Go read this now!
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012Tweet The awesome blog Towleroad put together a great post about the American Psychological Association, the American Medical Association, as well as other organizations, and the amicus brief that was filed in the case against DoMA, the egregious “Defense of Marriage Act” passed by the Congress and signed into law by Bill Clinton on the [...]
Marriage equality: Good for public health!
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012Tweet You know all those people who yell and scream at gay people for wanting the same rights and responsibilities as their straight counterparts? You know – the haters at NOM and FRC and such. They keep warning that, besides the sky falling, that gay people achieving equality will be a detriment to society. Actually [...]
Reasons for the LGBT community to worry?
Monday, April 26th, 2010Tweet There is a lead over at AMERICAblog Gay with the headline: Did the White House really just threaten to cut off the entire gay community? Now here’s the thing. The story talks about how Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanual and Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina are PISSED at the LGBT community for [...]
We must be our own fierce advocate, because to everyone else, we are just props
Thursday, March 18th, 2010Tweet Remember during the 2008 election, when Senator Barack Obama said that he would be a “fierce advocate” for the GLBT community? Fast forward a few months, when President Obama’s administration defended DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, and equated gay marriage to pedophilia and incest. Remember the 1992 election, when Governor Clinton became one [...]
A year of civil disobedience for GLBT rights
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Tweet People are up in arms over the big DOMA flap, and rightly so. Yes, there are the apologists, but it really appears that we have numbers on our side; the side that says the President and his DOJ is wrong for citing incest and child marriage in trying to fight against gay marriage. Many [...]
What can we do to shut you up?
Monday, June 15th, 2009Tweet That’s basically the question that I read into a post over at AmericaBlog.com. Specifically, John Aravosis wrote: Joe and I got an email the other day from a well-connected gay friend, and he said he was hearing rumors that the Obama administration, in an effort to woo back the gays, was thinking of possibly [...]
The GLBT community starts to respond to Obama on DOMA
Monday, June 15th, 2009Tweet First of all, I know that I don’t speak for the entire GLBT community. And neither do the guys over at Towleroad.com or AmericaBlog.com. But there is a movement afoot, and I hope that it continues to grow. The Obama DOJ, and Obama himself, need to be held responsible for the hateful DOMA defense [...]
Obama is losing support from the GLBT community
Friday, June 12th, 2009Tweet So first we had the presidential contest of 2008. Obama and Clinton were jockeying for support from the GLBT community. Lots of great things were said, like ending DADT, repealing DOMA. Where are we, less than six months into the Obama administration? We, the GLBT community, are under the bus, having been thrown there [...]
