Report: 'Decade of Progress' on LGBT Equality in America

As a decade draws to a close, a report prepared jointly by the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) and the evelyn & walter HAAS, JR. fund purportedly shows a 'Decade of Progress' on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and...

NYS Governor Expected to Extend Transgendered Protections

In the wake of the recent defeat of marriage equality in the New York State Senate, New York State Governor David Paterson is expected to sign an Executive Order on Wednesday that will extend protections to...

Obama distractions reaching 'critical critical-mass'

The January issue of Golf Digest magazine is scheduled to appear sometime over the next few days on newsstands nationwide. None other than President Barack Obama, joined by 'disgraced' golfer Tiger Woods, will...

Iran set to execute twelve men on charges of sodomy

Iran is set to execute twelve  Iranian men on charges of sodomy. Homosexuality is a crime punishable by death under the country's theocratic Islamic government. "Ten young Iranian men, including eight...

US Failure: Thousands remain virtual slaves in America

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." — 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified Dec. 6, 1865. According to an...

UK straight couple looking for gay couple to join their fight

Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle, whose civil partnership application was rejected last month in Islington, UK, are looking for a gay couple to join their fight before the European Convention of Human...

White House condemns Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill

The White House finally weighs in to condemn Uganda's anti-gay bill. President Obama strongly opposes Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 according to the Advocate. The White House statement comes on the heels...

Navajo Fred Martinez identity cost him his life: 'Two Spirits'

  Navajo Fred Martinez identity cost him his life. At age 16, he was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was murdered in Cortez, Colorado. Fred Martinez was considered by the...

Mercado's murderer 'not fit' to stand trial: Is Matos faking it?

Jorge Steven Lopez-Mercado's murderer, Juan Martinez-Matos, who was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation earlier this month for the savage slaying of Lopez-Mercado who was openly gay, has been deemed 'not...

The invite is official: Maddow wants Warren on-air

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow wants the United States most visible evangelical pastor and alleged associate of 'The Family', Rick Warren, on-air to denounce Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality bill 2009. Maddow extended the...

Boston Globe Obituary writer shares 6 life lessons: from the dead

" What does an obituary writer learn about life from covering the dead? [Boston Globe] asked the Globe's Bryan Marquard, who has written nearly 800 obituaries since switching to that beat three and a half years...

Uganda to drop death penalty, life imprisonment for gays

Bloomberg reports Uganda will drop the death penalty and life imprisonment for gays in a refined version of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009. According to Uganda's Minister of State for Ethics and Integrity,...

'Ex-Gay Therapist' Richard Cohen Spars With Rachel Maddow

Earlier this year, a three-day anti-gay conference held in Uganda was led by three Americans who are allegedly responsible for the continuing anti-gay vigilantism in Uganda. Richard Cohen's International Healing...

No visible ties, Christian leaders denounce Uganda anti-gay bill

Reportedly having no visible ties to 'The Family', a US fundamentalist group at the heart of Uganda's anti-gay  law, a group of high-profile US Christian leaders have denounced Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill...

Friday still a popular day to 'dump' White House 'trash'

Friday is still a popular day to 'dump' White House 'trash' as evidenced by the Obama Administration's continuance of an age-old tradition referred to as: White House 'trash day'. Typically carried out on Friday...