America has been pretty up-tight when it comes to gender roles for a long time, now, but that wasn’t always the case. The Navajo have long recognized four different gender identities, rather than two, and...
Asexuality, like other sexual minorities within the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, is commonly seen as baffling to those even within the queer community. According to an asexuality expert, Anthony F. Boegart, only one percent of the population is asexual. Now...
Dear Mrs. Duggar,
Over the years, I have often defended you to friends and in online comments that criticize the life you have chosen for yourself. I've seen and heard comments that describe your family as...
Many may have been assigned in high school the legendary science fiction author Ray Bradbury's inimitable 1953 dystopic novel Fahrenheit 451.
If not, briefly, it's a story about a future America in which books are banned, and...
As a lawyer, I hear people extol the virtues of states' rights on a regular basis. In short, it is the doctrine that is meant to protect individual states from interference by the federal government....
Say goodbye to Bruce and hello to Caitlyn Jenner! Former Olympian and father of the Kardashian/Jenner clan, has retired the male identity and is now embracing the "her" side she has eloquently described in previous...
More often than not, the Bible is used to condemn LGBT people. Using the Bible to further discrimination is not a new concept. Over the years, the Bible has been used to condone segregation, condone...
In January of 2011, Raymond Buys, 15, began a three-month training course that was supposed to train him to be a game ranger. But that's not quite what happened.Buy's mother said she sent him to...
Ever since North Carolina passed its outrageously discriminatory and outrageously unconstitutional "bathroom bill," the state's LGBT community has had a lot of reason to live in fear. In the months after House Bill 2 was...
How reassuring it is to know that amidst all the problems that face this country--terrorism, racism, discrimination, the resurgence of domestic hate groups--that the Justice Department under new Attorney General Jeff Sessions decided to choose...
Russia is holding an American citizen as a political prisoner.
Yes, you read that right.
Russia is holding an American citizen as a political prisoner.
Why you haven't heard about it is a very good question.
WMBA basketball player...
Anita Staver is president of the extreme far right. pseudo-Christian law group known as the Liberty Counsel, and she just made a big announcement on Twitter: From now on, she will carry a handgun with...
John Wesley, founder of the religious movement known as Methodism, was a very spiritual man. He woke every morning at 4am to read from his Bible and pray for three hours. He was well educated,...
First they came for those who receive health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. Then they came for those trying to enter from Muslim countries. Then they came for undocumented Americans. Next they came for...
Wes Goodman, a Republican state legislator in Ohio, made a name for himself with hardline anti-LGBT ideas and his resolute Christian values. That all came tumbling down for him this week, as the married lawmaker...
A gay, Canadian man, identified only as André, has come forward and said that he was not allowed into the United States because of messages on his phone. André says he was stopped from entering when...
Is nothing sacred for the Republican platform committee, when they meet to draft what defines the party’s official principles and policies? Alongside forced LGBT "conversion therapy," no same-sex marriages, focus on Bible studies in school,...
Senator Jason Rapert of Arkansas has proposed a bill stating that marriage should only cover unions between a man and a woman. The Senator said:
"It is not bigoted to say that marriage is between a man...
It's been amply established that the religious right has abdicated any claim to being the self-declared moral guardians of the nation by its continued support of Donald Trump. After all, they are willing to not...
WWE star Darren Young comes out as gay, and we're surprised this buff hottie - who dons costumes and wrestles guys half-naked - plays for the other team?
