Further to investigative reporter Murray Waas‘ article published last week in the Boston Globe, highlighted on LGBTweekly.com, revealing his real stand on same-sex marriage and gay parenting videos have come to light showing Romney making those bigoted claims against LGBT parents. The first shows Romney speaking to conservative voters in South Carolina in 2005 and…
WASHINGTON – Following President Barack Obama’s call on Americans to support the freedom to marry when they vote on ballot measures in Maine, Maryland and Washington the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Freedom to Marry have issued statements praising the president. “President Obama continues to be a transformational leader for LGBT equality,” said Human Rights…
PARIS – The French government has delayed plans to debate a draft bill legalizing same-sex marriage. Jean-Marc Ayrault, the French prime minister, had originally named Oct. 31 as the date when ministers would unveil the bill. He told AFP at the time that there would be no backtracking. However, AP reported that the prime minister’s…
Halloween in my youth was exclusively for us children. In costume we fearlessly walked the streets after dark in search of candy and an occasional apple bob. The fiend hiding in the bushes we knew was just another kid trying to scare us. True, parents told of reports from New York and other bastions of…
If there are any lingering doubts in the minds of LGBT voters as to where Mitt Romney really stands on LGBT issues the following article by Murray Waas, published in The Boston Globe, should help clear that up. In a particularly nasty move, Romney as governor of Massachusetts rejected the state Registry of Vital Records…
BY CASEY PICK, programs director and attorney for Log Cabin Republicans In response to the many comments about the Log Cabin Republicans‘ qualified endorsement of Mitt Romney, Casey Pick, programs director and attorney for Log Cabin Republicans replies with the following commentary: I knew what we were in for when Log Cabin Republicans made the…
BY NED FLAHERTY, project manager for Marriage Equality USA. Following The Log Cabin Republicans’ endorsement of Mitt Romney, Ned Flaherty, project manager for Marriage Equality USA, analyses how this group have now abandoned gay rights entirely. Flaherty created the Election 2012 project, which was developed to show 12 major ways in which LGBTIQ people still…
The Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) have endorsed Mitt Romney for president of the United States. LCR is a goup of LGBT people who identify with most Republican Party values. The group’s email endorsement was entitled “We are Americans first.” “The decision to endorse is the right one for our members, our community, and for the nation…
BY JONATHAN YOUNG Lance Bass is accustomed to being in the spotlight. He’s performed with the record-breaking NSYNC, trained to be an astronaut, cut a rug with swing dance champ Lacey Schwimmer on Dancing with the Stars and has revealed to the world he is gay with a cover story in People magazine – just…
The Catholic Church and NOM the largest funders of discrimination WASHINGTON – The Catholic Church is funneling unprecedented dollar amounts into the four states where marriage equality is on the ballot this fall – Minnesota, Maryland, Maine and Washington – and in many cases, parishioners may not even be aware that their dollars are being…
