Bill to Prohibit LGBT Discrimination Passes State Government Committee! by: Equality Advocates of PA, Press Release Mar 12, 2009 Harrisburg, PA - Members of the Pennsylvania House State Government Committee today passed legislation out of their committee prohibiting discrimination on the bases of se...

Robert Pinter, a 52-year-old gay man who was arrested for prostitution at the Blue Door in the East Village on Oct. 10, spoke at the town hall meeting. He said a young man ... cruised him in the store. He was "charming and persistent, and we agreed to go home for consensual sex, but as we were ...

Many of us have seen or read The Wave, but how many of us have seen A Class Divided? It depicts one third-grade teacher's attempts to teach Midwestern children about the civil rights movement, many of whom had never met a black person before. As part of a daring experiment, she split the class betwe...

Thirty years ago yesterday (November 27, 1978) San Francisco Board of Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, another city supervisor. Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the U.S. Prior to his death he championed a movement agai...

Filed under: Computers Congratulations gay and lesbian community, you may have lost out November 4 in California, Arizona, Florida, and Arkansas, but you scored a sweet consolation prize in the New-Jersey-based lawsuit against eHarmony. Realizing that it was about to get nailed to the wall for viola...

Andrew Sullivan today wrote that California's Prop. 8 "should stand, and the court should decline to reverse it. We lost. They won in a fair fight. No whining." First of all, "we" lost? Sullivan doesn't live or vote in California. He didn't contribute may not have contributed (ed.: as Jeff S. commen...

I was really moved by Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment" in regards to same-sex marriage and California's Prop. 8 earlier this week, and several straight friends wrote to tell me about it as well. Here it is, if you haven't seen it already. I was similarly touched by Judith Warner's most recent New...

I'd been planning to write this post since the passage of California's Proposition 8 last Tuesday eliminating the right of same-sex couples to marry, but because I procrastinated, as usual, others, including Jeff, have beat me to the punch. Nevertheless, here's my own take on the matter. Two issues ...

I quote from a U.S. State Department publication, Democracy in Brief : All democracies are systems in which citizens freely make political decisions by majority rule. In the words of American essayist E.B. White: "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half the people are right more tha...

Three years and one day ago, I got married. And then shortly after that, I wrote a post about getting married, which has become one of the most popular things I've ever written. If I have to be known for something, I'll definitely take that as a good representation of my work. But one of the ideas t...