A new poll released today finds a large majority of American Catholics — 71% — support civil marriage equality for same-sex couples. The report also finds...
November 15, 2010, from left: Dan Fotou, Army Staff Sergeant Miriam Ben-Shalom, Michael Bedwell, Army Specialist Rob Smith, Transgender Navy Petty Officer Autumn Sandeen, Roman Catholic...
Rick Perry’s gaffe at last night’s GOP debate — where he forgot the name of the federal agency he’d like to eliminate — was an embarrassing...
Guest Author Andrés Duque shares another important story with The New Civil Rights Movement. It is cross posted from his own excellent site, Blabbeando, which should be...
Don Feder, a Jewish conservative extremist, two days before Christmas, posted to a Tea Party website  an asinine screed, the “Top 10 Ways Democrats Are Like Nazis,”...
A leader of the NAACP has come out attacking gays, and he is demanding the “gay community stop hijacking the civil rights movement.â€Â Rev. Keith Ratliff Sr.,...
UPDATE: 02.18.2011: Scott just updated this piece. Scroll down to the end for the update. Or, read t from the beginning again! Editor’s note: This guest...
Dan Savage does not hate you.* I know, because he told me so when I asked him. Last Saturday, Savage delivered the keynote address to “Pro-​Queer...
Rick Santorum Wednesday evening said that gay marriage will effectively “execute” straight marriage, because “to redefine it then destroys it.†Fox News political analyst Charles Krauthammer...
A tweet by “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” repeal poster boy Lt. Dan Choi this morning reminded me of the landmark 1996 study that plainly states, “Homophobia...
Fresh from a visit to Occupy Wall Street’s Zucotti Park, Swarthmore student, writer, activist, and guest author Sam Sussman discusses his findings.  Something remarkable is...
Geraldine Ferraro, America’s first female and first Italian-American Vice-Presidential candidate, died today at the age of 75 at 10:00 AM, at Massachusetts General Hospital. Ferraro died...
James O’Keefe, the man responsible for the extremely-doctored video that led to the untimely demise of ACORN, and responsible for the extremely-doctored video that led to...
The Swiss Bishops Conference of the Catholic Church in Switzerland has admitted that 146 victims of sexual abuse stepped forward and reported a total of 125 priests...
NOM Chairman of the Board Maggie Gallagher will be live on C-SPAN, oppositie HRC’s Chief Legislative Counsel, Brian Moulton, discussing the future of DOMA, the Defense of...