A week ago, in response to a question in Florida, President Obama declared his belief that LGBT Equality is founded in the Constitution. The President then went on to acknowledge that Social Security short-changes America’s same-sex couples: “…the notion that someone who’s working really hard for 30 years, can’t take their death benefits and transfer […]
Press Release- PR Newswire CHICAGO, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ — Two Chicago-area surrogacy firms today announced the launch of a program designed to facilitate the delivery in Illinois of babies carried by gestational surrogates. Alternative Reproductive Resources (ARR), Chicago, and the Center for Egg Options (CEO), Northbrook, Ill., created The Surrogacy Advantage to help more intended […]
Repost from CBS2.com San Francisco A Harvard professor testifying in a case challenging California’s gay marriage ban said Tuesday that procreation is historically not the only function of marriage. In her second day of testimony, Nancy Cott, a U.S. history professor and the author of a book on marriage as a public institution, disputed a […]
Dear IF YOU ASK ME- I am writing to you for some advice on a pretty complicated situation I find myself willingly being drawn into. I am English, a gay man, and 55 years of age living in England at present. I have a friend aged 49 in Texas who has recently realized that he […]
By: David Koon Will Phillips isn’t like other boys his age. For one thing, he’s smart. Scary smart. A student in the West Fork School District in Washington County, he skipped a grade this year, going directly from the third to the fifth. When his family goes for a drive, discussions are much more apt […]
A New York Times Article By: ALESSANDRA STANLEY IT is almost too perfect that the first African-American president of the United States was elected in time for the 40th anniversary of “Sesame Street.” The world is finally beginning to look the way that the PBS show always made it out to be. Top, Big Bird, […]
From- The New York Times By: ABBY GOODNOUGH Less than a week before Maine voters decide whether to repeal the state’s new same-sex marriage law, donations and volunteers are pouring in to sway what both sides call a nationally significant fight. Supporters of the marriage law, which the Legislature approved in May, have far more […]
From Time.com By: John Cloud Americans like answers in black and white, a cultural trait we confirmed last year when the biracial man running for President was routinely called “black” The flattening of Barack Obama’s complex racial background shouldn’t have been surprising. Many multiracial historical figures in the U.S. have been reduced (or have reduced […]
