Would You Trade A Kidney For Freedom?

The case of the Scott sisters, the siblings whose life sentence for an $11 robbery was criticized as an example of blatant racism by numerous civil rights organizations, has a resolution. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has decided to use his powers of clemency to grant their release. However, the terms of release are as controversial [...]

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A major criticism among the black left is that President Obama is able to get away with acts that would incur the wrath of the public if committed by a white person. Examples include his tendency to abandon independent-minded black people for political expediency (Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones, Shirley Sherrod), publicly shaming the black community [...]

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At what point does complaining become a distraction from dealing with the issue at hand? It is a valid question to ask after observing a couple of events this past weekend. With much of the nation’s political energy focused on health care reform, I was not surprised to see Iowa Representative Steve King Davis call [...]

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New Hampshire is currently debating HB1590, which would repeal the state’s marriage equality laws. Representative Nancy Elliott, a Republican, saw this as an opportunity to go into a lengthy description of anal sex as a way of explaining why she supports the bill. You’ll have to watch the video to get her statement in its [...]

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For the past few months I have been writing about the horrendous proposal to criminalize LGBTs in Uganda. President Obama and Hilary Clinton both spoke against the bill at the National Prayer Breakfast, but a gay Ugandan offered his opinion at a competing event, the American Prayer Hour. View the clip below.

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Since the 1990s, gay Republicans have remained loyal to their party in spite of a platform that opposes marriage equality, adoption rights, open military service, employment protections, and most other items of interest for the LGBT community. When asked why they continued to support people who don’t support them, the rationale was that they were [...]

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History was made on January 8 when Mia Love was sworn in as mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah before a crowd of 120 people. She is the first black woman to be elected mayor in the state’s history. Love previously served on the Saratoga Springs city council, but her victory was still something of a [...]

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Oklahoma Republican legislator Sally Kern is infamous for her rabid homophobia, once stating that gays posed a bigger threat to the nation than terrorists. She now has her sights on restricting divorce for heterosexuals. Kern has proposed House Bill 2279, which would prohibit using incompatability or irreconcilable differences as justification for divorce under the following [...]

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Congratulations are definitely in order to Annise Parker, who won a run off election in the Houston mayoral race. With the victory, Houston becomes the largest city to be governed by an openly gay person. Some consider her election an upset. Her opponent, Gene Locke, was a former civil rights activist supported by business interests, [...]

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There is an update to the heinous situation for LGBTs in Uganda. Thanks in part to pressure, including condemnation from a leader of the Ugandan Anglican Church and Canada and Britain, and the bill has been revised to remove the death penalty and imprisonment for LGBTs. While the White House never made a formal statement, [...]

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