He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the [...]
Where’s GLAAD when you need them? Hats off to Atlanta-based LGBT-centric Website Fenuxe for spotting this highly egregious misstep on CBS’s behalf in describing the sexual coercive accusations against Atlanta-based black Bishop Eddie Long as “a gay sex scandal.” While Fenuxe spotted the term gay sex scandal on the CBS Crimesider site, we also came across [...]
The Minnesota Family Council and the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) launched a new television ad this week in support of Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, reports the Minnesota Independent newspaper. The ad uses footage of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and says that Emmer is the only candidate that supports putting a [...]
The court documents (Complaints) were released to the public on Thursday from three lawsuits against Bishop Eddie Long. The suits accuse the black church minister of sexual impropriety with three male church members. Long is considered one of the nation’s top African-American preachers. His church has more 25,000 members and was the site of Coretta Scott [...]
The following is courtesy of the Congress Of Racial Equality Website. Blacks in the south finally get to go to the polls In the century following Reconstruction, African Americans in the South faced overwhelming obstacles to voting. Despite the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which had enfranchised black men and women, southern voter [...]
. Recently we received a little flack about our post Towleroad Blogger Andy Towle Says Gay People Of Color Don’t Exist. Well, first of all he really didn’t in his complaint about Obama acknowledge the fact that there are LGBT of color. But that really wasn’t the reason why we did it. We did it [...]
Prize fighter for freedom: Reverend Eric Lee, head of the Los Angeles chapter, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Photo courtesy NY Times) LA’s gay community and equality activist scene dropped the ball BIG TIME with Reverend Eric Lee. Head of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership (SCLC), Rev. Lee was the only black [...]
