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What Andrew Sullivan Missed in the Mozilla Case
The recent brouhaha over the appointment and rapid resignation of Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla prompted an unusual amount of soul-searching in the gay community. The spotlight has been…More
Corporate Rights
“License to discriminate” laws, which would allow a company to refuse service to GLBT customers on religious grounds, are being debated in many state capitals, and a few states, notably Arizona,…More
Is Your Hubby a Homo?
This sign appeared outside the Atlah World Missionary Church in Harlem, and it provoked as much confusion as it did anger: “Obama has released the homo demons on the black…More
Slipping in Sochi
We can’t resist a nod to the men of the doubles luge, who take such a ribbing for the physical positioning their sport requires, what with one man lying on…More
The End Is Near
It takes a lot for the Family Research Council to get our attention these days, and they must know this, because their president, Tony Perkins, keeps escalating the level of…More
Matthew McConaughey’s Glaring Omission
THE 2014 OSCARS have now been thoroughly dissected, and again this year they represent a cataclysmic shift in society, or so the critics and bloggers high and low have declared.…More
Our Pick for the Oscar: Dallas Buyers Club
HOW DID AIDS change the struggle for GLBT rights? The question has been debated from different angles ever since it became clear that the epidemic would irrevocably alter…More
Whither Gay Rights in India?
ANOTHER FIRST! The “India Conference at Harvard” is an annual, weekend-long, high-visibility event held at the Kennedy School of Government (on February 15th and 16th). This year, for the first time, the conference featured a panel expressly devoted to gay issues, titled “LGBT Rights in India: The Way Forward.”
The need for such a panel now can be traced to a recent ruling by the Indian Supreme Court …
MoreKinky Caps
And now, coming to you from Mobile, it’s the Prancing Elites! Down main street they sashayed, part of the Christmas parade in Semmes, Alabama, a town of 2,000 that wasn’t…More
Sweatin’ with Cong. Schock
When Barney Frank came out as gay in his forties, he was relieved to discover that his constituents really didn’t care about the sex life of a middle-aged man, and…More