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Life on Q provides news, information and insights on issues that affect queer life. We look at life from a progressive queer perspective, podcasting and blogging on politics, discrimination, community, health, and arts and entertainment for and by LGBTQ
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Remember the Milk and Recruit More Gays
It’s Oscar time, and I’ve started my annual Run of the Movies, trying to fit it viewings of as many Academy Award-nominated films as I can before the big show. Last night, I went to see Milk, and got a healthy dose of vitamin D (for ...
There is a Santa Clause and Christmas Comes Early for Democrats
With the exception of Proposition 8 and other anti-gay amendments passed earlier this month, you have to believe there is a God and a Santa Claus, and that Christmas has come early this year. Several media outlets are reporting that Ann Coulter̵...
Ministers Preach to Gays and Straights at Atlanta’s Join the Impact Protest Against Prop 8
Several ministers spoke in both religious and secular terms about the issues of gay rights and gay marriage at the Join the Impact! protest in Atlanta last Saturday. Take a look at Life on Q’s video of the speech by Dr. Margaret Aymer at Atlant...
Gay Marriage? White Knot?
Groups are springing up everywhere to add to the momentum of community activism in the aftermath of the passage of Proposition 8 in California. One interesting one is called White Knot. The idea is to create a new symbol for marriage equality. ...
Georgia Equality’s Jeff Graham Speaks at the Join the Impact Protest in Atlanta
Take a look at Jeff Graham’s speech at the Join the Impact protest on Saturday, November 15. Jeff is executive director of Georgia Equality, a statewide political advocacy group for Georgia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender commun...
The New York Times Buries Gay Prop 8 Protest Story
I am getting more than a little irritated by the mainstream media’s coverage of the anti-gay marriage amendments in California and elsewhere. Leafing through my Sunday New York Times this morning, I got hotter than my coffee to search for an a...
LGBT Atlantans Crowd to State Capitol for Join the Impact Protest
A very large crowd descended on Georgia’s Gold Dome this afternoon, braving the cold and wind to protest the passing of California’s Proposition 8, yet another in a long and shameful line of anti-gay marriage amendments. Here are a few ...
Keith Olberman Takes Straights to Task Over Gay Marriage Vote
I have never understood why the African-American community joined forces with the religious right to campaign for intolerance and discrimination in our country. It seems to me the height of hypocrisy. Our country began with the creed that all men w...
An Historic Election Night At An Historic Place
After watching the election returns last Tuesday at a Democratic event, I told my friend David that I wanted to stop by the King Center on the way home. After Barack Obama’s historic vicotry, I was expecting a handful of people at the grave o...
One Step Forward, Three Steps Back for Full Equality in the 2008 Election
I still have not taken off my Barack Obama t-shirt. I don’t think I have ever been so excited, relieved and encouraged by a Democratic candidate for president. I was a Clinton loyalist in the 90s, and had a difficult time choosing between H...
Thank You Howard Dean
A little over five years ago, my intense but private political interest became an active obsession. I was frustrated and worried by the George W. Bush “victory” in the 2000 election and by a war of little value and of even less justific...
Where to Watch Election Returns with Like-Minded ATL Democratic Voters
If, like me, you are looking forward to going out tonight to watch election returns roll in, in the company of like-minded fellow citizens, I thought I’d round a up a list of election return parties in the metro Atlanta area. Here are some of...
