Creep of the Week: U.S. Department of Defense
Good news for ex-cons! Is a little thing like a burglary or vehicular manslaughter charge getting in the way of your career? Well, fear not. The United States [...]
Dolled up and nowhere to go
Dear Jody Q: My partner, "Sammy," and I have been together for three years, but just moved in together last February after our ceremony on Valentine's Day. We [...]
Observations
by Wayne Besen Anything But Straight When you elect people who choose finance over farming and mutual funds over manufacturing as the base of our economy, [...]
Parting Glances: Soap on a rope
Journal Entry (WEDNESDAY): "Do you see who that is?" elbows my dinner companion anthropologist Rick Robinson, as we leave a Woodward Avenue restaurant near [...]
Creep of the Week: National Organization for Marriage
It's no secret that anti-gay right wingers are obsessed with sex. No doubt folks like Tony Perkins, Don Wildmon and Maggie Gallagher think about your sex life [...]
Parting Glances: Thump now, pump later
I don't consort gladly with Southern Baptists, Hardshell Baptists, Missionary Baptists, Freefall Baptists, Seventh-Day Baptists, or Bible thumpers of similar [...]
The Cruelty of Expectation
By Diane Silver Political IQ Remember these people: Shirley Tan, Jay Mercado and their twin 12-year-old sons. They are just a few of the souls whose lives are [...]
The Gay Moralist: Gathering Storm
by John Corvino Leave it to the National Organization for Marriage to try to rain on our parade. I'm talking about NOM's "Gathering Storm" ad [...]
Creep of the Week: Bob Peters
I wish I could say I was shocked about the recent shooting of 17 people in Binghamton, New York. But I live in America, where gun laws are lax and gun [...]
Parting Glances: What's in a nickname, Feygeleh?
I was in the Sunday habit, a few years back, of taking a suburban bus to Birmingham. Riding with me were regulars, most of whom were off to church, or gave [...]
The Gay Moralist: Springtime for gays
by John Corvino Spring arrived for gays this year, not with daffodils and cherry blossoms, but with Iowa and Vermont. First Iowa, where the state Supreme Court [...]
Creep of the Week: Steve King
Iowa. Corn growing, homo loving Iowa. Who would have thought? Certainly not U.S. Rep. Steve King, an Iowa Republican with glowing rating on the joint Family [...]
