Congress Takes Up Matthew Shepard Act Wednesday   Last Thursday, yet another eleven year old boy committed suicide. Jaheem Herrera hung himself after coming home...
Maggie Gallagher’s NOM Thanks Colbert For Embarrassing Them   No lie: HuffPo reports that Maggie Gallagher and her partner-in-slime Brian Brown sent Stephen Colbert a...
Wrong Fight At The Wrong Time In The Wrong Place Surrounded By The Wrong People Dear Joe, For several months, Conservatives have been the willing butt...
From Vermont? Do This Now! Tell Your Lawmakers You Support Them! Take one minute to help secure the right of gay marriage in Vermont. Members of the Vermont...
Time To Call Your Senator! Governor Paterson has been calling for a vote by the New York Senate on the gay marriage bill. Everybody says it’s...
This is Part I. You can read Part II here. There’s much to be said about the stunning – and it was stunning – defeat of...
Third Time’s The Charm? Almost six months to the day New York Governor David Paterson stood up and declared Prop 8 an “unfortunate accident,” and described...
When Will The Media Treat The LGBTQ Community As Equal To Everyone Else? In 1787, as our Constitution was being drafted, the Three-Fifths Compromise was reached,...
Right Wing Extremism Can Fly A Rainbow Flag, Too GOProud, a lobbying group with surprisingly little financial disclosure information on their website, and which states it...
The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Bill is one step closer to being reality. My prediction is that on Saturday night, at the HRC Annual Dinner, President...
More Than Half Of All LGBTQ Workers Aren’t “Degrees of Equality,” a new study released today by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, tells us how far...
Thinks “Out Counts at the Emmys” GLAAD, The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, likes to play apologist for the industries it covers, much like HRC...
**UPDATE: VOTE SCHEDULED THURSDAY NIGHT** The Senate, eleven weeks after the House of Representatives approved it, may very well vote on the Hate Crimes Bill this...
U.S. HIV Travel Ban May Be Removed Soon. Steve Rothaus’ Gay South Florida reports an HRC press release that announces tomorrow will begin the process of...
**UPDATE** 06.25.09: Senate did NOT vote on the Hate Crimes Bill today as expected. Attached it to the Defense Authorization Bill. May not pass… Happy Anniversary,...