After two years of claiming that his views were “evolving,” President Obama said on Wednesday that he has finally reached a conclusion and supports same-sex marriage. Obama’s public endorsement is an important step in the right direction, but it does not undo the fact that he has a mixed record on gay rights.
Equality is on the menu in May elections. From Noel Freeman, president of the Houston GLBT Political Caucus.
With Equality Forum in Philadelphia poised to honor Israel this May, several progressive blogs have denounced the organization and suggested the honor be withdrawn. Their argument is easy to appreciate: Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians and Palestinian state. Those progressives might have a point, but that point is misleading and downright anti-equality.
There’s very little I can say about Louie Gohmert that hasn’t already been said more eloquently on bathroom walls all over Texas.
The Texas Democratic Party has an image problem with many of its LGBT constituents. For the second time in four months, the State Democratic Executive Committee voted not to include a marriage equality referendum on the 2012 Democratic primary ballot.
Last month, Texas’s pride and joy, Governor Rick Perry, said that he does not see much wrong with United States Marines, the cream of our crop, wizzing on enemy corpses.
Blacks should stand with gays on marriage equality—Gay is not ‘the new black,’ but we shouldn’t let inappropriate rhetoric get in the way of civil rights goals
…that I am still protesting this crap. Since 1968. That’s how long I’ve thought we should decriminalize marijuana.
On September 20, 2011, the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010” goes into effect for all U.S. military active duty, National Guard, and reserve personnel.
There are some people who say that Michele Bachmann is not qualified to be president. Then there are other people . . . who live in Ecuador.
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