What the Gay Boycott of the DNC Can Do
There is a gay boycott of the Democratic Party afoot, and it has the potential to turn into something that leads to real change in American politics.
There is a gay boycott of the Democratic Party afoot, and it has the potential to turn into something that leads to real change in American politics.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Following a speech at Boston College's School of Law, President Obama's senior domestic policy aide implicitly acknowledged that she differed with Oba...
AMERICAblog Gay | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
DNC Treasurer Andy Tobias joined in the comments section last night of John's latest post about the DNC's, and White House's, growing gay problem. And...
C. Brian Smith | Posted 10.29.2009 | Comedy
Homosexuals are a lot like normal people.
AP | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has nominated a Minnesota policewoman to become the first openly gay person to serve as a U.S. marshal. Sharon L...
Jay Michaelson | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
Where are the GLBT prophets who call us all to account? If it is true that denying marriage to gays is a moral deficiency, why haven't gay leaders framed it that way?
Leah McElrath Renna | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
Yesterday's National Equality March was a remarkably diverse gathering of LGBT people and our allies many tens of thousands strong.
AP | CHRISTINE SIMMONS | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama restated his campaign pledge to allow homosexual men and women to serve openly in the military, but many in ...
Timothy Patrick McCarthy | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Election Day 2008 was one of the greatest days of my life: We finally had an ally in the White House who would fight with and for us. In retrospect, we were foolish to have such hope.
nytimes.com | Bao Ong | Posted 10.09.2009 | New York
In nearly three decades of living in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, Marianne Nicolosi has watched New York's most populous borough become home to one of t...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
President Obama will address the Human Rights Campaign -- the largest gay rights fundraiser in the country -- this Saturday, and a number of HuffPost bloggers have weighed in.
Nathaniel Frank | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Show the world, Mr. President, how we are just like you, and perhaps more important, how you are just like us: In what ways are we pretty normal, and in what ways are you kinda Queer?
Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics
What should Obama -- the first minority president -- say in what's being called his "big gay speech"?
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Here's the speech I would like to hear Obama make on Saturday when he addresses the national meeting of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest lesbian and gay civil rights organization in the nation.
AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to address the nation's largest gay rights group this weekend in an effort to mollify an uneasy Democr...
Peggy Drexler | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
During the campaign, there was a belief that, in the same way African Americans saw Bill Clinton as the first black president, Obama would be the first gay president. That hasn't happened.
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- A judge has agreed to remove the state of California as a defendant in a lawsuit challenging the 1996 law that prevents the ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama said over the weekend that he would like to tackle the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy "sooner rather than later." But i...
Carlos A. Ball | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
I want to find reasons to still believe that the Obama Administration will do the right thing for LGBT people, and do it relatively soon.
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...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
Here's the deal America should make with our politicians. You stay out of our bedroom, and we'll stay out of yours.
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.
Irene Monroe | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
The political carrots Obama dangled before us as campaign promises are now looking like merely empty rhetoric that was used to court our votes and to collect our campaign dollars.
Randi Reitan | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
I ask you with tears in my eyes, with pain in my heart and with a mother's enduring love for her dear children, please bring equality, true full equality to my son and to all in the gay community.
New York Times | Sheryl Gay Stolberg | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
As advocates for gays and lesbians intensify their criticism of the White House, President Obama has invited some of their leaders to an East Room rec...
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics