Only in Scandinavia…
By Emily Rutherford - Jan 29th, 2009 at 2:53 pmIceland is set to have the world’s first openly gay head of government. MP Johanna Sigurdardottir will step forward to fill the void of power…
Posts Tagged ‘LGBT’
Real-World Curiosity
By Emily Rutherford - Jan 15th, 2009 at 2:32 pmFeministing has a post up about the weighty social issues the MTV show The Real World is tackling this season. The current season of the…
Next Up in the Gay Marriage Debate: Maine
By Jesse Singal - Jan 13th, 2009 at 2:20 pmSays the Associated Press:
State Sen. Dennis Damon is introducing a bill to end the prohibition on gay marriage in Maine. House Republican Josh Tardy,…
Obama Support(ed)(s) Gay Marriage
By Dylan Matthews - Jan 13th, 2009 at 10:23 amBen Smith has a good catch: during his first run for State Senate in 1996, Barack Obama responded to an issues questionnaire from Outlines, a…
Obama’s Other Pastor Choices Don’t Outweigh Rick Warren
By Emily Rutherford - Jan 12th, 2009 at 6:06 pmRuss just wrote about the good news that Bishop Gene Robinson, an openly gay Episcopalian, will be delivering the invocation at an inauguration-related event at…
Old, Religious… and Homophobic?
By Jamie Henn - Jan 9th, 2009 at 9:32 amA new study shows that old age, conservatism, and frequent attendance of religious services were the best indicators of whether someone voted for Prop 8,…
We Don’t Need Laws Against Hate Speech
By Jesse Singal - Jan 7th, 2009 at 5:05 pmI’ve argued before that laws restricting certain types of offensive speech are a bad idea, and I think this story out of Boston is a…
The Prop 8 Saga Continues
By Emily Rutherford - Jan 6th, 2009 at 2:33 pmThe Los Angeles Times says that California Attorney General Jerry Brown is getting flak for his new theory in favor of the invalidation of Proposition…
Things to Read: Playing with Gender
By Kay Steiger - Dec 18th, 2008 at 3:20 pmOver at Campus Progress today, Miriam Pérez, an editor at Feministing, writes a review of a book that is supposed to be a “tell all”…
In the Navy: William White?
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 18th, 2008 at 12:00 pmIf Obama wants to get the gay and lesbian community back on his side after the Rick Warren invocation, this wouldn’t be a half bad…
Teen Pregnancy: Not Just for Straight People Anymore
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 17th, 2008 at 10:00 amHere’s a simultaneously weird and depressing stat: lesbian and bi teenage girls in British Columbia are far more likely to get pregnant than their straight…
Ending the Prop 8 Blame Game
By Loryn Wilson - Dec 15th, 2008 at 12:42 pmOver at Feministe, Cara says that perhaps it’s time that people stopped blaming gays for the loss of their own rights:
I’m personally really sick…
Sexism Gone Wild
By Emily Rutherford - Dec 15th, 2008 at 10:48 amA guest poster at Bilerico has a disturbing tale to tell about a “college”-themed movie filmed at Agnes Scott College, a women’s college in Atlanta:…
If You’re Reading This, They Got to Me
By Jesse Singal - Dec 13th, 2008 at 2:21 pmThe Economist reports on some controversy in New York’s state government regarding gay marriage. The most entertaining part is this quote from State Senator Ruben…
