(for the non-Americans and/or the folks who don't follow conservative politics, this is a pretty good summary of what CPAC is)

part 1:

Interviews with GOProud activists at CPAC:

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For those of you not aware, CPAC is an annual conference of the conservative coalition that is also a stomping ground for potential presidential aspirants. This year, there has been a big uproar - that has caused a fracture within the coalition - over the involvement of a gay conservative organization. Most members of CPAC were supportive, but ( Read more... )

The Washington Post has an interesting article on the current struggle within the Republican Party over gay rights (a shift demonstrated in part by recent fundraisers). Does the GOP embrace converts to LGBT advocacy and risk alienating their base, or run the risk of becoming a sectarian party that younger generations abandon over entrenched ( Read more... )

Ken Mehlman, a leading architect of George W. Bush's 2004 presidential campaign and former chairman of the Republican National Committee, come out of the closet. He's now becoming a proponent for gay marriage, and involved with the organization trying to repeal Prop 8. This is an interesting interview he gave on the topic ( Read more... )

At the Twin Cities Pride that was discussed in a post last week, the Minnesota Log Cabin Republicans had a booth. They passed out condoms with this packaging:


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For his very ignorant remarks:



...at CPAC, the annual gathering of American conservatives (and at least this year, younger ones). He started out as condemning CPAC for allowing GOProud to sponsor the event, but went on to basically condemn homosexuality as unnatural. For more on the general story, CNN has an article on itOf course, there were ( Read more... )

This is the first time I've heard of this happening, though I've seen a lot of Facebook groups that promote racism, sexism and homophobia.

( Massachusetts may be home to marriage equality, home to a ton of openly gay and lesbian legislators, and heck, even home to a bunch of gay Republicans. But it's also home to a school district where a student thought it would be appropriate to create a Facebook event to )

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” --from Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

OK, when I read today on The Advocate’s website that former Republican ( Read more... )

At a recent Log Cabin Republicans dinner, the daughter of Arizona’s Senior Senator & former presidential candidate for President, Megan McCain, told the gathering of gay GOP’ers that denying equal marriage rights to gay people is un-Republican...at its fundamental core, it's un-American.

Also, in a recent Op-Ed for The New York Daily News, Ms. ( Read more... )

Minnesota gay Republican lawmaker Paul Koering says he will not vote for a marriage equality bill which was reportedly "gaining traction" and attracting sponsors in the state senate last week.


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