Opinion

I’ve had to do some soul searching recently regarding marriage equality, not because of where I stand on the issue (I firmly believe that every American should have the right to marry the person they choose) but because of where some of my friends stand. This week I had the awesome privilege of witnessing history: […]

Last March (2012), after Starbucks backed a Washington state ballot initiative legalizing same-sex marriage, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) organized a “Dump Starbucks” campaign in response during the annual shareholders’ meeting. The goal was to get closet-cases and people who despise the LGBT community to stop buying cups of coffee at Starbucks, which would

By now if you have not heard about the two cases affecting gay marriage which were heard by the SCOTUS then you have no Facebook and have lived under a rock.  Let’s cut to the chase, here are my predictions (f you want to know my reasons then read the rest of the column): Prop

With everything that has been written about the oral arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the Supreme Court case challenging California’s Proposition 8 (spoiler alert: Prop 8 will most likely be a thing of the past), I’d like to take a different approach and address the haters…….of the LGBT community, specifically those who frequently bring religion

I was thinking about Obama mentioning gay marriage in the State of the Union. Of course, the thing is, that he didn’t mention it. He skated around the issue noncommittally, instead talking about equality, regardless of “what you look like or who you love.” The SOTU is the ultimate bully pulpit, giving the opportunity to

It is shocking that we are still shocking people! Forty years ago, in 1973, the American Psychiatric Association announced that homosexuality was not a mental illness. “Conversion or Reparative therapy” has been rejected by the World Health Organization, the American Psychological Association and almost every other professional therapeutic group in America to date. When a

“Music makes the people come together.” At least that is what one of the 20th century’s finest poets says. Perhaps you’ve heard of her? She has a knack for saying exactly what we are all afraid to say, and occasionally she hitchhikes naked. She also firmly believes that you can meet someone, fall in love

As has been widely reported, Justice Antonin Scalia made a controversial — albeit illuminating — remark during a speech at Princeton University. A student in the audi­ence asked him to justify previously published opinions in the course of which he had compared laws criminalizing homosexuality to those banning bestiality and murder. Scalia defended the comparison,

Wow! How about those referenda!??? Elections are always dicey propositions. People’s votes are affected by so many imponderables — I’d love to think, as someone who teaches public policy, that voters make their decisions after considering contending positions and evaluating them, but we all know better. Especially when measures af­fecting the lives of gay, lesbian,