In December 2008, I read an article on entrepreneur.com called “10 Advertising Words to Avoid in 2009.� The article provided advice to advertisers about the words they shouldn’t use in ad copy. It was a helpful roll call of unnecessary,......

Well, apparently a lot for school officials in Nassau County, Florida. I recently read this AP article about two Northern Florida students taking their local high school and school board to court for not allowing them to create a Gay-Straight......

Ellen DeGeneres and her partner Portia de Rossi dined at Madeo in Los Angeles on Friday night.  They live in Beverly Hills and exchanged wedding vows in August 2008 before a small group of friends and family. De Rossi appears on the FOX sitcom Arrested Development.  Ellen hosts the Emmy award winn...

The outcome looks bad from a policy perspective, although legally it must said that the argument for striking down Prop 8 in the abscence of a federally enforceable right are pretty weak. At least it appears as if the marriages that took place under the more just staus quo ante won't be nullified....

Faithful readers of this blog know that I follow the inside scoop of the TV news industry. Having survived a stint in cable news, nothing makes me smile/cringe more as when I see the latest efforts of a network flack......

San Francisco Chronicle - By Bob Egelko - Mar. 06 (News Report) - The California Supreme Court, which last year declared the right of gays and lesbians to marry, appeared ready Thursday to uphold the voters' decision to overrule the court and restore the state's ban on same-sex marriage. NewsTrust R...

As the California Supreme Court hears oral arguments today on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, a debate is growing in our community about the effectiveness of the recent advertising and public outreach conducted by LGBT advocacy organizations in opposition to......

Last night, I attended a workshop about “homosexual activism in the public schools.” The meeting took place at a church and it was sponsored by the Illinois Family Institute, a conservative group. About 80 people were packed into a tiny room. My observations: I overheard one man sitting ...

We as consumers generally search out companies that are fully engaged in our community beyond advertising and marketing. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI) has usually been a first stop in researchingU.S.-based companies’ LGBT-friendly operating and hiring......

Conservative Christians are freaking out because an Illinois high school held a dance for GLBT students and their straight allies. Who is to blame for this approval of all-but-certain debauchery? English teachers. And now we have the first dance for students who self-identify as homosexual, which wa...