From the Army Times:
Promised December congressional hearings into President Barack Obama’s proposed repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on service by gays will be postponed until next year so the Senate Armed Services Committee can concentrate on investigating the Fort Hood shootings, according to the committee chairman.
Finally, the shoot everyone has been talking about has arrived! The first set of Levi Johnston pictures have been released on Playgirl.
In the news recently there has been media scrutiny against the newly crowned Miss California Carrie Prejean, who’s been taking harsh heat for responding to a gay marriage question, but saying, ” I think Marriage is between a Man and a Women.
I would like to present a clear fact that everyone seems to be overlooking regarding the “legal application” of marriage or civil union.
From the Miami Herald:
Several Jackson Memorial Hospital nurses personally apologized to Janice Langbehn, a Washington state lesbian who said a Jackson social worker wouldn’t allow her to be with her dying partner in 2007.
The following video is hilarious, and shows the absurdity, stupidity, and racism of the ‘anti-immigration’ tea-partiers.
Are your traveling companions soap opera divas or members of The Joint Chiefs of Staff?
Is preparing for your vacation like baking an old family recipe or reading directions for a computer program?
You will wonder no longer, when our guest blogger, Sheila Glazov, offers you tips, from her latest book, What Color Is Your Brain: A [.
According to various reports, over 150 “Christian” leaders, mostly conservative evangelicals and traditionalist Roman Catholics, joined together and issued a joint declaration Friday reiterating their opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion, but in the same breath, pledged to fight to protect religious freedoms.
Well, I suppose if you’re bound and determined that you have no way of overcoming your bias, hate, intolerance and bigotry against the LGBT community it is.
Well, it would appear that the failed efforts to block adding LGBT tax-paying American citizens to the list of those protected under the federal hate-crimes law hasn’t stifled the religious zealots who insist upon shoving their “Christian” ideology down the throats of every American citizen.
Today, November 20th, is the 9th annual day of Trans Remembrance, a day set aside in memory of trans people who have been murdered for their honest expression of their gender identity.
Over twenty million people have died from AIDS since its cause, HIV, was discovered in 1981. Though leading scientists worldwide have dedicated their life’s work to understanding the virus, its genetic complexity is unprecedented and a cure is still beyond reach.
Courtesy of Advocate.com:
Gay fanpires are sure to flock to New Moon, but with questions lingering about author Stephanie Meyer and the cash she gives to the Mormon Church, Mike Albo wonders if we’d be better off tying a clove of garlic around our necks.
Another day, another horrifying report of violence against a gay teenager.
Jayron Martin, a 16-year-old high school freshman from Houston, tells KHOU-TV that he was chased down after school and beaten with a metal pipe last week while eight classmates stood around and watched.
Yup, that’s right, Frank Schaeffer, formerly with the religious right, equates the American religious right with the Taliban, and I have to say I agree.
The Catholics better gird their loins for this one.
The Village Voice is reporting that a new webiste, called ChurchOuting.
Contributed by Lyndon Evans and cross posted at: Focus on the Rainbow -
Until Dr. Jonas Salk introduced the Salk vaccine to fight polio, it was a dreaded disease, one which President Franklin Delano Roosevelt suffered from.
From the NY Times:
New York State’s highest court rejected unanimously a challenge on Thursday by opponents of same-sex marriage to policies that recognize such unions performed in other states, though the decision gave gay advocates a small victory because it was narrowly written and applied to a relatively small number of people.
I know a lot of you know someone who is gay, or you support the equal rights campaign.
However, we need more than your support.
On December 12th, Houston Controller Annise Parker could become the first openly gay Mayor of a major U.