This is the most honest, heartfelt plea you'll read all week, and he's absolutely right about the issues at stake. Mitt Romney has "joked" about concentration camps for gays in the past, though he later dismissed the comments as immaterial and imprecise. But now we finally have a single, simple decision. A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote against ( Read more... )

I'm not really sure how many people didn't already know that Anderson Cooper is gay before he formally "came out". I do hold that if we're sending reporters to war zones, to countries where they routinely kill people for being gay, that it's not the worst idea to remain closeted.

So--for that reason and many others--Anderson Cooper's quiet ( Read more... )

This is the thing you need to see--Mitt Romney completely missing the point when answering a Viet Nam vet's questions about same-sex marriage.

And yeah, he's right to be pissed. What Mitt--and what every other knuckle-dragging conservative who believes this--thinks is vile. He didn't have a disagreement with him. A disagreement is when you'd ( Read more... )

Oh, this one's rich. Seems a Puerto Rican Repub senator--who's stood up against many proposed bills that would have made Puerto Rico a more tolerant, forgiving place--has now been discovered to have been posting nudes of himself on a service for gay and bisexual males.

His flimsy, wholly inadequate excuse for doing so? He was documenting his ( Read more... )

Mostly yon.

First, did you know homosexuals are responsible for pornography, marital perversion and the rise of Sharia law? I didn't either.

And a cult religious leader has shot a four-year-old boy...in point, his stepson...because why? Let's all say it together: He might have been gay. Oh, and he also shot a woman who was infertile because she ( Read more... )

While I'm not sure if the law has been formally signed at this writing, as of last night, New York had officially voted in gay marriage ( Read more... )

More on the George Rekers story can be found at that link, and I'm not doing my usual of transcripting it because, in all seriousness, it's like fourteen individual stories.

And the reporters involved are still trying to dig up information. It's getting more tragic and upsetting by the moment.

And she's in Alameda County, though the location isn't surprising. (And I'm going to say it's the first openly transgender judge...there could have been many, many others internationally.)

Full article ( below the cut. )

The words Parent One and Parent Two will be replacing Mother and Father. This is actually a good thing, because, in addition to better facilitating same-sex couples raising children, it facilitates mixed familes--where father has taken another wife, where aunt and grandma are raising the children of a deceased son or daughter, sister or brother. ( Read more... )

From the San Francisco Chronicle comes the story, ( quoted below. )