Defense of Marriage Act

Ten Things We Should Expect To See In 2013

As you may know by now, today is the last day of the year. Take advantage of these few hours before midnight to review every 'Best Of 2012' list out there because their timeliness will soon be quelled by the imminent switch in our non-Mayan calendar. Once that clock strikes 12, mankind will turn the ... More >>

Rep. Barney Frank Breaks Down the Same-Sex Marriage Barrier in Congress

In 1981, as the booming gay culture was being hit with the AIDS epidemic and a rising conservative culture in Washington, Barney Frank, a young Democrat from Massachusetts, entered Congress. Six years later, he became the first elected official on the Hill to voluntarily tell the public about his ho ... More >>

Sick, Sick, Sick: Rightbloggers Run a Fever after Obamacare Decision

Last week's Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act (aka the ACA, aka Obamacare, aka TreasonHitlerStalin) caught nearly everyone by surprise. Among rightbloggers, most of whom had filled balloons and strung festive banners for a big post-overturn victory party, the scenes of shock and ho ... More >>

'Drill Ass, Not Gas' and Other Messges We Heard at Pride 2012 [PHOTOS]

Yesterday's Pride Parade was marked by extremely beautiful weather and a much more relaxed tone than last year's march, which was frantic right after Marriage Equality Act had just passed. Although we wrote in this week's Voice feature that debate has grown limited in gay organizations, the march ... More >>

5 Reasons Why Touré Is Wrong On Blacks, Gay Marriage and Obama

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy We like the idea of Touré, but as a person and concept, he's got two sides. There's the Good Touré, who writes beautifully, gave us a nice shout out once, and frolics around the Brooklyn neighborhood we both live in with ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo Honors Catholic Abortion Bully. This Week Officially "Timothy Cardinal Dolan Week" In New York

​On the same day Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan told reporters that he's "bolstered" by Governor Andrew Cuomo's assurances that he won't support a bill pending in the New York Legislature that would define abortion rights (NOTE: the Governor's Office declined comment when asked if Cuomo opposed t ... More >>

Maybe I Do And Maybe I Don't

Gays get the freedom to marry—and for some, the freedom not to

Worlds Apart

Federal law gives gay citizens with foreign partners tough choices: Leave the U.S. Lose your love. Break the law.

Harvey Milk's Birthday: Chatting with Cleve Jones

Tomorrow is Harvey Milk's birthday. It's an official holiday in California for the first time (signed into law last year by the Terminator), and will be marked here in the city by a march beginning at the GLBT Center at noon. Runnin' Scared spoke to the real-life Cleve Jones on the phone (portr ... More >>

John McCain is shocked to discover that campaign finance reform is dead.

Campaign finance reform is, after this week's Supreme Court decision equating corporate political spending with first-amendment protected political speech, essentially dead, and the most recent Republican candidate for president has decided that he's not happy about that. John McCain, who was initia ... More >>

Who Do We Have to Blow to Get Gay Marriage in New York?

The frustrating circle-jerk in Albany.

Bliss or Miss

Getting over the gay-wedding jitters

West of Eden

Daring to be different, Ang Lee's epic gay romance goes looking for love in the heartland

Bully for Us

You talkin' to me, world? You talkin' to me? I'm the only empire around.

I Do? Oh No You Don't.

On marriage "defense," the right is now speaking loudly, not holding its peace

Barney Rumble: Superficial Doc Revisits Clinton's Gay '90s

Love and War

Gay Americans Won a Court Victory. Now Comes the Fight to Wed.

Wheedle, Leverage, Organize

Paul Wellstone's Lesson for the Overwhelmed Dems

Nation

The Gay Marriage Bomb

By Amending the Constitution, the Right Hopes to Ban What It Can’t Stop

Letters

Confronting the Pride Divide

Blood, Sweat, and Fed Up Queers at the Log Cabin Republican Conference

Good For The Gays?

A widening rift over the political direction of America's gay rights lobby

Gerry Meandering

Many handshakes and few ideas on the Ferraro campaign trail