Our Civil Rights Paradox
By Abby Dees Thinking Out Loud I've often thought I should write a column called, "Weird Things Lawyers Do," to explain to normal people why attorneys, like [...]
Pages past tense #8
Parting Glances Fifty years ago Detroit's Washington Boulevard was a busy setting for exclusive shops, upscale restaurants, elegant bistros, stretching [...]
Presidential progress
By Eric W. Rader SpeakOut In his three years as president, Barack Obama has taken a number of actions to advance LGBT equality in the United States. Only one [...]
State Rep. Jeremy Faison
Creep of the Week Suicide is one of those things with no positives. I mean, no one kills him or herself because things are going well. Even assisted suicide, [...]
The rues have changed
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith Transmissions If you happen to be transgender, then you have a reason to celebrate: the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) [...]
A familiar issue needs to vent
By Leslie Robinson General Gayety I'm Gay Marriage, and I'm mad. Those alleged experts over at the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press–and [...]
Creep of the Week: Heather Wilson
I've been reading about Kenneth Weishuhn, a 14-year-old who recently took his own life after reportedly enduring death threats after coming out as gay at [...]
Rainbows and Glee
Compiled by Howard Israel S/he Said "Do I really think that this is the kind of thing that's contagious? I don't know. When I was a teenager and I saw James [...]
Same-Sex Wedding Gospel
Parting Glances 1. In the Year of the Grand Delusion, during the Reign of Lost War Rumors, a decree went out from the Tetrarch of Theocracy, abiding in the [...]
Interesting follow up with the rugby player who suffered a stroke that "turned him gay." What do you think? Can something like a stroke "turn" someone gay? If so, how does that challenge the nature vs. nurture argument?
Heard on Facebook Sorry; not buying it. More likely he was always gay and is using this as a way of making himself alright with his orientation. -Laura [...]
Coming out, latest research
Compiled by Howard Israel S/he Said "Bisexuality made sense to me, in theory, before I ever kissed a girl. And this was pre-Madonna kissing Britney Spears, [...]