Remembering Stonewall...

Where it all started. via sassy-sara @ flickr Sunday will mark the fortieth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City that are widely considered to be the catalyst of the modern American gay rights movement. In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, police raided the popular Stonewall...

This Is What I Call Progress...

I know this has been covered by several other sites today, but I still wanted to dedicate a short post to the internal State Department memo written by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announcing the extension of benefits to the same-sex partners of Foreign Service officers. There is no word on when...

To Russia With Love...

via drothman @ flickr Russian law explicitly defines marriage as being between a man and a woman. This is not really a shock, given just how well-entrenched the patriarchy is in Russian society, and it’s not as if things are so much better in 46 of the 50 states here in my home country of America....

A Free Pass on Discrimination...

A lawsuit filed by two 16-year-old girls has hit a dead end after the California Supreme Court declined to review the case. The suit was based on the girls’ expulsion from California Lutheran School in Riverside County because they had “bond of intimacy” that was “characteristic...

I’m Not Bigoted, I’m Just Na...

For the love of God, SERIOUSLY?! via violentz @ flickrI was hankering for something to sink my teeth into today, and my fellow harpy Pilgrim Soul dangled some red meat in front of me in the form of this Salon feature in which an anonymous conservative explains why he is opposed to gay marriage. It starts...

Two Brides? Perfect....

CNN’s Lola Ogunnaike reports a story about the first gay marriage on a network soap; last week’s union of Erika Kane’s daughter Bianca to her paramour Reese on “All My Children.”  The happy occasion was as full of bigass flower arrangements, cheesy self-written vows and...