If you have friends or family in any of these states:

Arizona
Colorado
Idaho
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Virginia
Wisconsin
Please “Phone Home” today. It is easy, fast, and could make all the difference in reaching the “Movable Middle.”
Read the tips I wrote in a previous post on how to send an effective message to your loved ones.

When marriage equality is “left up to the States to decide” (which is often a centrist-seeming response many politicians offer), same-sex couples are still denied the federal rights that come with marriage. Social Security benefits is a big one. Another one is the right for a non-U.S. partner to be sponsored to stay in the [...]

From Empire State Pride Agenda:
Today’s New Jersey Supreme Court Decision
At 3:00 today the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously ruled that same-sex couples must have access to the rights and benefits of marriage, and gave the New Jersey legislature six months to decide how to make that happen.
Click here to read the Pride Agenda’s press release, [...]

Rhetoric that attacks gay families refuses to entertain the possibility of competent gay parents, but obsesses over gender instead. “Gay parents deny their children the fundamental necessity to have both a mother and a father.” So goes the Right Wing drum beat.
Okay then, here’s a gay parenting arrangement that offers a mother and a father [...]

The Task Force has set up an online system that makes it really easy for you to spread the word about horribly discriminatory amendments that will be on the ballot in various states in 2006. Here’s the email that came from Matt Foreman, Executive Director of The Task Force:
I am writing to urge you [...]

If you didn’t see Monday night’s Daily Show, Box Turtle Bulletin has posted a hilarious clip. The segment features homo-hostile faux-researcher Paul Cameron — who always, always goes under the category, of “is he for real??” The “reporter” Jason Jones is an actor, of course, but Cameron was not acting.
Jones feigns homophobic [...]

So Karl Rove’s father was gay. (Technically his “step-father” but his primary father nonetheless.)
I was on the road last week when the news first broke. I pretty much assumed it was “old news” by now and I wouldn’t bother blogging about it. But since I continue to witness dropped jaws when I mention it, [...]

When you are used to voting for the gay-friendly candidate, what are queer folks and allies to do when there are no clear pro-gay/anti-gay differences among candidates?
In response to this conundrum, Allan Spear, the first openly gay politician in the State of Minnesota (came out while is office in the 1970’s) is endorsing Keith Ellison [...]

The witchhunt continues for anyone in the military who is gay, or anyone suspected to be gay which apparently includes any man who spends his freetime doing something other than watching football.
Last month’s discharge of an Arabic language specialist was sparked by a rumor from an anonymous email.
According to SLDN, the suspected homosexual was screened [...]

How old do kids from gay families need to be before they realize their families are different?
As soon as their peers notice.
So, right around age two or three.
This reality is in stark contrast to many parents’ perception of their kids’ awareness. Take, for example, a lesbian mom at one of my book [...]