I was a same-sex marriage supporter long before it was cool, I have gay friends. But I until recently I used to say “that’s gay” when I meant “that’s corny” or “that’s cheesy.” A lot. My 20-something gay friends might not give a fuck, but your “It Gets Better” Project made me think about how […]
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Christian Singing Group at a State University Votes to Kick Gay Singer Out
The other members of the group didn’t kick out that gay singer out because he’s gay—that would violate university rules—but because of what that gay singer believes about being gay: The Christian a cappella group Psalm 100 voted unanimously Sunday night to remove one of its members, senior Will Thomason, because of his views on […]
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It Gets Better for County Commissioners, Too
Almost year after the kickoff of Dan Savage‘s “It Gets Better” project, Multnomah County Board of Commissioners has created their own video in the same vein. While it dabbles in LGBTQ awareness, the main focus is on general bullying, and how hard it can be on teenagers in particular. “There are times when things seem […]
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Basic Rights Oregon Launches Gay Marriage Campaign en Español
“Toda persona gay es parte de la familia de alguien.” Basic Rights Oregon and immigrant-rights group CAUSA launched a Spanish-language radio campaign today to bolster support for gay marriage among Oregon’s Latino communities. Listen to the ad here—it includes that funny, super-deep voice that seems to be the sound of every Spanish radio ad ever […]
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The Portland Gay Softball Controversy
Eli Sanders up at our sister paper The Stranger wrote this spring about the federal case the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance is fighting to defend their policy of limiting the number of non-gay players who can play on softball teams in the official gay softball league. The story got some big attention this […]
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Putting “Santorum” In Perspective
Kathryn Jean Lopez thinks Michele Bachmann is skirting the issue of gay marriage and icky, icky gay secks—Christine O’Donnell too!—not because these GOP stuperstars don’t have the courage of their own bigoted convictions, but because I’m a bad, bad man: Rick Santorum has been having that conversation as much as one can in a political […]
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Gay Kids Are Coming Out Younger and Younger
Mom and dad react perfectly when their son—who is just six years old—comes out to them: “Mommy, Kurt and Blaine are boyfriends.” “Yes, they are,” I affirm. “They don’t like kissing girls. They just kiss boys.” “That’s true.” “Mommy, they are just like me.” “That’s great, baby. You know I love you no matter what?” […]
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Santorum Spews: Gay Marriage Tanked the Economy
It wasn’t our economic policies, it wasn’t the housing bubble, it wasn’t unfunded wars, it wasn’t greedy banksters, it wasn’t tax breaks for billionaires. It was homos: “Letting the family break down and in fact encouraging it and inciting more breakdown through this whole redefinition of marriage debate, and not supporting strong nuclear families and […]
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Adam Carolla: “When did we start giving a shit about these people?”
It usually annoys me when GLAAD goes after celebrities for sins of a stray “fag” or for failing to get the memo about the elevation of a word that had long been regarded as harmless and/or affectionate to the status of a hate term. But GLAAD is absolutely right to go after Adam Carolla for […]
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Rick Santorum Backs Gay Rights
But only in Iran: And is he suggesting that the Iranian people were free under the Shah? No argument that things became much, much worse in Iran after the Shah—theocratic regimes, like the one Rick wants to set up here in the USA, are worse than secular ones—but the Iranian people weren’t exactly free under […]
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Labored Metaphor of the Day!
… and no, it has nothing to do with these guys. When asked by the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinal editorial board what he thought was up with “the gays,” GOP Rep. Allen West spun this doozy of a quote: “I like chocolate chip ice cream, and I will continue to like chocolate chip ice cream. So […]
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Traditional Marriage Is Saved!
The feds are deporting the foreign-born spouse of a gay man. The men have lived together for 19 years, they’ve been married for seven, and one of the men is very ill and his partner—the one who is going to be deported—is his sole caregiver.