In recent weeks, several posts have been made about openly gay politicians being elected to public office. Including in states that are believed to be anti-gay.

Some political scientists are saying that the spike in out politicians being elected to office is a better barometer of social acceptance and progress being made for gay rights than ( Read more... )

( If you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, fluid, pansexual, queer-identified, transgender, genderqueer . . . )

I have noticed a certain trend in the media for awhile, but could not articulate quite as well as my friend marauderthesn did (quoting her with her kind permission): "Celebrity magazines have started referring to unmarried straight couples by terms that gay people found themselves unhappily saddled with a couple of decades ago - after a while I quit counting ( Read more... )

Charlize Theron has joined the list of celebrities who say they will not get married until gays and lesbians can. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have expressed similar sentiment, as have several other celebrities I can't think of at the moment.

What do people think of the national marriage boycott? I have a few different friends who are part of ( Read more... )

This story from the San Francisco Chronicle will infuriate some and delight others. I'm in the latter group.

I also enjoyed the implications of their misspelling of the word "lamé."

I just wanted to thank you all for your wonderful support on my previous entry about my sexual orientation. It's been very difficult and depressing for the past couple of days. I had a meeting with the girl I have a crush on to discuss the play (by ourselves) and the entire time was a big wake up call, and I realized that I do like this girl ( Read more... )

This looks to be a great step from a religious organization: The Presbyterian Church of USA, also known as PC(USA), has taken a large step forward. They have started putting together a 13 person committee to investigate the place same-sex unions should have in Christianity and wider society for report in 2010.

From the article:The Rev. Bruce ( Read more... )

As a follow-up to my last post asking about the sign for "Trans," here's a video with all the signs demonstrated.

( LBGT in Sign )

I glanced through the tags and didn't see this, so apologies if it has been posted before. There's anti-polygamy in it, but otherwise it's pure awesome.

Opponents of gay marriage often cite Scripture. But what the Bible teaches about love argues for the other side.Let's try for a minute to take the religious conservatives at their word and define ( Read more... )

I'm getting back into American Sign Language, and I happened to glance at 'homosexual' in my dictionary. So I looked up how to say gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans, but there wasn't an entry for trans. My dictionary is abridged (though still huge), so I'm not sure if there just isn't a sign, or it got cut out.

So... does anyone know?