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First Male Athlete from Big Four US Professional Sports Comes Out

First Male Athlete from Big Four US Professional Sports Comes Out

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.” So begins Jason Collins’ cover story in the May 6 issue of Sports Illustrated, in which he became the first player in the four major North American male professional leagues –– the National Basketball Association, the National Football League, Major League Baseball, [...]

April 29, 201311 CommentsRead More

Advocates Remain Wary About Same-Sex Couples’ Prospects in Immigration Reform

Advocates Remain Wary About Same-Sex Couples’ Prospects in Immigration Reform

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | As debate over immigration reform moves center stage in the US Senate –– with the Judiciary Committee holding hearings and more than 50 binational same-sex families descending on Capitol Hill this week for visits with 150 members of Congress –– advocates for couples in which one member is not an American citizen [...]

April 26, 201312 CommentsRead More

Marriage Victories in Rhode Island, France; Action Pending in Illinois, Delaware, UK

Marriage Victories in Rhode Island, France; Action Pending in Illinois, Delaware, UK

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | The Rhode Island State Senate has cleared away the last major hurdle to that state becoming the 10th in the nation to allow same-sex couples to marry. In a 26-12 vote on April 24, the Senate approved a version of marriage equality legislation somewhat different than the one adopted earlier this [...]

April 25, 2013No CommentRead More

Boy Scouts Propose End to Ban On Gay Youth — But Not Leaders

Boy Scouts Propose End to Ban On Gay Youth — But Not Leaders

BY JOSEPH EHRMAN-DUPRE | The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced on April 19 a proposal to lift its ban on gay youth members. The Associated Press reported, “The Scouts announced Friday that it would submit this proposal to the roughly 1,400 voting members of its National Council at a meeting in Texas the week [...]

April 19, 20131 CommentRead More

Majority of US Senate On Board With Marriage Equality

Majority of US Senate On Board With Marriage Equality

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | With announcements during the first week of April from Democrats Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Bill Nelson of Florida, and Tom Carper of Delaware, and Republican Mark Kirk of Illinois that they now support the right of same-sex couples to marry, 54 members of [...]

April 9, 20133 CommentsRead More

Surrounded by Labor Leaders, Quinn Announces Sick Leave Compromise

Surrounded by Labor Leaders, Quinn Announces Sick Leave Compromise

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Scarcely a week after City Council Speaker Christine Quinn told an audience of hundreds at an LGBT Democratic mayoral forum that she did not favor moving forward now on pending paid sick leave legislation, she announced a compromise measure to do just that at a March 29 City Hall press conference. The [...]

March 29, 201329 CommentsRead More

No Clear Majority on Merits Evident During Prop 8 Arguments

No Clear Majority on Merits Evident During Prop 8 Arguments

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | On the tenth anniversary of oral arguments in Lawrence v. Texas, the historic 2003 ruling that struck down laws against consensual gay sex, the US Supreme Court took up the contentious issue of same-sex marriage on March 26. Late last year, the high court granted the petition by the Official Proponents [...]

March 26, 20134 CommentsRead More

The LGBT Community Meets the Mayoral Candidates

The LGBT Community Meets the Mayoral Candidates

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | The five Democrats seeking their party’s nomination for mayor spent 90 minutes with hundreds of members of our community last week, and the results were encouraging for those hoping to move critical LGBT needs to the top of the city’s agenda in the next four years. The candidates uniformly showed a detailed [...]

March 26, 20132 CommentsRead More

At LGBT Forum, Mayoral Rivals Hit Quinn on Sick Leave, Term Extension

At LGBT Forum, Mayoral Rivals Hit Quinn on Sick Leave, Term Extension

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | The conventional wisdom is that Christine Quinn has the queer vote sewn up in the Democratic primary for mayor, but the crowd of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender voters at a March 20 debate let the City Council speaker know that they disapprove of some of her decisions. “I think in the [...]

March 21, 201318 CommentsRead More

Pope Francis ‘Inflammatory’ in Opposition to LGBT Rights

Pope Francis ‘Inflammatory’ in Opposition to LGBT Rights

BY ANDY HUMM | Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 76, was elected Pope Francis I on March 13 despite his failure to stop the progressive government of President Cristina Kirchner from opening marriage to same-sex couples — the first Latin American country to do so — and from making contraceptives available to all. He also presided [...]

March 13, 201338 CommentsRead More

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