The Defense Reauthorization Bill, which included repealing “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”, just fell to yet another GOP filibuster: Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked legislation that would have repealed the law banning gays from serving openly in the military. The partisan vote was a defeat for Senate Democrats and gay rights advocates, who saw the bill […]
Just a couple of months ago the LGBT community was in an uproar over the Obama administration’s defense of DOMA. Now that is changing: The Obama administration distanced itself Monday from legal arguments it had made earlier this summer, taking pains to remove and renounce language that had outraged advocates in the gay community in […]
Talk about being beat to the punch: Uruguay is moving to lift a ban on homosexuals joining the armed forces. The defense ministry confirms that Minister Jose Bayardi has signed a decree lifting the ban imposed by the 1973-85 military dictatorship. The army said Wednesday it has received the decree, which has yet to be […]
Fred Phelps and his “God hates fags” crowd might end up going broke: A jury on Wednesday ordered an anti-gay Kansas church to pay $10.9 million in damages to relatives of a U.S. Marine who died in Iraq after church members cheered his death at his funeral. Church members said Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder’s […]
Dave Kurtz has a very interesting post up at TPM asking exactly what Senator Craig did wrong. We’ve had lots of back and forth discussion here internally about what conduct by Sen. Craig in that Minneapolis airport restroom was actually illegal. We’ve posted the arrest report, so take a look and reach your own conclusions. […]
This is the man who was exhibiting his outrage over the Don Imus comments tonight on Scarborough Country. He said that these comments get into schools and get kids suspended. Here is the clip of it. The only problem is that a little over a month ago, Kohn was defending Ann Coulter calling John Edwards […]
Since this whole Foley thing opened up, I have realized that the Republicans are right. They are right when they say the problem with Foley is his being gay. Of course the reason for me agreeing with the Republicans is probably not what they would expect. For years it has been “rumored” that Foley was […]
John at AmericaBLOG has a great entry about our vice-President’s daughter: Welcome to Mary Cheney’s million-dollar closet. It’s still a bit stuffy in here as a lot of things haven’t been totally cleared out. For someone who has been “out” for a decade, Mary still shows major signs of just-coming-out syndrome. It’s what Jeff Gannon […]