PA Rep Mike Kelly Introduces Pro-Discrimination Bill
But the National Organization for Marriage, with the help of PA Rep Mike Kelly place religious convictions as more important than love.
Articles by: Thomas Waters
Why people are homophobes.
What prompts homophobes to be so vocally horrific and hateful? I think if we understand some of that, we can weather whatever hate they are throwing our way without freaking out so much.
Will same sex marriage see our first appeals loss next week?
We will most likely not have a decision immediately, but next week, cases for a four states make their way to the Sixth Circuit Appeals where a three judge panel may end in a split decision backing state discrimination against same sex couples.
Why anti marriage equality cases will continue to fail.
Terence Jeffrey has an op ed on The Patriot Post which is a perfect example of why the anti marriage equality movement continues to lose in court case after court case as well as in the general public opinion poll.
Experiencing Texas: the cab ride.
So I want to tell you about my cab ride from the airport to the hotel where I learned something about race, racism, and othering.
A Gay Man Sees Walldogs
In a very real way, the performance is about five- or an infinite number of stories- rather than the four listed, and the audience becomes the performers. I marveled at watching the performance viewers become creators, printing and coloring as they enjoyed some food, drink and company
Follow-up: transgender as disease.
The fringe may be on the far-right or on the far-left, but the fringe is still outside the mainstream culture where the general premise is that all persons are treated with dignity and respect.
Open letter to Nelson Garcia: Transgender is not a disease.
Everything, we experience as non-discrimination and homophobia is based on gender expression. Straight people are perfectly happy to let gay people exist in the shadows as long as we are invisible and hidden. In so many ways the LGB are more alike T than different, in my opinion.
Will Christians give their lives to keep traditional marriage?
It is the religious status quo which has made LGBTQ Rights (because of Marriage Equality) the defining issue, and writers like Ball do a disservice by failing to recognize that.
Pittsburgh Pride After 2014
We are faced over and over again with opportunities to ask what does it mean to be an LGBTQ community? As society changes the answer may change, and we need now as much as ever before to be doing the hard work to keep asking and sorting out the answers.