I will always remember the events of 9-11 and the decade that has followed. But I mourn far more the loss of what we as Americans shared on 9-12 2001
What do you do when your opponents have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend, much of it on 30-second-long bogus attack ads that flood battleground states in the last two months of the 2012 presidential election? Sites of the propaganda battle: http://graphics.latimes.com/2012-election-electoral-map/ When a few billionaires, like Sheldon…
If you were a child born in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was a product of the Chicago Public Schools educational system, you had deal with teachers going on strike. In 1980, 1984, 1985 and 1987, children and their parents were highly inconvenienced by ongoing labor disputes…
In May I wrote about the troubling homophobic bullying incident in which Mitt Romney was the ringleader when but a high school lad, back in 1965. My suggestion, and many others’, was that Romney’s inability (or unwillingness) to own up to his youthful misdeeds (most of us have done…
Shared via Wipe Out Homophobia After Wipe Out Transphobia's recent rise in popularity and boost in numbers, I asked the creator, Emma Bailey if she wouldn't mind giving us a little more background on her page, community and mission.... 1. What made YOU become an online activist? After I came out,…
Marriage is more than a piece of paper. It confers numerous benefits, such as health, disability and life insurance, pension funds and tax refunds for spouses. Many gay couples desire to marry and partake in these benefits but have been denied this right because of their sexuality and that…
By, The Messenger in Blue The path sits before me, so plain and wide I warily move on with the moon as my guide The eyes of the night are vigilant guards For their numbers seem even with that of the stars Aside from the wind, the Wolfwood is still…
The Homecoming Players in Ithaca, New York, for which I serve as artistic director, won a slot in the national series of staged readings of Dustin Lance Black’s new documentary play, 8, which we performed on August 10. We were thrilled to be part of this program, and a…
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Any foreigner in Britain in 2012 must think the country was going through another world war. The amount of jingoism, flag-waving, anthem singing and hyperbole spilling out of the national media has gone into overdrive, suddenly proclaiming this country to be the 'greatest country ever', a claim that hasn't been…