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When in 2015 Michelangelo Signorile published his warning It's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality, no matter how accurate his analysis was, he had little [...]

There are six assumptions that make up the key to understanding what those White Evangelicals who voted for and are staying with Donald Trump see when they look at life [...]

The Republican Speaker of the House and failed vice-presidential candidate met ceremoniously in early May with a volatile, narcissistic reality TV star who is the presumptive Republican presidential candidate. The [...]

The right-wing has gone crazy since the Supreme Court sanctioned marriage equality in late June. What they'd been praying for didn't come to pass--their angry, righteous, warrior deity didn't intervene [...]

Social and mainstream media are abuzz about the rise of the 'nones' and the decline of people identifying with religious institutions. A lot of the discussion reflects quite a bit [...]

October is historically LGBTQ History Month, but we'll really learn a lot that's useful every day from recent anti-LGBTQ history. Most importantly, when we look back we realize that there's [...]

'White privilege.' 'Male privilege.' 'Heterosexual privilege.' 'Class privilege.' 'Able-bodied privilege.' 'Christian privilege.' Though the concept of the privilege of the dominant group that's based on culturally accepting their characteristics as [...]

'If they just didn't have to flaunt it.' 'Why do they throw it in our faces?' 'Can't they act like Americans?' 'I like the ones who fit in with the [...]

The politics and administration of the Trump phenomenon are a full-blown affirmation of what's now called 'toxic masculinity.' Observers point out that it's both an appeal to men (mostly white) [...]

We want to believe that everyone means what they say. We want to believe that a little more educating and presentation of the facts convinces people. We think that explaining [...]

The fact that our president-elect appealed to both class and race in this election is beyond any doubt--it's all on video. Yet, there are those who want to defend him [...]

The recent episodes of now routine American gun violence have sparked discussions of the role of white male anger in it all. This is hardly a brand new strand of [...]

The first openly gay player drafted into the NFL, Michael Sam, kissed his boyfriend, Vito Cammisano, a swimmer for the University of Missouri from 2009-2012, right there for the world [...]

Even ENDA Is Just Another Beginning The good news is that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) finally passed the U.S. Senate on Nov. 7. By a 64 to 32 vote, [...]

What must a woman endure to become president of the United States? The office of president has been defined for generations in terms of white, male gender roles. That definition [...]

Who's actually setting the agenda for this election cycle so that even those who oppose them spend most of their time responding to their agenda and actions? It's the authoritative [...]

America's most deadly mass shooting at an Orlando LGBT nightclub on another American day that will live in infamy almost half way through Gay Pride month was a national tragedy [...]

There are now over 100 anti-LGBT bills under consideration around the country, according to a recent Huffington Post compilation. They represent a national radical right-wing industry creating laws that give [...]

By the second week of March, the discourse (using that word very loosely) of the Republican presidential candidates had sunk so low that to call it 'juvenile' would be an [...]

If the goal is to get the votes and political grassroots activism of the far rightwing, the Fundamentalists, and assorted fear-based people who turn out to vote Republican even against [...]

In January, the worldwide Anglican Communion announced that it would suspend its U.S. branch, the Episcopal Church, from key voting positions in the Communion for three years. Meeting in Canterbury, [...]

There must be something emotionally satisfying for many people in arguments about religion whether they're for 'it' or against 'it.' Beyond the strategies of politicians who prey on religious prejudices, [...]

Fred Phelps and his tiny, no-account, insignificant Westboro Baptist Church perfected it in the field of religious bigotry. But attracting attention when you're a nobody to the rest of the [...]

Before we settle down with families to eat this Thanksgiving Day, let's take the time on Nov. 20 to remember those who've been killed as a result of what we've [...]

'Culture Wars' are back in the headlines. They actually never left politics. Rightwing leaders have been invoking the symbol of 'Culture Wars' ad nauseam without attracting mainstream media attention. But [...]

There's no better time than Valentine's Day to assess the state of sex in the U.S. You know, the sexual activity that raises fear among leaders of the religious right-wing [...]

It's an important point that right-wing propagandists get, but again and again I hear so many of us miss. As a result, our words and actions often fall ineffectively on [...]

In October we observe, among other things, Gay and Lesbian History Month. And in the past weeks a new movie about an iconic event in that history hit the theaters. [...]

From the Duggars to the weekly examples of the latest clergy or legislator who has professed 'Family Values'--which everyone knows is code for anti-LGBT equality --it has become routine, even [...]

The danger facing the movement for equality for LGBT people today isn't just the furious backlash of the religious right-wing, but a response of the movement, which Michelangelo Signorile labels [...]

We're now in the throes of a backlash against equal rights for LGBT people that's in full swing while many think the fight is over. Its ferocity and meanness has [...]

Constantly we must remind ourselves that the rightwing dominating the Republican Party, has a 'logic' of its own. We have to stop asking questions like: 'Don't they understand?' 'Don't they [...]

Ten years ago, my Minor Details column raved about the best book to come out of any political season before or since: 'Stop whatever you're doing. Drop whatever you're reading [...]

'The blood of martyrs is the seed of the church,' wrote second century Christian theologian Tertullian. And during his June 30 mass this year, Pope Francis agreed: 'The Church grows [...]

In 2002, when Pulitzer Prize winner, Chris Hedges published War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, he wrote in depth about the warrior culture that is the USA. 'The [...]

Heterosexuality seems to be a widespread human condition, and yet science hasn't found its cause. Maybe that's due to an absence of available funding for the research or just plain [...]

It's hardly news anymore that a growing number of Americans are checking the box 'none' on surveys of religious belief. According to Pew Research Center polling, one-fifth of the public [...]

We've come to the place where the radical rightwing intelligencia know that the old arguments against LGBT people won't work. And so they're at the end of their rope. The [...]

The Conclusions of a Progressive Democrat's Self-Reflection On June 3rd, voters in California's [33.sup.rd] Congressional District will have the chance to vote in their state primary for an independent candidate [...]

This past month an All-American defensive lineman named by the Associated Press as the Southeastern Conference's Defensive Player of the Year told an interviewer from ESPN that he's gay. Michael [...]

The Inevitable Will Take More Effort As of this writing, 17 states have legal marriage equality. Six got there by a court's decision, eight by egislative action, and three by [...]

The New Year can safely be forecasted to bring more of the same. Actually, it's likely to be an exaggeration of the political craziness of 2013. There are those who [...]

Watching the marriages of lesbians and gay men take place this past year ought to be warming the heart of anyone who values equality and fairness. Government recognition - with [...]

That's the response I get in my workshops and lectures on gender and homophobia from college-age adults today. In some ways that's surprising, and in others it's not. Maybe it's [...]

Boycotting sponsors is as Capitalist an act as any. It's about consumers voting with their feet and pocketbooks. It's not about free speech even if the plan is to boycott [...]

In 2012, 26,000 women and men reported sexual assault in the American military. We have no record of how much remains unreported. That's only one year of victimization in what [...]

Nations have a habit of sanctifying people and events that might otherwise disturb the system by cleaning them up so that their memories actually celebrate and promote the status quo, [...]

The right-wing, especially the religious right-wing, knows that it's on the run. It's scared because it lacks faith in its higher power. Thus, the overwhelming accumulation of examples of down-right [...]