Two Complimentary LGBT Equality Organizations
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012Tweet In the past few days, there’s been a push for two new LGBT equality charities, one of which comes from a company you know, and the other I’ve found only because I read other blogs (thanks, GoodAsYou.com!). And both of these deserve people’s attention, respect, and money. The first one came about a few [...]
A Sad Anniversary
Sunday, June 24th, 2012Tweet Turns out today, Sunday June 24th, 2012, is the 39th anniversary of the largest mass-murder of gay men in the history of the United States. Back on this day in 1973, someone firebombed the Upstairs Lounge in New Orleans that was holding church services for the Metropolitan Community Church – one of the only [...]
What are we?
Sunday, June 5th, 2011Tweet Seriously. I want to ask this question of Republicans. What, exactly, are gay people to them? A few weeks ago, The Advocate, a leading GLBT magazine, posted a story about how Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) was so ga-ga to meet Chris Colfer, the actor from Glee (he plays Kurt). She got a photo-op with Darren [...]
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 [...]
Why marriage is important – gay and straight: A story of elder abuse
Monday, April 19th, 2010Tweet Reposted from sister blog BuryingTheLead.com I cannot believe just how horrific some stories of abuse can turn out to be, especially for the elderly. All too often, cases of our elders being taken for granted and scammed are in the news, and the actual act of elder abuse is rampant. Try doubling elder abuse [...]
Harassment by any other name…
Friday, June 19th, 2009Tweet Wow… On the West Coast, there really are a few cities that you look towards for GLBT leadership. Those cities are San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Portland (probably in that order – at least in my mind). We have leadership in those cities that not only welcome the GLBT community, but help fight [...]
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 [...]
Attention GLBT Community: Are you still shopping at Wal-Mart?
Friday, May 1st, 2009Tweet My partner and I stopped shopping at Wal-Mart years ago. Remember when Sam Walton was alive, and every single Wal-Mart commercial was about “Proudly American” and aimed to display products “Proudly Made in Ameria”? Well of course all that died with Sam. His heirs greatly expanded the company and said “Screw you, America!” when [...]
Religious Fundies, you’re classy with a K!
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Tweet Which of course would be klassy! And what brings this on? Well you all know how the Iowa Supreme Court found that “separate but equal” is unjust, and ruled that gays and lesbians deserve the same rights as their heterosexual counterparts? Well, the religious fundamentalists have found a way to celebrate. How, you may [...]
