Hug it up! All the hate is killing us.

By: Thursday October 14, 2010 9:23 am

All this right wing hate is killing us.

It’s the fascist right wing hate we’re being fed through the media. We gotta stop it now. Right here. Right now.

In Which I Tell Valerie Jarrett Quite Kindly to Check Herself

By: Thursday October 14, 2010 12:33 am

Ms. Jarrett needs to apologize, quickly AND publicly, for her unfortunate and ill-considered choice of words both to the grieving parents of this young man and to the LGBT community. Her comments appear to support the very ignorance and disregard that lead to anti-gay bullying and violence and, as a representative of this administration, need to be corrected.

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.

Silence=Death: Like Reagan on AIDS, Obama Needs to Come Out

By: Monday October 11, 2010 11:03 am

There’s an epidemic in America: due to the rapidly expanding homophobia tolerated, and rewarded, in our political sphere and due to more tolerance of bullying, LGBTQ teens are taking their own lives in despair and mistaken shame. America is rapidly reaching double-digits in teen suicides in the past few weeks, and these are the ones we know about. Why won’t Barack Obama speak out?

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