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What to Say to Your Child’s Coming Out

Prepare Yourself for the Unexpected Most parents, according to research, are broadsided by the child’s news that he or she is gay.  Like many parents, you may have suspected that…

Bert and Ernie Snuggle on New Yorker Cover

Conservatives Act As If It’s a Punch and Judy Show Put Sesame Street’s popular and long-standing muppets “Bert and Ernie” snuggling on the cover of the erudite New Yorker (…

Skim Milk Version of Marriage Spoiled, Sort Of

End of Proposition 8 and DOMA On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States (Scotus) ruled, 5 to 4, that Section 3 of DOMA (Defense of Marriage…

June is Gay Pride Month

“June is Busting Out All Over” The Gay Marriage Map June is Gay Pride Month, as recently proclaimed by President Obama.  It’s also the most popular time for heterosexuals to…

Boy Scouts Take Baby Steps for Gay Youth

But Still Dance Around Gay Leaders  On May 23rd, the Boy Scout Council of America, headquartered in Texas, approved a half-measure that would allow openly gay Scouts into the organization…

“That’s so Gay “Presumption

I recently read on-line in GAYSTARNEWS, May 16. 2013, that Glee star, Matthew Morrison, aka Will Schuster, Spanish teacher and Glee Club coach, had to come out straight to a…

Family is Family. Adoption, Foster Care or Biological

Yesterday was Mother’s Day and I realized how lucky I was to have two children.  If it weren’t for adoption and the gift of life from two birth mothers, whom…

34, Black, and Gay

Which one is defining him? Last Monday, NBA free agent Jason Collins came out in a first person essay in Sports Illustrated online which began “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. …

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…