Naked As We Came, the third full feature film, by director/screenwriter Richard LeMay opened in theaters Sept. 17 to critical acclaim and was recognized as Best Drama at the Out In The Desert Film Festival in Tucson, Ariz. and has won four audience awards nationwide. One of the most award-winning gay films of the year,…
The Canyons To say the least, it’s rare that a movie with a budget of $250,000 becomes the subject of a 7,600 word article in The New York Times Magazine. It makes a little more sense, when you know that The Canyons was directed by Paul Schrader, who wrote Taxi Driver and Raging Bull and…
A California chapter of Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has challenged BSA national policy by recommending an openly gay scout receive his Eagle Scout honor. Ryan Andresen was denied his award last October because of the fact that he was gay and BSA national policy prohibits the participation of gay Scouts. His mother, Karen Andresen,…
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…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Ryan Andresen, the Boy Scout who was kicked out of that organization for being gay and denied his Eagle Award days before his 18th birthday will deliver more than 400,000 petition signatures to the Mt. Diablo-Silverado Boy Scout Council (BSC) today. Ryan’s mother, Karen Andresen, started the petition on Change.org two…
(CNN) – Conservative legal scholar Ted Olson has been tapped to play the role of Vice President Joe Biden in Paul Ryan‘s debate prep sessions, Mitt Romney‘s campaign said Saturday. The two men participated in their first mock debate session last week. Olson is one of the fiercest legal minds of his generation and successfully…
Ryan Trabuco, president of the San Diego Log Cabin Republicans, wrote an eloquent response to my desire to understand LGBT Republicans. What I find interesting is that while his arguments were written beautifully, they can easily be refuted. First Ryan says, “Our very first Republican platform in 1856 advocates ‘equal rights for all citizens,’ a…
In competitive debate, the second team gets extra time to lay out their case and respond to points made by the opening team. Such is President Obama’s task as he accepts the Democratic nomination for a second term tonight. He won’t actually get more network coverage than the Republicans, but he can choose not to…
From the Republican outcry against U.S. Congressman and Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin’s use of the phrase “legitimate rape,” you might think he’s said something outside the conservative mainstream. You’d be wrong. Akin has plenty of company, with the proof available in the Library of Congress. Just 15 days after being sworn into the…
I’m not sure which word best describes the choice of Rep. Paul Ryan as the Republican vice presidential nominee; obvious, daring and destructive all come to mind and have been used by various media outlets. Most reporting focused on his budget and its impact on independent voters. Less has been said about what the Ryan…
