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New political ad targets U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint’s anti-gay comments
CHARLESTON, S.C — A new political ad is emphasizing U.S. Senator Jim DeMint’s previously stated belief that LGBT people shouldn’t be allowed to teach in schools has angered DeMint supporters because, they claim, it falsely portrays the Senator as anti-Semitic.
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Pressure builds on Democrats to include marriage equality in party platform
WASHINGTON — The Obama campaign released a statement Thursday reiterating the president’s support for marriage equality, but falling just short of endorsing a call for its inclusion in the official party platform.
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‘It Gets Better’ producers turn lenses to LGBT politics
Dan Savage and the producing team behind the “It Gets Better” documentary specials for MTV and Logo have announced a new project that will examine openly LGBT political candidates and how they prepare to run for office.
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Advocacy groups seek to raise $3.5 million for Baldwin’s U.S. Senate bid
A trio of advocacy groups has launched an independent expenditure campaign with a goal of raising $3.5 million to help Rep. Tammy Baldwin in her bid to become the first openly gay member of the U.S. Senate.
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$1 million attack on Tammy Baldwin’s Senate campaign produces little
Two separate half-million dollar attack ad campaigns targeting U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) in the Wisconsin Senate race may have produced zip for the special interest groups that launched them.
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Gay GOP candidate Fred Karger ends presidential campaign
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. — Fred Karger, the first openly gay presidential candidate from a major political party in American history — ended his campaign on Friday.
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Gay candidates win primaries in California, Nevada, Maine
Nevada and Maine could see the number of openly gay state lawmakers triple after Victory Fund-endorsed candidates advanced in primary elections this week, while in California, nine LGBT state legislative candidates won their primaries, setting the state up to elect the largest LGBT caucus ever.
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Would ‘President Romney’ undo pro-LGBT advances?
As President Obama and Mitt Romney articulate competing visions for the future in their presidential campaigns, most LGBT rights advocates agree the choice couldn’t be more stark given the advances the community has seen over the past three-and-a-half years and the anti-gay positions espoused by the Republican candidate.
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Commentary
Surrendering our freedoms
We are in the midst of a slow motion variation of an assassination. You may well be fooled into thinking that it is aimed at stopping the re-election of the President, but it is actually aimed directly at the hearts and minds of “we, the people.” Would-be despots and tyrants, masquerading as bureaucrats under the guise of think tanks, have been busily organizing the dishevelment of society in order to maintain and increase the profits of the privileged, their positions of power, and the power of those positions…
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New Mexico poised to elect first openly gay state legislator
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jacob Candelaria is poised to become the first openly gay man to serve in the New Mexico state legislature.