On the "God Hates Fags" website, Phelps has this to say about the upcoming protest in Boston: BCA Black Box Theatre - God Sent Matt 2 Hell! 527-551 Tremont Street. Matt is in Hell! Deal with it. Just read Romans 1, and see him and you in … [Read more...]
Milk
Today marks the 30th anniversary of Harvey Milk's assassination. To honor Milk's life, thirty or so of us including Mark Solomon, Chris Mason, Don Gorton and Ryan MacNeely held a candle light vigil before going to the movie's premier last … [Read more...]
Today Is Write to Marry Day
Community leaders in California are asking that we promote the following three items to blog readers: The greatest need is for money: To move the message, the campaign must push hard in print, radio and television ads. To have your readers … [Read more...]
Marriage Equality May Lose in California
Don't let it happen. The polls are still close, but some polls are shifting toward Team Homophobia. Why? The glbt community has been outraised by around 10 million. A recent, deceptive ad has been very successful for equal-marriage foes and … [Read more...]
Help Protect our Pro-Equality Supermajority – It’s Time to Get Involved
There's less than two weeks to go till the Democratic Primary here in Massachusetts. Yes, we know – there's so much interesting stuff going on in national politics, it can be hard to focus on the races we've got here at … [Read more...]
Gang Hate Crime Attack
There's been a lot of terrible attacks against GLBT people and those who support us recently, but in many ways, this one makes me the saddest. A teen who was a member of the Family Swans (a subset of the Bloods gang) was killed by fellow … [Read more...]
T vs. the GLB: When Allies Attack
And just fyi, a GLB version of ENDA has repeatedly been introduced in Congress since 1974 and only ever had a vote once in the Senate, where it failed on a 49-50 vote during the DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) discussion. It's a sad fact, … [Read more...]
Thanks, Speaker DiMasi and House Equality Supporters.
This is music to my ears. The state House of Representatives is likely to debate the final vote on repealing the 1913 law Tuesday, PolitickerMA.com has learned. According to a House leadership source with knowledge of the legislative … [Read more...]
House Priorities?
MassPoliticker says the House just passed, by overwhelming numbers, a tax holiday in August, which will cost this state $16 million dollars so people can save $50 if they spend a $1000. Brilliant! Meanwhile, there's talk that … [Read more...]
Deval’s daughter comes out
Governor Patrick's daughter Katherine is a lesbian. That's not exactly "news," but as the Governor and his family have recognized, he's a public figure so these kinds of things will inevitably make it into the papers. As Katherine … [Read more...]