It Gets Better in Gainesville: Pride Parade 2010 Smashing Success for LGBT Support

By: Saturday October 23, 2010 5:07 pm

I had the distinct pleasure of joining a group of over a hundred members of the United Church of Gainesville (home of the “If they can burn it we can read it” campaign in response to the planned Quran burning) who donned blue shirts reading “Gay and Straight Together” to march down University Avenue to the Bo Diddley Community Plaza as part of Pride Parade 2010. It was a spectacular day and the turnout was tremendous.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton: “It Will Get Better For You!”

By: Tuesday October 19, 2010 2:21 pm

Hillary Clinton lends her voice to teens troubled by bullying for being or being perceived as ‘gay.’ This is a great American lending her powerful voice to the “It Gets Better” project.

HRC Spanks Ken Buck for “Choice” Remark After Utter Silence on Valerie Jarrett

By: Sunday October 17, 2010 6:36 pm

The Human Rights Campaign, reliable lapdogs for the Obama White House and their lack of progress on LGBT issues, bothered to chastise GOP Senate candidate in Colorado Ken Buck — on Sunday! — for his remarks on NBC’s Meet the Press that being gay was a “choice.”

On Health and Rights, What Happened to the Churches?

By: Thursday October 14, 2010 6:59 am

Church was the place I first heard the word feminism, and where I first practiced putting a condom on a banana. So what’s happened to liberal religion?

Written by Trusting Women for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Obama WH Aide Valerie Jarrett: 15-Year Old Justin Aarberg “Made a Lifestyle Choice”

By: Wednesday October 13, 2010 3:00 pm

To hear how far out of the mainstream the Obama White House is, just listen to senior adviser Valerie Jarrett describe her conversation with the parents of suicided gay teen Justin Aarberg, and her description of Justin having “made a lifestyle choice.”

Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns: “It Gets Better”

By: Wednesday October 13, 2010 11:39 am

This incredibly moving statement by Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns during a City Council meeting really needs no additional words from me.

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