Gay rights activist and “Beaver Bunch” star AJ went down to re-enlist in the U.S. Army yesterday. This is her first hand account of the hate speech she witnessed in the army recruitment office in Long Beach, California.
The legality of DADT changes overnight once again – it now appears that the military can discharge gay soldiers, at least for the next 24 hours and/or weekend.
Midterm elections are coming up! Aren’t you so excited? There’s a lot of people excited/not excited about Proposition 19 in California, it would legalize marijuana, wanna hear about it ok.
“The Rent Is 2 Damn High Party feels if you want to marry a shoe, I’ll marry you.”
As of today, the military still can’t enforce Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and are forced to allow gays and lesbians to enlist – but with the Obama administration still fighting the ruling, there’s no telling how long that will last.
In which it is revealed that the Pentagon has at the very least been seriously considering a gay/straight segregation option in the event of a DADT repeal, and in which our feelings range from “angry” to “unsurprised/resigned.”
It’s been two days since a federal judge put an injunction on enforcement of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. It sounds great, but there haven’t been many changes yet and the Department of Justice has already indicated clear plans to appeal the decision.
As of 12 PST today, the military is barred from enforcing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, thanks to judge Virginia Phillips.
How much do you care about the New York gubernatorial race? Well good, because Carl Paladino DOESN’T CARE ABOUT YOU EITHER, you gay lesbian homo gayface lesbosaur. Really, though, he clearly doesn’t.
“Jeanine [Blanchette] admitted herself to a hospital in September. She was put on prescription medication and was released several days later. Her mother feels she was released too soon.”
Taking stock of what fresh hell of gay teen bullying suicide crisis nightmare heartbreak grief we have woken up into today. There’s some good news and also Ellen, so all in all you should probably read it.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed.
If there’s any more bad news today, we’re just going to shut down for the day and start over again tomorrow, because this is fucking ridiculous. The Assistant Attorney General of Michigan is stalking and harassing a college student, because he’s insane and the student is gay. We hate everything.
Judge Walker, our collective judicial heartthrob, has announced that he’ll be leaving the bench at the end of this year in a decision he says has nothing to do with Proposition 8.
Is this real. What is happening. I don’t even
The conclusion to our brief and largely ironic community romance with Ann Coulter. “Blacks must be looking at the gays saying, ‘Why can’t we be oppressed like that?’”
This week has been disheartening for a lot of us queer activists, but cheer up a little bit because Legal Eagle Jessica is here to share some GOOD NEWS about gay adoptions in Florida.
When Judge Phillips ruled Don’t Ask Don’t Tell unconstitutional, she issued an injunction so that no more soldiers could be discharged until the case was resolved. It would have been relatively simple for Obama and the Department of Justice to let the injunction stand and let the issue rest. HEY, GUESS WHAT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ISN’T DOING.
There are jokes about how politicians lie so much. How do you know a politician is lying? His mouth is moving. Something like that.
Bill Clinton did not think DADT was gonna be like this, Rachel Maddow explains why DADT opponents are full of sh*t, and John McCain is either totally ignorant or lying. Either way, don’t ask anybody or tell anybody anything.