Straights(!) in da military
Parting Glances According to a recent Newsweek magazine's shocking headliner expose – "The Military's Male-Rape Secret" – the DADT policy in place since 1993 [...]
Transgender safety and rights
S/he Said "I believe that coming out makes for a happier life, but that's not a matter of ethics, that's just corny advice." -Rachel Maddow, about a [...]
Lunatics, politics and heroes
Compiled by Howard Israel S/he Said "We have homophobes on our party. That's disgusting to me. We're all human beings. We're all God's children. Now if [...]
Peel me a sour grape, Camilla!
Parting Glances I'm a patient person (having waited the requisite number of years to be thought of as well tempered – i.e., over the hill) but as my royal [...]
Teonna Monae Brown
Creep of the Week There are plenty of reasons why Chrissy Lee Polis, a 22-year-old transgender woman should have thought twice about going to McDonald's on [...]
What the Bible doesn't say
By John Corvino The Gay Moralist Gay-rights advocates often complain that our opponents are selective in their use of the Bible. Indeed they are. But so are [...]
Poll: A senator who's speaking at the U-M law school graduation ceremony opposes gay rights, and some students don't want him to be allowed to speak. What should U-M do?
Heard on Facebook Allow the speaker. We all have the right to free speech. 7 votes Take back his invitation. Gay rights are civil rights. 23 votes Rather [...]
A petrifying fairy tale
Parting Glances Once upon a time there was a forest. It was a small forest with only twelve trees. Over the years – perhaps a hundred or two – the forest [...]
Health, humor, history
Compiled by Howard Israel S/he said "It is important for Afro American and African Diasporic gay men to understand that they have a history of loving and [...]
Will gay marriage undermine monogamy?
By John Corvino Recently I received the following inquiry via my website: "As a single older closeted gay man, I don't understand how we can ask for marriage [...]
Kobe Bryant throws an anti-gay slur at a referee during a game and gets slapped with a $100,000 fine from the N.B.A. Was his punishment enough?
Only a $100K?!? For being a hate monger it should have been more. Can't stand this guy. -Darren Cardinal I love how he says it was "in the moment" and does [...]
