gay rights

It started with a suicide and ended with one of the most ill-conceived, bigoted, and frankly asinine pieces of legislation ever written. The bill is known as "Matt's Safe School Law", and it was inspired by the story of Matt Epling, who killed himself in 2002 after an anti-gay bullying incident....

I am so sick and tired of writing some version of this story every couple of months. His name was Jamie Hubley. He was 15 years old, and if I had my way, outside of those around him, you'd never once hear his name, read his story, or think about him. He would be, for all intents and purposes,...

The level of hatred and discrimination toward gay people in this country is an embarrassment. Someday, our more enlightened descendants will look back in horror, much the way we look back at the KKK and wonder what the hell they were thinking. Even now, I listen daily to folks I call friends refer...

In a world of high unemployment, world recession, ridiculous energy prices, inflation, banking crises across the globe and major warfare across some of the most sensitive geo-political regions in the world, it takes a particularly dense politician to run for office on the anti-gay, anti-abortion...