WASHINGTON – The fight against gays and lesbians in the military and against same-sex marriage continues apace for two Republican senators. Last Tuesday Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) introduced the Military Religious Freedom Act. The bill is intended to prevent military chaplains from being forced to perform a marriage ceremony, if the…
SAN FRANCISCO—More than $75,000 has been raised by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender organizations and LGBT movement leaders to help young LGBT undocumented immigrants pay for work permit applications made possible through President Obama’s new “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” (DACA) program. The president’s program, which took effect August 15, allows young people who were…
The San Diego Democrats for Equality will be co-hosting an Obama Watch Party tonight at 6 p.m. to watch President Obama’s speech as he officially accepts the Democratic Party nomination at the convention. The event will take place upstairs at The Range, at their new location at 1202 University Ave. in San Diego. Admission is…
At last week’s 2012 Lavender Law Conference in Washington D.C. Attorney General Eric Holder spoke about how President Obama and his administration had taken important steps to ensure equality and justice for LGBT people. Speaking before approximately 1,000 lawyers and legal professionals, at the annual gathering hosted by the National LGBT Bar Association, the attorney…
The Republican National Convention concludes tonight with former Gov. Mitt Romney’s speech officially accepting the Republican nomination for president of the United States. As the convention approached, most pundits agreed he and his surrogates had two missions: reintroduce Romney and get back to the “real issues.” Reintroducing Romney was never going to be a problem…
When “Papa Doug” Manchester bought the San Diego Union Tribune, there was a concern that the news might be tainted by right-wing opinion. Few predicted that right-wing opinion would be tainted with sheer fantasy. Yet, that is the only explanation for what happened Saturday, when the U-T San Diego editorial board jumped the political shark…
According to reports at QUEERtimes, local activist and businessman Mel Heifetz has donated one million dollars to the Obama campaign in support of Super PAC, Priorities USA Action campaign. “I did it after hearing my favorite comedian, Bill Maher, speak of his having given a similar amount as well. It occurred to me we all…
The political landscape just got a little more interesting now that lesbian sex is on the table. That’s because comedian Sarah Silverman has offered up ‘scissoring’ – or traditional lesbian sex – to casino magnate Sheldon Adelson in exchange for $100 million dollars to support the Obama campaign. The ‘indecent proposal’ – as Huffington Post…
Alex Okrent, 29, a staff member of President Obama’s reelection team, died Friday following a collapse at the campaign headquarters. Okrent was treated by paramedics at the Prudential Building and was later transported to Northwesters Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Obama offered his condolences to Okrent’s parents following the announcement of his death….
I try to keep my day job out of my column, but sometimes the political scene requires I bring the MD and PhD to bear. With the House effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act making headlines this week, it seemed a good time to talk about a few of the system’s dirty little secrets,…
