[This first-hand account comes from the President of the Harvard Queer Students and Allies, who was among those arrested at Occupy Boston in the early AM hours of Tuesday, Oct. 11. Join the Impact MA is gathering with the Occupy Boston … [Read more...]
Ex-Gay Quackery: A Survivor’s Story
This week's edition of Bay Windows leads with an interview with Sam Brinton, an openly gay MIT graduate student, who survived brutal attempts to coerce him into heterosexuality as a minor. Now an activist with Join the Impact … [Read more...]
“Road Rage” Attack on LGBT Ally Scott Herman a Hate Crime
The Boston-based Anti-Violence Project called on state and police attorneys in Salem and Rockingham County, New Hampshire to prosecute the July 29, 2011 attack on fitness expert and LGBT ally Scott Herman as a hate crime. In a … [Read more...]
Romney’s Latest Flip-Flop
Our former Governor is now blaming the LGBT community for his legendary switcheroo on gay rights. http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2011/06/romney-supports-employment-equ.html This line is a classic: "The gay community changed their … [Read more...]
Boycott Tennessee-based businesses?
Monday night, Tennessee Governor Haslam (R) signed an anti-gay bill the Tennessee Equality Project calls the "special access to discriminate" law. http://gay.americablog.com/2011/05/tn-chamber-changes-position-now-opposed.html Replicating … [Read more...]
Marooned in America: The Blizzard of ’10
I rose at 3:30 AM today to get to the airport before 4:30 to check in and get a seat assignment and a boarding pass. I was determined to be on that plane! The flight left about 40 minutes late but still got us to Boston "on time" at 8:45 … [Read more...]
Congress Repeals DADT
The final vote to repeal DADT was decided 65-31. We picked up Burr of North Carolina and Ensign of Nevada on the final vote. The measure now goes to the President. Champagne all around--this is the biggest victory in the history of the LGBT … [Read more...]
Repeal of DADT advances; Dream Act falls
The US Senate by a vote of 63-33 shut down John McCain's filibuster of the repeal of military discrimination against gays ("DADT"). The bill still has a few procedural hurdles to get past before it reaches the President. Still the repeal … [Read more...]
Do polls tilt Republican?
The Real Clear Politics ("RCP") race-by-race average of polls is the second best place for political junkies wanting election predictions to get their fix. (The best guide remains Nate Silver of 538.com.) Yet a Pew Research study released … [Read more...]
Republicans Blowing Smoke
While the Mass. GOP fell short in its ground game, they outdid themselves with spin this election season. Charlie Baker's discredited internal polls are one striking example. Then there was Loscocco's magisterial prounouncement that the … [Read more...]
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