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Organizing Equality Under Obama, No Better Than Being Under Bush?

July 26, 2010 7:27 PM by Caleb Eigsti
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As I stated in “Marriage Equality Through A Netroots Nation Looking Glass,” I was at Netroots Nation, a progressive conference, this past weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada. My partner, David Badash, and I took part in quite a few panels/caucuses/and discussions about the LGBT movement and where it should/could be heading. After listening to the [...]

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Marriage Equality Through A Netroots Nation Looking Glass

July 25, 2010 6:57 PM by Caleb Eigsti
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What: Netroots Nation 2010: A progressive conference for bloggers and activists to help promote change. Where: Las Vegas, Nevada Why: To understand what we can do for the future of the progressive movement. Or so I thought… I walked into my first panel Thursday, July 22nd and was a little starry-eyed at the speakers for [...]

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The Real Purpose Of Marriage: Sex, Not Love – America’s Right-Wing’s Ridiculous Anti-Marriage Equality Arguments

July 2, 2010 3:34 PM by David Badash
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Another ridiculous and disturbing argument America’s Right Wing makes against same-sex marriage goes to the very core of how conservatives view the institution of marriage. Marriage in the past was used to united kingdoms, secure wealth, subjugate women and treat them as property (chattel,) and so on. It is only in recent times that the concept of marriage has become about love, not money. Except for the anti-marriage equality folks on the Right, who still insist marriage is not about love, but about sex.


The Real Purpose Of Marriage: Sex, Not Love is the fifth and final part in our week-long series, America’s Right-Wing’s Ridiculous Anti-Marriage Equality Arguments.

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Happy Birthday Armistead Maupin, A Writer Who Happens To Be Gay

May 13, 2010 3:03 PM by Caleb Eigsti
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Armistead Maupin was born May 13, 1944 and turned 66 today. He grew up in a conservative Christian home in Washington D.C. and moved, early in life, to North Carolina where he was raised.
Armistead is best-known for his series Tales of the City. He has also written two other [...]

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Laura Bush: “I could never have imagined” 2004 Campaign’s Gay Marriage “Path”

April 28, 2010 1:58 PM by David Badash

Laura Bush “I could never have imagined” 2004 Campaign’s Gay Marriage “Path.” Andrew Sullivan calls former first lady Laura Bush, “the most decent person in the White House for eight long years.” “In 2004 the social question that animated the campaign was gay marriage. Before the election season had unfolded, I had talked to George [...]

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Judy Garland – “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”

December 24, 2009 12:11 PM by David Badash
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Another Look At Gay Marriage And The Constitution

December 22, 2009 1:27 PM by David Badash
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Does It Or Doesn’t It?




Back in July, on the 141st anniversary of the Fourteenth Amendment, after Maine voted for marriage equality, but before the voters repealed the law, I looked at where we were in the struggle to achieve civil marriage for all. I looked to our Constitution to see what we could glean from it, [...]

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Healthcare For All Is A Civil Right, Too

December 22, 2009 11:26 AM by David Badash
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Spencer Tracy On Health Care



Last night on TCM I watched Spencer Tracey and Katharine Hepburn in Frank Capra’s 1948 classic American political tale, “State of the Union.” This short clip struck me; not much has changed in sixty years, has it?
So, when the Republicans talk about Democrats rushing health care reform through Congress, remind them [...]

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Gay Icon Judy Garland’s Christmas Special

December 21, 2009 1:43 PM by David Badash
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From 1963 …Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
“It’s really sort of an, informal, evening…”

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Does The LGBTQ Community Blame The Black Community For Gay Marriage Losses?

December 19, 2009 1:20 AM by David Badash
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HuffPo’s David Kaufman Needs To Learn How To Play In The Civil Rights Sandbox



Let me make a few things perfectly clear:
No one, and I mean no one, owns the patent, trademark, or copyright on civil rights. Not blacks, not gays, not anyone.
No one, and I mean no one, owns the patent, trademark, or copyright on [...]

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Profile: Jim DeMint: A Gay President Would Be “Immoral”

December 14, 2009 3:56 PM by David Badash
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Calls Gay Marriage “Destructive”




South Carolina Republican Senator Jim DeMint, in an interview with Bloomberg’s Al Hunt, called homosexuality “immoral,” and said he would be “bothered” by a gay president. He also said, “Marriage is a religious institution. The federal government has no business redefining what it is. [...] Governments should not be in the business [...]

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Pride

June 27, 2009 1:31 PM by David Badash
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Our Nation’s Fine Heritage Of Protest Politics



LGBT Pride events celebrate the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which occurred in June 1969 at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York City. In the Stonewall Riots, a group of queers, including a lot of transgender persons and street persons, fought back against an otherwise routine police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a queer bar [...]

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Why “The New Civil Rights”?

May 25, 2009 12:14 PM by David Badash
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Stonewall, Mattachine, World War II: Where We Came From     Editor’s note: I am honored to announce a new addition to The New Civil Rights Movement. Author and editor Dr. William B. Turner, known for his work on “Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy”, among other books, and a regular contributor to the Daily Kos, [...]

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