My friend Russell Arben Fox has come a long way in the last few years (see here to chart the progress), and I am delighted he’s now joining me in celebrating the fantastic news from the UK yesterday. While I have some sympathy for the democratic theory that motivates his argument in this post, I […]
Category: gay and lesbian rights
John Corvino: Early in our collaboration Maggie Gallagher e-mailed me with the following challenge, “What’s your definition of marriage? If you’re going to use a word, you need a definition of
Speaking as someone who teaches at a university with a comparatively conservative and religious student body, this post by Rachel Held Evers rings very true to my ears. I was particularly struck by th
Yesterday Dalia Lithwick had an excellent column on the lack of actual arguments from the anti-marriage equality forces. This was certainly in evidence to anyone watching the debate in the Washington house of representatives earlier this week. With the outcome not in doubt, the defenders of discrimination tended to wax philosophical, with hilarious results. There […]
Haugen makes 25. Unless someone backs out, the votes are there. It’s very, very likely an initiative to repeal this will be on the ballot in November. One recent poll suggests Washingtonians wou
Kastama’s on board, now only one vote away. And Microsoft is publicly supporting the effort, which will hopefully give Andy Hill the push he needs to get Washington on the right side of history.
Given the massive attack by conservatives on teaching U.S. history (particularly with the Texas textbooks), I am very pleased to hear of Jerry Brown signing a bill ordering the teaching of gay history in California schools. Like with Texas, California controls a huge chunk of the history textbook market and the inclusion of gay history […]
I was just about to write a post noting that virtually every commenter to this post ignored the actual point of the post and simply returned to argue again and again the peripheral question of whether
A couple of our commenters made this point well, too, but this post very effectively expresses my puzzlement over various male commenters who seemed to think that having a foot tapped and hand rubbed