Why Be Pissed At Obama and/or HRC?
Yesterday’s town hall was interesting, but not surprising. In my opinion, it was an important event, but it ultimately didn’t really accomplish much, except to reveal just how out of touch HRC really...
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The Cycle of Uncritical Thinking in the United States
I found this amazing comic on CampusProgress yesterday, and I just want to say a word before I share it. This “circle of stupidity,” as the comic is called, is exactly why I write this blog. It is...
View ArticleDon’t Ask, Don’t Tell Unabashedly Punishes Whistleblowers
People probably have different opinions on whistleblowers. While all might not be as memorable or infamous as Deep Throat and Linda Tripp, there is a general sense that whistleblowers are important....
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Happy Memorial Day From a Pacifist
It’s hard to be a pacifist in a fiercely patriotic nation. So often, the language of patriotism hides an underlying current of pro-war values. “Support the Troops” means “support the wars/domination of...
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So You Want To Be a Teabagger: Hiding Prejudice Behind Capitalism
Let’s imagine starting a new society, a whole new humanity. We’re playing SimEarth or Civilization here or something; just imagine it with me. We start it knowing everything we know now. We know...
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Guess What Won’t Stop The Oil Spill: Sitting Around Being Introspective
Lawmakers in Louisiana are rightfully concerned about the impact the Gulf of Mexico oil spill started at Deepwater Horizon will make on their state. If only there weren’t so many gays in New Orleans,...
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Supreme Court Saves Washington State From Becoming Police State
Now here’s some good news. I’m not going to linger on the issue, because I’ve certainly written enough about it before (on August 13, August 28, September 11, and October 15). Think back to last year’s...
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A Brief Word on President Obama’s Responsibility for Persisting LGBT...
Pride month has come to an end, and we got a lot of lovely words from the Oval Office, but ultimately, another month of inaction. Say what you will about GetEQUAL—they’re not a perfect group—but they...
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Someone at HRC Needs to Take a Psych Class, and Stat!
[Update: Michael Cole, HRC's Press Secretary, said today that Target and Best Buy would be removed from the Buyer's Guide: Because we understand the impact of leaving Target and Best Buy on the various...
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White Privilege Memes Reemerge as Tea Party Revs Up For November
I don’t update The Meme Collection too often anymore aside from an occasional tweak here and there. When I first started it back in the summer of 2009, I wanted to create a clearinghouse for the kinds...
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Gay Republican for President? Is This That New “The Event” Show?
When I met him at Netroots Nation, he put a lapel pin in my hand. On the packaging it said “Fred Who?” The pin was a flags pin. Yes, flags. One American, one rainbow. Together on one pin. And then he...
View ArticlePowerless: All or Nothing LGBT Support of Democrats
Let’s say you have a dog you are teaching how to sit. You can push her bottom down and say “Sit!” and then give her a treat. That’s how you show what you want. The hope is that once she understands,...
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Yes, That Sucked, But We Go On.
Well, we took some blows yesterday. For a great round-up of some of the results, check out Andy Towle’s. I have to say I’m very sad to see Patrick Murphy and Alan Grayson go, among others. Nothing is...
View Article1 in 10 Americans Are on Unemployment
[Andy Szekeres is a political consultant from Denver who specializes in LGBT ballot measures and progressive candidates and causes.] [Editor's Note: I'm lucky that I've had familial support such that I...
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What If Republicans Didn’t Believe in an Afterlife?
It’s been quite a while since “Religious Right” didn’t sound redundant, and while plenty of folks can articulate differences between “social conservative” and “fiscal conservative,” it seems rare that...
View ArticleLet’s Spin This, and Let’s Spin it Right: Against Republicans
As I write this, the US Senate is voting to begin work on the Defense Authorization bill that includes repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Senator Reid led the vote without taking any of the deals with...
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Power That Doesn’t Listen Fails/The Starving of the LGBT Community
With all the lame-duck kerfuffle over repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, I’ll admit I’ve been a little uninspired when it comes to what exactly to write. I like to use this space to make sense of things,...
View ArticleMeditating on the Arizona Shooting
This weekend was an important weekend for me, committed wholly to reconnecting with one of my very best friends in the world, who I had not seen in close to two years. When we first saw the news of the...
View ArticleIf Money is Speech, Then Speech Isn’t Free
The sudden departure of Keith Olbermann from MSNBC on Friday (so sudden that the network was still running promos for his show after his final sign off) requires, I think, that we consider the notion...
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The 2011 State of the Union: Meh
Last night’s State of the Union was fine. It was certainly an interesting experiment to have the members of Congress intermingled and I doubt anyone was bothered the applause was greatly muted as a...
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