The Defense Department starts the clock this week on what is expected to be a several-year process in lifting its ban on gays from serving openly in the military.
A special investigation into how the ban can be repealed without hurting the morale or readiness of the troops is expected to be announced Tuesday by Defense [...]

The Republican who took the long-standing Democratic seat previously held by Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts was ask point-blank his thoughts on repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
The guy obviously is a smooth politician. He refuses to come out and say he supports the ban on gays serving openly in the military, even though his scorecard from [...]

A United States police officer has been fired for appearing in gay bondage porn. The officer is suing his department, requesting his job back, saying that if it was straight porn colleagues would be “high-fiving him in the hallway.”
35-year-old Michael Verdugo made $700 for a 15-minute porn film in 1996, but now the appearance has [...]

Courtesy of Democrats.org:

Today our nation will commemorate the life and work of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
Over 40 years ago, Dr. King’s words inspired Rep. John Lewis to join the civil rights movement — and sparked an amazing journey.
This year, Rep. Lewis has recorded a short message about what Martin Luther King Day means to [...]

From NPR:

While on the campaign trail, Barack Obama made hundreds of promises. And throughout the president’s first year in office, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Web site PolitiFact has tracked each one of those commitments.
Just before Obama took office, PolitiFact combed through campaign documents, speeches and debate transcripts to see what promises he had made. They found [...]

Had some homophobe quoting the bible at you to prove just how wrong it is that you’re gay? Take a lesson from President Barlet in how to silence the critics by using the very same pick and mix method of using biblical text to show them just how flawed a strategy it is.

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The number of states where gay marriage is legal will rise to five on January 1st 2010 as New Hampshire joins Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa and Vermont. This means that there is now one more option for gay and lesbian couples who want to marry out of state, but two Michigan State University professors believe they [...]

Here’s a simple, yet perhaps effective method of gaining equality. Visibility is key and the more people who realize they actually know (and maybe even love) someone who is LGBT, the faster acceptance and inclusion will come to our community.
According to a post on news-journalonline:
Experts estimate 5-10 percent of the population is gay.
Assuming that’s about [...]

In what started out as a horse race, but ever slowly and steadily during the night, Houston City Controller, Annise Parker pulled out a win over her opponent Gene Locke, a former city hall attorney.
Parker becomes the first “out” mayor elected to the city hall of a major metropolitan city in the United States. Parker [...]

Last Wednesday, as the New York State Senate voted down a bill that would have legalized same-sex marriage in New York, they were, in essence, voting to require discrimination in the State of New York. That they did it, in part, with the guiding hand of the Catholic Church–who called the defeat, incredibly, “a victory [...]