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Michigan Womyn's Music Festival: Lesbian And Feminist Musical Artists Supporting Segregation

Princeton's Robert George: Sophistry Disguised as Scholarship
A feature article in this week's New York Times Magazine refers to Princeton professor Robert P. George as the "intellectual architect" o…

Ending Employment Discrimination in America
"When you say...you [gay Americans] are not a group of people who need special protection. You do well economically. You are an elite. Th…

The New GLBT Pope Problem
It is time to admit that the gay community has a gigantic Pope problem. Under the leadership of Benedict XVI, the Vatican has become an i…

Support decriminalisation of Homosexuality at UN!
Ten years ago this month, Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard was brutally attacked and murdered because he was gay. A year before Ma…

American Evangelicals Play Role In Uganda's Effort To 'Wipe Out' Gays
In March, American anti-gay activists traveled to Uganda for a conference that pledged to "wipe out" homosexuality. Seven months later, a…

Who Will LEad the LGBT Community?
Once again we hear voices saying, after the recent March on Washington, that the glbt community/movement needs a "leader." This seems to…

Obama's Big Gay Speech
If I were advising President Barack Obama, I would tell him to pay as much attention to the ornery jeers from protesters outside the Huma…

The March on Washington
Fresh off its wing nut wingding on the National Mall, the far-out fringe held its "Values Voter" summit in Washington last week. The high…

National Equality March on Washington: Are you Happy?
Many things have been written on whether one should march or not march on October 11 in Washington, DC. Let me make it easy for you.

Why Ted Olson and I are working to overturn California's Proposition 8
When I got married in California in 1959 there were almost 20 states where marriage was limited to two people of different sexes and the …

The Family Values Fraud
I vividly remember the first time I was introduced to the phrase "Family Values." It was the early 1990's and I was driving in my car. I …

Billy Glover Remembers Early Queer Publications
This is meant to propose what one person understands is the true timeline of the early and continuing civil rights movement for homosexua…

I've Seen Enough
IA debate is raging on whether to have a national gay March on Washington in October. Most leaders I have spoken with are against the ide…

Crazy Bible-thumpers Reveal their Homophobia, Ignorance, and Evil Ways
It was unusually satisfying to watch beauty contestant turned Bible-thumper Carrie Prejean crash and burn. In the bat of an eyelash, she …

The Globalization of Gay Bashing
The latest alleged anti-gay terrorism in Iraq -- is gluing shut the anuses of homosexuals, while forcing the victims to ingest a form of …

Where Do We Get Our Moral Leadership?
One of the "basic' arguments we get from religious bigots is that without religion, their god and church, synagogue or mosque, there woul…

Jamaica: A Killer Vacation
This week, I joined San Francisco organizer Michael Petrelis and Box Turtle Bulletin editor Jim Burroway in launching an international bo…

Gay Men and the Holocaust
The inverted pink triangle is now a popular symbol of gay and lesbian unity. But it had a much darker past. It was the symbol used in Naz…

A Winning Script
It is an odd time to be gay in America. Whether you are celebrated or despised depends on where you stand at any given moment.


The Future of Gay Media
In one of the most important articles of the year, Walter Isaacson wrote in Time Magazine about the shredding of the newspaper business. …

Dr. Phil's Poison Pill
In 38 years, I've only once dressed in drag.

It was my senior year of high school and my friend Alex's father was out of town…

Hollywood And The New President
Was the road to Barack Obama's presidency paved by Hollywood's entertainment machine? The movie and television industry may have had a ha…

The Rick Warren Whirlwind
It could be that Barack Obama is simply smarter than the rest of us. The first black president of the Harvard Law Review has made a caree…

Religion and Morals
Religion and Morals

If 2008 taught the world one lesson, it is that religious people are not morally superior to those who are…

Frank Talk On Proposition 8 And Race
On Election Day, 70-percent of African Americans voted to take away a gay person's right to marry primarily based on a book -- the Bible …










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