How a Supreme Court decision could determine the 2020 presidential election
My husband, Jason, asked an intriguing question on our daily Facebook Livestream this week. What will the forthcoming Supreme Court ruling on LGBT nondiscrimination...
Transgender Day of Remembrance
The annual day of observance on Nov. 20 that honors the memory of those trans folks we’ve lost to anti-transgender violence and bigotry has...
Responding to the next generation
Below is an actual email I received this week via Twitter.
"Hi My name is Tracy. I am in 6th grade ... in … Iowa....
Creep of the Week: Jerry Cox
Newsflash: Homosexuality and pedophilia are not the same things. Equating the two makes as much sense as equating adopting a pet kitty...
Our four-legged children
This past Sunday, our Boston terrier Sadie passed away. Many of the condolences we received contained the phrase “four-legged child.” That really...
Creep of the Week: James Dobson
During a recent episode of James Dobson’s “Family Talk” radio program, Dobson and his guests discussed the evils of trans-inclusive antidiscrimination laws. Such laws...
Remembering, looking for justice
Next week, LGBT and ally communities across the globe will come together to pay tribute to those who’ve lost their lives to hatred. ...
Funding discrimination
The city has resumed contracting with Bethany Christian Services for foster-care and adoption services after the agency agreed to comply with local law and...
Newspapers, bankruptcy and the economy
In trying to halt the country’s financial tailspin last week, President Obama signed the $787-billion stimulus bill. This week, he addressed Congress,...
Creep of the Week: Anti-Vaxxers
What an incredibly stupid time to be alive. Every day Republicans and their network, Fox, are telling people NOT to get vaccinated. That COVID-19...
Creep of the Week: Linda Harvey
Have you raped a rainbow today? No, that isn’t from a Skittles advertisement gone wrong. It’s just what LGBT people do....
Putting panic defenses in the past
California is yet again leading the way on state-level LGBT-rights legislation. Just as it became the first in the nation to...
My personal confession
While you’re reading this, I’m on a plane on my way to San Francisco for the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association convention, where...
I’m not crazy
The World Health Organization is dropping transgender identities from its list of mental disorders in its newest edition of the International Statistical Classification of...
A clear-cut case
A federal judge has ruled against a Catholic agency that refuses to accept LGBT couples as foster parents. The city announced in May that...
Marching into the future
Regardless of the final outcome of the mid-term elections, the administration has made it clear that they wish to erase transgender people from all...
Mr. President, Washington and Franklin thank you
When President Obama signed the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” he might have felt the ghosts of Founding Fathers George Washington and Benjamin...
Chicago Dyke March: Full of shame!
Hard headline, so let me make it more clear. Whoever is in charge of the Chicago Dyke March has their heads...
Tim Dunkin
Conservative commentator Tim Dunkin is raging mad that “sodomites” are allowed to adopt children, and he’s not going to take it any more! ...
Creep of the Week: Jeff Sessions
Ah, religious freedom — that call to arms for conservative Christians who believe that they live in some Bizzaro Land-version of America in which...
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