This June was a month of double celebration in Norway.
Firstly, the gender-neutral marriage law was passed, making Norway only the sixth country in the world to legalise same sex marriage. Furthermore, this was in the form of eradicating the gender specific language in the previous marriage law and rewriting the constitution.
Secondly of course, gay pride [...]
Conference call to include Rep. Ellen Tauscher and hearing witnesses, address the need to repeal discriminatory policy
WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, July 22, the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, the Human Rights Campaign, Parents, Families, & Friends of Lesbians and Gays, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, National Stonewall Democrats and Log [...]
Lately I’ve wondered what the world will be like when my two year old niece is my age. Just yesterday I was watching her chase bubbles around the back yard without a care in the world. She doesn’t know about discrimination yet, she thinks that money is just more paper she can color on, and [...]
Like so many others, I was so deeply disappointed last week to learn that the Matthew Shepard Act had been dropped from the final version of the Defense Authorization Bill.
I clearly remember learning about the brutal hate crime that resulted in Matthew’s death. I was a year out of college, planning my wedding, and was [...]
Once again I have come across something online that many of you may or may not have seen before. I would like to republish it here because I think it conveys a message with the grace and dignity that we all wish we possessed at one time or another. Words like this should be shared [...]
My friends & family know me to be a person who “says it like it is.” This pic is me at a recent anti-war rally. I could have said “USA out of Iraq” or “Impeach” but the truth is this country has a painful history of going around killing brown people whenever it suits us. [...]
yesterday our government passed a law to legalize same sex marriages country-wide
it wasn’t easy as there’s some party that is totally against it… the leader of that party I like to call miniBush… for obvious reasons… he’s as stubborn as stupid as anti gay and anti abortion and pro war as Bush is… [...]