Election night 2012 was a happy occasion for the bisexual community in the United States as all five openly bisexual candidates on the national and state ballots swept to victory.

( Including the first openly bisexual member of the US Congress Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ); State Senator Angie Buhl (D-SD); Secretary of State Kate Brown (D-OR); State Representative Micah Kellner (D-NY); and State Representative JoCasta Zamarripa (D-WI). )

The Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the United State’s of America’s largest and oldest civil rights organization, today endorsed marriage equality at an meeting on Saturday, 19 May 2012. The organization had originally been founded in 1909 to improve the lives of the country’s African ( Read more... )

Today, the military officially ended its 17-year-old Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, allowing soldiers to openly serve.

In happy news, gay servicemembers are celebrating this new respect in different ways:

There's the 21-year-old soldier who came out to his Dad on YouTube: And Daddy responds lovingly.

Click to view

Or the Navy officer who married his partner ( Read more... )

SACRAMENTO -- The California State Assembly voted 49-25 today, passing a bill that would require schools to fairly and accurately portray the LGBT civil rights movement and the historic contributions of the diverse LGBT community in social science instruction ( Read more... )

Thirty years ago today on June 5, 1981 the first cases of what would become known as AIDS were reported. The disease that was centered in San Francisco was first detected in Los Angeles ( Read more... )

'It's Pretty Embarrassing How Long You Guys Took To Legalize Gay Marriage'

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This is somewhat amusing, but also an astute and serious observation:


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( on February 4th 2010 LGBT Activists particiapted in a day-long 'Bisexual, Fluid, Pansexual, Queer-identified and Allies Organizing Institute' as part of the Task Force's 22nd Annual Creating Change Conference )

I'm not sure how to embed it, but I wanted to share this CBS documentary on homosexuality, from 1967. It's done by Mike Wallace, of 60 Minutes fame.

It's long, but fascinating and frustratingly condescending to watch. How times change. Wikipedia article here.

""The dilemma of the homosexual: told by the medical profession he is sick; by the law ( Read more... )