Remember Gay People?
We claim to be the freest, and the best, yet all of our citizens do not have equal rights. Tell the couple who have been together for 15 years that can't adopt a child that we live in the best country in the world.
We claim to be the freest, and the best, yet all of our citizens do not have equal rights. Tell the couple who have been together for 15 years that can't adopt a child that we live in the best country in the world.
Posted 10.19.2009 | Comedy
"It's a well-known fact that when you need help fast, a gay guy magically appears to make everything better." Or so says Bryan Safi, Current TV's arbi...
ABC News | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
Private security guards at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul were pressured to participate in naked pool parties and perform sex acts to gain promotions or as...
Jason Mannino | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living
Honoring Harvey Milk with a day that commemorates him helps to send the still dire messages of hope, inspiration, and equality. It also boldly states that we do not live in a culture that tolerates violent oppression.
Joe Solmonese | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Senator Kennedy's personal connection was his boundless humanity, and his recognition of ours. Already he is becoming history. Now the job of making history is in our hands.
Mary-Charlotte Domandi | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
Especially interesting are the potential benefits and losses associated with marriage, particularly if there is a divorce... and of course gay divorces are no less ugly or amicable than straight divorces.
Jim Luce | Posted 09.23.2009 | New York
Bob Zuckerman does not want to wait for the economic stimulus package to drip down to Brooklyn's quickly emptying storefronts.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
There's a wacked out reward system going on in world culture these days
Julie Farby | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
Barney Frank doesn't like being interrupted. And he certainly doesn't like having his town hall discussion disrupted by a seemingly normal looking woman who's actually bat crazy.
Huffington Post | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media
Rush Limbaugh has made what appears to be a joke mocking Barney Frank's sexuality in response to Frank's tough stance with a town hall protester Tuesd...
Wayne Besen | Posted 09.18.2009 | World
It is incomprehensible to waste American lives fighting the Taliban to protect a regime that looks an awful lot like the Taliban. If women are not equal partners, let's pack up and leave.
Rupert Russell | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
At a time when gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are flourishing in America's public life like never before, those charged with advancing their civil equality have retreated into the closet.
washingtonpost.com | Lonnae O'Neal Parker | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
By the time we reach the top of the stairs, the sequins are in full effect. The money-taker waves me through with my 15-year-old daughter, Sydney -- ...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 09.17.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Militiamen are torturing and killing gay Iraqi men with impunity in a systematic campaign that has spread from Baghdad to several othe...
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 09.17.2009 | Entertainment
As in true Hollywood fashion, Elle gets her man (the right one) and happy endings are doled out all around to the deserving, the audience stands and cheers and the curtain falls.
Robert Fuller | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living
Nothing quite holds our feet to the fire like marriage. That's why, when it comes to relationships, it's deemed the gold standard.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
Let's hope Barack does more than award Harvey Milk: Let's hope he takes the spirit and lessons Milk taught and actually begins changing things for members of his country still oppressed by institutionalized bigotry and religious dogma.
Disgrasian | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
"Normal sexual union," though, is perfectly safe! Hurrah! Score another one for heteros!
David Saranga | Posted 09.07.2009 | World
The fact that we have succeeded in creating a peaceful coexistence between different minorities, ethnicities, and communities in Israel for decades makes it devastating that such a tragedy could happen in our country.
Ami Cholia | Posted 09.07.2009 | Home
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Chris Weigant | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
Our look back at Obama's second 100 days will begin with a short overview, and then move on to the categories: "the best of times," "the worst of times," and "the age of (media) foolishness."
Jerusalem Post | Posted 09.05.2009 | World
A Gay and Lesbian union filed a complaint to Tel Aviv police about the establishment of a group on the social networking site Facebook, called 'I also...
Margaret Ruth | Posted 09.04.2009 | Living
Cultural overlays about gender and hetero and homo couplings do some funky stuff to people and block their ability to have perfectly healthy, joyful and whole partnerships.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment
Obama is awarding a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom -- the nation's highest civilian honor -- to Harvey Milk.
AP | BARRY HATTON | Posted 08.31.2009 | World
LISBON, Portugal — Portugal's Constitutional Court on Friday upheld the country's ban on gay marriage, rejecting a challenge by two lesbians who are...
Jamie Kilstein | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics