The sun is rising, and I see the future

Awesome video smackdown to the ludicrous NOM below. (Come on, pretend you’re “a California doctor” and say it with me: “a storm is gathering…the clouds are dark, and the winds are strong…and I am AFRAID..” You know you want to.) Parody has it’s place, for sure, but nothing beats real people talking about their […]

Maggie meltdown

“Political movements can–sometimes at great human cost and with great output of energy–sustain a lie but eventually political regimes founded on lies collapse in on themselves.”
This would be a pretty good description of the current state of the anti-gay industry, as it pulls out all the stops in its effort to stop the march of […]

Shatter the Silence

Coming up this Saturday - great work by our friends in Prince William County! Loudoun County students are very much welcome and encouraged to attend, so spread the word:
“Shatter the Silence 2009”
First Annual Gay-Friendly Prince William County Prom
Manassas, VA, April 13, 2009: The Gay Straight Alliance of Prince William, Bull Run Unitarian Universalist Church, […]

Anti-gay activists having a bad day

In a recent column, commentator Kathleen Parker writes about the implosion of the so-called “Christian right,” that three decade long experiment of trying to fuse the Republican Party with a sickeningly misogynist, authoritarian strain of religious dogma. Its monstrous creation, “culture war,” is suddenly not going very well. Parker gives the example of head “culture […]

Secular arguments against marriage equality are useless, says leading anti-gay activist

The striking thing about Iowa, aside from the unprecedented unanimity expressed simply as “Affirmed. All justices concur,” is the sense that finally, finally, a court has said what is so painfully self-evident. This ruling was inevitable. It’s as if the grownups have finally come home and put an end to nonsense like the “oops” argument. […]

Unanimous in Iowa: Marriage is a civil right

The Iowa Supreme Court this morning unanimously upheld gays’ right to marry.
“The Iowa statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution,” the justices said in a summary of their decision.
The Polk County attorney’s office will not be appealing. Couples will be […]