Youth will lead the way to same sex marriage equality

Same sex marriage bans were overturned in California. Good! It's only a matter of time before the last bands of discrimination are lifted in the U.S. That includes yes, states such as Mississippi and Alabama. This column by Leonard Pitts Jr, from last month, takes...

Ellen fired because of anti gay group and masturbation illegal?

Ellen DeGeneres, a gay talk show host is a spokeswoman for the retailer J.C. Penny. Fine, right? Not if you are a rabidly anti-gay organization. An organization called One Million Moms, which also objected to Chaz Bono dancing on  Dancing with the Stars, is demanding...

Child beating endorsed by church and dumb things Catholic clerics

 Religious rightwing churches often use violence and beatings against children if they do minor infractions. No surprise, religion is often built on violence.Rightwing religions have an authoritian streak to them. In La Habra, California a teenager wasbeaten for...

Harvey Milk, an American hero

If  you haven't seen the movie "Milk" about the life of the inspiring  Harvey Milk, as played by maybe America's greatest actor (Sean Penn), I urge you to do exactly that.  It is truly an inspiration and it is not just about  the rights of gay men or...

Republican candidate rather kids have a dad in prison, than one w

Rick Santorum, Republican presidential candidate who is just obsessed with homosexuality. Really, really, strangely obsessed with it-to a degree that it is only a matter of time before the inevitable picture of him coming out of a gay bar in leather pants surfaces-believes it...

Catholic Cardinal thinks gay rights is like the KKK?

A Catholic Cardinal in Chicago is opposing a gay rights parade that goes past a Catholic church on a Sunday. He doesn't want those who are going to Catholic Mass to eat the body of their deity, to see such a thing. After all, it would be awful, just awful for Catholics to...

Rick Perry called on his homophobia by gay teen girl

Rick Perry is running on his anti-gay agenda. Well, a 14 year old girl who stated to reporters that she was bi-sexual, asked the would be theocrat in chief, "I just want to know why you’re so opposed to gays serving openly in the military, why you want to deny them that...

Bachmann thinks gays in the military will lead to kids having sex

Michelle Bachmann, Republican presidential pretender, has gone insane. She believes that the removed ban on gays in the military, which also took away a section dealing with beastility, will lead to sex between animals and children. I am not making this up. Her words:...

Rick Perry bashes gays but Hillary Clinton defends their rights

Rick Perry, Republican presidential candidate, is running to be the theocrat in chief. He has a commercial that attacks President Obama for not kicking out gay men and women from the military. A policy that cost us millions of dollars per year. He also lies and states...

GOP Bachmann told by 8 year old his gay mom doesn't need fixing

Michelle Bachmann, Republican presidential pretender has stated some ugly things about gays. For example: “This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children.” “And what a...

How chaplains in the military are pushing their religion onto oth

A lesbian member of the military goes to see a military nurse to treat her PTSD condition. According to this soldiers, this is what happened: "At this point I wasn’t really sure what to think. She then began to ask me about my depression and anxiety, and I became very...

How the religious right tell former addicts to hate gay family me

There are many people in the religious right who had lived, before they supposedly found their deity, a screwed up life. They were alcoholics. They were on drugs. Cocaine, heroin etc. They were depressed and suicidal. Well, once they find religion they judge gays as...

Why should sex parties be the concern of the government?

Dan Savage is a sex columnist featured in many alternative newspapers. He is a gay rights supporter (along with being gay himself) and the originator of the It gets better project. He wrote in his most recent column: "Last week the Portland Press Herald reported about...