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 [...]

The three Massachusetts Republicans vying for the Bay State’s open U.S. Senate seat held their first debate on Wednesday night.  Candidates Mike Sullivan, Dan Winslow and Gabriel Gomez were asked to give their views on two marriage-related questions: Is the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) constitutional? Should states have the right to maintain discriminatory [...]

Facebook has gone Valentine’s Day red this week as Americans show their support for marriage equality while the U.S. Supreme Court hears the Proposition 8 and federal Defense of Marriage Act cases. The Congressional delegation from Massachusetts has not missed this opportunity to reiterate their unequivocal support for the right of loving, committed same-sex couples [...]

Five candidates — two Democrats and three Republicans — are vying for the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts vacated by John Kerry.  All of these candidates support marriage equality except Mike Sullivan, a Republican, who thinks that gays should be barred from civil marriage.  Boston Globe reports: Speaking to reporters in the morning and to [...]

Anti-LGBT activist Scott Lively has revealed in his new blog post “The Bi-Sexual Turd in the Gay Wedding Punchbowl” that he does not understand what is means to be bisexual. Mr. Lively believes bisexuality to be synonymous with non-monogamy or polyamory.  He is sorely incorrect. A bisexual person is open to having a relationship with [...]

I take Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) at his word that an e-mail glitch caused him to be the only member of the Massachusetts congressional delegation not to sign on to the amicus brief asking the US Supreme Court to strike down Section 3 of DOMA.  After all, Rep. Lynch is a co-sponsor of the Respect [...]

Over 150 people gathered at the United States District Courthouse in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts on Monday to hear arguments in the case Sexual Minorities Uganda v. Lively. Brought by the advocacy group Sexual Minorities Uganda, the lawsuit “alleges that [Scott] Lively’s actions over the past decade, in collaboration with key Ugandan government officials and religious [...]

Scott Lively, an instigator of Uganda’s ‘Kill The Gays’ Anti-Homosexuality bill, doesn’t save all his bile for the gays. He’s got some blood lust for strippers too, it seems. Lively: For about two years I have been including imprecatory prayers in our church services and Bible studies at Holy Grounds Coffee House. Imprecatory prayers are [...]

“I May Run for MA Governor“, declares Scott Lively in his most recent blog post. “I’m probably 90 percent sure that I’m going to do it, but I’m holding back that 10 percent,” Lively told The Republican. He’s considering a run because he is “greatly dismayed at the breakdown of family and morality” in Massachusetts. [...]

Over at Red Mass Group, a Massachusetts-based political blog, Rob Eno declares “I’m Out!“…as a play on an Obama campaign slogan. You’ve probably seen the new campaign by the Barack Obama team entitled, “I’m In”. Well I’m not, I’m out, and I think we need to tell him. So I created some items that help. [...]