We're making progress in our bid to take over the world.

In California, an openly gay Latino has been selected as the Speaker of the Assembly, and is the first openly gay person to lead a state legislature.

And in Houston, the U.S.'s fourth largest city, an out lesbian has been elected Mayor in the city's runoff election. This is the largest ( Read more... )

Apparently so, at least so say some.

I learn something new every day.

The Los AngelesTimes has a cool, interactive map that puts each state on a continuum and gives a time line, across the country. You can click on each state for more information. It's too bad I can't embed it, but it's worth a click.

( Information for Bisexual, Fluid, Pansexual & Queer-identified people and their friends, families and allies who will be participating in the National Equality March in Washington DC USA this weekend )

A new book on J. Edgar Hoover is coming out soon, and MSBC featured an article with its author. Among the revelations is that J. Edgar Hoover spied on MLK because of "jealousy" that MLK had a family, power, and respect all at the same time, that he had nude photographs of women ranging from Marilyn Monroe to Eleanor Roosevelt, and that his fairly- ( Read more... )

Here's an editorial from one of the chief lawyers from that federal lawsuit attempting to have Prop 8 tossed out. It looks at the Constitution, case law, and marriage. As a reminder, the guy who wrote this was Al Gore's chief attorney in Bush v. Gore, and his partner in this case represented George W. Bush in Bush v. Gore, and later served as Bush' ( Read more... )

( On this Fourth of July, 2009, we bisexual, fluid and pansexual citizens and residents of the United States of America as well as our friends, families and allies can be proud that we are ably represented at several levels of government )

In honor of the 40-year anniversary of Stonewall, which is considered the origin of the modern-day LGBT rights movement, In the Life's June show on PBS took a look at the LGBT community 40 years later.

One of segments focuses on LGBT youth:

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I also found this on their channel, The Gay Betsy Ross, Gilbert Baker:

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Remember when I asked for some research help? Well, this is the end result! I thought some of the pre-20th century history was really interesting and worth learning about.

Excuse my premature writing, for I'm currently a sophomore in high school and am not well-adjusted to writing long research papers. You can tell, because this paper is already ( Read more... )