News + Politics
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Gay-fearing Bob Marshall wants Virginia National Guard to ban gays; Governor McDonnell disagrees [video]
”If I needed a blood transfusion, and the guy that’s gonna give me the transfusion has committed sodomy 14 times in the last month —...
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Rachel Maddow features gay soliders post DADT; Credits Obama with keeping promises [video]
Monday night Rachel Maddow featured clips from her extensive coverage of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that bars gays from serving openly in the US...
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Gay blogger hints he’ll release questionable photo connected to Sen. Lindsey Graham
”I wonder if Lindsey Graham knows I have pictures of a man who spent the night at his house. pls RT” — Saturday, December 18,...
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United Nations restores “sexual orientation” to human rights resolution despite Arab, African objections
”Even if those countries do not support gay rights, you would think they would support our right not to be killed.” Jessica Stern, of the...
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Pelosi, Others Celebrate “Joyful Day” at DADT Repeal Act Ceremony
[Photo: The audience and members of the media — as well as a set of pens — await the arrival of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who...
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UPDATE: DADT Repeal Signing Is Wednesday Morning
[Photo: President Barack Obama makes Congressional calls from the Oval Office on Dec. 18 before the final Senate vote repealing the ban on gay men...
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Full Circle — With a Lot of Work
It was not a close vote. With 63 senators on one side and 33 senators on the other – and four not voting – the...
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News Analysis: Today’s DADT Repeal Vote, by the Numbers
[Photo: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) speaks to reporters after the successful cloture vote on the bill to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” on...
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Lady Gaga celebrates DADT repeal in Senate
”Can’t hold back the tears+pride. We did it!i Our voice was heard + today the Senate REPEALED DADT. A triumph for equality after 17 YEARS.”...
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DADT Repeal Passes Senate 65-31, Heads to the President’s Desk
[Photo: Mike Almy speaks at a news conference follow the successful cloture vote on the bill to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. (Photo by Chris...
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White House Won’t Commit to Halting DADT Discharges — a Move Urged By Reid, Levin
Saying that they had been “focused” on the vote, a senior White House aide intimately familiar with the administration’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal efforts...
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Senate Achieves Cloture on DADT Repeal, Bill on Path to Become Law
On a 63-33 vote, and with six Republicans voting “yes,” the U.S. Senate — at a little before noon today — voted for cloture on...
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Today Is DADT (Repeal) Day
[Photo: Former Air Force Major Margaret Witt (left), Washington National Guard Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer (Ret.) and Air Force Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach in March 2010...
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DADT Repeal Q-and-A With Lieberman: “We’re on a Very Encouraging Path”
[Photo: Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) speaks about the effort to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” at a news conference on Friday, Dec. 17. Standing behind...
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Gay-obsessed NOM wants to ruin your rainbow
”We are the real rainbow coalition. The gay lobby does not own the rainbow…. We can’t simply let that go by. I mean, families put...
