Do you ever get tired of fighting for who you love? It seems as if the gay community has had to do so since the beginning of time. Many of us have had to fight with our parents, when it’s election time we have to fight to hope the vote goes our way, and internally [...]
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, [...]
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 Cabin Republicans will hold [...]
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 [...]
