While Los Angeles radio DJ Paul V put this smashmix of Barack Obama’s speeches, techno, rap and world music together (along with a few choice lines from Gov GILF as a counterpoint) before the election, the words of our president-elect resonate strongly in light of California’s passage of Prop 8 and the passage of Propositions [...]

Thousands gathered in Chicago’s Federal Plaza to say no to “H8te”

Over seven thousand protesters filled Sunset Junction, the heart of Silver Lake, still the center of hardcore, funky, old school gay Los Angeles–though the past decade’s influx of straights has raised the cry of "Get rid of the baby-daddies and bring back the leather daddies!" Saturday night Silver Lake was vitalized, vivified and electrified as [...]

Melissa and Tammy Lynn While the grassroots are moving  to have the IRS investigate the tax exempt status of churches involved in the passage of California’s repressive ban on same-sex marriage,  Grammy and Academy Award winner singer Melissa Etheridge has another plan for those un-personed by Prop 8: Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I [...]

Over 1000  protesters in West Hollywood, upset over the passage of Prop 8 took to the streets chanting "Equal Rights."  Around midnight, while several hundred stayed in WeHo, one large group marched east along Santa Monica Blvd and another along Sunset Bvd, then up to Hollywood and Highland Blvds where a protester was arrested when [...]

I suspect that the outcome of this election may have been best summed up seventy years ago by Langston Hughes. His words say more about the moment we’re experiencing than anything I could add. So, courtesy of Mindfully.org, here he is.

Victory Fund award winner Margaret Cho wants to make things clear: She is miffed over Palin, misogyny, and Palin’s misogyny. It’s a love/hate thing: Cho admits wanting to rumble in the rubyfruit jungle with Palin, but the comedian also decries the politico’s anti-gay stance. And though Cho rants against the misogyny directed at the GOP [...]

Longtime Goodyear employee Lilly Ledbetter and equal pay activist Lilly Ledbetter said a few words before Christy Hardin Smith and Pam Spaulding’s panel discussion on Obama and the Courts.