Whether it was equal employment rights, equal access to housing and public accommodations, let alone equal marriage rights, the Catholic leadership could always be counted on to oppose equal rights for LGBT people behind the scenes, if not openly. On …
Cardinal George: No Honor in Anti-Gay Bigotry Read more »
Edward Snowden’s revelations about U.S. government spying on virtually every American with a cell phone and an internet connection blew the lid off liberal pretensions that the Obama administration is in any respect better than the Bush administration on civil …
Edward Snowden: Blowing the Whistle on Government Criminality Read more »
On the night that Illinois’s equal marriage rights bill went down to ignominious defeat, the Gay Liberation Network’s Bob Schwartz interviews GLN co-founder Andy Thayer, who came direct from the statehouse to the CAN TV studio. They discuss the bill …
Marriage Equality in Illinois Finally? Read more »
Jason Tompkins of GenderJust and the Gay Liberation Network’s Bob Schwartz discuss “Pinkwashing,” a propaganda campaign funded by the Israeli government to divert attention from its continuing violation of Palestinian rights behind an image of modernity, signified by Israeli gay …
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Stephen Durham, presidential candidate of the Freedom Socialist Party, and the Gay Liberation Network’s Bob Schwartz discuss LGBT people, the Chicago teachers’ strike and the 2012 elections. Durham is a unionist, openly gay, and a socialist feminist. They discuss why …
LGBT People, the Teachers’ Strike, & the 2012 Elections Read more »
President Obama has persecuted whistleblowers with a vengeance not seen since the Nixon administration. Chief among his victims is gay, alleged wikileaker Chelsea Manning. In this episode of the Gay Liberation Network on CAN TV, the Gay Liberation Network’s Bob …
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Openly bigoted Republicans have frequently used anti-gay hate as a “wedge issue” in election after election. Now the Democrats are using LGBT equal rights as a political football – cynically promising things to their LGBT core voters while doing nothing …
Gay Marriage: More Broken Promises, More Money For the Democrats Read more »
Chicago’s Cardinal George recently got himself in hot water by comparing gay rights demonstrators to the KKK, then defending that comment on at least two occasions subsequently, before finally saying “sorry” in a short note posted on the Archdiocesan website. …
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Scott Lively, widely seen as the principal North American promoter of Uganda’s infamous “kill-the-gays bill,” was recently honored by the anti-gay hate group “Americans For Truth About Homosexuality” in Arlington Hts, IL. While Lively and AFTAH founder Peter LaBarbera have …
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Leaders of the G8 (“Group of 8”) nations, generally the wealthiest in the world, will hold a summit in May 2012 in Chicago, along with the heads of the NATO military alliance. The meetings represent the single biggest confab of …
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