Well, if the President is serious about his commitment to equality, as he mentioned in his inaugural address (“Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law“), he may want to take a look at that non-discrimination executive order again. After all, Ashley Furniture is [...]

Had to mention this choice moment during the inauguration… RT @czarinaflo: Needs Ex-Lax? RT @mattspencedc: Cantor’s face during the poem, http://t.co/HB92DMFQ#inaug2013 #p2 #LGBT And, better yet, the First Lady’s reaction to House Speaker John Boehner. I am all for throwing shade at nasty people, and Michelle Obama does it with grace and class here. This piece [...]

I had the very necessary surgery on Friday, January 18, 2013, so here’s where I am after the bilateral discectomy now that I’m a few days post-op. The good news is that the surgery was successful; 95% of the herniation was removed, the not-so-great news is that the surgeon found that the disc was so [...]

We’re about to head out to the hospital for the dreaded-but-necessary operation on my back to deal with an awful herniated disc (the saga is chronicled on my personal blog), so I wanted to let folks know that I may be offline for a bit… My disc herniation is at L5-S1 (low back); the surgeon, [...]

Look, I have no idea whether Manti Te’o is gay. Only he can answer that question. But the football player’s fake dead girlfriend hoax story isn’t going away, and the number of plausible reasons for this fantastic charade occurring are dwindling. Given that the primary fable foisted on the public by Te’o and Notre Dame — [...]

I often wonder whether black Republicans, and gay Republicans (and of course black, gay Republicans and any other combination of color/ethnicity) have the patience of saints or are just deluded that reform of the party — tossing the bigoted and bible beater Base overboard — is just around the corner. Sometimes you’ll get a bit [...]

If you happened to be on Twitter or Facebook as Jodie Foster delivered a speech upon receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award for outstanding career achievement at the Golden Globes (transcript here), you saw a variety of heated, confused and interesting reactions to her call for privacy and her “take two” of coming out of the [...]

Man, scanning headlines on the weekend can result in pulling up some cray-cray stuff. It’s hard to believe that the fossilized Religious Right televangelist Pat Robertson is still alive and kicking. It was even more interesting that he was scanning Maxim mag, saw a query from a teen about the distant relationship of his parents, [...]

I love the new homophobia. In the vein of Chik-Fil-a, bigoted establishments welcome gay dollars, but want to condemn at the same time. In New Bern, NC on December 4, Ariel and Shawnee McPhail walked into The Stingray Café, sat down and had their meal, and had this handed to them by the restaurant’s owner, [...]

Is it any wonder that the NRA is working overtime to stop any kind of sane conversation about the issue of violence, guns and culture? As if on cue, CNN was reporting on the Vice President’s commission to discuss gun violence in the United States, and the network had to break in with news of [...]