allies for diversity acceptance
Boy Scouts of America Speaks with Forked Tongue
O.K. To Lift Ban On Gay Scouts, But Not for Its Leaders Last Friday, the Boy Scouts of America proposed ending its ban, that the Scouts defended before the Supreme…
Shhhh! It’s GLSEN’S Annual Day of Silence
April 19th is National Day of Silence What is The Day of Silence? The National Day of Silence is a day of action in which students in the U.S. vow…
Tyson Bowers, III, you’ve gone too far this Time!
Re: Facebook story: “Parents Put 16 Year Old Daughter Up for Adoption After Learning She is Gay” There’s a new story circulating via Facebook claiming that a 16 year-old girl…
My So-Called Full Milk Marriage
At age 27, I, and my husband, soon to be thirty, wed. We, knowing of my infertility, walked down the aisle anyway because we wanted to “love, honor, and obey.” Years…
Waiting in Line For the Gay Revolution
Supreme Court Hears Arguments for GLBT Civil Rights 3-26-27 It looked like a Rock Concert. People staying in line since Sunday to get free tickets today to one of the…
God Save The Queen!
Queen Elizabeth Upsets Gay Activists With New “Magna Carter” Charter I don’t have a lot in common with Queen Elizabeth except we both wear sensible shoes, were raised in the…
DOMA, Prop 8, and Thou
In just a few weeks, March 26th and March 27th respectively, , the Supreme Court will consider two major cases involving same-sex marriage: one addressing federal DOMA (Defense of Marriage…
Labels, Schmabels
I am venting today about the need of public figures to come out. Do we care that Chief Executive Officer of Sony Music Entertainment, Clive Davis, came out as bisexual…
Boy Scouts of America’s Half-Ass Solution
BSA Decision on Gay Ban Postponed Until May The Boy Scouts of America have faced turmoil in the past six months. After the Scouts in June had announced their intent…
This Is Not a Shaggy Dog Story
This Is Not a Shaggy Dog Story Yesterday, I read in Huffpost Gay Voices about a Tennessee dog owner who wanted to euthanize his dog because he suspected the dog…
Two January Speeches by Heads of State Couldn’t be More Different
Pope Benedict XVI Vs. President Barack Obama The Pope Has Not Evolved In his global message for World Day of Peace, on January 1, 2013, His Holiness condemned same-sex marriage…
A Stranger’s Death Impacts My Life
Jeanne Manford and I are Connected There are people in your life, past, present, and future who have a major impact on the way you turn out. Maybe it was…
2012 in Sound bites
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly First, The Bad and The Ugly 2012 had some horrific moments: October’s Superstorm Sandy devastated, with biblical proportions, the Eastern Seaboard, from New…