Observations from the Trenches in Maine
By moving this basic premise of marriage equality from the sink hole of catastrophic defeat state after state, year after year, to within striking distance of a win, we will eventually reach the finish line.
By moving this basic premise of marriage equality from the sink hole of catastrophic defeat state after state, year after year, to within striking distance of a win, we will eventually reach the finish line.
Lee Camp | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy
Wayne Besen | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
With a record of 0-31 in marriage initiatives, now may be a good opportunity to review our complicity in a process that doles out or strips away basic rights by majority vote.
Jim David | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Whatever church those people do go to, they are taught hate and fear, not the Christian love I grew up with. They both hate gays and fear them.
Geoff Kors | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Over the past year, voters have stripped away marriage rights in California and Maine. And the California Supreme Court failed in its obligation to protect our fundamental freedom to marry. So now what?
Isobel White | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
If experiences in California are any measure, LGBT residents of Maine can expect higher levels of stress and depression and greater feelings of political alienation. So what can we do differently?
Joseph DiNorcia, Jr. | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
When push came to shove, the voters of both Maine and California have acted to restrict marriage rights. So what's going on? Why have these states abandoned us and the progressive cause?
Jennifer Vanasco | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Gays and lesbians raise a large amount of funds for the DNC. Until our major issues are addressed, it is time we close the gayTM.
Chicago Catholic News | Posted 11.09.2009 | Chicago
As Maine voters decided this past week to overturn their state's controversial same-sex marriage law, they had a little help from several Chicago-area...
AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. David Paterson on Monday urged lawmakers to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, calling it "an issue that touches on the...
Liz Krueger | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York
I do not know that this legislation will pass, although I am optimistic. But whether we have the votes to pass marriage equality legislation or not, it will be a credit to the Senate.
Steven Petrow | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
It's been a generation since ACT-UP's members and other activists took to the streets, protesting outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York and the NIH. These tactics should not be lost in this new struggle for marriage equality.
Carlos A. Ball | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
As recently as 15 years ago, there was not a single state law that provided any form of recognition or protection to same-sex couples.
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 11.05.2009 | Comedy
It's being reported that former Miss California Carrie Prejean has settled her lawsuit without pocketing any of the over $1 million dollars she had requested. The reason? Sex tape.
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
Even if people are willing, as good citizens, to grant gays and lesbians "all the rights married people have," they can't stand the thought of seeing marriage, a "sacred" word, and concept, brutalized.
Herb Hamsher | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
Maine is yet one more demonstration that the vast numbers of people in this country who don't believe in Gay Apartheid are simply not motivated to come out in sufficient numbers to oppose it.
AP | LISA LEFF and DAVID CRARY | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
SAN FRANCISCO — Stunned and angry, national gay rights leaders Wednesday blamed scare-mongering ads – and President Barack Obama's lack of...
Paul Hogarth | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
This loss in Maine on Question 1 is so much worse than Prop 8 because I don't know what we could have done differently.
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
Gay marriage is a civil rights issue; it will take a Supreme Court decision or an amendment to the US Constitution to make this right. That's almost inconceivably hard work, but ending slavery was no picnic either.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
It was not surprising to learn that New Jersey and Virginia both elected Republican Governors. But I could not have predicted the loss in the tiny, liberal, free state of Maine.
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
*****CHECK BACK HERE TONIGHT FOR RESULTS***** ***UPDATE 10:14PM*** Early returns show the vote is close: Gay marriage was put to a vote in Maine on...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, two Senate Republicans from Maine, have amassed outsized power by playing their legislative cards very tightly and ke...
Mike Alvear | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
There is only one thing worse than voting to deny somebody their rights: Voting to give it to them. Sometimes I wonder how the framers of the Cons...
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Looking back on a year of LGBT rights activism under the Obama umbrella, I wonder just how much we have done to make LGBT rights a priority for Americans. The president himself has done little.
Paul Hogarth | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
It's inspiring to see the passion as we sense this election's national implications for marriage equality. And we're still asking folks to make spur-of-the-moment plans to drive up to Maine.
Jesse Connolly | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics