Two Election 2012 priorities stood out at Sunday’s Victory Fund brunch at the Catamaran Resort Hotel on Mission Bay: getting Tammy Baldwin, Democratic congresswoman from Wisconsin, elected to the U.S. Senate; and strengthening financial support for LGBT candidates across the country – especially those who promise to actively battle for equality under the law for…
A few years ago, I came to the realization that trans people are considered ‘super-gays’ by the religious right. For example, Dr. Sander Breiner, in his National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) article entitled TranssexualityExplained stated the following: “There are a significant number of male homosexuals who would like to be a…
Lawmakers in St. Petersburg adopted a bill Wednesday that would impose fines of up to $16,700 for the “promotion of homosexuality.” The bill, if signed in to law by the City Governor in the next 14 days, will criminalize reading, writing, speaking or reporting on anything related to the gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender community….
Gay partners Sgt. Brandon Morgan and Dalan Wells have come forward to comment on their homecoming photo that has swept the internet. In an interview with the Miami Herald, the couple explains their relationship. “I honestly knew I was in love with him from the first moment I met him,” Morgan says, adding that before…
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley was confident that the state’s same-sex marriage bill would eventually pass the Senate and be on his desk for signature according to an interview the governor hosted at SiriusXM Radio show OutQ on Wednesday, just one day shy of its victory win. “I believed that in my short service to the…
Feb.16, one-time Republican candidate for president, Pat Buchanan had an article posted to The American Conservative’s Web site, entitled Blacklisted, But Not Beaten. In the article, Buchanan’s first line in the piece was, “My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end.” Buchanan highlighted in his piece how the Human Rights…
Same-sex couples who wish to marry in California will have to wait a while longer for their constitutional rights following a reconsideration filed by Prop 8 backers Tuesday. Supporters of the anti-equality measure have slowed its path to the U.S. Supreme Court by asking a federal appeals court to reconsider its Feb. 7 ruling in favor…
The Obama Justice Department announced Friday the Administration would no longer defend a section of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) which prohibits lesbian, gay and bisexual military service members and veterans from extending benefits associated with marriage to their same-sex spouses. Attorney General Eric Holder addressed Congressional leaders in a letter which determined that…
Gov. Chris Christie has followed through on his promise to reject a same-sex marriage bill which was passed by the state Assembly Wednesday. The governor took “swift action” to veto the bill Friday, with earlier comments to send the issue to a state referendum. As to whether the state would entertain a same-sex marriage referendum…
WASHINGTON – (From a White House briefing) We now face a make-or-break moment for the middle class and those trying to reach it. After decades of eroding middle-class security as those at the very top saw their incomes rise as never before and after a historic recession that plunged our economy into a crisis from…
