Bowers v. Hardwick was decided 25 years ago today
This story really starts several decades before the decision and ended in part in 2003. There were rarely-enforced sodomy laws on the books until the past two hundred years or so. The laws were...
View ArticleThe face of gay rights in New Jersey
The New Jersey legislature cannot enact a marriage equality bill in the state right now because their governor has said he would veto it. Seven couples have taken the step of filing a lawsuit demanding...
View ArticleYou really can't make this sh*t up
If you're the FBI and you're in such dire need of training, for some reason, that you look to outside groups to work with cops and agents to teach you how to deal with the activist community, who are...
View Article"Make the school feel like sh*t"
On September 19, 2010, a thirteen year old boy named Seth Walsh hung himself. His mother found him and brought him to the hospital, where he stayed on life support for over a week. The story made...
View ArticleUS Government recognizes LGBT rights movement's legitimacy
The federal government has played a significant and regrettable role in the history of discrimination against gay and lesbian individuals.The Department of Justice has written a brief in the Golinski...
View ArticleSilence = death
On July 3, 1981, newspapers reported an aggressive cancer outbreak among a group of men:Doctors in New York and California have diagnosed among homosexual men 41 cases of a rare and often rapidly fatal...
View ArticleOne of our own is struggling, please help
When things have seemed to reach the lowest point in my life, this community is always there for me. Whether through listening to what I have to say when seemingly no one else will, or helping me out...
View ArticleBreaking: Ninth Circuit asks for DOJ's position on DADT's constitutionality
Pam has the story:Interesting - the walls are closing in as the Log Cabin case continues to place pressure on the administration. Up on Scribd is an order from the Ninth Circuit, placing the government...
View ArticleNOM and Westboro Baptist Church: a marriage made in heaven
The marriage equality law in New York came into effect at midnight. Eight hundred and twenty-three gay couples won a lottery to get married at the first available opportunity, and judges, lawyers and...
View ArticleIn compromise with Higgs boson, President Obama cuts gravity
In a surprising development, due to a compromise with President Obama, the Higgs boson has made itself known to scientists. The president had worked behind the scenes day after day with the Higgs,...
View ArticleTea Party audience boos active duty soldier w/ SEVERAL UPDATES
In tonight's Youtube debate, candidates took video questions from the viewing audience. Stephen Hill, a soldier currently stationed overseas in Iraq, said that he's gay and had to lie about who he was...
View ArticleNOM attacks newborn baby
It wasn't enough for the National Organization for Marriage to launch lying, race-baiting campaigns. It wasn't enough for them to bring out some oppressed martyrs - both of whom ended up having...
View ArticleI don't know what to say
Awhile ago I wrote about Lawrence King's murder. In short, Brandon McInerney, a white supremacist, bullied teenager Lawrence King for years because King was gay. Then King started coming to school...
View ArticleKosAbility: We are the 99%, too
KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and Wednesday by volunteer diarists. This is a gathering place for people who are living with disabilities, who love someone with a...
View ArticleDisturbing antigay robocall in Iowa asks about gay sex
For weeks now, antigay groups like the National Organization for Marriage have been pouring money into the election in Iowa and stirring up homophobic sentiments among the right wing voters in the...
View ArticleI have bad news
One night a few weeks ago, I suddenly got a very high fever, uncontrollable shakes nausea, among other things. I decided to just wait, take some ibuprofen (which usually, for some reason, stops the...
View ArticleThe 'rich gays' myth, one more time
And here we go again. The New York Times is getting in on the stereotyping action this time. The article, in the Business Media/Advertising section is titled "A Community With Money? Of Course...
View ArticleAn update on my health + a note
I have just written an update on my health situation (see this post for background info) twice now, and both times I lost the post. It is now 11:23 AM and I started about an hour ago. I'm sitting here...
View ArticleA quick update on my surgery yesterday
I wanted to post an update for my friends here who have been concerned with everything that has been going on with my health.First, thanks so much for caring about everything that is going on with my...
View ArticleThings really do change sometimes
My mom just called and it was probably one of the weirdest conversations of my life. Her co-worker somehow managed to find "my blog" (I'm not sure if it's this one or the blogspot account I set up a...
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