Republican Gabriel Gomez and Democrat Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA05) each won their U.S. Senate primaries in Massachusetts on Tuesday.  While Rep. Markey is well known as a longtime, rock-solid supporter of LGBT equality, Mr. Gomez has remained vague about his views beyond his support for the freedom to marry.  It’s time for Mr. Gomez to start [...]

National Organization for Marriage has sent some pathetic emails before, but the smell of desperation is particularly pungent in this latest. On the heels of losing marriage equality ballot measures last year in Washington, Minnesota, Maine and Maryland, and marriage equality legislative efforts in France and Rhode Island this year (so far), NOM has nothing [...]

The excitement is palpable in Rhode Island tonight as marriage equality advocates look towards Thursday, when Gov. Lincoln Chafee will sign the marriage equality bill into law. Gov. Chafee just tweeted this invitation to those who wish to witness the birth of the 10th marriage equality state: All are welcome to attend Thursday’s planned #MarriageEquality [...]

Most newspapers leave the dehumanization of transgender people to the trolls in the online comments.  But not Cleveland’s Plain Dealer.  They bring the sewage right to the surface. Their article about the discovery of the body of a brutally murdered 20 year old African-American woman, Cemia Acoff, begins with the title “Oddly dressed body found [...]

In case you have been living in cave with your fingers in your ears, 12 year NBA veteran Jason Collins became the first openly active gay man in sports. Now this story caught me flatfooted because I had two exclusives today. So I think it’s better for me to give a news briefs recap just [...]

The above story has been playing huge in religious right and conservative circles lately.  The story, which not only includes the tale of a forced lesbian kiss but also boys being told to carry condoms in their pockets, has been the talk of several conservative sites from Free Republic to The American Thinker to World [...]

A bill (SB 5927) filed late last week by Washington state Sen. Sharon Brown (R-Kennewick) and nearly half of the state legislature’s Republican caucus seeks to roll back part of the state’s anti-discrimination law to allow businesses to deny services to customers “if providing those goods or services would be contrary to the individual’s or [...]

In a scathing blog post written the day after Rhode Island became the tenth marriage equality state, the radical-right anti-gay organization MassResistance takes National Organization for Marriage to task for “drop[ping] the ball” in the effort to keep marriage discriminatory: … We admire a lot of what the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) does for [...]

The Family Research Council has released footage of the FBI questioning Floyd Corkins, the shooter who targeted the organization last year.  In this footage, Corkins says that he saw FRC listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Translation by FRC and its supporters will be that SPLC led Corkins to go [...]

In the wake of major marriage equality victories this week in France, Rhode Island, Delaware and Nevada, marriage discrimination purveyor National Organization for Marriage is asking supporters to send them money.  From yesterday’s email with the subject line of “We’ve Got Work To Do…”: … I want to assure you: NOM is NOT giving up [...]