoon, Air America White House Correspondent (and friend to Eat The Press ) Ana Marie Cox interviewed Arizona Senator John McCain for he...
Jason Mannino | Posted 07.12.2009 | Living
Love is not something for which we can fight. Fortunately, love is not tangible. It cannot be given or taken away by government legislation.
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
When two American journalists are sent to prison in a foreign country, shouldn't the news organization at least support them and assuage public outrage by acknowledging and covering the situation on its own site?
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 07.11.2009 | Comedy
Stephen Colbert took on a formidable opponent last night in the debate over allowing openly gay men and women to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces: Himse...
Scott Foval | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
Americans still have hypocritical double-standards about Gays, Lesbians, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Questioning Americans.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media
Reacting to yesterday's decision by the Supreme Court to not hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the military's longstanding "don't ask d...
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused on Monday to hear a legal challenge to the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, a decision that all...
August J. Pollak | Posted 07.02.2009 | Comedy
America waits patiently for the aforementioned, well, anything.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics