It is with great joy that I note the Senate passage and today’s signing by President Obama of a bill that should lead to the eventual repeal of “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” The policy was pure discrimination, and has no place in a fair and equal society. But the events of the last few days [...]

With chances fading quickly that Congress will end the policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell,” The Hill has concluded this will be a political disaster for Obama. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) may not be able to secure enough votes to pass the bill because of language repealing the ban on gays in the [...]

Igor Volsky at ThinkProgress focused on how the House’s health care reform bill should help the GLBT community. While health reform does not directly address many GLBT issues, it does try to fix many of the problems with our current system that do strongly disadvantage the community. For example, the House bill ends the unfair [...]

Today is National Day Without a Gay, in which LGBT and their allies will be out with the lavender flu. In support of that effort, I’ll be posting about the LGBT community to make this Gay News Day. Barack Obama’s Presidential Inaugural Committee has chosen the Lesbian and Gay Band Association, with members from across [...]

The California Supreme Court announced today that it will consider cases opposing Proposition 8 on the basis that it improperly revised the state constitution to eliminate marriage equality. The court also decline to stay enforcement of Prop 8.

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 [...]