The Super Bowl seems to be a microcosm where the macrocosm of American culture is clearly represented. National pride, a can-do attitude, testosterone, rock stars, corporations, etc… it’s just all SO American. Therefore the Super Bowl also is a great…
BuzzFeed compiled a great list of the 50 best protest signs of 2009 and they are utterly amazing. Powerful, poignant, hilarious, and absurd–definitely check the list out: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-50-best-protest-signs-of-2009/
Also, I had the opportunity to speak with #28 (the Arrested Development…
Ever since “Milk” won the Best Picture Oscar, things have been pretty gone downhill for the LGBT rights movement.
I don’t mean to make light of the defeat of a marriage equality bill in the New York state Senate today…
Massachusetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, has become the first to sue the federal government over the Defense of Marriage Act, which denies federal recognition of same-sex marriages and empowers some states not to recognize same-sex marriages from…
From CNN:
By Kristi Keck
CNN
(CNN) — President Obama’s decision to grant some benefits to the same-sex partners of federal employees is seen by some as his attempt to extend an olive branch to the gay and lesbian community,…
From Salon:
A new trend is sweeping heterosexual male Facebook users. No, they’re not posting nude photos of Tila Tequila or professing a preference for clean-shaven genitals. This is way more exciting than that: On Sunday, as Prop 8 supporters…
In New York in the 90s, when the promulgation of a pro-gay marriage bill from Albany was close to unthinkable, the LGBT community had one of their unlikeliest supporters in New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.
At the time, Giuliani…
I love the ambiguity in this Politico headline. Is there any more terrifying to social conservatives than the thought of an armed column of homosexuals on the offensive!
Because this is the hyper-modern age of the Internet, and anything that…
Iowa became the first flyover state to approve same-sex marriage on Friday, with the state’s Supreme Court ruling (unanimously!) that a ten-year-old law limiting marriage to heterosexual unions was unconstitutional.
Gay marriages could begin in as little as three weeks.…
In a jointly-written op-ed that is already lighting up the blogosphere, David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch propose what amounts to a Missouri Compromise on gay marriage.
Under their proposal, Congress would grant state-recognized same-sex civil unions the same legal status…
