Threats of Marriage

How does my marriage threaten you? What if they protested straight marriage? Folks take a stand against men and women who want to love other men and women. They say “Preserve sanctity.” Read more

Pick and Choose

The California Supreme Court has ruled that a group of doctors cannot use their religion as a legal excuse for violating the civil rights of their former patient, an Oceanside lesbian, to whom they refused an infertility treatment.  Read more

Kill All Gay People

In the recent debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, McCain said that marriage is between a man and a woman. He also said that he wants to “defeat evil.” If a group of people are not allowed the same rights as other people in our country, then there must be a reason for it. Read more

My Thoughts, My Truths, My Journeys

I often find myself alone on my balcony gazing up into the sky thinking about the world and the awful state that it is in. Every time I turn on the television there is news of famine and war…. Read more

Beginning of the End?

I get the impression that sexuality, for many younger people, is now just about sexuality, and not that much about identity. Is this the beginning of the end, then, of identity politics? Read more

Right is Wrong

Since the founding of the Moral Majority Coalition by Jerry Falwell in 1979, members of the American conservative movement and what has become its electoral vehicle, the Republican Party, have presented themselves as proponents of what they like to call “family values” Read more

Silly Sally, Facts are for Everyone

Sally Kern, a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, says she has been called by God to be a cultural warrior. Kern, a Religious Right favorite known for her strident attacks on gay people and insistence that her version of Christianity is the only true faith…. Read more

Hire Gay? No Way!

Great news everyone, I found out this news today in school, there are currently no laws in place against discrimination based on sexual orientation. Just look it up if you do not believe me, The Equal Employment Opportunity Committee has not one law in place to project gays. Read more

Just Do It

It is, of course, an election year. While many of us are thinking about the presidential election, there are many seats in political office open this year and you can make a difference. Your own level of political action and involvement is personal, of course, and may be decided based on your own priorities, your time and more. Read more

Don’t Call Me Gay

The rainbow gay and lesbian flag flew high when about 200 protesters gathered in Joburg on Tuesday.
Bright colours, high heels and heart-shaped glasses did not detract from the serious nature of the protest at the Sunday Sun’s Media Park offices in Auckland Park. Read more

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