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Matt Baume’s ‘This Week in Prop 8’ — Politicians and Gay Bashers
What’s the connection between an anti-gay assault in New York and an anti-gay politician in California? We take a closer look at both this week, and analyze some new ads airing in Oregon. Watch “This Week in Prop 8” here.
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Walmart gets better: Retailer responds to censorship of the ‘g’ word
I’m pleased to report that “gay” is now a perfectly acceptable word to include in posted comments on Walmart’s site. Other words have also been cleared, including lesbian, homosexual, bisexual and transgendered.
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Walmart, the G word, and internet activism
Walmart is selling the new “It Gets Better” book. Just don’t call it gay.
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This Week in Prop 8: Anti-gays using race as a wedge
This week: Finger-pointing in Maryland, along with some disturbing new racial rhetoric. Meanwhile, pressure to repeal DOMA heats up in Congress and in the courts.
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The Book with a Promise: ‘It Gets Better’
There were moments while reading “It Gets Better,” the new book inspired by the video project to help bullied youth, when my heart leapt to my throat and hovered there. There’s no denying the power of this project, and what could easily be the most important book of the year.
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The Oprah Winfrey Network’s great shame: Lisa Ling’s ‘Our America’
The Oprah Winfrey Network’s “Our America” with Lisa Ling has produced an indulgent puff-piece on “ex-gay” programs, “Pray the Gay Away”, that included gross factual inaccuracies resulting from a lack of research and lazy reporting.
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This Week in Prop 8: Gay ads still playing it safe
Anti-gay forces in Maryland set marriage back another year. That setback is softened by advances in New York, Colorado, and Washington, plus a new ad for equality launches in Rhode Island, but is it too soft?
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Maryland gay marriage: justice delayed, not defeated
The decision by the House of Delegates to send a bill legalizing gay marriage back to the House Judiciary Committee — a move designed to prevent the measure’s outright defeat — is a crushing disappointment to the thousands of Marylanders…
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First They Came: Why we must find (and be) allies
As a movement, it is vital that we build stronger coalitions to achieve our goals. And in order to do that, we must find our allies and support them. We have to realize the strength there is in learning about and helping others who can help us achieve our goals.
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Mike Huckabee: no equality for the LGBT ‘experiment’
In case anyone ever wondered why I’m so emphatic about equal rights… here you go. This man — Mike Huckabee — who ran for president, does not want gays to marry, raise kids or serve their country.