LGBT Leadership Town Hall liveblog
Michelangelo Signorile of Sirius XM's Michelangelo Signorile Show is hosting a LGBT Leadership Townhall meeting today, April 22 from 2-4 EDT. To listen, tune to Sirius 109, XM 98 or listen live listen...
View Article"Discrimination is necessary": this is the hate we're up against.
Subjecting kids to weirdos undermines standards of decency. You just can't ask for a better lede than that. Comically villainous hate-rag The Washington Times is going (pardon the expression)...
View ArticleWhy doesn't Barney Frank know what's going on?
11 days ago, Barney Frank told Metro Weekly that ENDA legislation (prohibition of discrimination against employees on the basis of sexual orientation) would be marked up in the House Education and...
View ArticleIf DADT Repeal is Dead, What About ENDA?
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates may have put a stake through the heart of DADT repeal yesterday (or not, but there's little doubt he was doing his best Bram Stoker imitation). But what about ENDA --...
View ArticlePenis Panic
[Copyright-protected photograph removed - MB] Let's say you - or perhaps your mother, your daughter, your wife or your sister - walked into a women's restroom or locker room and encountered this...
View Article"ENDA will proceed like greased lightning"
The End for ENDA Delay? After months of unkept promises on House ENDA action, it seems that things will be coming to a boil soon. Writing about a conference call held last night, Dr. Jillian Weiss...
View ArticleAuthorizing Discrimination
In most of the United States, it is perfectly legal for businesses to refuse to hire, or to fire, someone for being lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender and/or transsexual. For the past...
View ArticleRep. Steve King to gays: Stop acting so gay if you don't like...
This shit is pretty bizarre, even for a Republican. Rep. Steve King (R-IA), the longtime foe of gay rights who once claimed that marriage equality in his own state would make Iowa a “gay marriage...
View ArticleOh, bite me.
The Democrats in Congress have lost their minds. They are completely out of touch on some issues and they don't see it. They don't even realize how helpless we feel. The latest is ENDA. They keep...
View ArticlePrinciples not Patience
It all comes down to what you hold dear, what you are not prepared to concede for "the better good". Ask yourselves what do you believe in, then tell me why for some need for 'reality based politics'...
View ArticleThe Cost of a Gay Rainbow Cake
We should fast forward to a few months from now when the politicians on both the right and the left will be campaigning for votes. It will be compelling to hear the Democrats make the pitch to the LGBT...
View ArticleClyburn: "I feel as strongly (about ENDA) as I did about Civil Rights in the...
The House is pushing to get the Employment Non-Discrimination Act passed soon. Its chances in the House look great, but the Senate is questionable. ENDA, for those unaware, would provide job...
View Article"(T)hese lunatic fringe ideas are still out there."
Within weeks of Hitler's appointment as chancellor of Germany, the Nazis started decimating the last vestiges of public acceptance and fraternization of gays. Clubs were shut down, places of business...
View Article"(T)hese lunatic fringe ideas are still out there."
Within weeks of Hitler's appointment as chancellor of Germany, the Nazis started decimating the last vestiges of public acceptance and fraternization of gays. Clubs were shut down, places of business...
View ArticleRecent Gallup poll: 25% of Americans (as usual) Batshit Insane
A recent Gallup poll reveals that 25% of Americans do not believe in "allowing openly gay men and lesbian women to serve in the military". And 70% think they should be allowed to do so. Let's think...
View ArticleRecent Gallup poll: 25% of Americans (as usual) Batshit Insane
A recent Gallup poll reveals that 25% of Americans do not believe in "allowing openly gay men and lesbian women to serve in the military". And 70% think they should be allowed to do so. Let's think...
View ArticlePelosi: "I have no intention of losing on either of these!"
Referring to the battle to get Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal (DADT) and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) through the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi made her intentions clear Monday in...
View ArticlePelosi: "I have no intention of losing on either of these!"
Referring to the battle to get Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal (DADT) and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) through the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi made her intentions clear Monday in...
View ArticleTo Nancy Pelosi, from one of the DC ENDA 4
This letter was written to Speaker Nancy Pelosi by Samantha Ames, a DC law student and GetEQUAL activist. Samantha was also one of the four arrested in DC (and six in San Francisco) on March 18th for...
View ArticleTo Nancy Pelosi, from one of the DC ENDA 4
This letter was written to Speaker Nancy Pelosi by Samantha Ames, a DC law student and GetEQUAL activist. Samantha was also one of the four arrested in DC (and six in San Francisco) on March 18th for...
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