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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 ...
The Chill in Georgia is More Than the Weather
It was a dark, cloudy, chilly day here in Georgia. But it wasn’t just the weather. That Alaskan beauty pageant runner-up Sarah Palin was in our state today. Palin was here to campaign for Republican Incumbent Senator Saxby Chambliss, who ...
Florida Judge Rules Gay Adoption Ban in Unconstitutional
In the right-wing war on LGBT America, we continue to win a few and lose a few. Today, we won one. The Miami Herald reports that Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman has ruled that Florida’s 30-year ban on adoption by gays and lesbians i...
Burundi Moves to Criminalize Homosexuality
File this under: “as bad as things are for the LGBT community in America, it could be worse.” This just in from the InternationalGay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC): In an unexpected move, the National Assembly of Burundi...
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...
MEGA Family Project Founder Speaks at Atlanta’s Join the Impact Protest
Here’s a look at Kathy Kelly’s speech at the Join the Impact! protest in Atlanta on Saturday, November 15. Kathy is founder and executive director of the MEGA Family Project. The non-profit organization began as Marriage Equality Georgi...
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 ...
Update: Georgia Joins the Impact to Protest Against Anti-Gay Prop8 Amendment
The protests in Georgia in conjunction with Join the Impact are gathering steam, with several other Georgia cities planning protests tomorrow (Saturday Nov. 15) at 1:30 p.m. Protests are being coordinated nationwide to send a visible message of the...
Gay Atlanta to Join Protest Against California’s Proposition 8
Groups are organizing around the country to demonstrate the LGBT community’s disappointment over the passage of the anti-gay marriage measure, Proposition 8, in California, as well as anti-gay marriage amendments that were also approved by narr...
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...
Should Melissa Etheridge Pay California Taxes?
Somebody, give Melissa Etheridge some water. While you’re at it, pour me a glass. Etheridge is burning mad about the California gay marriage ban, and I am right there with her. She wrote a post on The Daily Beast blog where she suggests tha...
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...
If You’re Out There, John Legend Will Inspire You
Recording artist John Legend appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO Friday night, and performed his Obama-inspired song, “If You’re Out There” to close out Maher’s last pre-election show. As he did in his performance a...
A Georgia Voter’s Guide for Queers
The 2008 election is upon us, and it’s time for LGBT Georgians to vote. As in all elections, the media attention is primarily focused on the Presidential race and a few other major contests like the U.S. Senate race between Republican incumba...
Last Chance for Advance Voting
Bizarrely, Georgia law prohibits early voting after today. This is your last chance to get your vote in before the expected long lines on election day next Tuesday. If you want to get your vote in, now’s the time. Georgia Queers, go scare...
Ga Equality Rallying Support for LGBT Voter Mobilization
Georgia Equality (GE) has announced a special event just before the election to raise funds for its Rally The Vote 08 effort. An evening of cocktails and politics to support the work of Georgia Equality will be held on Wednesday, October 29 from 6 ...
Things to Do in Connecticut: Get Gay Married
Aahh, autumn in New England. There is so much beauty. Take Connecticut for example. Many of us outside of the Northeast think of it only as New York City’s suburb, but this charming little state has a lot to offer, and enjoys a special pl...
Live Blogging the Pain and Suffering of Another Presidential Debate
9:10 pm - Jeez, I never realized what a smartass John McCain is. Within the first minute of his first remarks, he said it was good to finally see Sen. Obama at a town hall meeting, with a smirk. He is a true red Republican. Sarcasm and belittling&...
Wake Up and Smell the Democracy
If you’re the type who often procrastinates, and you have not yet registered to vote, then you’ve done it again. Today is the last day to register to vote in Georgia. It’s the same in many other states as well, with deadlines sweepi...
Down the Rabbit Hole with Sarah Palin
Kudos to Aden Nak for putting together this amazingly accurate and hilarious flow chart that makes Sarah Palin’s nonsensical performance in the vice presidential debate fit some sort of logic. Nothing Palin said made much sense to me until I r...
Palin Supports Gay Rights But Not Gay Rights
I have not been able to blog for a while now. The complete disintegration of my country has had me speechless. Between the stock market crash, McCain “suspending” his campaign to hang out in New York for a while and the House of Represe...
Shame on Political Hypocrisy, Media Bias and Indifferent Americans
Perhaps being a “new” American, recently naturalized, makes for a more patriotic point of view. Comedian and late night talk show host Craig Ferguson recently went on a rant about the hypocrisy of much of our political process, the asle...
Dems to Get Peppy at Mary’s
If, like me, you’ve had just about enough of John McCain and his attack dog, you might want to head over to Mary’s bar in East Atlanta tonight. Mary’s is hosting a Democratic Pep Rally to encourage voter registration and raise money...
Suffering Through a Night of Republican Speeches
I’m not sure I can do this without popping a vein, but I’m watching the Repulican National Convention on CNN and will live blog through it. With a stiff drink near the keyboard. 10:15 pm - Sarah Palin’s sister Heather Bruce descri...
